Cody Rhodes discusses the biggest mistake he made in All Elite Wrestling.
While speaking in a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Cody Rhodes talked about his time in AEW and what was the biggest mistake he made in the company. Rhodes of course was part of the company from is conception.
“I think the wrestling took a backseat right away. Because I thought, my bigger mistake. And this wasn’t an AEW mistake, this was a Cody mistake. My biggest mistake was thinking, I’ll stay as good as I am in the ring only wrestling twice, three times, maybe just once a month. Sorry. And the Gen Z crowd out there is about to lose their mind, and I hope they understand what I’m saying, you have to do live events. You cannot learn how to work a live audience unless you perform in front of a live audience.
So I was getting worse, as was everybody. Some of the best wrestlers, you name them, in that first year, the crowd was incredibly generous to us because we were new, we were fresh. Some of the stuff isn’t going to hold up just because we weren’t, we weren’t able to do this on the regular and get it down and sharpen our tools. And that’s just, maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s nobody else, but you have to be able to do it. So that’s an area where I think I was suffering from immediately.”
Cody Rhodes
Cody would go on to return to WWE at WrestleMania 38 and is currently working a program with Brock Lesnar and is scheduled to face him one more time at SummerSlam on August 5th.
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