Cody Rhodes returns at Saturday Night’s Main Event, issues WWE Money in the Bank tag challenge
Cody Rhodes is back, and he’s focused on John Cena.
At the end of Saturday Night’s Main Event, Jey Uso was set to pin Logan Paul when Cena dragged the referee out of the ring, giving himself the opportunity to attack Uso. It was then that Rhodes came out for the save, taking out Cena with the crossrhodes. Uso recovered, speared Paul, then splashed him to retain the World Heavyweight title.
As Cena and Paul retreated, Rhodes grabbed the microphone and said it seems Paul has a partner in Cena and he has a brother in Uso. He issued the challenge for a tag team match at Money in the Bank on June 7.
Rhodes had been missing from WWE television since losing the WWE title to Cena in the main event of the second night of WrestleMania 41. After taking out an interfering Travis Scott, Rhodes grabbed the WWE title Cena had introduced and struggled with the idea of using it to take out Cena. The hesitation allowed Cena to recover, low blow Rhodes, then strike him with the WWE title for his record-breaking seventeenth world title reign.
Earlier on Saturday, Cena pinned R-Truth in a non-title match following a low blow. Backstage, he ran into Uso and told him he’d be watching the main event, noting that if Paul were to win, having a Youtuber as champion would ruin wrestling, something Cena has been advocating for since turning heel at Elimination Chamber.