25 Most Iconic WWE Ring Entrances Ever
14. Cody Rhodes (WrestleMania 38)
Cody Rhodes didn't just steal a march on the company he helped create when he walked to a WWE ring for the first time in six years at WrestleMania 38. He stole the Dallas pay-per-view from underneath the unthinkable one-off in-ring return of Stone Cold Steve Austin.
It was the first moment of confirmation that 'The American Nightmare' might well be the next to assume the spot 'The Rattlesnake' had once held as the industry's top all-rounder and draw. That he'd left All Elite Wrestling was enormous enough; so much so that the reaction from those in the building and everybody around the world was one of needing to see to believe. It was yet another like-for-like with Austin - the pop for the "Wrestling has more than one royal family..." sting was akin to a glass smash at the height of the Attitude Era, and the reaction to Cody actually appearing via his Cody-vator was on par with the moment Austin would stroll out to spend another night doing big business.
A heart-on-sleeve and expression-on-face wrestler for better and worse on any given night, Rhodes tried in vain to maintain composure but the same enormity being experienced by the crowd was etched across his barely-concealed expressions. Not for the first time since he'd left the market leader, Cody was dictating and curating wrestling history, and ahead of the blisteringly good match he'd have with Seth Rollins, he was justified in his soaking up of yet another seismic moment.