Cody Rhodes feels he’s destined for the babyface life.
Cody Rhodes remains one of WWE‘s most beloved and successful babyfaces in recent years. Would he ever turn heel again, though? During a recent interview with Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Rhodes, who currently reigns as the Undisputed WWE Champion, pondered the possibility.
“You can do whatever. WWE is such a hot ticket now, it moves on,” Rhodes said. “It’s great to have a quarterback, great to have franchise players or top stars, whatever it might be, but it’s going to move on with or without you there, someone will fill that spot. “
“Social media for pro wrestling is very important,” Rhodes continued, “and you’ll hear people try to say it’s not important, they’re just trolls. I think you need to know what a troll really is. This is a real person who probably has a pretty good high-paying job. This is how they release, this is their event, whatever. [That] is my weird psychology or theory on trolls. There’s a whole section, a huge section of WWE audience that’s not actively on social. They have it, they do stuff on it, but that is not their bread and butter. They’re not dictated to by it. Whereas some of the other independent and smaller promotions are dictated to by social media so we have to always look at it.”
The Fans Continue To Want Cody Rhodes
To illustrate the importance of analyzing social media, Rhodes referenced the viral “We Want Cody” campaign that spread across the internet earlier this year. While some may have believed it to be an interest solely within the online wrestling community, the repeated chants during the subsequent episodes of WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown proved it be much more widespread. As such, WWE pivoted its plans, and set Rhodes up to face Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40, instead of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
“‘We want Cody’ is a prime example,” Rhodes said. “Is this social media or is this bigger? It only became bigger when we showed up in that arena on Monday and they started chanting it in real time. That’s where you know the difference between a fad, between this thing and something that okay, this is a wave that’s far, far bigger. [A heel turn] could happen for sure. I just don’t see it happening.”
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