Cody Rhodes continues to rack up accomplishments since his return to WWE. On Monday, Rhodes was formally introduced as one in all three cowl athletes for the upcoming WWE 2K24 online game. Rhodes will grace the quilt of the sport’s customary version whereas Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley will share the deluxe version’s cowl.
The sport is ready for launch on March 8, 2024, on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Sequence X/S, and Microsoft Home windows.
“Kobe, Tiger, Cena, Lebron, Rhea & Bianca,” Rhodes posted on X, previously Twitter. “…I’m grateful past measure for the respect of being this years @2K cowl athlete.”
Rhodes has been one of many main architects of the present panorama in skilled wrestling. In 2016, he requested his launch from WWE amid frustrations together with his inventive path. He would go on to make an enormous affect on the impartial wrestling scene with corporations like Ring of Honor and New Japan Professional-Wrestling.
Rhodes was then a central a part of the crew that took up professional wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer’s problem when Meltzer mentioned an impartial present couldn’t promote out a ten,000-seat area, working with The Younger Bucks to host the All In occasion in 2018. The present bought out Sears Centre Enviornment in Hoffman Estates, Illinois in lower than half-hour.
All In would in the end result in the creation of All Elite Wrestling, the place Rhodes was an government vice chairman and a staple of turning the promotion into the second greatest wrestling firm on the planet. The promotion now has a number of exhibits airing on cable tv every week.
Rhodes returned to WWE in 2022 the place he has been an enormous star ever since, together with headlining 2023’s WrestleMania 39 after successful that yr’s Royal Rumble.
Belair has been one in all WWE’s high feminine superstars in recent times, together with holding the Uncooked girls’s championship for a report 420 days. Whereas not presently a champion, she remains to be a staple on the high of the cardboard.
As a member — and arguably the chief — of The Judgment Day faction, Ripley has seen years of discuss of her potential as an elite star come to fruition over the previous yr.
Ripley gained the 2023 Royal Rumble earlier than defeating Charlotte Aptitude at WrestleMania 39 to win the SmackDown Ladies’s Championship, which has since been renamed to the Ladies’s World Championship, and has held the title ever since.
