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WWE Originally Planned Hell In A Cell Match For WrestleMania 42
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WWE Scrapped Hell in a Cell Stipulation for Cody Rhodes vs. Drew McIntyre
The main event picture for WrestleMania 42 has undergone a significant creative transformation in recent weeks. While Cody Rhodes is now officially scheduled to defend the Undisputed WWE Championship against his former mentor, Randy Orton, the original blueprint for the Las Vegas spectacle featured a much more violent iteration of a different rivalry. Original Plans Featured Rhodes vs. McIntyre Inside Hell in a Cell According to reports from PWI…
WWE Changed Major WrestleMania 42 Plans for Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre
Image Credit: WWE The fight card for WrestleMania 42 is gradually filling up, but a new backstage report says WWE once had very different and more brutal plans for Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. The 2026 Elimination Chamber happened to decide the WrestleMania opponent of former WWE Champion McIntyre. Randy Orton took advantage of McIntyre’s distraction and secured the win by pinning Rhodes. But just when it seemed like Rhodes had lost all his ch…
Backstage News On Original Plans For Hell In A Cell Undisputed WWE Title Match At WrestleMania 42
A Hell in a Cell match may have originally been in the cards for WrestleMania 42. According to one source, a proposal had been circulating internally for Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship inside Hell in a Cell at the event before WWE ultimately shifted creative direction. Those plans have since changed. Instead, Rhodes vs. Randy Orton, without the Hell in a Cell stipulation, is now expected to serve as the Undispu…
WWE Reportedly Initially Planned Cody Rhodes Vs. Drew McIntyre Hell In A Cell For WrestleMania 42
On the January 9 edition of Friday Night SmackDown, Drew McIntyre surprised fans by defeating Cody Rhodes in a Three Stages of Hell match to win the Undisputed WWE Championship. With reports at the time indicating the company’s WrestleMania direction was set to be Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns, many were left with questions regarding what we’d see at the ‘Show Of Shows’. Now, with the title matches seemingly set in stone for this April’s show, we know…
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