Earlier this year Cody Rhodes announced that he was parting ways with AEW and immediately the wrestling world started talking about a possible WWE return for the American Nightmare. Rumors of a match with Seth Rollins at WrestleMania started making the rounds, and WWE teased the match on television with some subtle hints.
On TV the storyline was that Seth Rollins had no clear path to WrestleMania, and he noted on the Out Of Character podcast that Cody’s return to WWE wasn’t even finalized until three weeks before the biggest show of the year.
“I would say less than a month out from WrestleMania. I was really left out of WrestleMania until — I mean, he ended up being a Godsend. … It was finalized, I want to say three weeks before WrestleMania. Even as we were starting to build the story towards that, it was not quite sure. It was like conversations being had and all this stuff that I wasn’t really privy to, and I was kinda trying to poke around and be like, ‘Hey, you know, is this going to happen, or do I need to start thinking about something else, because I’m really not interested in getting left off of WrestleMania.”
“I had been doing so much good work. I’m like, ‘I’ve been doing great work. If I was sucking, then yeah, I get it, but I’m not.’ I’m 35 at that time, in my prime . … I was very like, ‘Ugh, this is awful.’ I had some real strong conversations, I’ll put it that way, with Vince [McMahon] leading up to that.”
Ultimately Cody Rhodes ended up defeating Seth Rollins on the Grandest Stage of Them All, and Cody picked up two more victories over Rollins at WrestleMania Backlash and Hell in a Cell. Rhodes is currently out of action due to injury, but it’s probably safe to say that he will be targeting Seth Rollins when he returns.
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