Cody Rhodes got the full big-surprise treatment both in front of the camera and behind the scenes at WrestleMania.
The former All Elite Wrestling executive vice president was hunkered down in his bus with wife Brandi and young daughter Iris Saturday until it was time to perform. He jokes in a video posted to WWE’s YouTube channel that he was “committed to, I’m gonna throw on my robe and walk to Go Position, to Gorilla.”after six years played out similar to Ronda Rousey’s debut at the Royal Rumble in 2018.
“They had me put the hood and sweats on and running by everybody, media trying to take pictures,” Rhodes said in the video. “It was such a unique experience.” The four-minute video chronicling Rhodes’ day at WrestleMania 38 at AT&T Stadium on Saturday, which starts around 3:41 p.m. inside his bus and ends with him back in the locker room at 10:18 p.m., shows WWE head of creative Bruce Prichard picking up a hoodie-wearing Cody in a golf cart at 8:31 p.m. Rhodes never saw the crowd of more than 70,000 in Dallas until his music hit and he arose from underneath the stage to face Seth Rollins, who he went on to defeat.
While because of his role as an executive he added a storyline stipulation that denied him a second chance to challenge for the AEW world championship, it appears part of Rhodes’ motivation for a second run in WWE is to prove himself worthy of being world champion there. It’s something his father Dusty Rhodes and brother Dustin never accomplished.
“I’m still that little kid that I mentioned in an AEW promo that wants what my dad didn’t get, and I’m not going to say it out loud because I don’t want to jinx it,” Rhodes told Variety. “But, you know, he went to Madison Square Garden, stood across from Superstar Billy Graham and he [Dusty] held it [the WWE title] in his hands, the goal of mine, and it was taken away because that was the context of the match.
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