WWE Unreal Director Chris Weaver Expected Cody Rhodes To Turn Heel At WWE Elimination Chamber

WWE Unreal’s Chris Weaver discusses Elimination Chamber 2025.

At the Premium Live Event, the landscape of WWE television was changed as John Cena would turn heel on Cody Rhodes, beating him to a pulp with the assistance of Travis Scott and The Rock. However, going into the event, the question was if Cody would sell his soul to The Rock and turn heel, something that WWE Unreal’s director believed was going to happen.

While speaking to Wrestling Republic in a new interview, WWE Unreal director Chris Weaver shared how he thought Cody Rhodes would be the one to turn heel at WWE Elimination Chamber 2025.

“I think the most difficult thing is like something like the heel turn, that was so such a big story and had to be kept so secret for them that, you know, that’s like one of the few things we just had no knowledge of whatsoever. So when I found out I was in Toronto for Chamber and it was like I went into Chamber thinking that Cody was going to turn heel that night, and not through them, not, you know, there was no (indication) it was just sort of my hunch and where they were headed with the story. It just made a lot of sense that he was going to turn heel. Then obviously, you know, he did the thing in New Orleans with Rock and they were sort of setting it up and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what’s going to happen.’ and we’ve been sort of told ‘this is going to be a big, it’s going to be a big show’, ‘you don’t want to miss it.’ They were giving us some sort of breadcrumbs, but without telling us explicitly. So when I found out like 15 minutes before that it was actually going to happen, I was like, shit, we don’t have- what are we going to do in an access show that we don’t have what I knew was going to be the biggest story of the year now. So that was like an example of a challenge.”

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