With SummerSlam quickly approaching, WWE despatched former WWE Champion Cody Rhodes to The Ringer to speak store with the Podfather himself, Invoice Simmons, on his namesake podcast.
Stopping by the present to speak about his feud with John Cena, his WWE Championship run, and every part else that might come up earlier than the occasion this weekend in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Rhodes additionally determined to drop somewhat extra information on his exit from AEW, revealing the double normal he felt between his instances within the top-2 wrestling federations in North America.
“There’s clearly unhealthy blood, however there’s additionally clearly respect and love. Ultimately, the best way I see it’s, if I felt disrespected ever at WWE, that’s one factor. That’s an organization that was constructed…that’s the Yankees. That’s the flagship of all of it. If I ever felt (at WWE) that I used to be a quantity on a sheet, perhaps, however feeling disrespected at one thing I constructed with my mates. That we constructed. Feeling disrespected there, I wouldn’t stand for it,” Rhodes stated by way of Fightful.
“Brandi and I each, I’m so blessed to have her. It was a kind of the place it was, f**okay it. ‘I did far more right here than you assume, and also you’re going to seek out out the second I’m out the door.’ I don’t imagine within the cold-hearted back-stabbing sort of revenge. The best revenge on Earth is success. I felt like we had been sitting on one thing great. One thing nice. An enormous, probably, what I used to be doing with the American Nightmare, as a foul man, as an excellent man, one thing in between. We’re sitting on some magic. If I’m not going to do it in the home that I actually, with Matt, Nick, and Kenny constructed, then buddy, I’m going elsewhere.”
Now granted, whereas followers did know that Rhodes had a falling out with the corporate, that is simply one other layer off of one of many largest mysteries in skilled wrestling; one that may, hopefully, finally, be resolved sooner or later sooner or later. With that being stated, it additionally is not misplaced that, throughout a PLE weekend, somebody took an opportunity to shoot on WWE’s largest rival, as, no matter which promotion is working a giant present, The Fed has continuously discovered excuses to regulate the narrative and elevate their very own on the expense of their rivals.