Cody Rhodes appeared in a segment at Georgia Tech with Roman Reigns on WWE Smackdown, and he recently spoke about filming the vignette. Rhodes and Reigns had a conversation in the segment about finding common ground ahead of their match with Solo Sikia and Jacob Fatu at WWE Bad Blood. Rhodes spoke about the segment during his appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.
“You’re talking about Roman Reigns, you’re talking about myself, walking into Bobby Dodd [Stadium], on that field, just being in on that campus, I grew up in Georgia, I know every inch of that state, but that’s one place I don’t know very well because that is where smart people went to school,” Rhodes said (per Fightful). “We didn’t shake [hands], we didn’t shake. We agreed, being a wrestling fan, you know there’s always this ‘will they coexist thing?’ when you get the odd couple tag teams, who’s gonna turn on who? Whatever it may be. This was a good way of setting up, that’s not what this match is about. We have agreed to coexist.”
He continued, “We did not need to shake, and I wish people could have been on the ground there to see how real it really is with myself and my tag team partner at Bad Blood, we stood on opposite sides of the field for all of the pre-shoot as they were getting the lights and everything ready. No discussion whatsoever, no awareness of what the other might say to the other, and we just walked across the field, met at the 50, ran it straight through, and hat’s off to Mr. Heyman, JB [Jeremy Borash], and Rob Fee because they put this thing together in such a cinematic way. It should have gotten credits. It really came out unique.”
The segment aired on the September 20th episode of Smackdown. WWE Bad Blood takes place Saturday and airs live on Peacock and WWE Network.
