At the start of 2022, it wasn't clear what was going on with Cody Rhodes, at least from the outside. It was said that the American Nightmare was working for AEW without a contract.
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At the start of 2022, it wasn’t clear what was going on with Cody Rhodes, at least from the outside. It was said that the American Nightmare was working for AEW without a contract, but a new deal was supposed to be made.
But the longer things went on, the less sure people became. Cody Rhodes finally said in February that he and his wife Brandi were leaving the company he had helped start. A little over a month later, at WrestleMania 38, he was back in a WWE ring and was treated like a hero.
At the time Rhodes left AEW, both he and Tony Khan said they wouldn’t talk about what happened in public, only that there was no bad blood between them. Again, this added to the swirl of rumors about the star.
In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Rhodes has taken aim at the way his departure has been reported. He even singled out veteran writer Wade Keller by name, even though he said he has “no heat” with Keller.
“But you mentioned taking pride in the executive element. So you were there when I was still running those meetings, I really loved it. But from an ego standpoint, from an optics standpoint, that was really cool. But I also really loved leading, and I just maybe wasn’t ready to fully lead at that point. And it didn’t rub everyone the right way, why is he running the production meeting? Why is this and that and then you know, your vision, Kenny’s vision, Matt and Nick’s vision, everyone’s visions, that one thing. But you know, Tony has a vision and this is his money, and then let’s see how that plays out. But that was a good time.
I’m glad you had a good experience because when we left there was this whole like disinformation campaign that Wade Keller put out, and I’m not even mad at Wade Keller no heat with Wade. But I could tell what was going on. Again, you didn’t talk to any real source. No, I was an executive, as a member of management. I was happy, wanted to help and took huge pride in us being a professional organisation and, and that shows amongst the roster, the locker room, my kids, the people I didn’t recruit, people I did recruit. Yeah, there was such a fog of misinformation of when I left that. It’s fun to see in the doc itself. You know, that wasn’t the case, it was just time.”
Chris Van Vliet
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