Cody Rhodes To Appear On WWE Friday Night SmackDown

Rhodes, Roman Reigns will be on the blue brand the same night, so watch for fireworks.

by Scott Carlson
Cody Rhodes
AEW

Just as it was announced that Roman Reigns would appear on SmackDown this Friday, Cody Rhodes upped the ante by decreeing that he also will be headed to the blue brand later this week, marking the first time the two WrestleMania opponents will be on the same show since Rhodes won the Royal Rumble.

Rhodes toppled Chad Gable in a competitive match before grabbing the mic and announcing that he was going to SmackDown this week. He continued the theme of pointing out that he and Roman have yet to stand in a ring face-to-face, despite Mania being a month away. This ongoing drumbeat of Reigns not acknowledging his challenger for the Undisputed WWE Universal Heavyweight Championship only serves to heighten tension ahead of their eventual confrontation.

Although Cody didn't promise an actual confrontation, Paul Heyman later called Rhodes a gate-crasher on the Island of Relevancy and said that if Cody didn't confront Reigns, then he would be confronted instead.

Advertisement

While Heyman typically delivers spoilers, not predictions, there's no guarantee of Roman and Cody coming face-to-face on Friday. The rest of the Bloodline very easily could step in and run interference, further raising the tension levels and underscoring just how worried Reigns is with a fractured family stable.

Guess we'll just have to tune in on Friday to find out.

Advertisement
In this post: 
Cody Rhodes
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.