Brock Lesnar's Cody Rhodes Attack Planned A Month In Advance
Elijah King
Published Mar 27, 2026
It's been quite the week in wrestling. WrestleMania 39, WWE has been sold, and AEW is going to try and fill a British stadium with 90,000 fans. Regarding that middle one, the sale of WWE appears to have given Vince McMahon his power back. McMahon will be an executive chairman of the newly formed WWE/UFC hybrid company, and it appears to have been pretty much confirmed by this point that he was back calling the shots on Raw this week.
Lesnar's Rhodes Attack Planned For A While
That'll explain the rumors of mid-show script rewrites and talk of Superstars leaving the company if this is going to be the norm again going forward. There was plenty on Raw to point to when picking out evidence McMahon is back in creative control, including the way the show ended. Although apparently not. Brock Lesnar turning on Cody Rhodes has reportedly been on the cards for at least a month.
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That's according to Fightful Select (via TJR Wrestling). While some of the plans WWE had for Rhodes on the Raw after WrestleMania were tweaked, The Beast decimating him to close the show was not altered. The WWE creative team planned for Lesnar to attack Rhodes immediately after WrestleMania long before McMahon was back pulling the creative strings, and Lesnar himself was told the plan at least a month ago.
Lesnar's Going Nowhere
That means Lesnar has known he'd be sticking around after WrestleMania for a while, flying in the face of rumors he had told people he was “finishing up” in WWE. The Beast did tell Daniel Cormier over WrestleMania weekend that he no longer has any idea when he'll retire, adding that he considered his career to be over after losing to Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania 36.
WWE having a plan for Rhodes and Lesnar at least a month before the attack also lines up with comments WWE president Nick Khan made prior to WrestleMania. While admitting the focus was on the promotion's biggest weekend of the year, Khan revealed the creative team had months of WWE telvision and angles already planned out. As for whether those plans have all been torn up in the wake of McMahon returning remains to be seen.
