Cody Rhodes winning the WWE Title from Drew McIntyre receives negative reaction from online fans

As of Saturday morning, WWE’s YouTube video of Cody Rhodes winning the WWE Title from Drew McIntyre on SmackDown has 54k dislikes compared to 17k likes. Top YouTube comments include, “Ruthless Depression,” “This proves Cody and Triple H sleep together,” and “We went from the reign of terror to the booking of terror. 😢”

There were also negative reactions on Twitter/X to WWE’s video of Cody winning the title. One user wrote, “@Drew McIntyre deserves better, man. WTF 😭💔.” Another commented, “I feel horrible for Drew, but that’s no one’s fault but Triple H’s. All he had to do was have Drew win at WrestleMania, and Cody could have won here.” A third user added, “Boring champion. You guys are proud of this? Come on, man — for a feud that’s happened hella times before, lol.”