Recently, it was reported that Cody Rhodes had signed a five-year contract extension with WWE. Rhodes made his WWE return back in 2022 at WrestleMania 38, defeating Seth Rollins in his first match.
Since then, Cody Rhodes been heavily featured as a main eventer in the company. Before joining WWE, Rhodes was known for his stint in All Elite Wrestling, where he worked from 2019 to 2022.
Cody Rhodes Says He Will Wrestle For Another Six To Seven Years
During an interview with Chris Van Vliet on the Insight podcast, Cody Rhodes talked about his latest contract with WWE. The American Nightmare didn’t reveal how long his current contract lasts, but he did say that he will only wrestle for another six to seven years.
“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.”
Rhodes, who’s currently at the age of 41, was also asked if he feels the same way as AJ Styles did about not wanting to wrestle in his 50s. Rhodes made it clear that he doesn’t want to wrestle for that long. This was Cody Rhodes’s response:
“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.”
When asked if he feels Cody fatigue, the wrestler said, “Well, no, maybe. But I think you can only go so far, and you’re only supposed to go so far.”
Rhodes had previously said that he would retire at the age of 40.
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