WWE kicked off the road to WrestleMania 39 with Royal Rumble 2023, last month after which two main event matches have also been confirmed. Two predictable Rumble match winners were crowned who will now go after the men’s and women’s world championships present on the roster.
However, plans for Wrestlemania 39 went through various changes in recent times, already. Reports affirmed how The Rock pulled out of the show of shows while a proposal to Stone Cold Steve Austin matchup was also turned out by Austin. That led WWE to confirm the previously penciled-in match between Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes that will be contested for the Undisputed Universal Championship.
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There were some rumblings around the rumor mill about Cody Rhodes being initially set to challenge Roman Reigns for one of his titles at WrestleMania 39. The idea is that WWE changed those plans for Cody to go after a different title on night one of ‘Mania after The Rock pulled out of the show. But that isn’t the case.
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WWE never had plans for splitting up current world titles
During Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer shed light on WWE’s plans for WrestleMania 39. He stated that there was a plan for a second title to be defended on the first night of the two-night extravaganza. But never ever the company had considered splitting up the two existing titles held by Reigns,
“The key to this is that they are not creating a new championship on the Saturday night show. Yeah, they were talking about doing a second title on Saturday night.”
“If it was Roman and The Rock, then they were going to create a championship on Saturday night that Cody would have probably ended up winning. But, it was Cody, Drew, or Rollins that was gonna come out of that one. They were creating a second one, because they want to go back to two titles.”
Ringside News was also informed by a tenured member of the creative team that, “Roman Reigns was never scheduled for two defenses. If Rock was in, Rock was in. Never two defenses.” It certainly suggests that Cody Rhodes heading into the WrestleMania 39 spot didn’t switch the plans to split the top world titles as was previously mentioned in reports.
WWE Wrestlemania 39 PLE Match Card
Wrestlemania 39 takes place on April 1 and 2 at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The current match card for the event goes as follows,
– Undisputed WWE Universal Championship Match: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Cody Rhodes
– SmackDown Women’s Championship Match: Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Rhea Ripley
