WWE star and a former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes who recently made his WWE return at WrestleMania 38 talked about his return to WWE and he also revealed how he felt after returning to his parent promotion after such a long time.
Cody Rhodes had always been treated as a mid card wrestler in WWE who won mid card championships throughout his WWE career. But in 2016 he was let go of the promotion. He worked in the independent circuit and other professional wrestling promotions till he joined the newly founded promotion AEW, of which he was one of the founding members.
Cody Rhodes Reveals His Feelings After Returning To WWE
He worked in the AEW for over 3 years before he finally parted ways with the promotion as they could not reach into any agreement for the future. And the unthinkable finally happened, Cody made his Grand return to WWE and that is also at the grandest stage of them all, WrestleMania.
The storyline was something like this, Seth Rollins was desperate for an opponent at WrestleMania 38. He kept on trying to find an opponent but he kept on failing. Just before the week of the event, Vince McMahon himself confirm him that he would have an opponent at WrestleMania 38 but it will remain a mystery till the event.
At WrestleMania 38, the opponent was finally revealed and it was the returning star Cody Rhodes. The duo presented one of the best matches of the event but ultimately the match was won by Cody. It looked like he would be pushed as a main event star in WWE for the first time in his career.
Cody Rhodes who recently made his WWE return at WrestleMania 38 spoke to Variety where he talked about his return to WWE and he also revealed how he felt after returning to his parent promotion after such a long time. He said;
“Everyone who knows has asked me how I’m feeling, if I’m really excited. The answer I kind of keep giving everybody is it’s just a really heavy feeling. When I first got into wrestling, I was solely in the WWE system, and I had that dream of getting to the top. Then dreams are like rivers, as the Garth Brooks song says, and it veered and it changed.
“Then we were able to do what we were able to do with AEW and that’s something that I’m very proud of, but to be able to revisit the thing that I set out to do in the first place when I didn’t think I would get that chance is just heavy. Even now, thinking about it is heavy. So yeah, all the feelings — happy, excited, pressure, responsibility, all of it.
“But I don’t know how I will feel until I’m out there. It just seems like kind of a culmination of my whole career, but I don’t want to jinx it. I don’t want to put any hyperbole there, but it’s the biggest crowd in wrestling. It’s returning as me in something that I built and nobody else built. And that’s the ultimate vindication.”