WWE’s Cody Rhodes Recalls Ruining JD McDonagh’s Big Moment At Irish

WWE’s YouTube channel has posted another “What Do You Wanna Talk About?” segment with Cody Rhodes in conversation with a fellow roster member. During his chat with R-Truth, Rhodes touched on JD McDonagh, whom he apparently had lingering issues with since both appeared at a 2017 independent show in Ireland. According to Rhodes, “The American Nightmare” went heavy on time during his match, which had inadvertent consequences on McDonagh’s match — one of the biggest of his career to that point.  

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“There’s a show in Ireland, independent, called OTT,” Rhodes recalled. “I got a triple threat match. And in the middle of the triple threat match — not even in the middle, like near the beginning … I’ve spent about 20 minutes goofing around in the crowd, indie-ing about, again, we’re not under any time constraints. Apparently we were. This referee tells me we gotta wrap it up. Gotta go home on an indie show. Now, I don’t get hot that often … But I had to tell the guy, ‘Hey man, we’re gonna go home when we go home … so we went on for another 10, 12 minutes.” Rhodes was apparently oblivious to the fact that the last public transit train left around 10:30pm, causing many fans to leave before seeing McDonagh’s big championship win.

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“So apparently, JD McDonagh, that was his big title match for the OTT [No Limits] Championship that night. And because I had gone to the lengths I’d gone, the public [transportation] leaves at 10:30 … There was only about a quarter of them left….