Cody Rhodes received special gift from WWE after WrestleMania 40

After finishing his story at WrestleMania 40, new champion Cody Rhodes received a special gift from WWE brass.

Rhodes revealed at the post-WrestleMania night two press conference that Paul "Triple H" Levesque, Nick Khan, and Bruce Prichard gifted him a gold Rolex following Sunday's event. It's the same type of watch that Cody's late father Dusty Rhodes once pawned so Cody could attend acting school.

Cody said:

Something that I wanted to share - I came to the back, and Bruce Prichard and Triple H and Nick Khan handed me this, which is the same watch that my dad had that he pawned so that I could go to acting school. So the level of investment and responsibility that the company just put in my hands, I hope I can pay it back, pay it forward a hundred times over.

Levesque said at the press conference that it was Khan's idea to get Cody the watch. Prichard went and "super-sleuthed down this watch that was the exact same watch that Dusty had."

"We just wanted to give him, I don't know, something that in some way commemorated his dad being here when this happened, because he was," Levesque said.

In a eulogy following Dusty's death in 2015, Cody said his father told him that he could have the watch if he ever won the World title. Cody didn't find out about the watch being sold until 2015.

Cody won the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship by defeating Roman Reigns in Sunday's main event. It put an end to Reigns' 1,316-day run as champion.

While speaking to the crowd after defeating Reigns, Cody said he would not have gotten here without Levesque and Prichard.