Cody Rhodes has opened up on what he was thinking ahead of his meeting with Vince McMahon prior to his WWE return in 2022.
Cody Rhodes made his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38, being revealed as Seth Rollins’ mystery opponent on the show.
Cody had left AEW back in January, and he has now opened up on his mindset ahead of his meeting prior to his return.
Speaking to The Undertaker on Six Feet Under, he said:
“I think, at the time, two trains of thought. Bruce had done some independent shows with me, and had seen a little bit of what was going on. It was making so much noise that even outside the big bubble that WWE is, you almost had to go ‘what are the Bullet Club guys doing? What is this here? Why is this taking? There’s a thousand people at this indie show, there’s ten thousand at this one?’ He was seeing that.
“I think Vince was looking at it from the perspective of ‘I just need someone to wrestle Seth’. That’s really what he was- I need someone to wrestle Seth.
“Then the meeting, all I ever thought of the meeting, I was so excited. Somebody who said, never directly, but I was made to feel didn’t value me, or didn’t value me enough perhaps, that’s all I thought about in that meeting was ‘I want them just to see me’.
“I’ve had a child, I’ve been out, run my own show, I’ve done some promoting, a little booking, I just wanna see these guys. Bruce I know and love already, but I wanna see Vince and have this conversation and almost say thank you more than anything.
“Thanks for being the house that built me, I learned so much, and I got to apply it everywhere I went, because outside of WWE I was very unique. I would apply these very pro-WWE and very old school philosophies to promos, matches, production, presentation to everything that it almost made me like a gimmick just having that skill set.
“But that’s all I thought when we were there, I just want them to see me.”
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Cody Rhodes is hoping to win his third Royal Rumble match this Saturday in Riyadh.
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