During a recent discussion with UFC legend Daniel Cormier ahead of Saturday night’s SummerSlam 2023 pay-per-view event, Cody Rhodes opened up about a shift in his perspective regarding his career aspirations, emphasizing a focus on personal accomplishments due to the finite nature of his time in the ring.
Expressing that since the birth of his daughter, he has grown more candid in his approach, valuing authenticity and his own progression, Cody said,
“I’m thinking all me, all the time. I joke with some of my other peers that there are guys that will hit you with the, ‘Oh, I’m trying to help you. This will be good for you.’ When you hear it, you’re like, ‘Ah, I feel like this is about you.’ If I’m the one on the receiving end of that conversation, I kind of just want the truth. That’s how I’ve become. It’s something that, in my documentary I talk about, by no means will it ever be important to her, but one of the things about having my daughter was, I lost my sense of BS. It just became, I think I’m pretty good, I’m better, I want to be better, and how much longer do we have on the clock? You feel like it’s never going to end, but it will end at some point. At this moment, I’m not doing any of the things…that is what I was meant to do then, now I feel no problem in saying, ‘Nope, I’m about myself at this moment. I’m about getting it done for me.’”
Rhodes defeated DC’s longtime UFC rival, Brock Lesnar, in their rubber match to end the feud, prompting a handshake, an embrace, and an arm raise initiated by The Beast himself to close the ‘Brock Lesnar chapter’ in Cody Rhodes’ quest to ‘finish the story.’
