Highlights from Cody Rhodes on the E&C Pod of Awesomeness
-Cody and Dustin were meant to do this podcast together around Dusty's birthday last year, but only Dustin was on it. Apparently Cody sat there during the podcast trying to get in touch with his brother, but he reckons Dustin likes hogging the spotlight and ignored him. Because of this, Edge and Christian liked to joke that he was in the bullpen.
-Cody was genuinely surprised about All In selling out. He intially thought they would get 5000 in the first week or two and then they could put the card together and start advertising to get the rest. Now they have the whole advertising budget to work with, but Cody predicted that the Bucks will have soent it all by the end of the podcast.
-The idea for All In really originated at some ROH events last year where the stands would be full of bullet club shirts. Apparently the Bucks had been thinking about it for awhile. Cody says he has about four different potential cards and added that anything that ends up on the show has to be approved by all three of them.
-Cody hates it when people say "stay tuned" when they leave, you should go into these things with a solid plan. The list he had was a goal he wanted to keep reaching for but he never thought he'd get so much out of it. He said he's thankful for his friendship with the Bucks and that what they really wanted was a partner (for All In).
-Cody says he's still rather conservative when it comes to wrestling. He thinks it's stupid when people say "evil Vince" or "evil Hunter" are holding everyone down and that there may be reasons some of those people aren't getting mega pushes. Sometimes they're way too lazy or have something else really holding them back.
-Many may not know this, but Cody's first singles PPV match was against Mysterio at WM 27. Apparently Rey had gone to Vince and requested him becaus ehe had some cool ideas, Cody says he owes Rey everything. The Legacy triple threat was only meant to be Orton and DiBiase, but Orton insisted that Cody be part of it. Cody said Orton might yell at him for openly admitting that. As far as his favorite WWE opponent, that would be Christian. The big thing Cody took from him was the art of false finishes.
-Cody did his best to give Stardust his best effort because he knew it would ve even worse if he didn't. He said Triple H and Vince were receptive of the idea of becoming Cody again, but it just wasn't happening fast enough. They didn't think he was top guy material and he obviously felt otherwise, so all of this success has been vindication for him. It was hard to leave certain people behind, but he needed to do this for himself.
-Working the indies was a bit of a culture shock for him and that he took many of the things they get in WWE for granted. He said ROH has been very kind to him from the start and that he feels a sense of loyalty to them. Winning the ROH title obviously meant a lot to him and he got tons of messages from across the industry. Apparently Triple H was one of them.
-The initial stuff with Amell was something Cody thought up on his own, it wasn't planned. Cody actually asked for Vince's permission right before he walked out there, apparently Vince referred to Amell as "the actor." They've since become great friends and have worked together on tons of things, Amell will be part of All In as well.
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