WWE: Cody Rhodes Wins WWE ESPY Award, NXT Women Tag Titles Update, SummerSlam News

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Jul 21, 2022

Cody Rhodes’ Return to WWE Wins Best WWE Moment Award at ESPYS

ESPN held their ESPYS 2022 awards show this past Wednesday celebrating the memorable sporting events and moments of the past year.

During the show, it was announced that Cody Rhodes’ return to WWE at this past April’s WrestleMania 38 event was the winner of this year’s Best WWE Moment of the Year ESPY award.

Congratulations to @CodyRhodes for winning the @ESPYS WWE Moment of the Year for his @WrestleMania return!https://t.co/tK4pw5pbfG pic.twitter.com/aINJzw90wJ
— WWE (@WWE) July 21, 2022

Following his award victory, WWE held an interview with Rhodes discussing his thoughts about being named the winner of this year’s Best WWE Moment award.

“It’s very stirring. I was excited to be nominated, and it was a significant moment for me. It was the best decision that I’ve ever made in my wrestling career, coming back, but I’m nominated with guys like ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, The Undertaker, and John Cena, so to be the one who’s taking home the WWE moment of the year feels good. It’s a little bit if that new blood. I’m still angry Cody from 2015, so to be able to show up and be like, ‘They voted for me,’ it’s definitely not something I take for granted. If anything, it’s kind of positioned me where I’m looking at 2023. I’ve just enjoyed this red carpet enough that I need to be back, so you gotta find another moment. And I think I know what that moment could be, in terms of getting back here again for another ESPY WWE Moment of the Year.”

EXCLUSIVE: @CodyRhodes reflects on winning the #ESPYS award for WWE Moment of the Year. pic.twitter.com/uwlPVXvSZz
— WWE (@WWE) July 21, 2022

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship Status Update

This past Tuesday’s episode of NXT featured a promo segment by Cora Jade, who was one half of the current NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions with Roxanne Perez. During her promo, Jade stated that she was done being naive over her outlook in NXT and threw her NXT Women’s Tag Team title belt in a trash can due to it no longer meaning anything to her.

Following the show, WWE updated their official roster page listing Perez as still being one-half of the current NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions and the other half being listed as vacant, confirming Jade longer being recognized as its co-champion.

SummerSlam 2022 News & Notes

NBC’s Peacock service recently made a couple of changes to content rating for WWE’s upcoming SummerSlam 2022 event on July 30th the service. The event was originally listed as being TV-PG before being switched to TV-14 on Wednesday morning. Fightful’s Jeremy Lambert reported that the upcoming event was switched later that evening back to its original rating of TV-PG on the service.

DJ Valentino Khan recently announced on Twitter that he will be making an appearance for WWE at their upcoming SummerSlam 2022 event on July 30th in Nashville, Tennessee. Khan announced that he will be performing a live musical concert at the event. Khan previously appeared at WWE’s SummerSlam 2021 and WrestleMania 38 events for musical performances.