Cody Rhodes is currently one of the top stars in WWE, but a few years ago he decided to part ways with the company and blaze his own trail. Cody went on to work with several promotions including Ring of Honor before ultimately becoming one of the faces of AEW.
During his time away from WWE, Cody Rhodes had a lot of creative freedom, but according to Cody that wasn’t always a good thing. During a recent appearance on the Dale Jr. Download podcast The American Nightmare reflected on what it was like to have creative freedom and also shared some examples of times when he got in his own way.
“Sometimes I get in my own way, when it comes to my own creative and there’s a prime example. When I was in this company named Ring of Honor, wonderful company that really took care of me and Joe Koff was the guy who got me, amazing. But they just let me do whatever.
“A WWE guy, people are coming to see him, you know, because they were smaller crowds. He’s got a big autograph line, let’s whatever and one of the things I did was I had two mascots that were people in bear suits.
“It didn’t make a lick of sense and they’d be at the signing stamping with me. One was a business bear, one was the drug-free bear. It was all this nonsensical — it stemmed off a YouTube series so it had roots, but if I look at the photos and you see me with these two bears behind me, that’s what creative freedom gone too far — that’s what it looks like. I loved it (he laughed).
“Even my time at AEW as Executive Vice President President, also in my way a little bit. Someone else make a decision for me here, you know? Because at that point, I had made all these decisions.
“I’m making it, I’m doing it my way. You need guidance, you need those people who’ve been there and done it and yeah, so I had some big home runs and some big misses.”
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