In a rematch of their WrestleMania 42 Night 1 main event, Randy Orton defeated Cody Rhodes at WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event.<\/p>\n
While Rhodes and Orton were longtime friends dating back to their time together in the Legacy stable in the late 2000s, the dynamic changed significantly leading up to WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n
Orton won an Elimination Chamber match to become No. 1 contender for the WWE Championship, and Rhodes beat Drew McIntyre for the title less than a week later.<\/p>\n
What initially seemed like it was going to be a friendly rivalry turned into something far more contentious when Orton viciously attacked Rhodes.<\/p>\n
At WrestleMania, Rhodes took advantage of a disagreement between Orton and Pat McAfee to pin Orton and win the match, but The Viper got the last laugh by punting Cody.<\/p>\n
Orton was not seen for months after WrestleMania, but he resurfaced at SummerSlam last month during the WWE Championship bout between Rhodes and CM Punk.<\/p>\n
While the referee was incapacitated, Orton showed up and hit Rhodes with an RKO. Punk then executed his signature GTS to beat Cody and retain the WWE title.<\/p>\n
In the weeks that followed SummerSlam, Rhodes and Orton were at each other’s throats, leading to a grudge match between them being made official for Sunday Night’s Main Event.<\/p>\n
With both Rhodes and Orton wanting to get back in the WWE Championship mix, Sunday’s bout was a huge one in terms of determining who would take a big step toward that goal.<\/p>\n
Orton scored a major victory over The American Nightmare, which suggests a title match with Punk could be in his future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a rematch of their WrestleMania 42 Night 1 main event, Randy Orton defeated Cody Rhodes at WWE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-886586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}