Cody Rhodes recalls AEW star Aaron Solo’s failed attempt to “shoot his shot” with WWE star Fallon Henley.
Before she signed with WWE in 2022, current SmackDown and former NXT star Fallon Henley was a regular on AEW Dark and Dark Elevation from November 2020 to August 2021. She made her Dynamite debut on the December 9, 2020, episode, losing to Abadon.
Cody Rhodes was still with AEW at the time as an EVP and a wrestler, and he recalled a memorable story from the time when he spoke to Fallon Henley on his What Do You Wanna Talk About podcast. He described an awkward interaction between her and Aaron Solo, who failed to ask her out.
“He (Aaron Solo) often talked about you very fondly and very sincerely. Like ‘She’s so pretty, she’s really smart’ this whole thing. He didn’t talk a lot if you remember? Not Mr. Personality. Last time I saw him I reintroduced myself to him, because that’s how limited our conversations have become over the years,” Cody Rhodes said.
“He had said so much that we were all like ‘Well you should go talk to her.’ This is a basic, common, you learn this in high school, ‘You should say hello, you should ask her if she wants to hang out, you should do anything. Anything other than talk to us about it.’ We were all sitting adjacent to the elevators, Marriott, Jacksonville, Florida and it’s important with the way I remember the story,” Rhodes continued.
“You walked in and you had a bit of a social club there, there was a group who was always together, it was a good crew. Always seemed to be in good spirits which was good for me because my time there was up and down.
Cody Rhodes described how Aaron Solo messed it up
“You walked in and you had a bag of Arby’s and he literally nudged me and he goes ‘I’m gonna go say hi to her, I’m gonna do it.’ And I thought ‘great, do it’ here he goes. Now we’re watching and we’re not roasting him, we’re not giving him a hard time, we’re sincerely looking, hoping this goes well. No one is making fun of him which is normally what guys, what we do to each other,” Rhodes continued.
“You walked past, so he missed that first opportunity and then it’s even weirder now because he trails you to the elevator and you have a group so it’s not looking good. And then you turn and smiled at him, you were very nice. Then he just looked at you and he said ‘Arby’s huh?’ And I feel like I could hear you say because we were far away at this point, and I just heard ‘Yeah.’ And then the elevators shut in my story and then you went away.
“Then he came back to us. Why would you even walk back to us? Walk to your car, drive away, leave this city. All that talk, like a month of build up. All that for that moment? Arby’s huh? He shot his shot I suppose and that was it,” Rhodes said. [H/T WrestleTalk]
After Cody Rhodes told the story, Aaron Solo’s tag team partner, former AEW star Alan Angels, posted a picture of them on X/Twitter and poked fun at him by writing “Arby’s huh” in the caption.
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