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Reported Reason for Rhodes Holding Off on WrestleMania Announcement
Cody Rhodes refrained from making his authorities challenger option for WrestleMania 40 throughout Monday night’s episode of Raw, and it is supposedly for excellent factor.
According to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio (h/t Subhojeet Mukherjee of Ringside News), holding off on his statement was mostlikely indicated to develop anticipation and possibly rating a strong tv score when he eventually does make his option.
Rhodes won his 2nd successive guys’s Royal Rumble match on Saturday, endingupbeing just the 4th Superstar in WWE history to pull off the task.
After he won, The American Nightmare got on the ropes and pointed in the instructions of indisputable WWE universal champ Roman Reigns, who was looking on from box seats.
That appeared to suggest Rhodes is locked in to face The Tribal Chief in the primary occasion of WrestleMania 40 after falling simply short in his quote to beat him in the primary occasion last year.
On Monday’s Raw, though, world heavyweight champ Seth Rollins interrupted Rhodes while he was cutting a promotion.
He urged the guys’s Rumble winner to obstacle him at WrestleMania rather, firmlyinsisting that the World Heavyweight Championship is the workhorse, blue-collar title and the leading reward in WWE.
Rather than shooting Rollins down, The American Nightmare stated he would believe about the proposition, and he is now setup to appear on Friday’s SmackDown.
While Rollins has a history with Rhodes and made some engaging points, it appears a near-certainty that he will go after Reigns in an effort to “finish the story.”
Trick Williams Reportedly Viewed as Future WrestleMania Main Eventer
NXT star Trick Williams apparently opened some eyes in WWE with his look last week on SmackDown.
The 29-year-old revealed up to assistance his longtime buddy and tag group partner, Carmelo Hayes, who was getting assaulted by Austin Theory and Grayson Waller. He got a substantial pop from the crowd and shouted his “Whoop That Trick” catchphrase.
According to Haus of Wrestling’s Nick Hausman, the SmackDown imaginative group was “blown away” by the crowd’s response to Williams, and some within the business now think he has “future WrestleMania primary eventer capacity.”
Williams made his tv launching on an episode of NXT in 2021 as Hayes’ partner, however over the course of time, he endedupbeing extremely popular in his own .
At the Vengeance Day premium live occasion on Sunday, he is set to pull double responsibility, as he will veryfirst group with Hayes in the last of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic versus Bron Breakker and Baron Corbin and then obstacle Ilja Dragunov for the NXT Championship in the primary occasion.
NXT booker Shawn Michaels hasactually been structure stress inbetween Williams and Hayes for months, so it appears mostlikely that Hayes will either expense Williams the title or possibly attack him after he wins in order to set up a match at Stand & Deliver on April 6.
Regardless of what takesplace Sund