Cody Rhodes released the latest episode of his podcast, What Do You Wanna Talk About, and during said show he made an interesting revelation — he may already be preparing to go corporate with WWE.
He’s currently the WWE champion and still at the top of his game, having just defended the title at WrestleMania 42 and there have been no signs of slowing down. He’s 40-years-old, sure, but this is pro wrestling. He could very well have another decade as an active wrestler.
But what about after that?
To that
end, he said he recently took a step toward corporate by going to WWE HQ and playing the role:
“I wanted to go to the office to see what life would be like at the office at WWE HQ. I had a career before as an executive vice president. I failed at it. I had some success along the way but I failed. I ultimately learned a great deal from said failure, as we do, that’s what we need. But I wanted to go. I said, ‘man, I’m gonna treat it like I’m going there for a job.’ I’ll write a sample format. I’m gonna write full tech format, times and everything, and not a dreamer one, I’ll take what we have now and put one together. I’m gonna go and share that with Bruce Prichard and the creative team, and I’m gonna sit with them, and I’m gonna go to CPG, I’m going to meet with Lee Fitting and his team, I’m going to meet these departments. And not the ‘hi, I’m such and such,‘ not that. We can do that in three minutes. I’m gonna actually know what can I really do for you? Like community, what can I really do for you? Do I fit in anywhere? I got the bug. I didn’t wanna be unprepared, because if you came to me as a wrestler unprepared, I’d kick back or I would look for things to kick back on. So in that setting, I wanted to be ready so I reached out to as many people as I could on the roster and I said, ‘What’s an idea for you? What’s something you wanna do?’ Some people called me — ‘I got this.’ Some people didn’t reply. Some people sent a nice little text with a perfect little simplified note. And I thought, okay, I’m ready if Ed or somebody asked me good question. I didn’t wanna be unprepared, I didn’t wanna waste their time.”
The wider context here is he was putting over Kit Wilson, his guest on the show, and how despite him not sending a text or voicemail he has nine “full blown PDFs” and he “almost spoke about you every time” in each of the meetings he was in. Either way, it would seem he could be following a similar path to, say, Triple H.
That sure would be something, huh?
