WWE Raw star and a former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes who is also the winner of the men’s Royal Rumble match of 2023 recently talked about the most rewarding part of the professional wrestling today. He also discussed how he was addicted towards this business.
Cody Rhodes the son of the legendary professional wrestler Dusty Rhodes. Cody started his professional wrestling career at a very young age and he had been pretty talented from the very first day of joining the wrestling world. He was given various roles in his early WWE career but he was never promoted as a main event star.
Cody Rhodes Discusses The Most Rewarding Part Of Wrestling Today
He won a lot of mid card championships in WWE throughout his early days in the promotion, but with time he was losing he all of his pushes from the promotion. In 2016 he decided to part ways from WWE and in 2019 he joined the newly founded professional wrestling promotion the All Elite Wrestling.
It never seemed like he would ever return to WWE again. But at WrestleMania 38, he finally made his Grand return to the promotion for the first time in his professional wrestling career he got a main event treatment. He went on to win the men’s Royal Rumble match of 2023 and at WrestleMania 39 he challenged Roman Reigns for the WWE Undisputed Universal Heavyweight Championship on the main event of the show.
Cody Rhodes who is also the winner of the men’s Royal Rumble match of 2023 recently spoke to My Mom’s Basement with Robbie Fox where he talked about the most rewarding part of the professional wrestling today. He also discussed how he was addicted towards this business. He said;
“Right now, I really feel the best that I’ve ever felt body wise and wrestler wise. Right now, it’s the matches because you work for so long and you bank all this equity, what is worth if you don’t get it to the finish line, right. Is it worth all the money you made, maybe? Is it worth the experience and the travel, maybe?
“But to me, it’s only worth it if you develop this trust and bond with the crowd and just right now that is what I love and look for the most. And it’s also the most challenging as well because I’m always surprised, you know, I’m back by the curtain and, oh, they’re gonna go nuts when you go out there, oh, they’re going to be really active while you’re doing your interview.
“I always think like, well, maybe they won’t be, maybe they’ll be adversarial, maybe they won’t be. And then just the way the WWE audience has been so warm to me, like, if they’re trying to tell me something, I’ve heard it loud and clear. That’s what I get the most of it. Nick Jackson and I used to joke, you go out through the curtain like get a big response, he’d be like, man, you are addicted.
“Yeah, man, I’m addicted and he was the same way. He’s like, oh, you just can’t get enough of it at the end of the night, you know, it’s real as a wrestler, that’s the greatest high on the planet is the WWE Universe, the pro wrestling fans, that connection between you and them.”
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