News about Cody Rhodes

Few knew what to expect when company chief Triple H confirmed on Logan Paul 's Impaulsive podcast that the latest edition of the draft was on the horizon following a more-than-successful WrestleMania. The champions this time were locked to their brands, meaning Cody Rhodes and Bayley would remain on SmackDown with Damian Priest and Becky Lynch staying on RAW. The men's mid-card and tag team champions would also remain on their respective brands.

The star (pictured), real name Mark Calaway, has been a staple piece of WWE for a number of decades, becoming one of the most famous faces of all time and still playing a role today. Appearing sporadically on TV, he was last present in the main event of night two of WrestleMania, appearing to take out The Rock and help Cody Rhodes dethrone Roman Reigns as WWE Champion to signify a new era for the company.

The WWE Universal Champion, 38, will make a cameo, according to insiders, who have revealed he may be hypnotized in a nod to the original 1988 comedy. The new movie - which will also star Liam Neeson, 71 - is based off the popular Naked Gun film franchise which starred the late, great Leslie Nielsen. 'Cody may be having a huge feud with The Rock [ Dwayne Johnson ] in the WWE ring right now but it looks like the battle will extend to Hollywood as he is going to star in the new Naked Gun film,' an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively. 'And to make things a little easier for himself, he might actually end up playing himself in the film.'

Anthony Joshua, Wayne Rooney and British rapper ArrDee were spotted at the O2 on Friday evening watching WWE Live. Joshua not only watched the event but went backstage to meet Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and WWE Superstar Natalya. The two-time heavyweight boxing world champion was present to watch Apollo from the UK Gladiators make a surprise appearance.

WWE reportedly released several big stars during Friday night's airing of SmackDown. It came as AJ Styles defeated LA Knight in a No 1 contenders match, with the former besting his opponent with a thumb to the eye and a Phenomenal Forearm. Styles is now set to face Cody Rhodes at Backlash as a challenger for his Undisputed WWE Universal Champion title.

One lucky Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson fan scored a ticket to WrestleMania after a permanent expression of his fandom. The WWE star, 51, shared a video Friday of his recent encounter with fan Ruben Rodriguez, who later got The Rock's autograph tattooed on his arm. 'So f***ing cool. Love stuff like this,' he started in the caption. 'You hear me say this all the time - but these kind of moments with people are the BEST part of fame.

Cody Rhodes has revealed on Good Morning Britain that he is confident that he will have a one-on-one match against WWE legend The Rock in the future. The pair entered a rivalry going into the WWE's showpiece spectacle, with The Rock pinning Cody Rhodes on night one in a tag team match which also involved Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. Rhodes though walked out of Wrestlemania night two as the new WWE champion after ending Reigns' 1,316 day stint with the belt. 

The Hollywood star returned the WWE programming at the start of the year as a face - or 'good' character - and had one of the most popular runs of his career after turning heel - bad - ahead of WrestleMania. He teamed with real-life cousin Roman Reigns to beat new WWE champion Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins in the main event of night one of 'Mania, and played a major part in Reigns' loss to Rhodes on the second night.

The Bloodline, led by former WWE champion Roman Reigns and The Rock, is leaving fans curious regarding its direction after Reigns lost his belt to Cody Rhodes after a near four-year reign on night two of WrestleMania. With Reigns and The Rock taking time away from WWE programming, some of the lesser dominant stars in the group will be tasked with carrying it forward, and that is what happened on Friday. Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa were on SmackDown, and their segment ended with Uso being beaten down by his real-life brother, Sikoa, and kicked out of the faction.

WWE pulled out all the stops when it came to Cody Rhodes' rematch with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40. After Reigns and The Rock had emerged victorious the previous night in a tag-team showdown against Rhodes and Seth Rollins, the clash was contested under 'Bloodline rules' meaning no disqualification. As such a number of familiar faces got involved in the instant classic.

Johnson, who has been back in WWE as The Rock in recent months, played a starring role in WWE's biggest show of the year as Cody Rhodes became the new WWE champion. Adopting a villainous persona, he teamed with real-life cousin Roman Reigns to beat Rhodes and Seth Rollins in the main event of night one, before featuring in the night two main event between Rhodes and Reigns. In late January earlier this year, Johnson was appointed to the board of TKO, the conglomerate created by WWE and UFC's parent company, Endeavor, to unify the entities.

Rollins performed twice on the card over the weekend, first teaming with Cody Rhodes to take on The Rock and Roman Reigns before losing his world heavyweight title to Drew McIntyre in the first match of night two. He was also vital to the main event on the night that saw Rhodes beat Reigns to win the WWE title, entering the ring in Shield gear and ultimately distracting Reigns, allowing Rhodes to win. He cut an emotional figure during night two, first breaking down after losing to McIntyre before he was seen again in tears watching Rhodes lift his title in the ring.

The two-night celebration at Lincoln Financial Field was the organization's fifth attempt at extending the pay-per-view past a singular evening. In the end, it became the most successful WrestleMania as the masses tuned in to see Cody Rhodes get crowned as the WWE Universal Champion. 145,298 fans came to Lincoln Financial to witness the action live across both evenings. The number topped the previous record, held by WrestleMania 39, by 78 percent. All 50 states, as well as 64 nations worldwide, were represented in the crowd. WrestleMania brought last year's record-setting viewership up by 41 percent. Additionally, the event became the most-viewed WrestleMania on social media - with over 660 million views consumed across both days.

RAW after WrestleMania delivered plenty for expectant fans who hoped to see returns and debuts in the new Triple H-led era. The show featured The Rock promising to return to the company to face Cody Rhodes and John Cena emerging a surprise tag team partner for the Awesome Truth. Fans were also treated to a pair of debuts from NXT in champions Ilja Dragunov and Roxanne Perez before announcing that the WWE draft will go down on April 26 and 29 later this month. Jey Uso also emerged as the number one contender to Damien Priest's newly won WWE world heavyweight title, but he had a little help from CM Punk.

After WrestleMania's return and debuts, Triple H promised to have a couple of exciting ones in Philadelphia. Despite The Rock's exit - well, partially - and Cody Rhodes' celebration, the night's first match gave fans a look at a new celebrity. Triple H used to play NXT and has seen several of his creations make it to the main roster with varying degrees of success. Now, WWE's future is in the custody of his best friend and, perhaps, the best in-ring talent in WWE history, Shawn Michaels. On Saturday afternoon, NXT Stand and Deliver set a new attendance record of 16,545 people, with the two champions who had missed the show's debuts on the big stage on Monday night.

After WrestleMania, the Rock made his presence felt as he interrupted Cody Rhodes, the show's new Undisputed WWE champion, at the top of the contest. The first hour of RAW was commercial free, with a mixture of Triple H, Rhodes, and The Rock eating up to 50 minutes of it. WWE's CEO brought Rhodes to the ring after the Game began to thank the fans for creating the best WrestleMania of all time (by any metric he kept reminding us). After reveling in finishing his story with Roman Reigns, The Rock, the former champion's cousin, decided to alert Rhodes that his relationship with him had just began. The Final Boss was barely able to talk for the first ten minutes of his match against Rhodes. Rock was told by the Philadelphia crowd to'shut the f*** up' and make him an 'a**h***' every time he tried to talk.

Rhodes made history by defeating Reigns, snapping an era that spanned more than 1,300 days in a match that featured a number of WWE celebrities and legends. After the match, he cut an emotional figure as his family and his relatives joined him in the ring to celebrate, as well as a number of other WWE stars who stood with him after he became the new WWE champion. Much of Rhodes' victory was triggered by the fact that his late father Dusty Rhodes had never won the title, and Cody paid tribute to his father both in the ring and afterwards.

After Cody Rhodes dethroned Roman Reigns to become the WWE Universal Champion, WWE COO and former world champion Paul 'Triple H' Levesque led the applause for him. Rhodes defeated Reigns in the main event of WrestleMania 40 on Sunday night, snaping Reigns' 1,316-day tenure as the world champion for the first time in nearly four decades.

Roman Reigns' championship run of 1,316 days came to an end thanks to Cody Rhodes, who in turn brought his tale to an end. On the night, there were three other newly crowned world champions, two in the first two matches. In addition, we were treated to a slew of legendary returns in the main event that helped create one of WWE's greatest babyface crowning moments. Logan Paul also appeared on the night when he competed with two future Hall of Famers and snuck in some innovative PRIME marketing.

Cody Rhodes' time as the greatest world championship run of the modern era of WWE is over, and the man is finally out. Before WrestleMania 40 night two, Roman Reigns had dominated WWE for 1,316 days. Rhodes had been trying to finish his story for the rest of his life, beginning with a pit stop on the independents and AEW. Now, a Rhodes will claim to have earned a world championship in WWE. Now is Reigns' world championship run in the record books. It's not the longest ever (actually, it's the third longest). However, it could also be the best ever.

In the main event of WrestleMania 40 night two, Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes will compete for the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship, but it will not be under Bloodline rules. That was the stipulation that Reigns and his cousin, The Rock, obtained by defeating Rhodes and Seth Rollins on night one. Well, that means all goes. The Rock and The Bloodline will make the rules go along, but Rhodes will also enlist some outside help. Reigns' historic world championship reign has been without assistance from his Bloodline family during his matches, and he has unintentionally disqualified several celebrities along the way due to it. While John Cena, Kevin Owens, and Sami Zayn, men who have been wronged by Reigns, might have aided Rhodes, Triple H has now referred to perhaps the country's greatest legend of all.

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After the Rock ordered his latest foul-mouthed outburst at a referee, WWE was forced to mute a portion of the WrestleMania 40 broadcast. In the main event on night one, the Hollywood celebrity, who was competing in his first real match in 11 years, joined WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns to beat Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins.

At the WrestleMania press conference for booing, Roman Reigns was seen kicking a member of the media out of the conference. After working up with the Rock to win the tag team main event against Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes, the Tribal Chief posted a big win in WrestleMania XL's Night One. Nevertheless, the celebratory mood seemed to have been cut short after one reporter began heckling Reigns during his press conference shortly after the victory.