Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes looks back on the Royal Rumble.
Heading into the Royal Rumble, Cody Rhodes and CM Punk were widely viewed as the two favorites to win the match. Rhodes was determined to “finish the story”, while Punk had just made his shocking return to WWE in November.
Speaking on “What Do You Wanna Talk About?”, Cody Rhodes reflected on the Royal Rumble match. He shared his thoughts on how way fans sided with him rather than Punk. Rhodes noted that it felt like they were in it together. (H/t Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling for the transcription)
“I had been pitted against (CM) Punk on the go up towards the (Royal) Rumble and then ultimately, to WrestleMania and then Punk is as hot as he’s ever been and Punk is beloved,” Cody Rhodes said. “But in the match, there was this general fifty-fifty-ish that slowly went to sixty-forty, slowly went to seventy-thirty in my favor and I thought, oh, okay. This is the way. We’re all in on this together. Okay, great. It’s a tough spot to be in where, ‘I want him to win, I want him to win, I want her to win, I want her to win.’
“But in this case, I feel like the story had gone on where that was a nice moment, because I would have hated walking out of there like, ugh, probably could have gone another way with that, you know?… It’s validating. It was real. It’s the whole bit. It’s real.”
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