{"id":243760,"date":"2025-09-21T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243760\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:29:13","slug":"cody-rhodes-ends-wrestlepalooza-as-wwe-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243760\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Rhodes ends Wrestlepalooza as WWE Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The main event of tonight\u2019s (Sat., Sept. 20, 2025) Wrestlepalooza premium live event from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, featured WWE Champion Cody Rhodes putting his title on the line against Drew McIntyre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rhodes had been off for a few weeks filming Street Fighter, so they seemed to be telling the story that he had some ring rust and McIntyre was taking advantage of that, not to mention working less than 100-percent after the contract signing on SmackDown. Well, that and DM Hunk is just a big mammoth of a man who can do stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite that, Rhodes persevered. McIntyre tried to take it to Cody at the announce table once again but ended up destroying his own leg, which directly resulted in Rhodes hitting a Cody Cutter and following it up with a single Cross Rhodes to give him the three count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He is still the WWE champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There wasn\u2019t much to it, as they played it relatively straight, but WWE kicked off the ESPN partnership with its top babyface standing tall to end the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Get complete Wrestlepalooza results and coverage of every match on the card by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/384088\/wwe-wrestlepalooza-results-live-streaming-match-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main event of tonight\u2019s (Sat., Sept. 20, 2025) Wrestlepalooza premium live event from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,67,132,68,120836,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-243760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wrestlepalooza","13":"tag-wwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115242058861982887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}