Cody Rhodes Was Told Peacock Subscriptions Went Up For Hell In A Cell Match Against Seth Rollins

Cody Rhodes reflects on his Hell In A Cell match with Seth Rollins.

At Hell In A Cell 2022, Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins were scheduled to face off in a Hell In A Cell match to blow off their rivalry that began at WrestleMania 38. On the week of the bout, Cody would suffer a torn pec muscle injury, but would persevere and competed in and won the bout at the show.

While speaking to Bill Simmons in a recent interview, Rhodes spoke about wrestling with a torn pec for the match with Rollins, noting that he was told Peacock had a bunch of subs go up as a result.

“I think the idea, so many lies went into making it so I could get in the ring that night. I was refusing to do the old school, ‘Let me be lying there backstage. Who did it?’ It was the first main event I had with WWE and Peacock had a bunch of subs went up, and they told me that. I’m back and what I said all along was, ‘I can be in the main event. I can handle it and do well for you guys.’ This was my first main event and here I am, ‘I’m gonna have to go away.’ I wanted to give them something to remember me by.”

Cody was then asked if him wrestling the match came from having a son of a wrestler mentality.

“For sure. It’s son of a wrestler, but had my dad been alive, he wouldn’t have let me wrestle. He didn’t look at me as a wrestler. He wanted me to be an actor. He was very happy when I got into it, but my dad babied me. He took care of me in the greatest way, greatest dad ever. All the old school wrestlers were like, ‘Yeah, that’s it. That’s old school.’ He would have been the one to be like, ‘This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Why did you do that?’ Part of it was old school wrestler. I lied on the way. The information was true. WWE’s doctors looked at me and said, ‘He can’t hurt it any worse.’ That was true. Couldn’t hurt any worse.”

Cody was then asked by Bill if he had a ‘shoot me’ moment after beginning the match, with Cody noting he felt that way about two minutes into the bout.

“Probably two minutes in. I hadn’t done anything. It detaches by my armpit. The other part is connected to your collarbone. When it’s detached, it just falls, there is nothing there anymore. However, it would cramp up into the collarbone spot. When that happened, it hurt more than anything. It felt like the collarbone would literally explode. Everyone was under the impression, ‘They’re going to go six minutes. It’s fine.’ You’re in there with Seth Rollins, there is nobody better. We go 25 minutes, there are tables, he pulls out a toolbox. We went for it. I wanted them to have something to remember me by. I hate saying it, I was ashamed. I had never been hurt and then I finally got to the spot and I got hurt. I felt like I had blown it. I wasn’t going to leave that spot that night at least leaving a large mark on the fans.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Cody spoke about Jacob Fatu, calling the former United States Champion ‘special’. You can read more about that here.

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