A WWE vignette for ‘Rhodes Industries’ that never made it to TV came together thanks to Paul Heyman, Brandi Rhodes has revealed.
The vignette, which has since leaked online, was filmed during Cody Rhodes’ first tenure with WWE and had the future AEW EVP as a cocky industrialist.
Speaking on a recent edition of the “Ring the Belle” podcast, Brandi spoke about the vignette and credited Paul Heyman as the “brainchild” behind the idea. She said,
“How apropos that Paul Heyman designs this video. So Paul Heyman was the brainchild behind this, and Paul Heyman was also very, very influential in trying to get me seen as something other than a ring announcer because I was in the role for four or five years. It’s very hard to turn your attention, especially when you have new talent coming in and all this other stuff you’re looking at.
‘Why does the ring announcer now want to do something else?’ You know, so this was part of kind of the ploy to get them to say, ‘Hey, she’s got character work, she’s got promo [ability], she can do these other things. He was super influential and helpful in that.”
Rhodes and Brandi (Eden in WWE) would never be featured together in WWE and would have to wait until the pair joined Impact Wrestling to be used as a couple.
