Cody Rhodes is denying reports that he was on medication for his match with Seth Rollins at the 2022 WWE Hell in the Cell pay-per-view event.
As many of you know by now, Rhodes competed in the match despite dealing with a torn pectoral muscle which resulted in massive bruises on his chest.
Speaking on a recent episode of the “Major Wrestling Figure Podcast,” the American Nightmare commented on the injury, as well as those on social media who still accuse him of being on painkillers. He said,
“I get very petty when I see on social that people think I had some sort of medication. I’ll tell you the god honest truth. I was hoping for some extra strength tunnel, I was hoping for something, but when I went to Larry in the training room looking for some anti-inflammatories, I was given, and I kid you not, two baby aspirins. I was happy to have them.”
He continued, “Right in the early part of the match, I thought I was going to puke because it’s that feeling when you’ve been punched in the nose or when you’ve been hit so hard that your body wasn’t ready, you took a fall from way high up or whatever it is. I thought that this won’t go much longer, I thought for sure I was gonna just literally vomit in front of the audience and then I found kind of a second wind. Near the end of it, I felt like I could have benched that 315 and just been repping it out but shortly thereafter, all that pain set in.”
Rhodes defeated Rollins in the match. He later underwent surgery and was out of action for eight months, which led to his eventual return to the ring at the 2023 Royal Rumble pay-per-view event.
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