Cody Rhodes: I’m Addicted To The Top Spot, I’m Not Afraid To Tell Anybody That
Cody Rhodes says he is addicted to the top spot and that he is not afraid to tell anybody that.
Cody Rhodes says he is addicted to the top spot and that he is not afraid to tell anybody that.
Rhodes has been a main event player since returning to the WWE at WrestleMania 38 and is now a multiple time WWE Champion and WrestleMania main eventer. At WrestleMania 42, he would suffer several injuries, including an orbital injury.
While speaking in a new interview on WWE’s YouTube channel, Cody Rhodes spoke about the aftermath of WrestleMania 42 and the challenges he has faced since then.
“It felt very important. Coming just to Monday Night Raw, having an interaction unexpected at that with a CM Punk. It felt very important because you say QB1, what is QB1? If anything, and maybe the thing I’ve learned that QB1 is the most is consistent. There’s always a flavor of the month, right? There’s always some hot new thing and good for it. That’s exciting when the crowd can get behind something or something new shows up. But all my faves, all the QB1s before me were consistent. They were a week in and week out, and now there’s all these jokes about how I’ve really tried to follow the John Cena model, and I don’t mind those jokes at all, because that’s a hell of a mode, and I think most people run from it because it means work. It means work, and I’m also aware of the other QBs in WWE. If their strategy is less is more, if their strategy is more strategic, then I’m not gonna play that game. I’ll do it differently. I’ll be here every week and I’ll see this team every week. It’s not a matter of who’s right or wrong, it’s my preference. So to be shaken out of my preference would have been very difficult. Ricky Saints, comes to WWE debuts coming up from NXT. As much as he did it in a braggadocious, bullish way, and as much as he pulled my card in the way he did, I needed that. Thank you, Ricky Saints, because that’s the moment that I can say, all right, I am cleared, and not only am I cleared, we’re not gonna wait. We’re not gonna do this big presentation, and this less is more strategy to it. No, we’ll wrestle right here, we’ll wrestle tonight, Sami found that out as well. So I appreciate those guys shaking me out of any type of feeling down in the dumps because I shouldn’t have. I left WrestleMania and I even said that to CM Punk and it was a mistake to say it, that I didn’t feel so much like a winner and I had been, and I need those challengers. I need them. I’m addicted to the top spot. I’m not afraid to tell anybody that, and I needed them to come in when they did.”
Elsewhere in another recent interview, Cody spoke about wanting more 90s style retirements in pro wrestling. You can read more about that here.
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