Cody Rhodes Reveals First Person To Greet Him After WrestleMania 39 Loss

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Cody Rhodes took part in his first WrestleMania main event at this year’s WrestleMania 39 show, where he challenged Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.

Ultimately, Cody failed to finish his story at the event, with Roman’s reign as champion continuing on beyond that night in Los Angeles.

Speaking on the Dale Jr Download, Cody spoke about Bruce Prichard, calling him a genius, and revealing that he was the first person to greet him after his loss to Reigns.

He said:

“At the time, when I was in OVW, the one that I needed to impress the most was a man named Bruce Prichard. He is a genius, remains a genius, in the industry, and he was Vince’s right hand. You need someone to write down all these ideas, someone to formulate. Bruce came down and knew what he was looking at. He knew me, knew that my dad cared. You could have done it as a favor for my dad, but the best favor he could do for my dad is lead me in the correct way. To this day, Bruce is still plugged in to WWE, he’s the main guy.

“When I lost at WrestleMania, I was adamant that I was walking up the ramp. I’m not going side ramp or ‘losers lane.’ It’s the end of the show, 80,000 people, I want to look them in the eye, say sorry or ‘we’re going to get him eventually.’ When I walked up there, I wasn’t sure I was ready to walk into Gorilla. I took a second and [Bruce] came out the curtain. He was just him and I. We had a nice moment and I’ll never forget it. In my mind, I was like, ‘I need to reverse this situation and we have this moment again.’ Bruce has been a big part of my career that I didn’t realize was a big part of my career until I got older.”

The Rock spoke on the Pat McAfee Show today, where he revealed that a match between him and Roman Reigns was ‘locked in’ for WrestleMania 39.

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