Cody Rhodes remembers hard conversation with late father Dusty Rhodes telling him to bid adieu to WWE
Cody Rhodes has made his presence felt in the WWE circuit. Rhodes primarily performs on WWE RAW. Cody Rhodes has also spent a lot of time at All Elite Wrestling (AEW). From 2019 to 2022, where he served as an executive vice president and was the inaugural and record-tying three-time AEW TNT Champion. Rhodes’s father Dusty Rhodes was also a wrestler. Recently, Rhodes talked about a conversation that he had with his late father when he asked him to move away from WWE due to an old gimmick.
Before his time at AEW, Rhodes portrayed a character called Stardust where he had to put colour to his face adorn a full-body costume and then jeer at the crowd. Cody went on to say that his father did not approve of the stardust gimmick and told him on his face that he should quit WWE because of this fracas. “The conversations when I was doing Stardust became so negative and downtrodden, that was one of the first times he just hit me with the basic, ‘Well, you should quit,’” Rhodes said.
You can’t work a live audience by not performing in front of them – Cody Rhodes
Rhodes then further went on to talk about his time and experiences at AEW. While he was looking for a career-changing stint there, things unfolded in a very different fashion. He promoted AEW heavily, in an interview with Chris Van Vliet he talked about the pitfalls that he went through during the promotion and what were the wrongs that he made.
“I think the wrestling took a backseat right away. Because I thought, my bigger mistake, and this wasn’t an AEW mistake, this was a Cody mistake. My biggest mistake was thinking, I’ll stay as good as I am in the ring only wrestling twice, three times, maybe just once a month. Sorry. And the Gen Z crowd out there is about to lose their mind, and I hope they understand what I’m saying, you have to do live events. You cannot learn how to work a live audience unless you perform in front of a live audience,” Rhodes added.
Wrestling is a big part of Rhodes’s life and it will continue to be forever. talking about his next assignment, he will go up against Brock Lesnar at Summer Slam on August 5. This will be the third game that they will play against each other.
