Cody Rhodes recently opened up about his future in WWE. The American Nightmare has confirmed that his current deal will be his last contract with the company.
Appearing on the “Insight” podcast, Rhodes claimed that he is not planning to walk away anytime soon. He believes he could remain with WWE for another six or seven years. He also wants to expand his career outside the ring. Rhodes revealed that he hopes to work on more movies this year.
Despite his plans, the former Undisputed WWE Champion has made one thing clear. He does not want to overstay his welcome when the time comes to leave professional wrestling. Cody Rhodes said,
“I just signed my last contract. I say last contract, but that’s going to go for a while, and if I’m able to do what I’ve been able to do, because I would love this year not to be just one movie, but perhaps two movies, and I’d love to kind of be able to share that at some point, get that going, and be in that. With all that said, my time with WWE could go.”
“I mean, just to give you a real answer here, and not politic around you, probably seven years. Six, seven? I didn’t mean it like that, but yeah, you know that’s a kids’ thing, right? Had to have Carmelo Hayes explain to me what that was, and I still didn’t get it. Yeah, six, seven years. I’d say so. Yeah, and I don’t want to say that in a final sense. I just know that I don’t want to overstay my welcome.”
Cody Rhodes Doesn’t Want To Wrestle In His 50s
Furthermore, in the podcast, the WWE star noted that he doesn’t want to wrestle into his 50s. Rhodes added,
“Well, I definitely don’t want to wrestle into my 50s. No shame to anyone who wrestles in their 50s. I don’t want to overstay my welcome in a sense of this, right? So, I have been given so much from wrestling, and you have to think about my career in its totality. The things that we don’t talk about, the things that I don’t get asked about anymore. You have to think about all that. I have shed so much of my skin for the industry, but I have also been given so, so, so much.”
“I think there’s a point where you have to stop taking. I’m not there, but there’s a point, and I think that’s in that time frame, a point where you just have to stop taking. It’s giving me everything. I am talking to you today, the first time I talked to you, I was a mid-card talent at WWE, and no shame to anything in the mid-card. Mid-card’s beautiful. I heard Triple H explain mid-card in a way that changed my perception of it forever.”
“But I was a mid-card talent with a ceiling that was right above my head, and I’m talking to you today as someone who got to play Guile from Street Fighter, created by Capcom, a game that I played growing up as a little kid. Again, be careful what you wish for, but also I don’t know how many moments like this I can take, and I can get hopefully more, hopefully a lot more. But I’ve been so lucky so far and so blessed so far that I think wrestling. I mean, Cody fatigue is already pretty set in.”
