WWE Hall of Famer says critics of Cody Rhodes vs. John Cena “all need to call a whambulance”

As seen during the WWE WrestleMania 41 Sunday PLE, John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes to become a 17-time world champion. While speaking on his podcast, WWE Hall of Famer JBL addressed criticism of the match…

“I think they all need to call a whambulance. Dial 9-Whaa-Whaa, is what they need to do… If you’re booking it like the fans want to book it, you’re going to have a feel-good moment. Now I’m not taking shots at the fans, I’m just telling you my perspective of the business. And you’re going to book this hotshot moment, you’re going to have The Rock come down, you’re going to have the glass break, you’re going to have all this stuff happen. Everybody’s going, ‘Oh man!’ All of a sudden, Cena is going to get that 17th time World Championship.’ Everybody’s going to stand up and cheer, ‘All right, man, that’s fantastic.’ That’s not episodic. That’s a culmination, that’s a final, is what that is. That’s a finale. It’s tough to follow that.”

“Instead, you do something where fans are pissed off. That’s the wrestling business, and now they’re going — I had a fan tell me one time, ‘Killer Tim Brooks can’t wrestle at all. I hate that guy.’ I said, ‘Would you pay to see Stan Hansen come in to wrestle him?’ And he goes, ‘Oh my god, I’d pay double.’ I go, ‘You’re right, he can’t work at all.’ That to me is how you leave the fans, and that’s a hard thing to do. But that in my opinion, is how they were trying to leave them, and I thought they did. And now if you want to bring The Rock in, now if you want to put the bells and whistles, now it becomes different. You want to make Cena into a heel, not this celebrated 17-time World Champion, that’s the greatest of all time, and all the accolades that should go with him — you don’t want that. You want people mad that this guy won, and that’s what happened. So I thought that the finish was actually pretty good.” (quotes courtesy of 411Mania.com)