Cody Rhodes: I Never Trusted A Wrestler Who Said He Didn’t Want To Be Champion

Cody Rhodes speaks about Randy Orton’s recent words about Cody being addicted to the WWE Championship.

On last Friday’s edition of WWE SmackDown, Orton and Cody would have a face to face before their Sunday Night’s Main Event match last night, where Orton would attempt to bait Cody into attacking him, accusing Rhodes of being ‘addicted’ to winning the WWE Championship.

While speaking to Outkick and Fox News Digital in an interview prior to Sunday Night’s Main Event, Cody Rhodes reacted to Orton’s words.

“He had said, ‘addicted to winning the championship’ and ‘sick’ and putting it in front of everything. What’s the term kids use today? The rage bait, you know, or baiting me into … because if I had hit him, then I don’t get an opportunity for the WWE championship ever, and the same vice versa if he had hit me,” Rhodes said. “I hate to put it in such terms, but at King of the Ring, I beat Randy Orton. At WrestleMania, I beat Randy Orton. I feel the desperation and the addiction. Every pro wrestler, to your point, you’re in this to win. You’re not trying to get second on the podium. I’ve never trusted a wrestler ever — hell, I’ve never liked a wrestler ever — who said he didn’t want to be champion.”

Cody continued, noting that addiction and sickness is more on Orton’s end.

“But I think that addiction and sickness is actually more on Randy’s end because Randy’s close to the record. He’s close to 17. He’s close to John. I think Randy also feels that he’s not been given the credit as one of the, you know, the GOATs of modern WWE, someone who’s going to go down in history as one of the greatest to ever do it. He should know he is going to go down in history as one of the greatest to ever do it, but he’s also going to go down in history as the guy who lost for a third time at Sunday Night’s Main Event to his protege, which is me.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Cody spoke about the late Andy Williams’ passing. You can read more about that here.