In a recent appearance on Taylor Wilde’s ‘Wilde On’ podcast, AEW’s Red Velvet discussed the advice she received from The American Nightmare, Cody Rhodes.
Having been a student at The Nightmare Factory since her initial days in professional wrestling, Red Velvet got her first exposure in a mainstream promotion in AEW. Her first major program came just a few months in, as she teamed with Cody Rhodes to face Shaquille O’Neal and Jade Cargill on Dynamite, stepping in for Brandie Rhodes, who had just announced her pregnancy.
Velvet went on to reveal some of the advice she got from Cody as she began working alongside him on television. She said,
“I’m doing what I love and that’s what I have to focus on. Sometimes we get sidetracked with, well I wanna be number one and I wanna be champion and I wanna be at the top and that rotates. Not everyone stays at the top all the time. That was a big thing, like Cody (Rhodes) instilled in me when he took me under his wing at the time of the match (with Shaquille O’Neal & Jade Cargill) and he was like, ‘Listen, people being at the top, it rotates.’ He’s like, ‘Time comes, you’ll be at the top, you’ll be in the middle, you’ll be at the bottom.’ He’s like, ‘Just remember why you’re here and why you love it’ and that’s what I try to hold close. Okay, today might not be my day, today, I might not win but I’m here and other people would kill to be in the position that I’m in so I gotta stay grateful to what I have.”
