SmackDown kicked off with a roughly 25 minute segment that featured WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. After fans in The O2 in London finished signing along with Cody’s theme music, he got down to business on the mic and said on next week’s Raw he’ll be face-to-face again with his WrestleMania 41 challenger,

However, the dynamics might change if Cena fails to remove Cody Rhodes as the WWE Champion. In that case, The Rock might kick Cena out and replace him with another legend to challenge Cody: Randy Orton.

For the third consecutive week, Rhodes and Cena came face-to-face. Unlike the previous weeks, this week's episode of Raw saw the two coming to blows and Rhodes standing tall as he held his championship over the fallen body of Cena.