Cody Rhodes has high praise for one SmackDown star’s strength.
Throughout his professional wrestling career, Cody Rhodes has faced some of the strongest wrestlers alive. Speaking with Bayley on What Do You Wanna Talk About?, the WWE Champion opened up about facing Candice LeRae at an independent show, saying the Poison Pixie is one of the strongest opponents he’s ever faced in the ring.
“So one time, [she] suplexed me on the indies, and the joke I used to make was, the strongest two people I’ve ever been in the ring with were, one was Brock Lesnar, and the other was Candice, like she threw me through the roof.”
Bayley then opened up about her own admiration for LeRae, saying that she wants the star to have her moment to shine, and preferably that moment would be against Bayley herself.
“I would go to the indie shows at the school I trained at and she was wrestling Gail Kim, like I looked up to her as far as being on the indies and being a girl from California, she was all the way in SoCal and I was in NorCal. We tagged with each other once and against each other once … I mean, if she gets her moment, I hope it’s against me.” (h/t WrestlingInc)
Cody Rhodes Recently Paid Tribute To Dusty Rhodes At Madison Square Garden
On the June 8th episode of SmackDown inside Madison Square Garden, Cody Rhodes paid tribute to his late father after the show went off the air by holding up a replica of the title Dusty had attempted to capture from Superstar Billy Graham in that same venue.
Speaking about the experience on The Pivot, Cody Rhodes got emotional, saying:
“At 8 years old, that was my goal. My goal was to do what I did last night,” Rhodes responded. “I wish he had been alive for it and had that moment but after his passing, the ball started rolling in a completely different way and everything just started coming to me in unique and different routes than I thought.”
“I was happy that we did it for the MSG crowd. Of course, we’ll blast it out everywhere but just specifically to have that moment because the story was, I was 8 years old, I saw that picture, I wanted to be a pro wrestler. So, I got to live the picture and I got to keep it versus him getting all excited, holding it up there and then to have the heat of it being taken away but he loved the Garden and the Garden was really good to Dusty and they didn’t have to be.” (h/t F4WOnline)
Cody Rhodes will defend the Undisputed WWE Championship at SummerSlam, and the star has a mountain to climb as he will face Solo Sikoa, who will likely have The Bloodline in his corner.