I think they had to....it was too "cute" otherwise for the Cody Rhodes story....and i freaking love Cody Rhodes don't get me wrong.
I do like that Reigns had to win dirty.....
I listened to a podcast review of night 2 and I'm good with it now. Cody has been with the company 1 year and most of it we was injured. This I believe is his first loss since his overall return and letting him come in go undefeated and take Reigns down in his first try is too easy.
Look at the Sami Bloodline stuff. It was almost a whole year. The podcast I was listening to brought up that next year mania is in Philadelphia home of the Rocky movies.
Rocky didn't win the boxing title his first time but did it the next movie. I could see Cody Roman at next year's mania where he does win. It's a gamble because hopefully Cody will still be this over in a year from now, but it makes alot of sense.