In a matter of hours, Logan Paul will face off against Cody Rhodes at King and Queen of the Ring for (just) the World Heavyweight Championship in Saudi Arabia, with the outcome of the effort sure to impact the WWE Universe well into the future.

And yet, in the not-so-humble opinion of Paul, the outcome of the match should be a borderline no-brainer, as he believes that the “American Nightmare's” story has officially been written, whereas his WWE story has just begun.

“My story's not even begun yet. Cody's story, it's great. It's highly captivating. The thing about Cody's story, though, is it's over. Am I wrong?” Logan Paul asked via Fightful. “Cody said ‘finish the story,' he finished his story. Congratulations, you won. He's been an excellent champion, and he will always be remembered as an excellent champion for about two months. That's where I come in. I am a forever champion. I will be a forever champion for the rest of my life. My last name is Paul, there's two of them. One's gonna beat Mike Tyson, the other's gonna beat Cody Rhodes. You will not be able to talk about combat sports without hearing the last name Paul.”

The one major issue with Rhodes pushing the “Finish the Story” slogan for the better part of 18 months is the finality of the statement, with the 1-2-3 at the end of his match against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 serving as the period at the end of the tale. While this chapter of Rhodes' career could be viewed as a new story, a sequel if you will, that's anything but an easy well when compared to his program with Reigns, especially when hot young guns like Paul are looking to make their own mark on the WWE Universe and really define this new era all their own at the expense of the “American Nightmare” and his Hall of Fame family's legacy.

Brian Gewirtz reveals the issue with Cody Rhodes winning the Rumble.

Sitting down for an interview with Busted Open Radio, Seven Bucks SVP and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson's creative lead in WWE, Brian Gewirtz, discussed Cody Rhodes winning the 2024 Royal Rumble and how that created issues for “The Great One” in his pursuit of a WrestleMania singles match against Roman Reigns.

“For the most part, it was overwhelmingly positive when [The Rock] teased Head of the Table. And at that point, we're like, okay, that gives us our answer. We're locked in… Which begs the question, which I know you're gonna ask, which everyone would ask…if all of that is the plan at this point in mid-January or whatever it is, why for the love of all things holy do you have Cody Rhodes win the Royal Rumble?” Brian Gewirtz explained via Fightful.

“The idea of Cody winning the Rumble, I thought, was problematic, in full transparency. I said, even in San Diego in that meeting, I thought the cleanest thing to do, if we're booking Rock and Roman, is to have [CM] Punk win the Rumble and challenge [Seth] Rollins, just because there is a difference, storyline-wise, in my opinion, of Cody wanting to finish the story, and having earned the right to finish the story by winning the Royal Rumble. Once you win the Royal Rumble, that dynamic changes…it goes from something that, yeah we all want things, but now he's got it. And why would he do anything other than focus on Roman? And that's what he naturally did when he pointed to him. Why wouldn't he? That's exactly what that character would do. I'll just say, with 100% certainty, the original plan is something many more people would have hated more than anything in life itself. I can't state that any more clearly. Punk gets hurt, the dominos start falling, things start shifting, and we get to a point where the WrestleMania press conference is coming up, and we need to promote something, and now we get to the infamous Alabama promo.”

Whoa, problematic you say? For Team Rock, that certainly appears to be the case, as Rhodes pointed right at Reigns after securing his win, which made things harder and harder for WWE to ignore, especially when Punk and Rollins both suffered their injuries. If the goal was to get that Rock-Reigns match over, it probably would have been better to put Punk over in the spot, even if he would have had to hold up only one arm, considering Drew McIntyre he tore his triceps during the match.