Brock Lesnar shaking hands with Cody Rhodes was 'completely unplanned' says, Triple H

Cody Rhodes beat Brock Lesnar in a return match at SummerSlam last night (Saturday, August 5, 2033) at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. After three straight Cross Rhodes, he pinned Lesnar clean and won the match. It was about as strong a win as anyone could hope to get against someone like Lesnar, both in the match itself and in the whole feud.

Then, in an unexpected turn of events, Lesnar stayed around to give Rhodes a strong vote of confidence. He raised his arm in a win and shook his hand while still selling for him. It was a clear sign of how far Cody has come in his career.

If we believe Triple H, who said as much at the press meeting after the show, that support was not planned at all:

“I will mention, I heard Cody say he hadn’t digested or had enough time to really digest the Brock Lesnar moment after their match. Completely unplanned. Completely in the moment. For me, you know Brock Lesnar is such a unique athlete, human being, all those things, but he really, I don’t believe, gets the credit he should at being one of the all time greats at this.

“Unbelievable athlete at the highest of levels, UFC at the highest of levels, you could make the argument — and would be accurate — the greatest combat athlete of all time. But just talking about sports entertainment, just this, in my opinion one of the greatest of all time. I don’t think because his style is different because the way he does it is different than anybody else, truly really is a generational talent for this. Name the amount of people that Brock Lesnar has gotten up, after going through a match like that, shook their hand and pulled them in to hug them before walking out, right? … So when Cody realizes what happens… that’s a moment.

“And if that doesn’t state to you where Cody is at, where this journey has taken him; where this journey has taken him from what many people questioned at WrestleMania to where he is now, like that rise just continues to be phenomenal and he delivers at all turns. So it’s awesome.”

If that’s true, it makes the moment even more special, but even if it’s not and they were always going to do that, it’s still important. Brock Lesnar just doesn’t do things like that.

And, as Triple H said, it shows a lot about Rhodes’s position in WWE right now. If I wasn’t already sure that Rhodes vs. Reigns would be the major event of WrestleMania 40, I am now.

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