Cody Rhodes Says He And Vince McMahon Didn’t Talk Business Till Final 30 Seconds Of Their First Meeting Prior To WrestleMania 38 Return

Cody Rhodes discusses how his WWE return meetings went.

Rhodes is currently one of the top stars in WWE right now, and has been since making his return to the company back at WrestleMania 38 to take on Seth Rollins. Prior to this, Vince McMahon flew out to Cody Rhodes’ house to speak to him about the possibility of him returning to the company he originally made his name in.

In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Rhodes was asked to discuss his meeting with McMahon and Rhodes was happy to oblige.

“That’s a good question, I think he laughed. I think he laughed because I kind of snuck in, I leaned over him. I remember going in to talk to him, I wasn’t afraid of anything and I was over compensating almost. I’m not scared of anything, let’s talk. I was almost overcompensating because both Vince and Bruce were so welcoming, this is the term I can use, sweet.”

“[They were] so positive about what I had done, the fact that they had knew what I had done and were citing different things like, ‘I saw this, I saw this.’ I couldn’t believe it, it was very self affirming and it just went for that type of happy go lucky… we’re talking about Liberty who was a year old and he’s talking to me about what it’s like to be dad for a daughter and how special it is and in the last twenty seconds of the meeting, ‘Oh, Seth Rollins at WrestleMania’, that’s the only business that came up. I told Brandi I would say this, but I was adamant about saying please don’t do one of those, ‘Hey this is the deal, if you leave it’s off the table.’ Don’t do one of those. I have to leave and think about it, I have to. Even in your mind, it’s like ‘Yup, I think we’re gonna do that.’ But I have to think about it and take some time because we had made such massive decisions, so this one was going to be something similar. But it was special, didn’t feel like a meeting until maybe the last thirty seconds.”

Cody Rhodes

‘American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes’ is set to premiere on Peacock on July 31, 2023.

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