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If there’s one person who didn’t want Cody Rhodes to have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, it was Shinsuke Nakamura. The “King of Strong Style” and, apparently, an accomplished author who delivered his modern-day children’s classic, “An American Nightmare Before Christmas” on the RAW before Christmas, Nakamura has been taking palpable […]

There was a time earlier this year when Jey Uso wasn’t a member of the WWE Universe. He announced his intentions to leave, telling the entire WWE Universe ‘deuces, Uces’ and, in turn, the promotion placed the former Tag Team Champion in the alumni section of the website right alongside then-former Superstar CM Punk. But […]

When Cody Rhodes noted in an interview on The Michael Kay Show that he would love for his former second, current AEW World Champion MJF, to come over to WWE in order to “swing a bat with the big boys” of professional wrestling, it turned heads around the industry. Sure, maybe Rhodes was just shooting […]

When news broke that Shinsuke Nakamura was booked for a very special segment on RAW, dubbed “The American Nightmare Before Christmas,” it had fans of professional wrestling the world over what, in fact, that means. Did the “King of Strong Style” plan on taking part in a gimmick match against Cody Rhodes similar to the […]

In the eyes of many fans, Cody Rhodes is a strong contender for the MVP of WWE in 2023. On paper, it makes sense, right? Rhodes has wrestled 108 matches for WWE in 2023, the most matches he’s worked since 2017, and has won all but five of his efforts – 86-2 as a singles […]

Drew McIntyre is at a very interesting spot in his professional wrestling career. After falling into a bit of a rut following the end of his two WWE Championship runs, McIntyre has embraced his carnal desires for success without the limits of a babyface’s moral code, doing whatever he needs to in order to get […]

On January 27, WWE will hold the 37th annual Royal Rumble event. Although the PLE is well over a month away, things are already starting to heat up. Both CM Punk and Cody Rhodes have announced that they will be entering the Royal Rumble match, hoping to punch their ticket and main event WrestleMania 40 […]

When Shinsuke Nakamura revealed that Cody Rhodes was the subject of his mysterious vignettes on RAW, it turned heads around the WWE Universe. Now sure, technically, the promos could have been about Rhodes, or AJ Styles, or CM Punk, or really about any member of the WWE Universe, as the “King of Strong Style” was […]

When news broke that QT Marshall was leaving AEW on the very same day CM Punk was making his WWE Television return to RAW, it turned heads around the professional wrestling business. Was Marshall, who wasn’t working for AEW on a long-term contract, going to jump ship to WWE either as a full-time road producer […]

When news broke that Cody Rhodes, much like Randy Orton, Seth Rollins, and CM Punk, had some time set aside thanks to Adam Pearce to discuss something very important to him with the WWE Universe, it got fans talking. What on earth could Rhodes have to, well, talk about, with the fans in Nashville? Did […]

When CM Punk made his surprise return to WWE after nearly a decade away following his firing with cause from AEW, it effectively changed the professional wrestling landscape forever. Suddenly, the promotion that positioned itself as the cool alternative to WWE had lost three of its top stars, Punk, Cody Rhodes, and Jade Cargill, and […]

Folks, it’s official: CM Punk is back in WWE. That’s right, after being fired on his wedding day nearly a decade ago and saying darn near every bad thing he could think of about the promotion during his time as a free agent, as a member of UFC, and most recently as a member of […]

Cody Rhodes and CM Punk were co-workers in AEW for roughly six months before the former decided to take another crack at winning the “big one” in WWE. Over that short but sweet period of time when it felt like the promotion was on top of the world, the duo never shared the ring for […]

When Cody Rhodes requested and was granted his release from WWE in 2016, the “Grandson of a Plumber” took it upon himself to borrow a page from his father’s playbook and blatantly promote himself from a makeup-wearing caricature into an undeniable force with enough star power to headline a brand new promotion on national television. […]

After 18 months away, it officially happened: Randy Orton made his shocking return to the WWE Universe on Monday Night RAW to be the fifth member of Team Cody Rhodes at WarGames. Contacted earlier in the show by the “American Nightmare,” Orton got on the phone with Rhodes, Jey Uso, and the management duo of […]

The second the referee hit the mat 1-2-3 and Roman Reigns’ song “Head of the Table” hit the PA at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, it effectively marked the start of Cody Rhodes‘ next Road to WrestleMania – a trip 364 days in the making. But what, you may ask, can a performer do to […]

Cody Rhodes has been a professional wrestler since all the way back in 2006, when he made his debut in a ten-man tag team match for then-WWE developmental territory OVW, and yet, despite having wrestled almost 2,000 matches over 65 different promotions, he’s never taken part in a WarGames match or, as it’s known in […]

When Adam Pearce ran into the middle of the ring on RAW to announce that Judgment Day, Damian Priest, Finn Balor, Dominik Mysterio, and JD McDonagh, and the makeshift babyface set of Finn Balor, Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn, and the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Seth Rollins, would be participating in WarGames, it turned heads around […]

After watching Cody Rhodes open up the latest edition of RAW, reintroducing fans in Washington, DC, and around the world to his WarGames team ahead of Survivor Series, the members of the Judgment Day, Damian Priest, Finn Balor, Dominik Mysterio, and (quasi-member) JD McDonagh – but crucially enough, not Rhea Ripley – walked down to […]

Since the moment Cody Rhodes came up short at WrestleMania 39, having to listen to Roman Reigns‘ theme laid out in the middle of the SoFi Stadium ring with a rubber chicken next to him, it felt like the clock began to tick towards a rematch at WrestleMania 40. Sure, a year in professional wrestling […]

Survivor Series: WarGames is quickly approaching, and things are starting to heat up. On last week’s episode of WWE Raw, Adam Pearce announced the men’s WarGames match at Survivor Series. This match will include Seth Rollins, Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, and Sami Zayn vs. The Judgment Day (Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Dominik Mysterio, and JD […]

When Cody Rhodes announced that Jey Usos, the former Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champion, was not only returning to the promotion after “quitting” but would be doing so as a member of RAW instead of SmackDown, few would have expected what would come next. Sure, after everything that happened with Roman Reigns before and after […]

The first poster for the WWE’s upcoming PLE, Survivor Series: War Games, has been unveiled. It features Cody Rhodes in an Apocalypse Now-inspired poster. “War Games!” “Let the games begin,” WWE Head of Creative Triple H said in an X post. “#SurvivorSeries: #WarGames descends upon Chicago’s @AllstateArena on Saturday, Nov. 25, streaming live at 8ee/5p […]

When Cody Rhodes challenged Damian Priest to a match at Crown Jewel, it felt beyond random. Sure, Rhodes and Priest have beef, with their most recent Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match clearly setting things up for a match in Saudi Arabia, but why was the match a singles contest, as opposed to a rematch […]

Before he was named the new SmackDown General Manager by WWE and even unseated as the seventh-longest tenured NWA World Heavyweight Champion behind Lou Thesz (3), Dan Severn, Dory Funk Jr., and Gene Kiniski, Nick Aldis was arguably most well known for his matches against Cody Rhodes, first at All In, where he dropped the […]

When news broke that the Judgment Day were going to open up RAW in their first segment on the Red Brand since regaining the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships versus Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso, fans jokingly assumed they knew how the segment would go down. Folks joked that the four members of the faction […]

When Drew McIntyre‘s initial run in WWE came to an end almost a decade ago, few expected him to eventually rise to the top of the industry and become a world champion in the biggest company in professional wrestling. So what changed? Well, McIntyre, McIntyre changed. Sitting down for an interview with Good Karma Wrestling, […]

In a shocking turn of events, Cody Rhodes and “Main Event” Jey Uso defeated The Judgment Day to win the Undisputed Tag Team Championships at Fastlane. Despite winning the championships at Payback last month, The Judgment Day couldn’t secure a longer reign with the titles. Although Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso have had issues with […]

When news broke that Cody Rhodes was not only going to be on a very special episode of NXT but was actually going to open the show with a huge announcement, it sent the rumor mill ‘a spinning as to what on earth he could have planned. Fortunately, fans didn’t have to wait long to […]

When Tony Khan announced that the 10/11 edition of Dynamite would actually be coming to fans on 10/10 in order to celebrate his 40th birthday – plus, you know, sports – it created the rare revival of the “Tuesday Night Wars,” aka an offshoot of the “Wednesday Night Wars,” when AEW and NXT ran head-to-head […]

After making headlines around the professional wrestling world for having an insane, intoxicated appearance at the Fastlane Press Conference, WWE announced that they’d be running back a special Cody Rhodes/Jey Uso interview segment on RAW to see if they could capture magic in a bottle twice in 48 hours. Naturally, this was going to be […]

If there’s one thing Lex Luger knows about from his professional wrestling career, it’s the importance of momentum. One of the top performers in WCW history with a major early 90s run in WWE sandwiched between his time working for Jim Crockett and Eric Bischoff, the “Total Package’s” career is littered with peaks and nose […]

Though she didn’t actually make a real-time appearance at Fastlane, even if there was a golden opportunity in the third match to do so, Jade Cargill did make her first-ever televised appearance within the WWE Universe in the preshow of the Premium Live Event, saying hello to Paul “Triple H” Levesque after arriving at the […]

When Adam Pearce announced that after having to deal with a bunch of shenanigans from Judgment Day on RAW, SmackDown, and even NXT, he was going to put Finn Balor and Damian Priests’ WWE Tag Team Championships on the line at Fastlane against none other than Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso, it felt like a […]

After weeks of anticipation, WWE is officially taking the express lane to Indianapolis for its first proper main roster Premium Live Event of the fall, Fastlane. With three titles on the line, grudge matches on the books, and at least one surprise in store for fans regarding who will be the final member in the […]

Though it’s become somewhat overshadowed by Tuesday’s edition of NXT, a show fans have joked has a WrestleMania-esque card, Fastlane has officially landed in the WWE Universe, and fans are beyond hyped to see how the first proper Premium Live Event of the fall shakes out. With just five matches booked for the show, including […]

When news broke that the October 11th edition of AEW Dynamite would be moved up a day to October 10th in order to correspond with the MLB Playoffs at WrestleDream, everyone was going to be totally normal about it, right? Things weren’t going to develop into the old Wednesday Night Wars that Cody Rhodes liked […]

Cody Rhodes has officially been back in WWE since WrestleMania 38, when he secured his first of multiple wins over “The Visionary” Seth Rollins before the latter turned babyface in 2023. Since that fateful night in Dallas, Texas, Rhodes has wrestled 102 matches, a number that would be higher if he didn’t lose half of […]

For what feels like a month straight, Cody Rhodes attempted to talk to the WWE Universe about his decision to help Jey Uso make his way onto RAW and what it could mean for the future. While Rhodes didn’t get too far in his conversing, as getting interrupted in this particular conversation has become something […]