The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes successfully defended his WWE Undisputed Championship against AJ Styles at the WWE Backlash PLE. While speaking in the post-show press conference, Cody Rhodes shared the significance behind successfully defending his title.
“Everything was riding on this match. And when you have been doing it as long as I’ve been doing it, we have what I call the fever. You know, you think, ‘I accomplished the big one, I did it. I’ll be happy.’ It’s not a matter of not being happy or being happy, it’s just, you are never full. And I’m so glad you asked me that question. I might have told this story before, but I… A few weeks before WrestleMania I was at this restaurant called Victoria and Albert’s with my wife. I said, ‘You know…’ And I have been drinking.
“A few libations, had to… I said, ‘You know, if I could just win the WWE Championship right? If I could just hold it up in the same spot that my dad did and they don’t take it away from me. So that, I think I’d be happy. I think I’d be happy.’ And she looked at me and didn’t even blink. And just said, and excuse my language, ‘You’re full of sh*t.’ She said, ‘You’re gonna want to make it even bigger. You’re gonna want to make it even better.’ How can you get bigger and better than Roman Reigns, Mr. Heyman?”
Cody Rhodes will forever be in debt to France
The American Nightmare also mentioned that he will be forever grateful to France as this is the first place he showed up to defend his newly won Undisputed championship.
“I will forever be in debt to France. This is the first place that I got to come, first PLE, and this was the biggest Arena Gate in company history. And when all our friends in the room and everyone who’s a journalist in the business, my name getting to be attached to that, AJ Styles’ name going to be attached to that. I haven’t even begin to cover the amount of respect I had for AJ Styles and now that I have even more for him, I didn’t intend to call him old. I never would… He’s not. And there are some really close calls in there. This could have been the fairytale ending at WrestleMania and then Nightmare at Backlash. I’m blessed, I’m in debt to France like I said. It meant everything,” Cody Rhodes said.
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