WWE Forced To Abandon Plans For This Cody Rhodes Title Match

Cody Rhodes is no longer WWE Champion, but it seems there was one title match that the company had to abandon its plans for.

Cody Rhodes lost the WWE Championship to Drew McIntyre on the January 9th edition of SmackDown in a brutal 3 Stages of Hell match. McIntyre won the first fall in a normal singles match before Rhodes evened the score in a falls count anywhere bout.

The final fall, a traditional steel cage match, was designed to stop any interference, but this is wrestling, and the opposite is often true. With McIntyre about to escape the cage and win the gold, Jacob Fatu made his shock return after months out with injury to stop him.

Fatu took the fight to McIntyre in the ring before Cody Rhodes tried to get between them. Fatu then immediately turned on Rhodes, attacking him and allowing McIntyre to escape the cage anyway and win the gold.

WWE Aborted Cody Rhodes Title Match Plans Due To Injury

It’s been reported that WWE has plans for a triple threat match between those three stars, but it seems that plan had previously been abandoned.

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that WWE had plans for Fatu, Rhodes, and McIntyre to face off in a triple threat match for the title at Survivor Series. However, the injury to Fatu suffered in October that required surgery put a stop to that. McIntyre and Rhodes were then involved in the WarGames match at Survivor Series.