Cody Rhodes Thinks WWE’s Real WrestleMania 40 Plans For Him Would Make People More Angry
Cody Rhodes thinks that if WWE fans knew what the company had planned for him at WrestleMania 40, they would have been very mad.
There was a long and winding road for Cody Rhodes going into the main event of WrestleMania 40 Sunday when he won the Undisputed WWE Championship from Roman Reigns.
Even though Cody Rhodes won the 2024 Royal Rumble for the second year in a row and pointed at Reigns up in a skybox, we would later find out that Cody was told earlier that day that WWE wanted to go with Reigns against The Rock at WrestleMania 40 instead.
On the road to WrestleMania 40, the word “pivot” was used a lot in reports about what was happening behind the scenes. All of it was covered extremely well in WWE’s WrestleMania XL Behind The Curtain documentary.
In that documentary, The Rock claimed that it was his decision to pivot by becoming a heel because of how the fans rejected the idea of Rock facing Reigns instead of Cody. The fans didn’t like that idea, so they booed at shows and complained on social media about it. The fans wanted Cody to “finish the story” after hearing about it for the past two years. This led to Rock & Reigns beating Cody & Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 40 Saturday and then Cody beat Reigns on WrestleMania 40 Sunday.
What would WWE have done with Cody Rhodes, the Royal Rumble winner, if they went with Reigns against Rock? It was never really covered in the documentary.
Cody Rhodes Believes Fans Would Be Even More Angry If They Knew WWE’s Plans
While speaking to Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes, Cody Rhodes didn’t say exactly what WWE may have done with him at WrestleMania 40
“If people knew the real plan for me, they’d be even more angry. I can’t share the real plan for you, The Rock plan, whatever it may be. That was going to be on my mind in terms of how do we make that work? How do we accomplish that? I had a really good team of people around me.”
That’s where DDP (Diamond Dallas Page) hit me with the famous, whatever happens to you will be the best thing that ever happens to you line, and I thought, that’s insane, that’s madness. I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, and he was right. Including if it had gone the other way, he would have been right because the audience was what mattered, and I got to be really quiet and I got to say nothing, I got to watch the fire grow and I realised maybe I had every right to be confident.”
“Maybe I had every right to not be concerned. But yeah, definitely, let’s say it was a Wheatley Vodka-sponsored few days.”
At WWE Bash In Berlin, Cody Rhodes defeated his good friend Kevin Owens to retain the WWE Championship as his title reign gets closer to the five-month mark.
The full interview with Cody Rhodes is available in Issue 48 of Inside The Ropes Magazine, which can be ordered here.