Cody Rhodes Believes Fans Would Have Been More Angry With His Original WWE WrestleMania 40 Plans

Cody Rhodes believes that WWE fans would have been "even more angry" with the original plans for WrestleMania 40, had they ended up happening.

Although Cody won the 2024 men's Royal Rumble match, WWE initially announced that The Rock would face Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Championship, with Cody stepping aside and challenging Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship instead.

However, a passionate fan backlash led to plans changing, and Cody taking on Roman after all to become Undisputed WWE Champion.

Rhodes has now spoken about the possibility of a separate option entirely - possibly an alternative way of getting to Rock vs. Roman - one which would have apparently angered the fans even more. He shared his opinion with Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes, explaining:

“If people knew the real plan for me, they’d be even more angry. I can’t share the real plan for you, The Rock plan, whatever it may be. That was going to be on my mind in terms of how do we make that work? How do we accomplish that? I had a really good team of people around me.

"That’s where DDP hit me with the famous 'whatever happens to you will be the best thing that ever happens to you' line. And I thought that’s insane, that’s madness, I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, and he was right. Including if it had gone the other way, he would have been right because the audience was what mattered, and I got to be really quiet and I got to say nothing. I got to watch the fire grow and I realised maybe I had every right to be confident. Maybe I had every right to not be concerned. But yeah, definitely, let’s say it was a Wheatley Vodka-sponsored few days."