The Rock, Roman Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins Location for WWE WrestleMania 40
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Cody Rhodes and world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins looked on Friday evening’s episode of SmackDown and authorized a situation laid down by The Rock for WrestleMania 40.
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A disagreement within the ring between the 2 facets ended with Rhodes slapping The Rock within the face after the Of us’s Champ known as his delivery a “mistake.” The Rock tossed his mic exterior the ring and looked in a position to attack Rhodes sooner than Reigns calmed him down as the label went off the air.
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On Evening 1 of WrestleMania in Philadelphia subsequent month, Rhodes and Rollins will team as a lot as face The Rock and undisputed WWE universal champion Roman Reigns with some main implications striking within the steadiness.
If The Rock and Reigns resolve on, then the Evening 2 main event between Rhodes and Reigns for the WWE universal title will be fought under Bloodline guidelines, that blueprint anything else goes.
However, if Rhodes and Rollins resolve on, then The Bloodline will be barred from getting desirous about the Rhodes vs. Reigns title bout.
After Rhodes won his 2d consecutive males’s Royal Rumble match in January, all indicators pointed toward him irritating Reigns at WrestleMania, but The Rock made a shock return on the following episode of SmackDown, and Cody perceived to step aside to enable The Rock to face Reigns at WrestleMania as one more.
Followers rebelled and showed their strengthen for Rhodes within the times that adopted, so The American Nightmare reversed route at a WrestleMania press convention in Las Vegas.
After Rhodes made his decision to face Reigns, and both Reigns and Rhodes took shots at every other’s households, The Rock shy the wrestling world by slapping Cody across the face.
Since that 2d, The Rock has clearly been portrayed as a heel, and he has change into an official member of The Bloodline, even going up to now as to acknowledge Reigns as his Tribal Chief.
At Elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia, closing month, Rhodes challenged The Rock to a one-on-one match. The Rock declined closing week on SmackDown, and he proposed the mark team match opinion as one more.
With Rhodes and Rollins agreeing to the star-studded affair, WWE now has one of many supreme mark team suits of all time in draw to main event Evening 1 of WrestleMania.
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