Cody Rhodes: If I Win, Maybe We’ll Change How The Title Looks, And It’ll Be Called The WWE Championship

Cody Rhodes has some changes in mind.

Cody Rhodes has some changes in mind.

In the past, Cody Rhodes has teased his interest in bringing back the Winged Eagle WWE Championship on multiple occasions. At WWE WrestleMania 40, Cody Rhodes will challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.

Speaking at a panel at WWE World (via WrestlingNewsCo), Cody Rhodes was asked to describe what kind of champion he would want to be if he won the gold.

“I think the type of champion I’d be for starters, from a logistical standpoint, is I would be on both Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown. I don’t know, you guys like how the title belt itself looks? Then maybe, again, don’t want to get a cart before a horse here, I have to beat the greatest champion in the history of our business, Roman Reigns. But if I do, maybe we change how that title looks, too. Really, if I could do anything as champion, I would want you guys to have fun. That is 100% what I’m in the business of doing, making you guys happy, and I’m blessed and honored to do that. So that’s what I look forward to doing, and I hope we have a great weekend, all of us together,” Rhodes said.

During the panel, Rhodes was also asked to recall when he knew he wanted to be a wrestler. As he looked back on his goal to hand his father, Dusty Rhodes, a world title, he stated that the championship would simply be called the WWE Championship if he won it.

“I knew, I’d say I knew at four. I’d say particularly at eight years old, when I saw the picture of him holding the WWWF Championship. He had just won the match against ‘Superstar’ Billy Graham, but he didn’t win in a way that he could take the title, and that was the big, ‘Hey, I wanna get this,’ the belt that ultimately Roman has now that we call the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. Which, if I win this thing on Sunday, we are not calling it this long-winded designation. It’s just the WWE Championship. But I knew then because that was my first big dream and goal was to win it and hand it to him and tell him, ‘Nobody can take it away from you now.’ It’s moments and events like that,” Rhodes said.

Big E recently said that he is pulling for Cody Rhodes at WWE WrestleMania 40. Check out his comments here.

Roman Reigns took a shot at Cody by saying that he was reading the wrong book, and he didn’t care about his story. Click here to see what he had to say.

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