Cody Rhodes and John Cena will meet in Wrestlemania 41 with the WWE undisputed championship and the eyes of the world of professional wrestling with great care.
Cena won the men's elimination chamber game and then lined up with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to become the antagonist in this story with Rhodes. The cheap photo of Rhodes de Cena initiated the search for the Massachusetts native for a 17 record title of records.
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John Cena hugs Cody Rhodes during the WWE elimination chamber at the Rogers Center in Toronto on March 1, 2025. (Georgiana Dallas/wwe through Getty Images)
For years, Cena has been the beloved Baby face of the WWE. He cultivated an important fan base with the younger audience and never once during the height of his career returned the other cheek. Certainly there were times that fans booed him and ridiculed him, but his character was always the “hustle, loyalty and respect.”
But his heel turn presented a completely new story in what is supposed to be his last year in Pro Wrestling. Rhodes told Fox News Digital before the most recent episode of “Monday Night Raw” in London who seems to face dinner for the first time.
“I look many things now, like John and my game in Wrestlemania 41. I really see it as if it were the first time,” Rhodes said. “John was someone who entered and, not immediately, but found his balance quickly in terms of who was going to be John Cena, and stirred that flag and took his mark with a lot of firm level, otherwise, he was going to pass over you and then leave you in the dust.”
John Cena en action against Cody Rhodes during the WWE elimination chamber at the Rogers Center in Toronto on March 1, 2025. (Rich Freeda/wwe through Getty Images)
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Rhodes, who spoke with Fox News Digital on behalf of the WWE association with clans shock, said that in his wildest dreams he would have imagined a turn in the dinner heel.
“Then, now, looking at the confrontation, that's why I say it feels like a first half for me, because at the beginning of my career, I had not found my balance. I didn't know who it was,” he said. “And now, especially judging by these past interactions in the ring, I feel that we know who they are now … I could not have expressed it in my wildest dreams that this would be a party of head of Wrestlemania and a main event, especially in the circumstances he has received. But that is beautiful about the professional struggle; it is too difficult to call.”
In the most recent “Monday Night Raw”, Rhodes and Cena were potentially face to face for the last time before Wrestlemania 41 in Las Vegas.
Cody Rhodes celebrates after defeating Kevin Owens in the WWE undisputed championship match during the WWE Royal Rumble in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on February 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn images)
The two wrestling superstars exchanged insults to start the show. But the confrontation ended with Rhodes hitting its final maneuver, crossed, at dinner and left it extended in the middle of the ring.
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Wrestlemania 41 is scheduled for April 19 to 20.
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