WWE: Cody Rhodes Reportedly Had Been Considered For Role in Happy Gilmore 2 Film, Jimmy Hart on Hulk Hogan’s Health Situation Was “So Positive” Night Before His Death, More News

Cody Rhodes Reportedly Had Been Considered For Role in Happy Gilmore 2 Film

The recently released Happy Gilmore 2 comedy film features AEW’s MJF and WWE’s Becky Lynch and Nikki Bella among the cast.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Cody Rhodes had been contacted for an audition for a potential role in the film. It was reported that scheduling conflicts for Rhodes led to the talks being eventually dropped.

It was reported that it is currently not known how far the discussions had progressed beyond the initial outreach.

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Jimmy Hart Comments on Hulk Hogan’s Health Situation Was “So Positive” Night Before His Death

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, passed away on July 24th at the age of 71 due to a cardiac arrest.

PEOPLE held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Hart. One of the topics discussed included Hart’s thoughts about how Hogan’s health situation was “so positive” the night before his passing.

“I called [Hogan] on Wednesday night, and then Thursday morning is when everything took place. So just…just overnight it all happened, but it was so positive the day before.”

Hart also stated that he was unable to visit his friend Hogan in the hospital nor at his home prior to his death due to they were trying to protect Hogan from infection.

“It just hits so fast. It was like, ‘Oh my God.’ We thought he was doing so well, you know? We didn’t go to see him at the house and didn’t go to see him at the hospital, because we wanted to make sure that he didn’t get any infections or anything else, like if anybody had a cold or brought anything in. So, that’s what we all did.”

In the article, it was stated that Hart had last seen Hogan about a month ago and how they would hang out together to watch wrestling three times a week.

“Hart, 81, last saw Hogan about a month ago, before the WWE star had neck surgery. Before then, Hart said he watched wrestling with Hogan three times a week most weeks on Monday, Tuesdays and Fridays, and the friends also did karaoke together with Hogan’s son Nick Hogan on Monday nights at the family’s Hogan’s Hangout bar in Clearwater, Fla.”

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WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Detroit, Michigan featured a show closing brawl between Roman Reigns & Jey Uso and Bron Breakker & “Big” Bronson Reed. This brawl was notable for Breakker & Reed laying out both Uso & Reigns and Breakker channeling his inner Steiner with his trash talking directed towards Reigns and the fans. This brawl was also notable for Reed stealing Reigns’ shoes and claiming them as his own.

Prior to the start of Monday’s WWE RAW show, the hashtag “WeWantMelo” began trending on Twitter from fans voicing their support for Carmelo Hayes and their issues over WWE’s booking and handling of Hayes. Hayes responded on Twitter stating “If this works…lol.”

Netflix recently released a new preview trailer for the upcoming WWE Unreal docuseries on their service, which premieres today. This new trailer focused on John Cena’s heel turn at Elimination Chamber 2025.

As noted before, Drew McIntyre was recently denied entry to the United States and is currently stuck in Great Britain after a trip this past weekend to attend a wedding. The Miz recently responded on Instagram stating that he wants to take McIntyre’s spot at SummerSlam if McIntyre is not able to be at the event. The Miz also brought up his past history with McIntyre stating that he beat McIntyre in 2021 to become WWE Champion and his past history with Logan Paul for why he should get the spot. The Miz also stated that “this isn’t a bucket list, this is my life. And I’m sick of waiting for my moment.”

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE’s Greatest Moments series will be returning to A&E on August 10th with two new episodes. These new episodes reportedly will be “SummerSlam in the 2000s” and “John Cena.”

First We Feast recently announced that Cody Rhodes will be the guest for this week’s episode of The Hot Ones on July 31st. It was announced that Rhodes will be taking on the Wings of Death on the show.

WWE recently released one new video for their on-going Top 25 SummerSlam matches of all-time countdown. The #3 spot was the WWE Intercontinental Championship match of Bret “The Hitman” Hart vs. Mr. Perfect (c) from SummerSlam 1991.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was the full May 19, 1997 episode of WCW Nitro. The second new video was the full WCW Bash at the Beach 1994 event.

WWE also recently released three new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “SummerSlam Pre-Show Matches | Usos vs. New Day, Austin vs. Yokozuna and more!: From the WWE Vault.” The second new video was a Greenwich Street Fight match of Test vs. Shane McMahon from WWE SummerSlam 1999. The third new video was WWE Intercontinental Championship Triple Threat match of Batista vs. Chris Jericho vs. Edge (c) from WWE SummerSlam 2004.

WWE announced one new match for the card of next week’s WWE RAW show on August 4th in New York City, New York:

• Sheamus vs. Rusev