At Saturday night’s 2024 WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view event, Cody Rhodes won the men’s Royal Rumble match after eliminating CM Punk. With the win, Cody becomes one of only a few wrestlers to win back-to-back Royal Rumble matches.
Speaking during the post-show media scrum, the American Nightmare was asked about the latest allegations levied against Vince McMahon that surfaced on Thursday.
Rhodes noted that while TKO Group took immediate action, the current WWE locker room is “like a family and very team based.” He went on to say that he hopes they hold each other accountable so something like this can be prevented from happening in the future.
You can check out some highlights from the media scrum below:
On his reaction to the Vince McMahon allegations: “I know as far as the news is concerned, we were finding it out, reading the same things that you guys were reading. As you said, a dark cloud, certainly. As far as TKO, Nick Khan, and the board, clearly took it very seriously, acted immediately.”
On how WWE can prevent something like the Vince McMahon situation from happening again: “Looking at the future, I don’t know the answer to that, and I think somewhere there is really a basic tenant of, this crew, more than ever, from a roster standpoint, is very family, never seem anything like this. Most of the time, wrestling locker rooms, fighting, talking trash about each other, making fun of each other, sandbagging each other in the ring, all that nonsense. This team is very team based. And perhaps that’s the ingredient, everyone looking out for everyone, being accountable. And I know, for me, as a performer, a competitor, I’ve been through dark periods in our industry before and it might sound cheesy but it’s very reinforcing if you’re in my position that it’s a time when, hey, we got 50,000 people out here, I want to give them something else from this weekend that isn’t a terrible situation, terrible news, and I think we were able to do that and obviously as more news comes out, we’ll be seeing it just like you do.”
