Cody Rhodes Discusses Cut WWE WrestleMania Match

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Cody Rhodes has discussed his match alongside a WWE Hall of Famer that ended up being cut from WrestleMania.

In 2013, the Bella Twins made their return to WWE after a year long absence, with them aligning with Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow of Team Rhodes Scholars in March of that year.

This led to an eight-man tag team match being announced for WrestleMania 29, which would have seen Rhodes, Sandow, Nikki and Brie face off against Tons of Funk’s Brodus Clay and Tensai and the Funkadactyls Cameron and Naomi.

However, the match ended up being cut from the show just minutes before it was scheduled to take place, with all eight participants being told in Gorilla that it wouldn’t be happening.

Speaking on Cody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Cody and Nikki discussed the match, with Cody theorising that the match was never set to take place, and it being cut was simply to be used as a plot point on Total Divas.

He also said that the match being cut was the first time he considered leaving the company.

They said:

Nikki: “That was really sad.”

Rhodes: “So it’s funny that we’re laughing about it now.”

Nikki: “Yeah, because it was not funny.”

Rhodes: “Here you are, you have, literally, Total Divas being your show. Moving into Total Bellas, executive producing. This wonderful career that comes out of it. The reason I’m asking about this photo (of us before our match got cut) is because the conspiracy was that the match was never supposed to happen in the first place, that the drama of it being cut would be entertaining but I felt like we… weren’t thinking that.” 

Nikki: “No. This is my thing, because I’ve heard this, a lot. I mean, then, it was kind of notorious that matches would get cut, right? So, I feel like it actually really did get cut but, if they cut it for drama for TV, that actually pisses me off… I’ve had some walk of shames in college. That was the worst walk of shame I’ve ever done in my life.”

Rhodes: “So, my walk of shame is a little different. I knew you guys had been hit hard by it. There was one point — I’m not naming names — who is overly optimistic and like, ‘Alright! Well, we’ll do it at Raw!’ And they were in that place. I was so angry, and at that point, I think that’s the first moment where I was like, ‘I’m out. I am out.’ Out didn’t come till years later but I thought, no, I’m out… Ah man, I can’t believe that match got cut in Gorilla.”

Nikki: “You know what I mean? No one will ever understand it unless you’re us in that feeling… At that time, our biggest moment just taken right from us.”

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