Cody Rhodes Explains How He Felt After Losing To Roman Reigns At WWE WrestleMania 39

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Cody Rhodes has explained how he felt after losing to Roman Reigns at WWE WrestleMania 39.

There are some in the pro wrestling community who are still wondering about the decision to have Roman Reigns defeat Cody Rhodes to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in the main event of WrestleMania 39.

Since then, Reigns has been riding high with his gold and eclipsed over 1,000 days as champion, while The Bloodline has crumbled with The Usos leaving the group ahead of winning at Money In The Bank 2023.

Meanwhile, Cody Rhodes has been embroiled in a feud with Brock Lesnar since The Beast Incarnate attacked The American Nightmare on the Raw after WrestleMania 39.

Speaking with Sam Roberts, Rhodes discussed how he felt after losing at Mania. Explaining that he doesn’t know if what he was feeling was sadness, disappointment and shock, Cody said:

“After having done it (main eventing WrestleMania), you have to win at WrestleMania. You have to win, and I think that’s why I didn’t come out swinging the next day in terms of whining or moaning.”

“There’s a part of the documentary where they got me coming right through the curtain after.”

“That’s a very heavy feeling. I remember feeling like I’d been hit with a hammer right in the chest and just the color had even left my body by the time I got to Gorilla, the Go Position and I don’t know if it’s sadness, disappointment or shock.”

“Shock of this really happened because then sitting there in the ring, I knew I was being filmed, I knew I was being shot and I knew how sad I looked and I was thinking, you gotta get up.”

Rhodes continued on to discuss how you have to get up when you are knocked down the way he was, saying:

“In my mind, I was saying, you gotta get up and I was looking out at the crowd and I saw my own family and thinking, okay, they can handle this.”

“They’ve seen everything, they can handle this. But just looking out and seeing our fans just hurt and disappointed at the show they’re not supposed to be hurt and disappointed at was really — I was waiting for a tomato to hit me in the side of the head. I was just like, oof, this is the worst-case scenario.”

“So, as exciting as it is to have my name there as the guy who main evented WrestleMania which happened to be the most profitable WrestleMania of all time, coincidentally (Rhodes laughed).”

“I don’t know. I would love to hopefully — five years from now, ask me a different question. You gotta win at WrestleMania.”

Cody Rhodes will face Brock Lesnar in a rubber match at WWE SummerSlam from Detroit’s Ford Field on August 5.

For the full lineup for SummerSlam 2023, click here.

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