Cody Rhodes walked into WWE Hell In A Cell 2022 with a torn pectoral muscle, but batted through the match to defeat Seth Rollins.
The bout will live in the memory of most fans for what happened before the bell as Cody took off his jacket to reveal the giant bruise on his chest and arm caused by the torn pec.
Cody had previously said that he would never watch the match back and doesn't look back on the moment or match fondly.
In "American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes," the Hell in a Cell match and torn pec reveal moment is covered, and Cody had to watch things back as he watched the documentary.
Speaking to Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp, Cody was asked how he felt re-watching the moment and match.
"That didn't bother me as much," he said about seeing the reveal again. "It was gross seeing the kendo stick going into it. It's also gross, if you ever talk to Doc Dugas and he talks about when they cut me open, it just squirted blood for 90 seconds, just straight in the air. 'Oh, it's good now,' from all the pressure that had been built up. It didn't bother me as much. The thing about the documentary, I couldn't tell in the sense if it was good, bad, great, anything, because it's about me and is singular to that story. The thing I was trying to get out of there alive with is, I don't like crying. I don't love it, and I am often crying. Crying in an interview, crying in the ring. Something happened to me and I don't know when because this never was the case. I think because the story is so real, it's just a lot of emotion and the stakes for me are different from other people's stakes. Not diminishing their stakes, but having my family now, it's an adjustment. I was trying to get out of that doc without crying so much. After a while, it's like, 'say something funny.' I didn't want it to be melancholy. Even with the finish, which was going to be somewhat of a dark finish, when watching it, I was crying a lot there."
Circling back to the Hell in a Cell match with Rollins, Cody said, "The secret of what we do is, that's a day that was really sacred. I said that Seth made a decision that day that will have forever altered my career. Obviously, not sharing what he did, but I don't think it's not that obvious, I think it's obvious the choice that he made. I already had a lot of respect for him. I don't like talking about him interviews, he doesn't like talking about me in interviews, but I have a lot of respect for him. That day, my respect grew endlessly. I had a guy come up to me in JFK and he said, 'I had heard that Seth was unsafe.' I guess that was a rumor at some point or thing. Buddy, my gosh, no. I'm in there. I've been in there with everybody from every company all over the entire world. Seth is top three of our generation. I don't even know where to put him, but that guy knows what he's doing."
Cody and Seth have not shared the ring again on television in singles competition since their Hell in a Cell match.
Cody was out of action from June 2022 to January 2023 after undergoing surgery for his torn pec.
Elsewhere during the interview, Cody discussed his WWE SummerSlam bout with Brock Lesnar. Fans can find his full comments by clicking here.
Watch the full interview with Cody in the video above.
