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Cody Rhodes is recovering from an eye injury sustained during his WWE WrestleMania 42 match against Randy Orton, and he had a creative idea for handling it on television that Triple H quickly vetoed.
Rhodes opened up about the injury and the backstage exchange during an interview on ESPN’s SportsCenter, and the conversation also touched on the possibility that his reaction to the decision was captured for the WWE: Unreal series.
“We tried a little makeup on the eye, but I think we determined there was no way to cover it up,” Rhodes said. “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,” he added. “But hey, it comes with the territory more than anything. I had no complaints — it’s just a little battle scar.”
WWE announcer Joe Tessitore broke the news at the WrestleMania 42 post-show, confirming that Rhodes had suffered an eye injury during the match and was being treated by doctors. Images and videos showing Rhodes with a bloodied and bruised face and his left eye appearing swollen shut spread across social media almost immediately.
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