Cody Rhodes Media Call Highlights And Audio: NJPW, ROH, If He Hadn’t Left WWE, Goldust, Wanting In Dusty Tag Classic
Fightful is on a media conference call with Cody Rhodes. You can see live highlights below, and download the audio at this link, or stream it above and below.
Rhodes says that the ramifications of Saturday's show will be huge in America
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Cody Rhodes says the IWGP Title has prestige because NJPW is very much "sport" and the title isn't hot potatoed.
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Rhodes says that the ramifications of Saturday's show will be huge in America
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Cody Rhodes addresses conspiracy theories that he's still linked to WWE, says he's grateful for them.
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Cody Rhodes answers Fightful's question and says he's found more success out of the WWE, but it wouldn't happen without WWE.
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Rhodes says he didn't sleep the night he won the ROH World Championship
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Rhodes says he knows Dusty would say "act like you've been to the endzone before," but he hadn't been to the endzone before.
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Cody says that Goldust let the competitive streak between them go when he won the ROH Title
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Cody thought it would be vindication for him to bring a world title to the Rhodes family, but doesn't feel that way now.
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Cody says he's like to think Dusty Rhodes would like him working for Tiger and NJPW
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Cody jokes that Americans aren't all that popular in other countries and "stupid American" is something he hears pretty frequently.
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Cody hasn't talked to Daniel Bryan about why he was made to retire. Cody wants the match and prove ROH can fill a 10,000 seat arena.
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Cody wants Bryan and CM Punk in ROH/NJPW.
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Cody Rhodes says leaving WWE has been more financially lucrative than staying.
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Cody says it feels like the Young Bucks hand him 50k every time they see each other.
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Cody Rhodes wants to be in this year's Dusty Rhodes tag classic, teaming with Goldust
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Cody jokes that he wouldn't return to WWE without a long list of demands that they wouldn't meet.
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Pentagon was a guy that impressed Cody
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Cody wants to face Kenny Omega and Jerry Lawler.
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Cody calls Omega vs. Okada at WK11 one of the coolest things he's ever seen.
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Cody says he watched an older wrestler criticize the WK11 match, but changed his mind over how hot the crowd was
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Cody wants NJPW to look at "A" markets.
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Cody has been given info on NJPW's return to the U.S., then MANIACALLY laughs and says he can't say anything about it.
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Cody Rhodes thinks if he stayed in WWE he'd be sitting in Road Dogg's office on Tuesdays begging to be Cody Rhodes instead of Stardust
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Cody doesn't think Triple H or Vince McMahon had much confidence in Cody Rhodes as opposed to Stardust.
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Cody Rhodes answers Fightful and says he likes that WWE's programming goes everywhere, which is a big positive for the performer.
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Cody Rhodes says being worldwide can be a detriment too, because he was so green when he started.
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