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Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes Hospitalized With Spinal Harm

Cody Rhodes was hospitalized after successfully defending his title from Kevin Owens at Saturday Night’s Main Event, but WWE has announced that the Undisputed Champion was hospitalized and x-rayed for spinal injuries after the show. BREAKING: Earlier today it was confirmed that @CodyRhodes suffered cervical swelling and was kept overnight at a local hospital for observation.

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes Hospitalized With Spinal Harm

Cody Rhodes was hospitalized after efficiently defending his title from Kevin Owens at Saturday Evening’s Fundamental Occasion, however WWE has introduced that the Undisputed Champion was hospitalized and x-rayed for spinal accidents after the present.

BREAKING: Earlier as we speak it was confirmed that @CodyRhodes suffered cervical swelling and was stored in a single day at a neighborhood hospital for remark. Whereas X-Rays have been adverse for a fracture, Rhodes has been formally identified with axial compression of the cervical backbone, as effectively… pic.twitter.com/zyfdThsMQs

— WWE (@WWE) December 16, 2024

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WWE’s official assertion relating to Rhodes’ accidents reads “Earlier as we speak it was confirmed that @CodyRhodes suffered cervical swelling and was stored in a single day at a neighborhood hospital for remark. Whereas X-rays have been adverse for a fracture, Rhodes has been formally identified with axial compression of the cervical backbone, in addition to a cervical pressure with spasm.”

The occasion, held at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Lengthy Island, marked the primary episode “Saturday Evening’s Fundamental Occasion” since 2008, returning to NBC after greater than a decade.

Cody Rhodes
WWE Undisputed Champion Cody Rhodes throughout WWE SmackDown at Fiserv Discussion board on November 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Nevertheless, after the match, Owens attacked Rhodes in a surprising post-match assault. After Rhodes celebrated his victory, Owens delivered a brutal bundle piledriver, leaving the champion mendacity immobile within the ring.

Rhodes was rapidly tended to by medical employees and rushed to the again on a stretcher, earlier than being transported to an ambulance.

Owens’ actions didn’t go unnoticed. WWE’s Chief Content material Officer, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, confronted Owens backstage, visibly indignant on the brutal assault.

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With Rhodes now injured and certain out of motion for an prolonged interval, Owens will take some satisfaction figuring out he is dealt a extreme blow to the champion, regardless of his defeat.

To be truthful, virtually the whole lot about this announcement and Owens’ backstage assault signifies that it is a work and that Rhodes’ accidents may merely be a part of the continuing rivalry storyline between the 2.

Nevertheless, this can be very frequent for WWE to stage a “backstage assault” that leads to a extreme harm for a wrestler who has suffered a professional harm elsewhere and really does want restoration time. It’s solely potential that could possibly be the case right here.

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For instance, Rhea Ripley suffered an actual harm throughout a head-butt spot on a late October episode of Uncooked, however WWE stored the small print beneath wraps till they included it right into a storyline on NXT.

To elucidate Ripley’s absence, WWE scripted a dramatic angle by which she was ambushed within the parking zone of the WWE Efficiency Middle by Liv Morgan, the reigning Girls’s World Champion, and Raquel Rodriguez. On the time, WWE issued a really comparable assertion relating to The Nightmare.

The assault added gas to the simmering rivalry between Ripley and Rodriguez, which had been constructing since April, additional intensifying the feud, which was finally addressed at WarGames.

On condition that when this occurred to Ripley, WWE lined her professional fractured proper orbital bone with a really comparable staged facial harm, in all probability, Rhodes did truly undergo some spinal harm just lately, which is being lined with an exaggerated spinal harm.

The severity of no matter harm the champion has must stay to be seen. If the reported “axial compression of the cervical backbone, in addition to a cervical pressure with spasm” is an angle to cowl an actual harm for now, it seems that WWE is following its common playbook.

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