WWE: Cody Rhodes Dealing with “Multiple Injuries” After WWE Title Ladder Match, Royal Rumble 2025 Drew 3rd Largest Gate in WWE History, WWE LFG Debut Trailer Released

Cody Rhodes Dealing with “Multiple Injuries” After WWE Title Ladder Match at Royal Rumble 2025

Saturday’s WWE Royal Rumble 2025 event at the Lucas Oil Stadium featured Cody Rhodes defeating Kevin Owens in a Ladder match to retain the Undisputed WWE Championship. This match was notable for several scary looking spots involving Rhodes and Owens landing very hard onto ladders.

During the Royal Rumble post-show, co-host Jackie Redmond announced that Rhodes had suffered “multiple injuries” from the match but will still be making an appearance on this week’s WWE SmackDown show.

“Cody Rhodes is dealing with multiple injuries. I can’t confirm the intensity or severity of those injuries, but what I will tell you is that they are bad enough that Cody will not be addressing the media in tonight’s press conference. In fact, his in-ring status might even be up in the air as well. What I can confirm is that Cody Rhodes will still attend Friday Night SmackDown in Memphis.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Royal Rumble 2025 Drew Third Largest Gate in WWE History

WWE held a Royal Rumble post-show press conference following Saturday’s Royal Rumble 2025 event in Indianapolis, Indiana featuring WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque as one of the speakers.

During his portion of the press conference, Levesque announced that this year’s Royal Rumble event generated the third largest ever gate for a WWE Premium Live Event in WWE history. Levesque stated that this year’s event was only behind WrestleMania XL Night 1 and WrestleMania XL Night 2 events.

Levesque also stated that this year’s event generated the largest ever gate in Royal Rumble history.

In regards to the attendance for the event, Levesque stated that this year’s event also drew a record attendance of 70,347 although a graphic that flashed on the screen had a different number of 65,470 listed for it.

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WWE Releases Debut Trailer for New WWE LFG Series

WWE recently released the debut trailer for their upcoming new reality competition television series WWE LFG (Legends & Future Greats).

This upcoming new series will be officially premiering on February 16th on A&E.

Who will be the next WWE Superstar? 👀#WWELFG premieres Sunday, February 16th at 8pm ET on @AETV! pic.twitter.com/xUmtl4AxBl

— WWE (@WWE) February 1, 2025