"You have been terrorizing the planet LONG before we called you 'Gunther'"

Gunther: "So Cody... [Crowd boos] What do you want to talk about? Huh?" [Crowd laughs]

Cody Rhodes: "Well, I-- I would say it's, fairly, obvious... What I wanna talk about. I asked you last week, you saw my invitation, I wanna know why, why you leave Crown Jewel... [looks to belt] as Champion."

Gunther: "Well, let me interrupt you-- Cody. Because, obviously, I'm here because YOU wanna know MY reason why. But, let's talk about you a little bit, first. First of all, I wanna say, it was totally unnecessary to mention your daughter last week. [points to belt] This has nothing to do with your daughter, this has everything to do with a champion vs champion match for the Crown Jewel Championship. [Mild cheers and applause]

So, let's find out, who the better champion out of the two of us is. Cody, you know what I don't understand? Every single time you drag the people closest to you into your business. So, look at the things you've done.

WrestleMania, you fulfilled your story and it's all for the legacy of Dusty Rhodes. [Mild cheers] You wanna be the quarterback of this operation? You keep asking 'give me that John Cena schedule' just to live up to someone else's standards. You know what I think, Cody? I think you do all of this to make things a little bit more dramatic than they really are. [Cody nods his head no] I'm gonna be fully honest with you, now, my reason why is myself. I am the greatest professional wrestler in this COMPANY, right now! [Mixed reactions]

So, my reason for all of this is to live up to myself! So, now Cody, do me a favor, imagine all of those people here wouldn't be in the building, right now. It's just you and me and you give me the honesty back and I wanna know what is your real reason why-- if there really is any."

Cody Rhodes: "For a man, educated and so well dressed-- double dressed suit, nice OP on your wrist-- I have to admit, that is the dumbest question that has ever been asked to me in a wrestling ring. [Crowd cheers]

You wanna strip away the veneer, see what's behind the eye of Cody Rhodes, you're not the only one. But then you say, take everybody out of this, just you and I! Newsflash, brudda, NONE of this exists without AAAAALL of them! [Crowd cheers] And you have-- you have the nerve, the gumption, to take away their 'woah', I say we give it to you, Gunther. You guys wanna 'Woah'? [Crowd cheers] LET'S DO IT, 1... 2... 3... [Crowd shouts 'WOAH!']

And dramatic? Dramatic? Have you seen my family? Have you seen my brother? You bet your ass I'm dramatic, they don't call 'em 'Cody Crybabies' for nothin'! It's not like we say 'Hey, they're Cody badasses!' Although, they could drop a man, if they needed to. We are PROUD to be dramatic! We are PROUD to be a bit of a messy king! [Crowd cheers]

Question for you, where were you yesterday? Day before that? I was there, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, I was talking about WrestleMania 41. I was making the media rounds, I was doing everything that was asked of me, but you couldn't be bothered to get out of bed, could you? [Crowd goes 'Ooh'] All of that prestige, how well you look with the World Heavyweight Championship. You've got part of it down, the part you're missing... [walks up to Gunther] Is the giant responsibility that comes with it."

Gunther: "Cody, responsibility? [Holds up belt] Look at this, [Mild applause] I am the workhorse champion of this company, I know everything about responsibility! [Crowd cheers and applauses] Don't you think I get the same requests that you do? The difference is, I just tell them no. Because I got the guts to say no, I got the guts to say no to the boss, I got the guts to say no to any media request, to any charity I specially got the guts to say no to all of them! [Crowd boos]

And you know what, Cody? The reason why you don't say no, the reason why you don't put yourself first... Is if you stopped being the servant of everybody else, your little story is over! [Crowd goes 'Ooh'] And you know what that makes you? That makes you a gutless champion. [Crowd boos] And a gutless champion will always be secondary to ME!"

Cody Rhodes: "What do they say about you? 'Ring General'? That it? You're a 'Ring General', because you're 6-foot-4, 250 pounds, a 'Ring General' because you have been terrorizing the planet LONG before we called you 'Gunther'. I don't see a general at all, though. Because you command no one, you lead no one but yourself and you want to mention guts? All I do, my whole career has been build on guts! The pathless travel has been made up with my own guts, you wanna know what guts are?! Guts is ending a civil discussion like this and taking the first shot!"

- Credit: Thanks to inmate JediSaiyanMaster1203 for transcribing this promo.