Paul Heyman envisions a very bright future for Cody Rhodes in WWE regardless of what happens this weekend at WrestleMania 39.
Paul Heyman was a recent guest on Out of Character with Ryan Satin to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked if he believes Cody Rhodes can carry the company if he defeats Roman Reigns on Sunday, Heyman offers a very interesting response.
“Can he replace Roman, can he succeed Roman? That’s not the goal,” Paul Heyman said. “What would Cody do to transform the industry? What would Cody do to revolutionize the concept of sports entertainment, WWE, this genre? What would he do to create a period of evolution in this industry? Here’s what I like about him. He’s a disruptor. He really is.
“Look what he did. He didn’t like where he was here, he walked. He scratched and clawed and went through all the disparaged bingo halls. God bless the bingo halls. He played the bingo halls, the local high schools, he performed in front of 25 people. He smelled where the business was going, looked at the 19-year-olds like Austin Theory and thought, ‘Oh, if it takes five or ten years for this guy to hit, he’s 30, and he’s the guy.’ He got a smell for where the audience was going and then sold it, the concept, the vision, to a couple of other people and someone with millions of dollars to back it.
“He disrupted this industry. He changed the game already. Once he did that and lived that dream, all pun intended, and also pun intended, experienced the nightmare of going through it and the dues you have to pay and the dedication and the sacrifice of it, once he did it and was satisfied with the fact that he did disrupt the industry, he wanted something else. What he realized what he wanted was the original dream of main eventing WrestleMania.
“Can he carry the industry? I hope so. I hope he can. Whether he wins the title or not, he’s tasked with it. That’s who he is. He’s somebody different, he’s that ambitious. He has that vision. From that perspective of champion or challenger, he’s the guy pulling the wagon. We hope that we come out of this WrestleMania main event with the ability to sell out Saudi on the same night we sell out Madison Square Garden or Yankee Stadium or SoFi.
“Wouldn’t that be beautiful? Roman Reigns main events here, Cody main events there. Is he the guy? Win, lose, or draw, I certainly hope so. We need more people like that. We need more disrupters and game-changers. We need to take the industry to next year, five years from now, ten years from now, 25 years from now. He’s one of the people that is forward-thinking enough to take us someplace that I’m not envisioning, nor should I, have my own vision, I’m playing that out with Roman Reigns. I’d like to know his. It’s intriguing.” [H/T: Fightful]
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