WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes revealed that the next contract he signs with WWE will probably be his last.
Speaking on ALL THE SMOKE, Cody Rhodes opened up about balancing his wrestling career with family life. He said he does everything he can to make both work.
“I remember hearing somebody saying there is no such thing as the (work/life) balance. You’re either doing one or you’re doing the other. I have really tried everything I can to bring it together, and a lot of times that’s expensive.”
“I know that’s a silly thing, but I don’t mind going in on the PJ (private jet) that gets me home at 3 in the morning versus showing up at 5pm the next day. I just try to be there at the breakfast table for my oldest daughter which is Liberty. Because that’s what she expects.”
“She does understand that I go away for SmackDown, which is what she refers to everything to everything as. Leilani, my newborn, I just always try to find the moments, and a lot of it can be… we’re lucky as wrestlers that we get to travel the world and wrestle everywhere. The way the company is now, you can make it so the family comes with.”
He said he likes to involve his daughters in his wrestling life whenever he can. His daughter, Liberty, often visits him at WWE events to see what he does backstage. He added that wrestlers today are fortunate to travel with their families and live comfortably on tour buses.
Cody Rhodes hints at retirement after his next WWE contract
Cody Rhodes said he wants to follow a similar path like his father, Dusty Rhodes, who stepped back from wrestling later in life to focus on being a full-time dad and coach, something Cody hopes to do when his children get older.
“You get to a point where, you can only go so long. I think I know my number where I’d like to get with this. I was lucky that my dad, who was the best dad ever, he was out of the game – he was in it as producer and as a creator, he’d pop in here as kind of an old man wrestler every now and then, but he was out of the game so he was number one dad.”
“At every game, he coached our football team. He’s known in Cobb County as Coach more than the American Dream. That’s what he was. I’d like to make it, by the time they hit that age, that I’m not going that often. Or I can’t really walk around that much. We’re getting closer.”
“What I’d say is probably my last contract with WWE – the next contract I sign, probably my last, and finish my days with WWE. It’s the house that built me and it’s the house that brought me back and put me in this wonderful, wonderful position. It’s very hard to balance, it certainly is. When you’re in it, you’ve gotta be in it.” [H/T: Wrestletalk]
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