April 1 (UPI) — Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes had one other confrontation together with his WrestleMania opponent John Cena that led to a battle on Uncooked.
Cena, who has been making headlines for turning to the darkish facet after aligning himself with villainous WWE board member Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, kicked off the present Monday stay from the O2 Enviornment in London earlier than he was rapidly interrupted by Rhodes.
The previous friends-turned-rivals obtained right into a confrontation that obtained private and referenced each wrestlers’ historical past.
“I am gonna bury you, identical to I buried everybody else. They have been saying for years that John Cena buries expertise. I do not bury expertise, I’m expertise. I bury mediocrity,” Cena mentioned.
“I make empires for billionaires. All you’ve got ever accomplished is steal cash from their youngsters,” Cena mentioned in closing, a reference to Rhodes’ time in rival wrestling firm AEW.
Cena then began to go away the ring earlier than Rhodes was in a position to lure him again in.
“By no means as soon as has an viewers, by no means as soon as have they chanted at me, ‘you possibly can’t wrestle,’” Rhodes mentioned, inflicting Cena to confront him. Rhodes dodged a punch and took Cena out with the Cross Rhodes.
Rhodes will defend his title in opposition to Cena at WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas. The occasion takes place over two nights on April 19 and April 20. Cena, a 16-time world champion, has acknowledged that that is his closing 12 months as a competitor in WWE and that he should break wrestling legend Ric Aptitude’s world championship document. Cena and Aptitude are tied at 16 world title reigns.
Cena, now a villain, has taken concern with WWE followers and desires to damage skilled wrestling itself by successful Rhodes’ championship. Cena has mentioned he would take the championship residence and preserve it there. It is as much as the son of the late, nice, Dusty Rhodes to cease him.
