10 Wrestlers Who Got A WrestleMania Singles Match Before Dolph Ziggler
7. Cody
The 'American Nightmare' had to leave, restart his career and kickstart an entire company just to try and rebound from the bad hand he was dealt in WWE. In spite of that, the former Intercontinental Champion managed, rather impressively, to sneak a couple of singles matches on the 'Show Of Shows' before it became too long for its own good.
Returning as a darker version of his 'Dashing' persona for a WrestleMania XXVII battle with Rey Mysterio before feeling altogether more tidied up for his Intercontinental Title scrap with The Big Show the following year, Cody somehow broke free from a chasing pack that included Dolph Ziggler during a period in which WWE were working at record levels of indulgence in old stars on their 'Grandest Stage'.
In an indictment of how thing went for both of them in the years that followed, the pair shared Rhodes' final WrestleMania, making up the numbers in a multi-man Ladder war that served mostly to facilitate fisticuffs between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn and giving the company a cute Instagram moment between Zack Ryder and Scott Hall.