Cody Rhodes Says His Cross Rhodes At WWE Battleground 2013 Is The Greatest One He’s Ever Hit

Cody Rhodes says his Cross Rhodes at WWE Battleground 2013 is the greatest one he’s ever hit during his professional wrestling career.

Over the course of his career, Cody has hit the Cross Rhodes an uncountable amount of times as his finisher. Back in 2013, he and his brother Dustin Rhodes (then wrestling under the Goldust character) would take on The Shield in tag team action with their WWE careers on the line. They would end up winning the bout, with Cody hitting his finish on Seth Rollins to a monster pop.

While speaking to ESPN in a recent interview covering the biggest moments of his WWE career, Cody Rhodes named the Cross Rhodes he hit on Rollins at WWE Battleground 2013 is the greatest one he’s ever hit.

“I love that it was in Buffalo, New York. I have a couple of unique hometowns that aren’t hometowns. Atlanta is where I’m from, but Buffalo is one, Philly is another. Buffalo, because of this match, there was even someone who said backstage, do you think they’ll care about the road story or Dusty, because he was more of a Florida, Georgia, Carolinas guy, and it was Michael Hayes who actually replied. He said, ‘they’ll care about Dusty anywhere,’ and this is it. The last Bionic Elbow right there. The last one in a big setting on TV. Well, too, it’s a real lesson. Me and Chicken (Dustin Rhodes), my older brother, had wrestled for 10 plus minutes and we were.. the crowd was moving and they were rumbling, but they weren’t up yet, and then dad takes his hat off and hits that elbow and the people’s, that’s where they first came up. Then we rode that all the way to the best Cross Rhodes I ever hit, and this is it right here. number one on the list. I’ll never know how we got the floating. I’ve tried again. It’s there was something about how our feet were and Seth’s skill level being one of the greatest of all time. I’ll never know how we floated into that Cross Rhodes, but that’s the number one on the list.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Cody spoke about wanting to do a match on a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the future. You can read more about that here.

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