WWE‘s Cody Rhodes compares his life to a critically acclaimed 2003 Tim Burton movie.
During his recent appearance on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes spoke about his father, Dusty Rhodes’ “common man” persona. The late legend famously emphasized that he was just a plumber’s son during his in-ring career, positioning himself as a relatable, blue-collar character.
However, Cody Rhodes noted that his mother knows the reality. He clarified that while his grandfather, Virgil, was indeed a plumber, he was a successful, non-union plumber who was “killing it” and took good care of his father.
“He was from East Austin. His whole story, coming up in Austin, especially when he got into his wrestling career and The American Dream, he was a plumber’s son. My grandfather, Virgil, was a plumber. But the story he would tell, and you see it in a lot of the old territory wrestling interviews, is that they were down on their luck style plumber. But my mom knows better. He was a non-union plumber who was killing it,” Cody Rhodes revealed.
“He was doing very well, and Dusty, my dad, was like his pride and joy. You see all these pictures of him in full-blown, brand new cowboy outfits, and like the red wagon. I mean, they weren’t super, super rich or anything like that, but it’s funny to hear the story as it’s told later in my dad’s career, because, you know, ‘I’m the common man, dad was a plumber, I came up on the streets.’ Yeah, there’s some elements of that I don’t know about,’ Cody Rhodes said.
Cody Rhodes then compared his life to the movie Big Fish
Speaking further, Cody Rhodes noted that hearing his father, Dusty Rhodes’ version of his story, he felt his life resembled the 2003 movie Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton. In the film, the protagonist is a man who tells tall tales about his life, and his son struggles to distinguish the truth from the exaggerations. In the end, at his father’s funeral, the son realizes that some of the people mentioned in his father’s stories were real, although not exactly as he described them. This feeling mirrors what Rhodes noted he experienced during his own father’s funeral.
“My life ends very much. Have you seen the movie Big Fish? So, my life, I felt like that movie hit me in a way that no movie has ever hit me. When my dad passed away, and we were at his service, it is literally like the scene in Big Fish, where you realize, ‘Man, a lot of this stuff was real?’ Like, a lot of these stories were, ‘Geez.’ These characters, it’s accurate, which is a crazy thing to think, but yeah, he’s the lore. It was there,” Cody Rhodes said.
“I don’t mind it, because like, hey, he’s a plumber’s son. It’s real, but I always laugh, like my mom knows a little better on that, how he was treated very well,” he said.
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