Cody Rhodes recently spoke with ESPN about various topics. Here are the highlights.
On his goal in WWE: “My goal when I got there was to be the one thing that my Dad was never, and that was WWE champion or, as we call it now, the WWE world heavyweight champion,” Rhodes told ESPN.com. “It’s the Oscar in professional wrestling, and on a couple of occasions, I got very close to that particular spot. In the past few years, I was getting farther away from it,” Rhodes said.
On his WWE departure: “A lot of times when people are released or, unfortunately, get fired, they almost scramble for what it is they are going to do next,” Rhodes said a few days after his August return to the ring. “I think when you are no longer working under a big, corporate umbrella, you have to be your own brand and own enterprise. That was my thought process before I left. I think that it would kind of be a disservice if I didn’t [go all-out] because of how I did it, leaving WWE,” Rhodes said. “It was all kind of public, saying, ‘Hey, I want to wrestle. I want to wrestle as myself.’ For me, there’s no other way. I can’t save anything, man. Otherwise, I’m just doing the fans and myself a disservice.”
