Report: Cody Rhodes Has "Multiple Offers On The Table"

Free agent still favored to land in WWE for WrestleMania 38, plus a Cody sighting.

Cody Rhodes
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For those keeping tabs on the latest rumblings about free agent Cody Rhodes, it looks like there's a pretty sizable update.

Fightful Select has reported that "there have been multiple offers on the table" from different promotions, though there's no confirmation of which companies have offers and whether any of them have been or will be signed. At least one AEW EVP believes that Rhodes will land with WWE to face Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 38, which would line up with the fact that Seth still doesn't have a Mania opponent less than three weeks out from the event. But anyone who could provide any insight is keeping things hushed.

Those looking everywhere for signs might have noticed that last week, Damian Priest did not use his Reckoning finisher, which is the same as the Cross-Rhodes. Evidently, Cody didn't realize that himself until Fightful asked about it. One WWE producer suggested that it couldn't have been an accident that Priest suddenly used a different finisher. (However, it's worth noting that Damian's new finisher essentially is Scott Hall's Razor's Edge, and Priest has started calling himself "The Bad Guy," so that might not quite add up.)

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Cody and wife Brandi were seen last week at Disney with their daughter and Matt Cardona and Chelsea Green, though there's no indication that Rhodes visited the WWE Performance Center while in Orlando. Although WWE producers haven't been looped in on an impending Cody debut, Fightful notes that others state that he is "in great shape" for his eventual return to the wrestling limelight.

Raw emanates Monday night from Jacksonville, Florida, which is the unofficial home of All Elite Wrestling. If WWE wanted to make a very pointed splash, having one of AEW's founders re-debut there would be quite the statement.

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