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Cody Rhodes defeated AJ Styles at Backlash on Saturday to defend the Undisputed WWE Championship in his first title protection since turning into champion at WrestleMania 40.
The American Nightmare prevailed in a bodily, abet-and-forth affair.
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After over a yr of pursuing the WWE title, Rhodes finally carried out his yarn at WrestleMania 40, as he beat Roman Reigns in the well-known event of Evening 2 to alter into world champion for the first time in WWE.
The American Nightmare ended Reigns’ historical title flee of over 1,300 days in the arrangement, and he established himself because the face of WWE while The Tribal Chief takes a while away from the corporate.
Even despite the fact that the ‘Mania employ represented Rhodes accomplishing his closing purpose in wrestling, he didn’t hang noteworthy time to hang an very perfect time.
On the Raw after WrestleMania, Rhodes used to be interrupted by The Rock, who teamed with Reigns to beat The American Nightmare and Seth Rollins in a label group match on Evening 1 of The Reward of Reveals.
The Rock made it certain that he intended to derive abet at Rhodes after taking a while off, but in the meantime, WWE had to search out out who would be his first challenger.
A pair of Triple Possibility fits were held on SmackDown with LA Knight beating Bobby Lashley and Santos Escobar, followed by Styles defeating Kevin Owens and Rey Mysterio.
That house up a singles match between Styles and Knight for the No. 1 contendership, and it upright so took house to be a rematch of their clash at WrestleMania 40, which used to be won by The Wide title.
The Extra special One bought revenge on the April 19 episode of SmackDown, beating Knight to make a shot on the WWE Championship.
Styles entered Backlash as a two-time WWE champion, but it completely had been nearly six years since he supreme held it.
Whereas The Extra special One used to be hungry to return to the head of the heap in WWE, Rhodes’ first title protection used to be a successful one, and his reign is now off and working.
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