Roman Reigns beats Cody Rhodes at WWE WrestleMania 39 to proceed historic title run
Roman Reigns stored Cody Rhodes from ending his championship story and continued certainly one of wrestling’s historic championship reigns within the course of.
The Tribal Chief defeated Rhodes to retain the Undisputed WWE Common championship, with loads of assist from The Bloodline within the WrestleMania 39 Night time 2 essential occasion at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday night time.
Reigns nonetheless hasn’t been pinned since December 2019 and his 944-day world-title reign marches on.
To convey the story full circle, new tag-team champs Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn thwarted Jimmy and Jey Uso’s try to assist Reigns win, even delivering a Stunner and a Helluva Kick to The Tribal Chief.
It appeared Rhodes was on the cusp of successful, however Paul Heyman distracted the referee as The American Nightmare acquired able to hit a 3rd straight Cross Rhodes finisher.
It allowed Solo Sikoa — who had been tossed from ringside — to come back out of the gang and land the Samoan Spike on Rhodes.
Reigns then delivered a ultimate spear and pinned Rhodes’ shoulders to the mat for the win.
Rhodes, the son of “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, was making an attempt to complete his legendary household’s story by turning into the primary to carry a world championship in WWE.
It was fairly the journey for the 37-year-old to get thus far.
He left WWE in 2016 as a consequence of being sad together with his artistic course, starting a seven-year run that noticed him star in Ring of Honor and New Japan Professional-Wrestling earlier than serving to launch the upstart All Elite Wrestling in 2019 as a expertise and government vp.
After he and AEW couldn’t agree on a new contract, Rhodes returned to WWE finally 12 months’s WrestleMania as the primary main identify to maneuver from AEW to WWE.
A torn pec before the Hell in the Cell pay-per-view would hold him out seven months earlier than he came back to win the men’s Royal Rumble in January and put himself on a collision course with Reigns.
The match was the third time Reigns has main-evented WrestleMania throughout the identical title reign that included 26 defenses.
Reigns and The Bloodline story — which is much from over — has ushered in a extra cinematic method to WWE’s storytelling and ignited the corporate’s product to being pink scorching once more.
It was all a celebration of the Anoaʻi household’s Samoan dynasty within the enterprise, elevating it to its highest profile.
His solely different singles defeat throughout this run was getting disqualified towards Seth Rollins on the 2022 Royal Rumble.
Who will lastly take the belts from him nonetheless stays to be seen.