Las Vegas – John Cena and Coy Rhodes had a final confrontation Friday evening in the last episode “Smackdown” before their Wrestlemania 41 match at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Cena and Rhodes have exchanged, as they have been doing for weeks. For a while, Rhodes was on the point of reception of a few hooks of the T-Mobile Arena crowd. Cen recalled the “American nightmare”.
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John Cena entered the Cody Rhode promo during Friday evening Smackdown at T-Mobile Arena on April 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Andrew Timms / WWE via Getty Images)
“On Sunday to fight, I don’t have to fight,” Cena told Rhodes, attentive in her head.
Cena then tried to put Rhodes in her signing attitude adjustment maneuver, but Rhodes a lesse and hit the 16 times WWE champion with a Rhodes cross and left Cena on her back in the middle of the ring.
It was the last message sent before their epic match on evening 2 of the first live WWE event.
Rhodes told PK Press Club Digital in the days preceding Wrestlemania that Cena was a “very first” experience for him because of the Tour de Cena made fans.
“I look at a lot of things now, like John and my match at Wrestlemania 41. I really watch him as if it was the first time,” said Rhodes. “John was someone who entered and not immediately, but he found his foot quickly in terms of who John Cena was going to be, and he agitated this flag and wore his brand very firmly, very disciplined as long as him.
Wrestlemania 41 Night 2 will see John Cena try to make history against Cody Rhodes
“Really also helped shoot the WWE wagon for a transition period. I have the impression that it has always been that John for me – good guy or mean. You had to work so hard, if not more difficult, and you have to reach his level, otherwise he was going to intervene and leave you in the dust.”
Rhodes added that he would never have thought that Cena would have turned the heel during her career, since he had been loved by fans for so long.
Cody Rhodes is held on John Cena at Smackdown on Friday evening at T-Mobile Arena on April 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Mike Owens / WWE via Getty Images)
“So, now, watching the match, that’s why I say that it looks like me for me, because at the start of my career, I hadn’t found my foot. I didn’t know who I was,” he said. “And now, especially, to judge by these last interactions in the ring, I have the impression that we know who are now … I could not have put it in my wildest dreams that it would be a Wrestlemania match, the title and the main event, especially in the circumstances, but it is the beautiful thing about professional struggle; it is too difficult to call.”
Wrestlemania 41 Night 2 is scheduled for Sunday at 7 p.m. HE. If Cena wins, it would be a 17th record title of WWE for him.
