NEWS - Cody Rhodes REFUSED to Wrestle The Rock at WrestleMania 41!

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

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Cody Rhodes reportedly refused to wrestle The Rock at WrestleMania 41, despite The Great One wanting the match. Backstage politics played a major role in the decision, with Triple H opposing the idea and Nick Khan acting as the mediator. Several people convinced Cody to stand his ground, and The Rock ultimately let it go without pushing back. John Cena was chosen as the backup option, while CM Punk was never even considered. Get all the details on this shocking backstage story in our latest WWE news update...

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0:00.0	Hello there, my very good friends, on today's wrestling news.
0:03.0	We're going to talk a potential bombshell development in WWE
0:07.0	as Dave Meltzer tweets and deletes that Cody Rhodes refused to wrestle the Rock.
0:12.0	I'm Andy Murray.
0:13.0	I'm Adam Wilborn and this is the news.
0:16.0	So, obviously, we have to address the elephant in the room, first of all.
0:21.6	I kind of caveat this one.
0:23.1	Before we dive into the bulk of all of this, Dave tweeted this last night, Dave Meltzer,
0:27.6	and then deleted it within a couple of minutes, right?
0:29.6	So putting two and two together, I'm usually of the view that if you delete something
0:35.6	from Twitter is because you don't want to stand by it.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:39.2	You don't want it being out there longer than it was.
0:41.5	Maybe you think, oh, that was a mistake.
0:43.0	I shouldn't have put that out there.
0:44.6	Yeah, it wasn't exactly like he accidentally tweeted this.
0:47.0	He would have typed it all out and tweeted it.
0:49.3	Like, that's a lot of work to go to to go, oh no, I was meant to be a message to someone. It was a whole last paragraph as well.
0:55.0	It wasn't like it was two lines.
0:56.2	But basically, about 10pm UK time, 5pm on the East Coast, Dave Meltzer was replying
1:02.7	to someone talking about the whole situation with Cody Rhodes, The Rock, John Cena, CN Punk,
1:08.1	a bunch of other people, WrestleMania, main event, all that.
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