Cody Rhodes: If You’re A Cody Rhodes Fan During WrestleMania Season, It’s A Choice. We Deal With Outside Forces
Cody Rhodes is used to dealing with outside forces.
Rhodes is not just facing Randy Orton at WrestleMania 42, as ‘The Viper’ recently aligned with Pat McAfee in an effort to change the business. This comes after Rhodes had to deal with Travis Scott on the road to WrestleMania 41 and The Bloodline before WrestleMania 40 and 39.
Speaking with The Rich Eisen Show for a new interview, Cody Rhodes praised his fans for sticking with him during WrestleMania season every year.
“So, outside forces. You could look at this year and say, here’s Pat McAfee. You could look at the year before and say, here’s Travis Scott. You could look at the year before and say, here’s The Rock. If you are a Cody Rhodes fan during WrestleMania season, it’s a choice. We deal with outside forces. We deal with, hey, they want to be a part of it. We’re about it and I can say this, it’s a spot I always wanted. If you’re gonna be in the big moments, you have to be ready for the big jobs. Pat being part of ESPN and the fact that WrestleMania is on ESPN for the first time ever, it’s actually a natural fit. Does it fit in a 20 year wrestler, student-teacher, mentor, all of that? No. But, Pat sure thinks it does and now Pat has the title so we can tell that story another time. That story has also already been told, let’s figure out how this unfolds.”
Continuing on, Rhodes talked about his character possibly snapping after how much he has been through on television.
“We’re getting to this point now where you go through so much as a wrestler, like I mentioned the previous WrestleManias and all of that. Maybe it’s time for me to change. That’s a new layer of paint for Randy Orton, he’s associated with Pat. He doesn’t need that by any means but that’s what he’s doing. Maybe I change. Maybe you walk that other side. I’ve been saying for so long, oh, I don’t think I could do heel stuff. After a while, it starts to feel like it’s almost expected to lose it at some point. You know, he is going to snap and how does that look? It’s WrestleMania though, it’s the best thing we do. It’s the postseason. It’ll be great with Pat McAfee or without Pat McAfee.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Rhodes had some harsh things to say about the image of Pat McAfee holding the WWE Championship. Fans can check out his full comments by clicking here.
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