Cody Rhodes Believes He Needs A ‘Classic Wrestling Manager’

WWE WrestleMania 40 Sunday featured Cody Rhodes dethroning Roman Reigns as the Undisputed Universal Champion and that’s proof that WWE truly views him as a top star. With that said, Rhodes believes he needs a classic wrestling manager.

Since his switch from Raw to SmackDown, Rhodes has established himself as the brand’s top star, especially as Reigns takes a break. Rhodes’ popular is simply undeniable, but he’s been on this journey on his own.

While speaking on Busted Open Radio, Cody Rhodes talked about his career in WWE.Bully Ray emphasized the importance of having confidence and stated that humility doesn’t sell tickets. He then asked Cody if he feels like he’s firing on all cylinders or if there’s an aspect of his game he needs to focus on.

“I look in the mirror and I kind of tell myself the same thing. It used to [say] hey, wake up and be the best wrestler in the world. That was just what I would say in my head. Now it’s be the best champion in the world today. I do feel like we’re hitting on all cylinders.” He continued, “The team I have on the road, there’s some incredible people who help prop me up. I’ll give flowers to John Cone who helped put me in the right rooms. Nick Khan has been such an exceptional leader. Clearly, Triple H and I have a really unique player-coach relationship that I would have never anticipated him calling the plays and me being able to run them. I do feel like I’m hitting on all cylinders but it’s just like your high school football coach, even when you were younger. Just like a coach would tell you, there’s always somebody out there who’s perhaps getting up 5 minutes earlier. Who is perhaps doing a couple extra reps on the bench.“

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“I have seen footage from the Problem Child Gym that Logan Paul and his brother train at and you can’t sleep on that type of athlete that he is. Especially because I don’t think people know Logan has a folkstyle wrestling background. I was looking into this guy knowing if a fight broke out at the TV hotel bar, shockingly he’d probably be one of the guys to win. He’s the type that I know they’re out there. The ones that are hungry. The ones that are waking up and wanting it and I just want to want it more than them.”

Mark Henry advised Cody Rhodes not to apologize for his greatness and reminded him that luck had nothing to do with his success, as he worked hard to achieve it. Henry encouraged Rhodes to embrace his greatness. To this, Rhodes admitted that he might need a classic wrestling manager.

“Mark I feel it and I’ll tell you this. One of the reasons I liked having Arn Anderson around was the same reason I would have loved to have my dad around me. Because I’ll tell you I’m lucky and I’ll tell you how hard I work. I’ll tell you how grateful I am and that is true but it was nice to have a guy over my shoulder say what you just said and say we’re not apologizing for greatness where mediocrity loves company and we’re not joining that company. It was nice to have that voice in your ear. It was something I missed when Logan and I were doing this contract signing to see him flanked by so many people. I don’t know. Maybe I’m looking for the classic wrestling manager to join me on this title reign. I don’t know who that is or what that is but it just felt like I wouldn’t mind someone to holler the stuff that you just did.”

We will have to wait and see whether The American Nightmare will end up getting a manger once and for all, as he definitely had a solid thing going for him in AEW alongside Arn Anderson.

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