Cody Rhodes Media Call Highlights And Audio: NJPW, ROH, If He Hadn't Left WWE, Goldust, Wanting In Dusty Tag Classic

Rhodes says that the ramifications of Saturday's show will be huge in America

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Cody Rhodes says the IWGP Title has prestige because NJPW is very much "sport" and the title isn't hot potatoed.

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Rhodes says that the ramifications of Saturday's show will be huge in America

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Cody Rhodes addresses conspiracy theories that he's still linked to WWE, says he's grateful for them.

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Cody Rhodes answers Fightful's question and says he's found more success out of the WWE, but it wouldn't happen without WWE.

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Rhodes says he didn't sleep the night he won the ROH World Championship

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Rhodes says he knows Dusty would say "act like you've been to the endzone before," but he hadn't been to the endzone before.

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Cody says that Goldust let the competitive streak between them go when he won the ROH Title

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Cody thought it would be vindication for him to bring a world title to the Rhodes family, but doesn't feel that way now.

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Cody says he's like to think Dusty Rhodes would like him working for Tiger and NJPW

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Cody jokes that Americans aren't all that popular in other countries and "stupid American" is something he hears pretty frequently.

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Cody hasn't talked to Daniel Bryan about why he was made to retire. Cody wants the match and prove ROH can fill a 10,000 seat arena.

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Cody wants Bryan and CM Punk in ROH/NJPW.

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Cody Rhodes says leaving WWE has been more financially lucrative than staying.

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Cody says it feels like the Young Bucks hand him 50k every time they see each other.

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Cody Rhodes wants to be in this year's Dusty Rhodes tag classic, teaming with Goldust

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Cody jokes that he wouldn't return to WWE without a long list of demands that they wouldn't meet.

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Pentagon was a guy that impressed Cody

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Cody wants to face Kenny Omega and Jerry Lawler.

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Cody calls Omega vs. Okada at WK11 one of the coolest things he's ever seen.

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Cody says he watched an older wrestler criticize the WK11 match, but changed his mind over how hot the crowd was

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Cody wants NJPW to look at "A" markets.

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Cody has been given info on NJPW's return to the U.S., then MANIACALLY laughs and says he can't say anything about it.

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Cody Rhodes thinks if he stayed in WWE he'd be sitting in Road Dogg's office on Tuesdays begging to be Cody Rhodes instead of Stardust

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Cody doesn't think Triple H or Vince McMahon had much confidence in Cody Rhodes as opposed to Stardust.

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Cody Rhodes answers Fightful and says he likes that WWE's programming goes everywhere, which is a big positive for the performer.

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Cody Rhodes says being worldwide can be a detriment too, because he was so green when he started.

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