Many expected Rhodes to finally topple the dominant champion, but Reigns endured as he approaches 1,000 days as universal champion and one complete year as WWE champion. Reigns crushed the storybook rise of Rhodes, who returned to WWE a new man at last year's WrestleMania and won the 2023 Royal Rumble.
WrestleMania 39 also played host to just the fourth Heck in a Cell match in the event's near four-decade run, as well as a blistering, all-time great triple threat match for the intercontinental championship.
