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Cody Rhodes is one of the biggest names in WWE, and in the world of professional wrestling right now, he is being presented as the face of WWE ever since he returned to the promotion in 2022. During his early career in WWE, he was treated as a midcarder and won multiple midcard titles, including the WWE Intercontinental Championship and Tag Team Championship.
Cody Rhodes left WWE in 2016, and he spent his time outside of the promotion for 6 years. He was also a founding member of the AEW, where he spent 3 years. In 2022, he decided to return to WWE, and he had been promoted as a main eventer from the very first day of returning to the promotion. He won his first World Championship at WrestleMania XL and he presently stands as a two times World Champion.
Cody Rhodes admired his brother Goldust while growing up
Cody Rhodes is a second generation professional wrestler, as his father and brother both were in the wrestling world, and both of them were quite famous. Recently, he revealed that he admired his brother Dustin Rhodes, aka Goldust, while growing up. Speaking on the “All The Smoke” podcast, he said the following;
“I admired him so much as a little kid, because there’s a 16-year age gap. He doesn’t love me pointing it out, but there’s a large age gap. And I would watch him at the Omni in Atlanta or you know, Macon, the Centroplex, whatever it was.
Goldust was famously known as Dustin Rhodes in WCW
"And he was — the women would be going nuts for him when he’d go out there. And he was 6’6″. He just … he seemed like the greatest wrestler ever. And particularly, I was watching him in his rookie years and knew he was going to be something special. I admired him, wanted to be like him a great deal.”
“Any time you have any family in the in the business, you know, my father and my brother. The biggest thing that’s important that you do, and my dad was really good on instilling this, you have to be really different than they were. You can’t do tribute. You almost got to get away from that. You gotta get far. I got two nephews who are breaking in the industry, which is jarring. But they’re going to make it, and they’re breaking in now.
Cody Rhodes and Goldust had multiple matches together
“And the thing I told him was, ‘You got to go and train with someone who doesn’t care about the Rhodes stuff. Train with someone who doesn’t know about Austin Hall wrestling boots, or the cowboy wrestlers of old. Get with the Canadians, like the Harts. Get that different style and that different flavor. It’ll really behoove you as you move forward in your career.’”
Dustin Rhodes earned his early fame in the wrestling world while working in WCW. He started working as Goldust in WWE, and he became even more famous. He is mostly recognised as Goldust in the wrestling worl,d and in some aspects, he surpassed the glory of his father. But it will not be exaggerated if said Cody Rhodes is now more successful than his brother and his father.
