While appearing on WWE’s “The Bump”, Cody Rhodes touched on two of WWE’s top stars – Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre.
Additionally, Rhodes would reveal what AEW commentator Tony Schiavone told him after seeing Cody make his WWE return.
You can check out some highlights from Rhodes’ appearance below:
On his last thoughts before heading out at WrestleMania. What did Tony Schiavone tell him?: “I was in a bit of, what I’d call a trance, truly. My friend Tony Schiavone actually mentioned this to me, he said I looked like I was in a trance until I got about midway down and realized what was happening, where I was. And that really was the case, because as much as I’d just told you it was time and all these things. This wasn’t part of the plan, that’s the beautiful way life is.”
On Roman Reigns adapting to remain on top in the time since Cody left WWE: “I think it’s a feather in the cap of what Roman Reigns is doing. Because, when I left here, Roman Reigns was on top, and I think Roman Reigns was experiencing some of the negative byproducts of being on top, some of the pushback that a new face and a new individual [experiences]. But the thing that makes a champion in any company, in anything, is consistency. And when he said ‘Dallas, Texas, acknowledge me’, and whether they’re supposed to boo, cheer, whatever that might be, they acknowledged him. You want to know a term that’s often real overused in what we do? It’s ‘over.’ ‘Oh, this guy is so over. She’s so over.’ No, over is years and years and years of work to where fans follow you. You know it’s part of my song ‘I’ll follow you until the end’, that’s how I feel about the fans, and hopefully that’s a mutual thing. He has truly gotten over, via consistency and via hard work. And what he has going now with Paul Heyman and the Usos, it’s a very, I don’t want to use this word because I don’t want to sound like a, gotta be careful with my language here, is an intimidating presence.”
On wanting to make Cody Rhodes vs Roman Reigns happen: “I just look forward to, obviously again, it exists. There’s a match out there that is likely ‘the’ match that exists out there. But before the matches, you got to cross paths in some capacity, and we haven’t yet. And I look forward to that because [he was] consistent. Did it. Pulled the wagon, is still pulling the wagon. And I do, to a degree, know what it feels like. And again, I look forward to that interaction. It’s a good one to have on the list. That could be the list itself.”
On how much he appreciates Drew McIntyre: “I just had all the respect in the world for Drew, because he’s a really great athlete, and he’s a nice hybrid athlete. WWE has a lot of big boys, which I’m kind of getting there, I’m kind of a big boy myself. So I like kind of like being in heavyweight wrestling, so he’s a great heavyweight wrestler. I think Drew probably has the biggest chip on his shoulder ever, because his hottest moment came in front of nobody. So I think a lot of people want to see what’s next. Well not in front of nobody, as there was millions watching at home. But, we can’t pretend it was the same. So I look forward to what he’ll do next.”
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(h/t – Wrestling Inc)
