Cody Rhodes asked for his release from the WWE several months ago. Many people have questioned his decision to leave because the WWE draft and brand split occurred only a couple of months later where he likely would have been a bigger part of WWE programming. In a recent episode of the Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast, Rhodes reveals if he knew about the draft beforehand and if it would have convinced him to stay with the company.
If he would have stayed if he knew about the WWE draft:
“No, because. The drafting came. Let’s be honest; six months before the drafting came, they told us the drafting was going to happen, and we filmed these commercial with these flags. The commercials became about Smackdown leaving SyFy, so everyone was aware of the draft, but no one knew where they were going of that nature. I did ask, my second to last week, on someone who I really trusted, who is still on the creative team, and I’m still friends with; I asked if there was a plan for me, he had a plan going into Wrestlemania, but that plan was squashed, so anyway, I asked him and he said, no there currently is no plan” (Source: Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast).
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Cody continued:
“So when I look at the draft and stuff, I don’t think anything would have changed for me because, I’m a big believer in what you are given, whatever the character; whether you are a magician, or Stardust, whatever you are given, you have the chance to go out; that is your TV time, that is your moment, you can make Vince literally look up from his phone and go, oh, that worked, let’s keep going with it. The issue with me was, I was boxed in to just do Stardust so it didn’t seem possible anymore. For the first time in my career it didn’t seem possible to win even to maximize the minutes from a viewer perspective, so that was part of the decision and made it a lot easier for me to go” (Source: Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast).
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