Cody Rhodes discusses finishing the story.
With his win at WWE WrestleMania 40 Night Two, Cody Rhodes finished the story by defeating Roman Reigns and winning the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion.
At the WWE WrestleMania 40 Night Two Press Conference, Jon Alba asked Cody Rhodes to describe what he felt has resonated with people the
“I think sometimes, it feels like it’s a father-son story. It’s just something that, father-daughter, father-son, that a lot of can see and relate to. But if I’m truly being honest, I think it’s a story of, as much as I had the legacy and I had the last name, I wasn’t born with all the tools. My brother’s 6’4. You know how pissed off I was when I stopped growing? My dad and my sister just had all this charisma, and I think people resonate…that works for them. You can make it to the main event. You can make it to being the main event.
“I always wanted to be a winning franchise, if that makes any sense. At my age, and where I’m at in my career, I know that’s not been the story. But I’m very proud of what the story has become. You asked why it resonates. This is the only answer I really know. Because it’s real. I wanted to be this because at first, he wasn’t, and I thought he should have been. Then, when he passed away, I failed, I didn’t hand it to him.”
Cody Rhodes Got A Special Gift
Cody Rhodes went on to reveal that Bruce Prichard, Triple H, and Nick Khan gave him the watch his dad pawned so that Cody could go to acting school. Cody emphasized that he wanted to repay the investment and the responsibility that the company put in him.
“But it became about, I said this earlier, the story was beyond me at that point,” Cody Rhodes said. “I still felt the need to finish it. I’ve been saying all week, even if I didn’t believe, people believed. So I had to do it.
“Something that I wanted to share, I came to the back, and Bruce Prichard and Triple H and Nick Khan, and handed me this [watch], which is the same watch that my dad had. That he pawned so that I could go to acting school. So the level of investment and responsibility that the company just put in my hands, I hope I can pay it back, pay it forward a hundred times over.”
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