Cody Rhodes has told a story from ringside at his WWE Championship victory at WrestleMania 40 involving The Undertaker’s appearance.
Cody Rhodes finished his story at WWE WrestleMania 40 in 2024, defeating Roman Reigns to capture the Undisputed WWE Championship for the first time in his career.
The chaotic ending of the match has already become part of WWE history, with John Cena, The Rock and The Undertaker all making appearances during the Bloodline Rules main event, with Undertaker laying out The Rock with a Chokeslam.
Speaking to Undertaker on What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Cody discussed the moment from the show, telling a story of him believing Taker was ‘shoot magic’ following his appearance.
He said:
“The part to me that was so wild, because you know how blackout looks in the arena, it’s not always a blackout in the arena as it is on TV, but you pull a little bit of a Yoda move, where you’re moving around backstage real slow, just kinda conserving your energy.
“Then the speed to which you roll into the ring, you can hear it, it’s like listening to a guy at a wrestling school do a roll for the first time, you sped in there and stood right up, then the reveal comes up, there you are, this moment happens, grab him, give him a big Chokeslam, he goes up for it, big moment.
“Then you did the coolest thing. You looked back, knowing what was happening in the entire match, you look back at me, and of course I was in a sell, so the moment maybe wasn’t what you envisioned, but you looked back at me to give me a little ‘I got ’em, it’s your’s now, I got ’em’.
“But then you winked. And I tell people this all the time, when you winked, the lights went out, and I remember thinking ‘he’s shoot f**king magic’. I’m going in my mind ‘oh did they know, did they see him do it?’ No, they didn’t because you turned your back to the hard cam to look at me, and give me that moment.
“That moment, accompanied by, I saw John’s eyes, and he just watched and kinda just like, gave me something, just a nod, whatever it is. I’m sure you know but that did so much, not just for the match, not just for the spectacle of WrestleMania, not just for WWE history because WrestleMania 40, it’s everything past, present, future.
“But the amount of people who did honors for me and put me over, to go over in that moment, I can never tell you enough times how grateful I am for it, and how special it was, and how honored I was and still am, and not only that, but pressure in terms of what they did, don’t screw it up; honor what they did here.”
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Cody also spoke about WWE scaling back on live events during the episode, which you can see here.
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