Cody Rhodes is proud of the fact that he’s now a polarizing wrestler in WWE.
During his recent appearance on the INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet podcast, Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes addressed getting mixed reactions from the crowd. He believes he has become a more polarizing wrestler in his current third run than in his first two reigns. He has learned to appreciate the fans’ passion and feels that he’s developed thick skin after struggling with it in the past.
“But I’ll tell you an area that’s changing is I was never a polarizing wrestler. Now I’m a polarizing wrestler,” Rhodes began.
“That’s the thing. I’m honored by it. I’m honored by the passion of both sides of the coin. What I would like to do and to honor those who are so excited and those who are so not, however you’d put it, is I want to make sure that I’m not gotten to by it,” Cody Rhodes said. “I think with everything I’ve been through and everything in the business, you hear people say you got thick skin. I can definitely say I have thick skin now, because I used to not have thick skin.”
Cody Rhodes is only focused on entertaining the fans
When asked if he’s looking to win over the section of audience who are not a fan of his current WWE Championship reign, Cody Rhodes said that while he’s not against the idea, he’s focusing on entertaining the fans, whether they like him or not.
“I don’t want to say no, but there’s a really great line, you watch Rick and Morty? What does he say? He says something about, ‘I don’t care that you boo me, because I’ve seen what you cheer,’ and that is very much my approach often,” Cody Rhodes said. “I spoke about this recently with the big dude from Barstool, Brandon [Walker]. I spoke about that Leslie Knope Parks and Rec episode about bowling, where she spent so much time on the guy who was never going to vote for it in the first place.
“Unfortunately, you do that to discount your own, the people who are already there for you, but I don’t want to be against them either, if that makes any sense. I think John (Cena) had it perfect, and watching John, having my own skin really, really beat up and thickened up over the course of my career has made it so that I think I’ve got the lane I can run in and make something very entertaining for both sides of the coin,” Cody Rhodes said.
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