Cody Rhodes Explains The Origins Of His Cross Rhodes Finish, Why He Sometimes Hits It Three Times

Cody Rhodes discusses the origins of his Cross Rhodes finisher and why he sometimes hits three of them in a row.

Throughout the majority of Cody’s in ring wrestling career, he has used the Cross Rhodes as a finish, capturing the WWE Championship on multiple occasions thanks to the move. At times, Cody also hits the move in a sequence of three before putting away opponents.

While speaking to ESPN in a new interview, Cody Rhodes detailed the origins of the Cross Rhodes and why he decides to hit the move three times occasionally.

“I needed something I could hit a lot of people with, Roll The Dice is what it used to be called. They had a couple other names, and then other guys did Cross Rhodes before me. I needed something I could hit on a lot of people, and I think I was in a pinch because we had like a Legacy at the time. They wanted us to do more stuff and we were running where we were running Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. You were kind of doing what you did on TV and there wasn’t a lot of exploratory time. So I got some time with Jamie Noble in the ring and Jamie Noble said, ‘why don’t we just do this tonight and see if that works?’ Once we did it and it worked, I didn’t want to turn my back on it. So it became a thing. Why I started doing three is not for the reasons people think. I started doing three based on the energy of the crowd. There’s something fun about hitting one, and then them thinking, oh, he’s gonna hit another, and then hitting another, and then, oh man, one more. It had less to do with needing three to beat anyone, although you do need three to beat some people. But yeah, no, Jamie Noble passed that on to me, and I stuck with it.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Cody spoke about the greatest Cross Rhodes he has hit in his career so far. You can read more about that here.

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