Cody Rhodes is reigning for the second time as WWE champion But this time it does not feel in the same way as in the previous one, which lasts 378 days, from April 2024 to April 2025, or what is the same: since it dethroned Roman Reigns in Wrestlemania 40 until John Cena did the same with him in Wrestlemania 41.
► Cody Rhodes, WWE Champion
With only nine days as a monarch after removing the title at the same dinner at Summerslam, The “American nightmare” expresses how it feels In the podcast Yes medium:
«I took a moment before combat and before John gave me my belt. I thought this memory would be much more present, but being under the stage, it hit me, and I am surprised not to have remembered it before … That is the same stage under which I hid after my fight was eliminated in Wrestlemania 29. The same place from which I now went up at the elevator to hopefully, get my second championship, is where I stayed with my feelings after they took the fight from the show minutes before it happened.
When I realized that, while I went up in the elevator, it was when I really wanted to assimilate every emotion I had. The first time, in Wrestlemania 40, it was a completely different sensation, because I felt that I was capturing something that involved many people. Of course, my dad (Dusty Rhodes), trying to finish his story. The whole set of characters who participated in the great chaotic closure at the end.
This time he felt, selfishly, for me, in the sense of: 'Come? I told them '. Not in a malicious way, but: 'I told them. I was the one for work and I have always been. ' But nobody believes that when you are another fighter, so much to make you pass through the whole process. They made me pass it, and that feeling was 'I am the champion'. The first time, I don't remember thinking: 'I am the champion'. This time I felt: 'I am the champion.' »
When asked why he did not feel champion the first time, Cody replied: «I don't know. I think that for all emotions and for Wrestlemania 40, with everything that implied and the component of the final boss (The Rock). Maybe he had too much view in what could come later. 'Oh, what could happen', instead of this time, which was: 'Yes, I wasn't lying to them. I will continue doing this. If you want to move the finish lines, move them. If you want to tell me no, tell me, but I'm going to keep doing what I did tonight. '.»
