Despite having a legitimate torn pec, The American Nightmare Cody battled Seth Rollins at Hell In A Cell 2022 main event and defeated Seth Rollins in another classic. Now, we got a new backstage report possibly revealing why WWE cleared Cody Rhodes to wrestle at Premium Live Event.
It was reported on the day of Hell in a Cell 2022 that Cody Rhodes suffered a legitimate injury while lifting weights. WWE confirmed he had a torn pec due to the incident but would wrestle at Hell in a Cell anyway. Rhodes also tweeted that “For the love of the game,” half an hour before the main event, revealing why he chose to wrestle.
According to the WrestlingNews.co reports, Cody Rhodes was cleared because he couldn’t suffer more damage to his completely torn pec. It was also added that a few high risk spots were scrapped from the match.
The reasoning for why Cody was cleared to wrestle is because he can’t do more damage to his completely torn pec. There were some high risk spots (moonsault) that were scrapped from the match. #HIAC
— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) June 6, 2022
The report stated that Rhodes had the option not to compete at Hell In A Cell, and WWE would’ve come up with an alternate plan. However, it was The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes who insisted on wrestling anyway.
“Cody had the option to not do the match and WWE officials would have come up with an alternate plan but Cody was said to have insisted on going out there and the match went on as scheduled.”
