Cody Rhodes & Fallon Henley Recall Aaron Solo Shooting His Shot At Henley

A funny story from Rhodes and Henley about Aaron Solo.

Pre-WWE, Fallon Henley and Cody Rhodes crossed paths in All Elite Wrestling when Henley, then known as Tesha Price, did extra work for the company.

She guest-appeared on the newest episode of Cody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast and they recounted the story of AEW/ROH’s Aaron Solo being interested in Henley and finally deciding to approach her.

Rhodes shared that Solo had been talking about Henley for some time but never said anything to her. He finally approached her after a month.

Rhodes: “You were working there. You were doing some extra work and it was COVID bubble kind of.”

Henley: “It’s like the end of the COVID bubble.”

Rhodes: “A lot of us in the hotel and I had a workplace proximity associate, Aaron Solo. He often talked about you very fondly and very sincerely. He’s like, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty and she’s really smart…’ He didn’t talk a lot, if you remember.”

Henley: “He’s like a mute.”

Rhodes: “Not Mr. Personality, right? The last time I saw him, I reintroduced myself to him, because that’s how limited our conversations have become over the years but I think we’re kind of friends. Anyways, he had said so much that finally, we all just were like, ‘Well, you should just talk to her.’ This is a basic, common — you learn this in high school. You learn this before. You should say something to her. You should say hello, you should ask her if she wants to hang out. You should do anything. Anything other than talk to us about it, and we were all sitting right adjacent to elevators, Marriott, Jacksonville, Florida, and it’s important because the way I remember the story with the correct food being Arby’s, but, you walked in and you had a bit of a social club there. I felt there was a group that was always together. It was a good crew, and you guys always seemed to be in good spirits which was nice for me because my time there was up and down and you walked in and you had a bag of Arby’s and he literally nudged me and he goes, ‘I’m gonna go say hi to her. I’m gonna go, I’m gonna do it,’ and I thought, great. Do it. Here he goes. We’re not roasting him, we’re not giving him a hard time. We are sincerely looking, hoping this goes well. No one is making fun of him, which is normally what guys, I feel like, would do to each other and you walk past so he missed that first opportunity, and then it’s even weirder now because he trails you to the elevator and you have a group so it’s not looking good, and you turned and you smiled at him. You were very nice.” 

Henley: “I like to think I’m a nice person.”

Rhodes: “Yes, and then he just looked at you and he said, ‘Arby’s huh?’ And you went — and I feel like I could hear you say it because we were far away at this point and I just heard, ‘Yeah,’ and then the elevator door shut in my story and you went away, and then he came back to us. Why would you even walk back to us? Walk to your car, drive away, leave this city. All that talk. Like a month of build-up. All that for that moment? ‘Arby’s, huh?’ He shot his shot I suppose and that was it and uh, nice guy.”

Henley: “You bring it up every time you saw me. Still do.”

Rhodes: “It was a significant moment. I needed it at the time.”

Henley: “It’s pretty funny. It was good. But no, I don’t think there was ever any interaction past (that)…”

Solo was part of the Nightmare Factory faction when Cody Rhodes was still with AEW.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.