WWE’s Cody Rhodes has spoken of his desire to be an element of management again, following his stint as executive vice chairman in AEW.
Rhodes was one in all the numerous executive vice presidents that AEW had when the promotion was began, but he believes that his stint was a failure, having vowed never to be in management again. He recently spoke with Kit Wilson on his “What Do You Wanna Talk About?” podcast about wanting to learn the manager side of things in WWE, and revealed that he has an itch to be a part of that side of the professional wrestling business once more.
“I desired to go to the office to see what life can be like on the office at WWE HQ. I had a profession before as an executive vice chairman. I failed at it — but I had some success along the best way, but failed, ultimately. Learned an amazing deal from said failure as we do. But I desired to go, I said, ‘Oh man, I’m gonna treat it like I’m going there for a job.’ I’ll write a sample format. I’m gonna write a full tech format, times and all the things, and never a dreamer one, and put one together,” he said. “I’m gonna go and share that with Bruce Prichard and the creative team, and I’m gonna sit with them. I’m gonna meet with Lee Fitting and his team. I’m gonna meet these departments and never the, ‘Hi, I’m such and such,’ not that. We are able to try this in three minutes. I’m gonna actually [say], what can I actually do for you? Like, [the] community. What can I actually do for you? Do I slot in anywhere? ‘Cause I got the bug.”
Rhodes said he went into the meeting well-equipped because he rarely goes into matches without doing his homework. He revealed that he spoke to many individuals within the locker room concerning the ideas that they had, with some wrestlers offering suggestions. Nevertheless, Wilson took the task seriously, sending Rhodes nine PDFs full of ideas, a level of detail that surprised “The American Nightmare.”
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