Cody Rhodes discusses how Dusty Rhodes’ different children view him and what it was like being an executive producer of Dusty’s upcoming documentary on the A&E Network.
Cody Rhodes loves his father. Cody Rhodes’ current WrestleMania journey is built around his father’s inability to win the World Championship in his career. Cody is now looking to finish that story for his family.
Cody is also the executive producer of the upcoming A&E biography documentary on his father. Speaking on Hot 97, Cody Rhodes explains what that experience was like and how it was for him to see his half-siblings share their differing experiences concerning growing up with Dusty Rhodes as a father.
“is doing this documentary on dusty. Yeah, I believe it comes out the week before ‘Mania.” said Cody. “It’s told through the eyes of his four children. So my sister to my half-sister, Kristen, and, you know, Dustin, vastly different. And the hardest thing about it — and I was the executive producer on the documentary, and I really wanted to be fair to everybody. The hardest thing about it is there’s an interview he did about two weeks before he passed that I’d never seen He really owns the first part of his life. The second part of his life, my part, was great. Never missed a wrestling match, was the ultimate team dad, did everything he could, and, you know, never gave me those hard conversations, just believed in me fully. Dustin and Kristen had a different life, and to see that and see how we have all come together. It’s a very unique way to tell the story. I didn’t agree with the way the story was being told until I saw the first cut of it and thought, ‘Yep, that’s this is how it should go.'”
Cody Rhodes also shared a story about learning from Vince McMahon that Dusty originally had a major role in Vince’s mind in the global expansion that would eventually become the modern-day WWE.
“Right after these garden shows with Superstar Billy Graham, Vince McMahon wanted to use Dusty and Superstar for his expansion, his expansion that would become what we know as far as where we work and all the biggest global sports entertainment wrestling in an entity on the planet by far. They had booked recording studio time, and they were gonna make an album. This is again before Rock N’ Wrestling, Vince had these ideas of reaching out beyond pro wrestling. As a kid hearing that story from Dusty, I didn’t believe it. I thought it was, you know, I’m watching VHS tapes, Coliseum Video, Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, and I thought it was his way of catching up to like, ‘Hey, I was really special, too. I was really good, too. He didn’t need to do that, but everyone’s got an ego. Come to find out, one day, I’m sitting by the ring — this is before I left. I’m still doing Stardust, and Vince told me the exact story. How mad he was that dad left, and he was gonna give him the whole world, and he wanted him to be the Hogan and all this.”
Now, Cody Rhodes has the opportunity to be the top star in WWE if he can defeat Roman Reigns at WWE WrestleMania 39.
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