Years ago Cody Rhodes decided to bet on himself and walk away from WWE, but last year his career came full circle when he returned to the company at WrestleMania 38. Rhodes will be taking his career to the next level at WrestleMania 39 in April as he earned the right to challenge for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship when he won the Royal Rumble on Saturday night.
During the post-show press conference Cody Rhodes was asked if there are any differences for him backstage now that he’s working under the Triple H regime instead of the Vince McMahon regime, and he offered an interesting response.
“I will say, I don’t want to get mushy with it, but Triple H has no reason to be a fan of mine, if you really think about it. I smashed the throne [in AEW], I took a lot of shots — always light-hearted — but I think he knew where it was coming from. I was hungry.”
Cody Rhodes went on to say that he’s glad he gets to develop a relationship with Triple H now and he also added that he’s a massive fan of the current Chief Content Officer.
“I’m so glad that relationship gets to develop now. I’ve modeled a lot of my presentation and performance [after him], I’m clearly a massive Triple H fan. I’m glad he’s the coach and I get to play and I want to play quarterback. I owe him a lot for how he handled my dad but I don’t want him to look at me and see my dad. I want him to look at me and see me; today I felt like he saw me. That’s very important. My last name’s done a lot of things for me but we’re at a point in my career where my first name has to do those things as well. It’s off to a great start, let’s see where we go from here.”
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