After Presenting Him His Weight Belt at WrestleMania 39, Cody Rhodes Sends His Wishes to Late Wrestler’s Son Ahead of His New Chapter

Fans love ‘The American Nightmare’ Cody Rhodes for a variety of reasons. His charisma and most importantly his humbleness and love towards his fans have made him a popular face in the promotion. He even recently sent tickets to a father and son via Twitter so they could come and meet him personally at the WWE event. Thus making that ‘Father’s Day’ extra special for the father-son duo.

Another sweet gesture he always does before a match is he presents his weight belt to a young fan in the crowd. This kind of gift definitely leaves an indelible mark on the young fan’s heart. And recently, he showed some love on Twitter for the same kid who he presented his weight belt to at WrestleMania, who also happens to be the son of a late WWE wrestler.

Cody Rhodes shows some love to late wrestler Luke Harper aka Brodie Lee’s son

Brodie Lee was an ex-wrestler with the WWE who passed away in 2020. He was famous for being a member of ‘The Wyatt Family’ as Luke Harper.

At WrestleMania 39, Brodie Lee’s family was sitting in the front row along with Cody Rhodes’ family. They were all there to see ‘The American Nightmare’ battle it out with Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion. While entering the arena, Rhodes went toward Lee’s son and gave him his weight belt as a sign of respect to his late father. Brodie Lee’s wife later took to Twitter to thank Rhodes for this kind gesture which almost made her cry.

And recently she took to Twitter again to post a photo of her son as he returned to school after summer. In that post was a picture of a handwritten note by the boy where he mentioned a few things about himself. In he ‘I Love’ section, he mentioned ‘The Rhodes Family’ and he even went on to mention Cody Rhodes as one of his ‘best friends’.

With so much love being showered upon him by a sweet child, Rhodes couldn’t help but do the same. And so he reshared the pic on Twitter with the caption ‘Stud’ implying that the kid is slowly growing to be a man.

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But going back to his dad, Brodie Lee had a good stint in the WWE.

What happened to Brodie Lee?

Luke Harper aka Brodie Lee was with the WWE between 2012-2019. He was part of the menacing ‘Wyatt Family’ who had quite a good run in the WWE. Ironcially Cody Rhodes and Goldust were the first tag team to defeat ‘The Wyatt Family’ in the WWE.

The Wyatt family went on to have various feuds with ‘The Shield’ and even ‘The Usos’. Later Brodie Lee split from ‘The Wyatt Family’ and went on to win his first WWE Intercontinental Championship against Dolph Ziggler. He later re-joined ‘The Wyatt Family’ and continued to be with them until finally forming a tag team with Erick Rowan called ‘The Bludgeon Brothers’.

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Together they went on to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. He later went on a hiatus because of a torn right bicep. And eventually left the WWE in 2019. Post that he joined AEW, and that’s where his friendship with Cody Rhodes grew stronger. He even went on to defeat Rhodes to win the AEW TNT Championship. Later in 2020, he went on a hiatus citing an undisclosed injury.

And on December 26, 2020, Brodie Lee passed away at the age of 41 due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.