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 his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38 in 2022 and navigating the locker room despite being a bus guy.
Throughout his professional wrestling career, Cody Rhodes mostly worked as a mid card and a lower mid card. On his first 10 years in WWE he won multiple championships like Intercontinental title and the Tag Team title, but all of them were mid card titles and he was never promoted as a main event star in WWE.
Cody Rhodes Discusses His WWE Return In 2022
When he joined the All Elite Wrestling in 2019 after leaving WWE in 2016, it seemed like he was going to be promoted as a main event star for the first time in his professional wrestling career. But here also he has been treated as a mid card and in his three year AEW on to the mid card division of the promotion only.
In 2022 he is made his Grand return to WWE and for the first time in his professional wrestling career, he was treated as a main event star. He went on to win the men’s Royal Rumble match of 2023 and challenged Roman Reigns for the WWE Undisputed Universal Heavyweight Championship on the main event of WrestleMania 39.
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 his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38 in 2022 and navigating the locker room despite being a bus guy. He said;
“I felt almost like, no one made me feel this way, I felt almost like an outsider and to a degree a bit like an enemy. Because we had put on such a battle on Wednesday nights and I had done things and said things and there weren’t things you can walk back, there are things you live with and there’s reasons for them and you stand by them, but as much as I might have felt that way, I was met with familiar faces like a Kofi Kingston.
“And then I was met with the ultimate individual, a Seth Rollins, who’s carrying Raw and just so good. And for him to not look at me as the enemy, but for him to look at me as an asset and Seth and I genuinely, if you ask him the same thing if he was sitting in the chair, he’d tell you, he doesn’t like me, I don’t like Seth, we’re not going to get along ever.
“However, the utmost respect for him and for him to look at me as an asset made me not worry about what anyone else was thinking. And, in a pretentious way of answering this, I don’t really have the locker room experience. I should spend more time in the locker room because I have one of these buses.”
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