Cody Rhodes reveals idea he had for after WrestleMania 42 that Triple H rejected

While speaking at the WWE WrestleMania 42 post-show, Joe Tessitore announced that Cody Rhodes had suffered an eye injury during his match with Randy Orton and was being treated by doctors. The clip quickly went viral on X (formerly known as Twitter), showing Rhodes with a bloodied and bruised face, while his left eye appeared swollen shut.

During an interview with ESPN’s SportsCenter, Cody commented on recovering from the injury as he continues to make television appearances…

“We tried a little [makeup] on the eye, but I think we determined there was no way to cover it up. I’ll tell you something funny—I thought I was going to go to TV, go to Monday Night Raw, go to Friday Night SmackDown, and do an eye patch thing. I thought that would be cool. Wrestlers are always looking for something—maybe get a new action figure out of it, ‘Eye Patch Cody.’

Triple H told me absolutely not. There might even be a shot on ‘Unreal’ of me throwing that eye patch down backstage, because I had it ready to go. But hey, it comes with the territory more than anything. I had no complaints—it’s just a little battle scar.”