Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes opens up on how long he’s planning to wrestle.
Three-time and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes was the latest guest on the INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet podcast. During the conversation, he opened up about how long he’s planning to continue as an in-ring performer. He noted that while he doesn’t have a number on when he’ll hang up his boots, his next deal would be his last as a full-time wrestler.
He said his first daughter, Liberty, has seen him compete in a few WrestleManias, and that he wants to continue until his second daughter, Leilani, who’s only six months old right now, gets to experience it as well.
“I don’t have a number on it anymore. I know that the next deal I do will be my last as far as a full-time wrestler,” Cody Rhodes said. “Sometimes, when you take things, and I think I’m doing this right now, and you use them to your advantage where you’re like, I need to do this for this, but really it might be for you.
“We talked about Liberty earlier. She’s known nothing but WrestleMania main events. She literally thinks what I do for a living is WrestleMania. That’s what I do for a living. Leilani is only six months old, so in my mind, I owe her a few more of these. That’s silly. That’s me doing it for me, or maybe it is a little bit of both. I’ll know, and you know who else will know? The audience. They’ll know. I don’t even know if the kids say this anymore, washed. I’ll know, because your mind is your greatest asset as a pro wrestler,” Cody Rhodes said.
Cody Rhodes says he wants to capture the fans’ imagination like Hulk Hogan
“I was a big Hogan fan through every era, but if you look back at Hogan in black and white, Hollywood Hogan, a master just up here in terms of the psychology of a live audience and what they came to play with and my dad said something on commentary once that absolutely pulled my heart into my stomach. It just hit me so hard. But he was talking about Hogan, and this is the middle of deep kayfabe.
“He’s talking about Hogan, he said, ‘No man has captured the imagination of the audience like that guy.’ I thought that’s what I want to do,” Cody Rhodes said. “They came here for something, and if they’re booing, they came here to boo. If they’re cheering, they came here. I want to capture their imagination the best I can, and you can when you have the experience I have. And again, got to wrestle my angel on my shoulder last year in John Cena. I get to wrestle the devil on my shoulder this year in Randy Orton.
“If I can’t do anything with that, well then I’m a real d*ck. You know what I’m saying? I’m sorry, if I can’t do anything with that, then I’m selfish, then I’m not here to give back to the industry, so I need to do that as well. But you’ll know, you’ll know,” Cody Rhodes concluded.
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