Pat McAfee & Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes & Jelly Roll planned for WWE Backlash
WWE is currently planning a tag team match involving celebrities for Backlash.
In Friday’s edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, our own Dave Meltzer wrote that the plan for the May 9 PLE in Tampa is for Randy Orton and Pat McAfee to face Cody Rhodes and Jelly Roll.
Meltzer wrote:
“McAfee will team with Orton against Rhodes & Jelly Roll coming out of WrestleMania and be a key match at the Backlash PPV on 5/9, at least as of plans that were confirmed to us by multiple people and were still in play at press time.”
The angle involving McAfee, Orton, and Rhodes will continue on WWE SmackDown from San Jose on Friday. WWE is advertising that Rhodes will respond to McAfee on the show, and McAfee revealed Thursday that he will have a “massive surprise.”
Meltzer’s featured story in this week’s Observer also covers what led to McAfee’s involvement in the angle, the role Ari Emanuel played, and speculation on what else could happen in the storyline before WrestleMania. Subscribers can click here for the full edition.
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