5 things we learned from Cody Rhodes on E&C's Pod of Awesomeness

#2 Wrestlemania 27 was Cody's first PPV singles match

Cody beat Rey Mysterio at Wrestlemania XXVII

After delving into the revolutionary show he was promoting, Cody spoke to Edge and Christian about his career in WWE. He was thrust into the spotlight pretty quickly as part of a trio of multi-generational wrestlers called Legacy. He had been in a decent spot ever since he came onto the scene, so it came as a surprise when he said that his match with Rey Mysterio at WrestleMania in 2011 was his first one-on-one singles match on a pay-per-view.

Cody wrestled numerous pay-per-view matches as a tag team wrestler, with Ted Dibiase, Randy Orton and later, Drew McIntyre. He, alongside Dibiase, even went toe-to-toe against Triple H and Shawn Michaels multiple times, in a bitter feud that lasted months. He had wrestled triple threat matches, Tag Team Championship matches, and even lasted until the final four of the 2009 Royal Rumble Match before his first one-on-one match on pay-per-view.

Cody's first singles match on pay-per-view came on the biggest stage possible. He and Mysterio had a good match, which was widely regarded as one of the best of the show. When Mysterio pitched the idea of the match to Vince McMahon, Cody thought that he was getting ribbed by the masked luchador. Things like this support the fact that Rey Mysterio is a credit to the wrestling business.