Create A Wrestler speaks on being punished, enzo and cass gonna be main eventing for a while

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

ROH World Champion Cody Rhodes recently spoke with Metro for an interview. Below are some of the highlights.

On his personality being showcased since leaving WWE and what he feels they could have done better for his character: "I honestly think the more time I spend away from WWE the less it was WWE's fault and the more it was my inability to go with my guts. There would have been a big difference if I had done that. And that would have meant saying no to a writer or correcting a few folks and maybe ruffling some feathers and stepping on some toes, but I can't think of anything more important for a wrestler than to go with his gut.

"Specifically in backstage segments and in interviews, no matter what, if you're not feeling it, you can't say it. There was only a couple of incidents in my WWE career where what I said on the microphone was all me, and they were my most successful. It's not a knock on WWE creative at all, they're there to guide you and give you the bullet points of where it may be going, but they can't script it. You can't script wrestling."

On if he spoke up while in WWE and the rumors about getting punished if you complain: "I don't recall at any point ever being punished for anything like that, but I do recall that when I did speak up for myself from time to time it didn't make a difference. Essentially the answer I would get was thanks but no thanks. I think I developed a reputation as a complainer and that's hard to escape. You don't want to be a complainer, you want to be someone who says 'I don't like this but here's my alternative.'

"I don't know, maybe because I'm Dusty's kid and I have a creative mindset that he gifted me a little of, almost every idea I ever got I thought I wanted to do something different. I've told a couple of people this but I feel that I wish I'd played dumb a little bit more and just have fun and do what they say. My relationship with the creative team might have been better, because essentially if you're telling them every week you want to do something else instead, you're telling them they're not good at their jobs. Nobody wants to hear that."

On those who do have complaints about WWE's creative, who should they take their issues up with: "WWE is so powerful in terms of their world presence and the talent they have on board, so I think what's going to happen at some point is that they're going to restructure all of this. There are some guys in WWE, Vince McMahon, Triple H, Michael Hayes, Arn Anderson and Mike Rotunda included, who should be writers but instead are producers. I would hope at some point they will consolidate all of that, because if you were to get some of these megaminds in a room, you could write out two years worth of TV and stick to the plan.

"Wrestling is not an episodic TV show. If you were to come into my office and say 'hey I wrote 20 episodes of Friends and I want to be a WWE writer', I'd say 'that's great but do you know who Lou Thesz is? Do you know who Bruno Sammartino is? Do you like wrestling?' You'd be surprised at how many would say they'd never watched wrestling. That blows my mind, and if you were to shift the power to some of the greats in our business, you'd have a big difference."

ROH World Champion?

Many have questioned why WWE went with the triple threat match to end the second hour and end the show with Big Cass, Big Show and Enzo. According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, Enzo and Cass normally draw good quarter hour ratings and so the company likely felt comfortable putting them there without feeling like it would adversely affect the rating.

-- Another reason could be because WWE knows that people tune out by the end of the show and they moved the Reigns/Strowman/Joe match up in order to get the most possible people to watch it.

-- As the numbers revealed, the decision was a good one as Raw scored the best viewership ratings since the April Superstar Shakeup, while seeing the second hour increase and the third hour still staying above three million.

 

[julesocean]

Why you posting various tidbits of shyt not related to each other? This ain't a newsletter it's a forum, pick a topic and post about it, don't just copy/paste shyts from Meltzer.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

So basically Cody was too p*ssy to stand up to the likes of Road Dogg and Rajin Singh?

But he can now say fukk the revival on camera so I guess it was worth it

 

[ManBearPig]

Cass is gonna get a push rather they repackage him or not

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Why you posting various tidbits of shyt not related to each other? This ain't a newsletter it's a forum, pick a topic and post about it, don't just copy/paste shyts from Meltzer.

suck a d-ck you musty f-ggot

So basically Cody was too p*ssy to stand up to the likes of Road Dogg and Rajin Singh?

But he can now say fukk the revival on camera so I guess it was worth it

the road dogg jesse james? oh you didn't know...

 

[mr x]

Cass a draw

 

[Lucky Millionaire]

Cass a draw

Big Cash

 

[mr x]

Big Cash

Nice ring to it

 

[FRIED MASON]

Why you posting various tidbits of shyt not related to each other? This ain't a newsletter it's a forum, pick a topic and post about it, don't just copy/paste shyts from Meltzer.

Shut the fukk up you dainty fakkit.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Why you posting various tidbits of shyt not related to each other? This ain't a newsletter it's a forum, pick a topic and post about it, don't just copy/paste shyts from Meltzer.

Cot damn

 

[Lo-Co]

 

[SpacelySprockets]

lets see how much cass draws when he's not involved with enzo

 

[Breh Obama]

Yea let's see how long those ratings hold up



I guaran fukkin Damn tee the only reason the third hour held up this week is cause a lot of people tuned out after the opening expecting the triple threat to be the main event and tuned back in at the end of the show only to see a fukkin travesty that doesnt deserve to be on cable tv. Either that or everyone kept watching hoping to see Brock fukkery


Raw lost.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Might as well throw up the white flag and put everything they don't care about in the third hour. It always drops anyway.

Hell let the cruisers and women "main event." As a PR move.

 

[BrehWyatt]

So basically Cody was too p*ssy to stand up to the likes of Road Dogg and Rajin Singh?

But he can now say fukk the revival on camera so I guess it was worth it

Sounds that way, but if you only get shut down every time you open your mouth ... why not just leave and go where your opinion matters?