Cody Challenges Juice Robinson For the IWGP United States Championship

Cody has his sights set on more than one championship. With an NWA World Heavyweight Championship match coming up on September 1st, Cody has his sights set on Juice Robinson’s belt as well.

Cody and Hangman Page defeated Juice Robinson and David Finlay today on the G1 Climax 28 final show. Following the victory, Cody called Robinson a “bad rip-off of Kairi Sane” before challenging him to a title match. He said he was sick of hearing the wrestling media talk so highly of Juice and then referred to himself as the next IWGP United States Champion.

A likely date for the match would be September 30th with NJPW returns to Long Beach.

First time to see Cody since San Francisco teaming up with G1 fan favorite @theAdamPage Will his return be triumphant against US Champion #JuiceRobinson and @THEdavidfinlay ?? #ALLIN #njpw #g128 Watch @njpwworld live now!!!

— njpw_global (@njpwglobal) August 12, 2018

Cody Rhodes and Juice Robinson have met five times previously. The first time they faced each other was inside the Tokyo Dome at Wrestle Kingdom 11. Cody won that match as well as the following 4 tag-team matches they were on opposite sides of.

Robinson trained under Cody’s father, Dusty Rhodes when he was in WWE’s developmental system.

“Dusty would always just preach being real,” Juice said during a media call for the G1 Special in San Francisco. “He would always tell me to be myself.”

“He would always say it’s the why not the how,” Juice continued.