Cody Rhodes hopes UK hosts WWE WrestleMania within next five years

Cody Rhodes hopes WWE brings WrestleMania to the United Kingdom within the next five years.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been actively campaigning for his city to host WrestleMania, including meeting with WWE executives Nick Khan and Paul “Triple H” Levesque this summer. If it happens, this would be the first WrestleMania to ever take place outside of North America.

Rhodes spoke with BBC News in Manchester this week and expressed his desire for WrestleMania to come to the UK.

“If I’m aiming, it would be cool to get it [in the UK] in the next five years,” Rhodes said. “There’s some really big venues over here that could host a WrestleMania. I think American fans would jump at the chance to come to a WrestleMania [overseas], whether that that be in Manchester or London, I think they’d go nuts for it.”

John Cena has also been vocal in his belief that WrestleMania should come to the UK. Though his in-ring career will be over by then, Cena promised that he will be there as a fan if a UK WrestleMania happens.

“When the greatest of all time, as we like to call John [Cena], goes out there and says it, it almost wills itself into existence,” Rhodes told BBC News. “I’m very much looking forward to watching that situation unfold.”

Las Vegas will be the host city for WrestleMania 41 in April 2025. Beyond that, we know that Indianapolis is getting a future WrestleMania as part of a deal between WWE and Indiana Sports Corp, but the year for that event has not been confirmed.

Rhodes — the current Undisputed WWE Champion — has headlined WrestleMania each of the past two years. He’s currently in the UK for a WWE house show tour.