During his appearance on FITE TV’s “FITE In FOCUS,” Cody Rhodes spoke about the infamous photo that all of the young title-holders in WWE took together at the WWE TLC 2011 pay-per-view.
The photo, which you can view at the bottom of this post, featured Cody, as well as CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Matt Sydal, Kofi Kingston and Beth Phoenix, was taken ten years ago and re-posted by Matt Cardona last week on the tenth anniversary of that memorable day.
While on the aforementioned FITE TV digital series, “The American Nightmare” stated the following about the photo:
“That picture’s been floating around the last few days and I know Cardona put out a post about it. I didn’t. I chose not to. I’m pretty much off social [media] at this point, but I chose not to, only because — I don’t know, in my heart, I didn’t want to cheapen that day. But I will never forget Punk getting everyone together in Philly. I know exactly where it was, it was over by catering and to take that picture for the reason of we didn’t know how long it would be that way and that was a really good call on his part.
“I do challenge people, I wish someone, maybe from WWE, if you’re out there, any of those photographers who we worked with, if anyone has the actual professional photo, I would love to see it because I just have the one that was tweeted afterward, which was taken on a cell phone but man, that picture was definitely, it could tell fortunes, there was something special about it.”
10 years ago…
I think a lot of people have seen the cell phone pic…I’ll go as far as saying that it has become an iconic wrestling photo.
But not many have seen this version!#StillHere pic.twitter.com/NEiRzVYVAQ
— Matt Cardona (@TheMattCardona) December 29, 2021
