As a guest on the Out of Character with Ryan Satin podcast, Cody Rhodes talked about his return to WWE.
Cody Rhodes talked about a meeting he had with Triple H before his WrestleMania 38 entrance. Cody said that Saturday night won’t feel real until he and TripleHa wrestled.
Cody Rhodes said:
In the media scrum, I didn’t really say what that interaction was like because I think that interaction to him maybe was just being normal. Here he is, one of upper management, one of the greatest of all time going through a lot himself, and maybe just talking to me was another Tuesday. For me, it wasn’t, it was different because he is one of my favorites.
You have your Stings, your Shawn Michaels, your Triple H and then I did model a great portion of what I was doing after how he had modeled a lot of The Game brand. But also too, I was very very angry and that anger remains as far as how we saw each other and how he saw me and what I wanted to do. I wanted to channel that anger differently but it was just a really touching moment.
I didn’t tell anybody what he said and I won’t but it was a touching moment. I hear people say ‘You shouldn’t trust them, you shouldn’t trust them…’ above all, I trust myself. I do, I think I’m the best in the world at what we do and that’s because I work at it and I continue to work at it and want to and love working at it.
That was a nice moment, it’s not full circle though until it happens in the ring, that moment. I’m not expecting anything and I’m not talking about anyone coming out of retirement or anything but wrestlers are this weird cathartic species where it’s not real until we do it out there. I know it sounds irony-heavy in this statement but my brother’s [situation is] a prime example.
The closest we’ve ever been to airing our problems out and just sharing our love with one another was when we beat each other half to death and bled literal buckets over each other. There’s something about when you’re in the ring about that experience and I look forward to that moment if it ever happens.
During a podcast, Cody Rhodes talked about making one decision that he regrets in his role as EVP of AEW. He revealed how the decision affected him and his dream of becoming a world champion. He also discussed how someone he worked with during AEW gave him a gift, an opportunity to come back to WWE.
