Amell addressed the idea of returning to the ring.
In 2015, ‘Arrow’ star Stephen Amell began to appear on WWE television and it led to a tag match at SummerSlam that featured himself and PAC besting Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett.
There was supposed to be more of Amell and Rhodes in the ring. While appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Amell revealed the plan that he was going to face Rhodes in a Cage match at an October WWE pay-per-view. Amell said the event took place in Los Angeles, California and that month, WWE ran their Hell in a Cell event in Los Angeles.
He was going to lose the match clean. Their bout ended up being shelved and Amell remembers Rhodes calling to inform him of the news. He said Cody was embarrassed about it. Amell thinks it was one of the factors that led to Rhodes leaving WWE.
I hope so (there’s more story to tell with Cody Rhodes). I really hope so. First of all, I could not be prouder of that guy. To do what he did, to walk away. I don’t wanna speak for him too much but, I really do think that after our match at SummerSlam — Neville pinned King Barrett and then they did the camera thing where as Cody’s walking out of the ring, they got the camera on him and they got the camera on me, which is the sign, universal sign in wrestling, we’re not done. We have unfinished business, and so the plan was, as best I can recall, was there was a pay-per-view after SummerSlam and then the October pay-per-view was going to be in L.A. at Crypto, Staples, whatever and Cody and I were supposed to have a Cage match… We were getting ready to send a ring up to Vancouver for me to do a bunch more training because I basically faked my way through the SummerSlam match. I could probably still take you through the beats of it right now. So the plan was to actually go more the length like I went with Christopher Daniels, like 12, 15 minutes and again, the plan (was) to lose clean, and then, all of a sudden, Cody just calls me up and he goes, ‘Look man, I don’t know what’s going on but our match just got shelved and no one will give me an explanation why and I am devastated and I’m deeply embarrassed.’ I was like, ‘Look man, it’s okay. That’s okay’ but, I really think that was one of the contributing factors to him leaving.
The idea of wrestling one more match was brought up. Amell recalled Cody telling him he’s one match away from getting the ‘Snoop Dogg treatment’ and possibly being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. If Amell were to get back in the ring, he feels he’d have to get his wife’s approval.
Cody (Rhodes) thinks that I’m one good WWE match away from maybe, eventually getting the Snoop Dogg treatment, getting into the Hall of Fame… (When is that next match happening?) It depends on how much I wanna stay in my marriage. If Heels does come out and there is some potential with the crossover and the synchronicity with Raw being on Netflix and Suits is on Peacock, the crossover elements are there for me in the WWE but I feel like I’d have to get my wife to sign off, because she’s had to take me to the hospital twice after matches. I mean, once for, you know, when I hurt myself with Heels and we definitely had to go get my hip X-rayed after ALL IN. So, yeah. Maybe one more. Maybe one more, because I did go through the entire second season of Heels and we did a bunch of stuff and I came out fine. Came out fine so, I would need to protect myself a little bit.
While mentioning Cage matches, Rhodes will be defending the Undisputed WWE Championship against Solo Sikoa inside a Steel Cage on the 9/13 Friday Night SmackDown.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
