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Cody Rhodes has responded to John Cena saying their WrestleMania 41 match stunk up the joint, and he took it the way a student takes a hard word from a mentor.
Cena beat Rhodes at WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas to win the Undisputed WWE Championship. Cena said this week that he and Rhodes failed that night.
“I took a big swing at WrestleMania and we stunk up the joint. We failed,” Cena told Uncrowned and Yahoo Sports.
Rhodes answered on the Unsportsmanlike show. He said he was torn, because Cena had just praised him in person days earlier.
“He said something else this week where he said we stunk the joint out in Vegas at WrestleMania 41,” Rhodes said. “So my heart is pulled in two different directions. I felt great. He got me. I had tears in my eyes standing there with him in Brooklyn. The next thing I know, ‘Okay, we stunk the joint out.’ Alright. Alright. That’s what they do though. That’s what the great mentors do, you know? They never can give you the full, and they shouldn’t.”
Rhodes was talking about Raw earlier this month in Brooklyn. Cena invited Rhodes to compete in the John Cena Classic, and he called Rhodes WWE’s QB1 on the show.
The WrestleMania match drew heavy criticism at the time, mostly over The Rock not showing up after he had turned Cena heel on Rhodes a month earlier, and over WWE using rapper Travis Scott in the match.
Cena also said he and Rhodes put together a much better match at SummerSlam later in 2025. Rhodes won that match and took the Undisputed WWE Championship back from Cena, who had turned babyface again by then.
Rhodes leads Team USA at Survivor Series on November 28 in Houston, Texas. Cena returns to SmackDown tonight to invite more names to the John Cena Classic, which takes place December 14.
What is confirmed is Cena’s blunt verdict on the WrestleMania match and Rhodes taking it in stride. What is not confirmed is whether the two will share the ring again.
Source: John Cena to Uncrowned and Yahoo Sports, Cody Rhodes on Unsportsmanlike (via Wrestling Inc)
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/2315399/cody-rhodes-john-cena-stunk-up-joint-wwe-wrestlemania/
