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En entrevue pour WWE.com (et les comptes de médias sociaux) après sa victoire contre Seth Rollins à Wrestlemania 38, Cody Rhodes a témoigné son bonheur d’être de retour au sein de la compagnie qu’il a quitté il y a six ans.
Rhodes a avoué qu’il a tenté de fuir le fantôme de son père, le légendaire Dusty Rhodes, durant sa carrière. Mais après 16 ans, il sent que c’est maintenant le temps de réussir pour lui-même.
Rhodes est très heureux d’avoir pu faire ce retour au Texas, se sentant prêt à “jouer le jeu”.
“Everyone keeps saying the same two words. They say ‘welcome home’, and as flattering as that is and as much as I appreciated it, reciprocate the feeling. For the entire career of 16 years, I’ve run away from the specter of Dusty Rhodes, the shadow because it’s so big and so great,”
And I finally felt like ‘You know, I don’t have to do it for him anymore. Maybe I could do it for me, and that will be doing it for him’. I got the chance to go out there and do it in Texas.” ” said Cody Rhodes, “The last WrestleMania I was here as Stardust and to come back and to be me [is the] ultimate vindication. I’m very happy. They say welcome home, I say ‘I’m ready to play the game, let’s go.’”
Rhodes a vraiment apprécié l’accueil de la foule, espérant avoir mérité le respect des fans. Il croit être le meilleur lutteur au monde et souhaite le prouver à la WWE, en remportant éventuellement un titre mondial.
Par ailleurs, en entrevue pour Variety (l’entrevue est disponible en cliquant ici), Rhodes soutient qu’il est un lutteur et un homme différent depuis son expérience en dehors de la WWE, dont à la AEW.
Rhodes a aussi déclaré qu’il ne commentera pas en détails son départ de la AEW, mais il a de très bons mots pour Tony Khan – qui a su mettre sur pied une belle alternative à la WWE – The Young Bucks et Kenny Omega. Aucun “shoot” sur la AEW n’est donc prévu de sa part.
“I chose to remain silent about my departure from AEW and I’m going to keep my word on that. There’s no shoot interview. There’s no nefarious tale that’s going to be told. There were all these different theories and none of them are correct. I mean, there were things about money and creative control. They were printed as fact and it’s been a very difficult two months to see that, when the reality is it was just time. It was a personal matter and we couldn’t move past it. I have nothing but respect for Matt [Jackson], Nick [Jackson] and Kenny [Omega]. I’m rooting for Tony Khan. His name is going to be in the history books as someone who helped to bankroll and support this entire alternative and revolution that AEW became but for me, it was just time to to move on. I get an opportunity at my dream, I get another chance at it. And you really can’t leave any stone unturned with that.”
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“I’m ready to play the game.”
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