Cody also admitted that one of the main reasons he came back was to win the WWE Championship which was something that his father, Dusty Rhodes couldn't win.
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The wrestling world was sent into a tizzy when Cody Rhodes made his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38. He was Seth Rollins’ surprise opponent and the two men had a 5-star match that ended with Cody picking up the win. Of course, we all know how Rhodes was instrumental in the formation of All Elite Wrestling. His decision to leave AEW was not something he took lightly but he had to do it because he felt that he wasn’t needed anymore at the company now that it had started to make its mark.
Cody was on the Steve Austin’s: The Broken Skull Sessions when he spoke about what inspired him to come back to the WWE. He said, “The bottom line was it (All Elite Wrestling) was my baby, and it’s growing up and people are having fun and it doesn’t need me if that makes any sense. Why I thought it didn’t need me was, okay, I’m not being totally honest, maybe it did need me, but here’s what I needed. I didn’t want to be a gatekeeper wrestler, I did not want to be ‘oh, this is Cody’s thing, AEW,’ and some people look at it that way, not everybody does, ’oh first program, they wrestle Cody Rhodes, then they do Chris podcast’.
“There’s a whole meme about it and I just didn’t want to be a gatekeeper, at the time we were getting these kinds of, split reactions which were very fun and fun to experiment with because I had worked with Cena on live events and to see how he did it and go ‘okay, alright’. It takes a lot of discipline, I feel like to know when you can, kind of, give them a little something or when you got to stick to who you are and go, hey, you go do that, I’m going to stick to who I am.”
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Cody also admitted very honestly that one of the main reasons he came back was to win the WWE Championship which was something that his father, the late great ‘American Dream’ Dusty Rhodes couldn’t win. He stated, “I just didn’t want to be a gatekeeper and I’ll put it in the most simple of terms, it’s right there (pointing to the WWE Championship), that’s it. You have the Winged Eagle, which is the ultimate one but I grew up in the business wanting to be the WWE Champion, because it’s the one that got away, right? We’ve spent a lot of time talking today about Dusty and I can’t let that escape me, it’ll never escape me. The good, the bad, that’s Dusty, he was a massive person in our industry and I want to round it totally out. This one got away from you (Dusty), but I don’t want it to get away from me.”
