Cody Rhodes discusses John Mayer's attendance at the original All In.
Before the birth of AEW, there was the original All In. Taking place during Labor Day weekend in 2018, Cody Rhodes, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson took a gamble on the depth of the independent wrestling circuit at the time and sold out the NOW Arena in Chicago, changing the course of professional wrestling history forever.
One of the notable attendees that night was John Mayer. The famous singer was in town for a bachelor's party and wanted to attend the event. Now, Cody Rhodes is recounting the story of how that ended up happening during the debut episode of his "What Do You Wanna Talk About?" podcast.
"I get an email at 3:00 a.m. from John Mayer's manager. There's a bachelor party, they want to attend All In, the original All In, which has been very, very sold out, like fire code sold out. At that point, I just thought it was a rib, a good wrestling rib. Then, at 9:00 a.m., when I left the hotel room, I was greeted by someone right at the door, saying to me, 'Hey, did you deny John Mayer tickets?' 'I did not, is John Mayer really coming?'
"Apparently, there was a bachelor party, it was a bachelor party, and we set him in the middle of the aisle. So as I am wrestling SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis, I looked into the aisle where you can clearly see where people walk, walk, walk, wait. Then there's just John Mayer, who's sitting right in the middle, so no one could walk by him. If there was a fire, it would have been a bad situation. That was a really fun get. He took photos afterwards."
Brandi Rhodes, Cody's wife and the guest on the podcast, joked that John Mayer was quite fond of Chelsea Green.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Cody spoke about why the match against Nick Aldis meant so much to him. Read his comments here.
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