The New York Post recently interviewed WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes on his return to WWE, his pectoral injury, and his acclaimed promo segment with Paul Heyman on the February 6 edition of Monday Night RAW.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On what Heyman knew he would say: “To be totally fair, I think the only thing he [Heyman] was aware of that I was going to discuss was 2000 and Dusty liking his experience in ECW. I purposely, knowing you’re gonna go to war with a Mr. Heyman and you’re gonna go to war with this [Bloodline] group on-screen, off-screen, whatever it may be, it was just my goal for before all that happened — I want you to hear the story because the story’s gonna be in my dad’s [A&E] documentary. I don’t know how much of it’s in there. I need you to know from his kid’s perspective, [that] you can be the worst human being on earth, you’re not to me because it was life-changing for us. It was.”
On WWE giving him creative freedom in the storyline: “Tip of the cap to WWE, more than a tip of the cap, they have let me do whatever. And it might just be because it’s a real story, not the specific Heyman story, everything. I came back. This is why I came back. This is a real story. It’s fairly interesting and I’m interested in where we go from here. I was glad to tell him before things got contentious.”
On trying to live up to the bar of being in the main event storyline for WrestleMania: “By the end of weekend, they [fans] are going to come out of pocket deep and you’re the thing that is last. So everything is held to the highest, highest [standard]. I say that and think I’m ready for it because I waited and worked for it, but every Raw is going to be a test, and the things people don’t see, every live event is gonna be a test. Noise and numbers in wrestling don’t lie. Speculation, debate, stuff online is fun as heck but noise and numbers don’t lie and just kind of keeping that going, not taking it for granted is a big part of it.”
