In an interview with The Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast (transcript via wrestlinginc.com), Cody Rhodes gave his thoughts on various topics. Here are highlights:
On Jinder Mahal’s push: “I try to live under a rock when it comes to WWE, but you can’t avoid seeing your Twitter feed, people talking about Jinder Mahal wrestling Randy Orton at a pay-per-view. What a turnaround for Jinder! I hope he wins! What a… wow! What a world we live in.” Rhodes continued, “I mean, he got canned, welcomed back with probably no promise of anything except enhancing up-and-coming NXT guys, and now he’s in the main event! Yeah, good for Jinder!”
On intergender wrestling: “Joey Ryan, the wrestling that Joey does is offensive to me. I have, however, wrestled him twice and loved the matches and loved the challenge. Intergender wrestling offends me; however, if someone was to offer, I don’t know if I’d say ‘no’ because that’s the challenge. We can’t be stuck in one mindset. Just the concept of a man touching a woman. I don’t know. I’m very conservative. I don’t know. I’m from the south, so like you can’t put your hands on women; however, a lot of women in those matches, want those fights.”
On if there’s been any talks between himself and WWE since he left: “Zero comment. Zero. Zero comment. Nothing, nothing. No, no, I’ve got nothing, nothing, no… no, no, nothing. As a side note, sidebar, my wife did, we ordered the Royal Rumble because she wanted to see Goldberg. So yeah, no, that’s all. I watched it. Props to Goldberg. Props to Goldberg.”
