Cody Rhodes and Nikki Bella reflect on a scheduled match for WWE WrestleMania 29 that was canceled

Nikki Bella appeared on Cody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast. At one point, the two discussed canceled plans for a WrestleMania 29 match in 2013 that would have seen Brodus Clay, Tensai, Naomi, and Cameron vs. Cody, Damien Sandow and The Bella Twins.

Here was the exchange…

Cody: “Here you are, you have, literally, Total Divas being your show. Moving into Total Bellas, executive producing. This wonderful career that comes out of it. The reason I’m asking about this photo (of us before our match got cut) is because the conspiracy was that the match was never supposed to happen in the first place, that the drama of it being cut would be entertaining but I felt like we… weren’t thinking that.”

Nikki: “No. This is my thing, because I’ve heard this, a lot. I mean, then, it was kind of notorious that matches would get cut, right? So, I feel like it actually really did get cut but, if they cut it for drama for TV, that actually pisses me off… I’ve had some walk of shames in college. That was the worst walk of shame I’ve ever done in my life.”

Cody: “So, my walk of shame is a little different. I knew you guys had been hit hard by it. There was one point — I’m not naming names — who is overly optimistic and like, ‘Alright! Well, we’ll do it at Raw!’ And they were in that place. I was so angry, and at that point, I think that’s the first moment where I was like, ‘I’m out. I am out.’ Out didn’t come till years later but I thought, no, I’m out… Ah man, I can’t believe that match got cut in Gorilla.”

Nikki: “You know what I mean? No one will ever understand it unless you’re us in that feeling… At that time, our biggest moment just taken right from us.” (quotes courtesy of Andrew Thompson)