Cody Rhodes has been lucky enough to have a long career in the professional wrestling business, but no one can go forever. His father Dusty Rhodes continued to wrestle into his 60s. However, it doesn’t sounds like Cody is interested in following in his father’s footsteps as far as that’s concerned.
During an appearance on Flagrant, The American Nightmare noted that he will be looking to wrap up his full time wrestling career when he hits the age of 45.
“The reason I said 45 (is when I’m aiming to wrap up wrestling on a full-time basis) is also selfishly because my dad was an old man wrestler. He wrestled all the way. I mean, he was probably 60 when he had-had his last match. Maybe even 65 and I hated seeing that. I knew people liked it, I knew he was okay but I hated seeing him that way. I wanted to remember him differently and Battleground’s the match where he hits his last Bionic Elbow on Dean Ambrose on the floor — Jon Moxley — and what people don’t know about that is the reason all of it took place on the floor is because he couldn’t get up the steps that easily, and I think at that point, that’s like the hardest thing to see is — you know, he knew though. ‘I got to call it.’ Like, let me go guys, let me go and that was one of the last big things he did with me on-screen but it was a really great gift but because of that, I don’t ever wanna overstay my welcome.”
Cody Rhodes obviously has previous experience working in management thanks to his time in AEW. While talking about potentially stepping into a new role with WWE when he retires Cody made it clear that he’s open working in a management role in the future.
“I had the management role with my previous company. I would say I failed at that. I didn’t necessarily succeed but I learned a lot from that failure and with this company, with WWE, if that’s something that comes up for me, ‘Would you like to be behind the scenes?’
It’s definitely something I’m considering. Because I had a whole run at it before where I pretty much bombed, so at this point I know, like, you know what? I think I can get this now. I think I can figure it out. Long way off though. Long way off. I wanna hang onto this (Undisputed WWE Title) as long as I can.”
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