Cody Rhodes Is The New GFW NEX*GEN Champion, Shane Helms Talks WWE’s Cruiserweight Division

Cody Rhodes added another title to his resume on Friday night when he won the Global Force Wrestling NEX*GEN Championship. Cody Rhodes defeated Sonjay Dutt at WrestleCade’s Showcase of Champions which took place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to become the new champion.

After the match Cody told a story about Dusty Rhodes telling him that, “sometimes the title makes the man, and other times the man makes the title.” Cody told the crowd that he intends to find out what kind of man he is, and he followed up by saying that he will be defending the GFW NEX*GEN Championship in promotions that aren’t GFW for the next few weeks.

You can check out Cody’s post-match speech in the video below.

Shane Helms was recently a guest on X-Pac’s 1,2,360 show, and during the interview he commented on a possible return to WWE’s cruiserweight division. You can watch the full show, along with a quote below.

“I’m not getting any younger, and that’s a division where athleticism has always been at an all-time high. It’s just very high. So it would depend. Right now I’m with TNA and I’m going to be with TNA for the foreseeable future. But I love that division. I love what I did with it, what guys like Sean did for it. So I definitely would be open to somehow going in there and helping them out again. It’s something that needs to be highlighted and left alone. That division needs its own identity.”