During the latest episode of the DDP Snake Pit Podcast, Diamond Dallas Page stated that wherever he ends up going, Cody Rhodes will receive a huge reaction. He said,
“I was with Hulk before he went out in — where were we in — I want to say it was Montreal. It was the first time he would be coming back with the NWO thing to the WWF, or WWE, it was still WWF at the time. He has second-guessed, Elvis Presley second-guessed himself. But, you know, I know no matter what now, if I walked out on AEW, I don’t care what arena I’m in, I’m gonna get that reaction. He’s gonna get that reaction. Goldust is going to get that reaction. Cody’s gonna get an unbelievable reaction wherever he ends up.”
DDP also talked about how Cody increased his value outside of WWE after leaving in 2016: “When he left Vince and when he was with WWE, and I don’t know what he was making over there, but that spot he was in, knowing the business, I’m saying he was probably worth a half a million. 450, 500,000 dollars a year, somewhere around there. He left that money because he believed in himself that much. And for him to have done that, and we followed him all through here. He came here. We did interviews with him. We followed him. I said, ‘Listen, let me just start filming you. My guys, they love you. They want to film you. It’ll cost you nothing. Let’s make some videos of what you’re doing.’ And then the whole All In thing happened. Dusty would’ve been, I just can’t even imagine. I really can’t even imagine how light on his feet he would’ve been, just walking on air watching Cody do what he did.”
The Double or Nothing 2019 match against Dustin opened many eyes on how good Cody actually is: “That match was old school and new school mixed the way it needs to mix to really do something. Vince would’ve never given them that opportunity because he didn’t believe in it. But he went out there and he proved it, and to me, it’s the best match of the decade. The match that those two guys had was, you know, the fans. That’s why I love the AEW fans. They remind me so much of the ECW fans, just different. But they were in it from the entrances to the finish. And those guys, it was blood, sweat, and tears. Like, for real, they just went out there and killed it.”
The other podcast host (Jake “The Snake” Roberts) had more to say on Cody Rhodes. You can check that out at the link provided.
