Cody Rhodes – ‘I Felt Stuck After My WrestleMania 39 Loss’
Cody Rhodes was a recent guest on the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast to discuss a variety of topics, including his match with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39 (Night Two). As you all know by now, Reigns won that match and Cody was unable to finish his story.
During the podcast, the American Nightmare commented on feeling “stuck” in his WrestleMania 39 match, what he thought when he saw his family ringside, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On feeling stuck in his WrestleMania 39 match: “I feel you have moments in your career where you get stuck in them, whether they’re so good or whether they’re so low, that you get stuck in these moments. It’s not unlike if you have a traumatic experience in your personal life. For me, I felt, and I still do three months removed, very stuck. In that there was a very long period of time where I was sitting in the ring.”
On what he thought when he saw his family ringside: “And the internal monologue I had when I saw my family at ringside, then I saw some of the most diehard fans fully decked out in every piece of merch for me they could have possibly bought, the internal monologue was really just telling myself to get up. Was to get up. And then I wanted to make a point that I was not gonna walk what we call ‘loser lane.’ I’m going to walk all the way back up this 70-yard ramp and I want to feel every bit of this loss.”
On headlining WrestleMania: “And I had to mentally prepare for the amount of, ‘Oh my gosh, but you main-evented WrestleMania.’ ‘Oh dude, you main-evented WrestleMania.’ I kept hearing, ‘You already won.’ And even some of my close friends, I wanted to just jab right in the jaw. Like, no. All I found out from main-eventing a WrestleMania is I want to do it again and I have to win. Like it’s a sickness, you know? Like, you got this high and for it to go like that, I can’t accept it. I can’t allow it.”
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