Cody Rhodes is whining again about how his time in AEW ended, and how he can’t talk about it, because of NDAs.
Poor Cody.
“I would love to write a book, but an entire huge chapter is locked behind a wall,” Rhodes said on the new episode of his “What Do You Wanna Talk About?” podcast, which had fellow WWE star Becky Lynch as a guest.
Lynch was the one who brought the idea of Rhodes writing a book up in their conversation.
“It’s a very odd situation, but I would love to write a book,” moaned Rhodes, without saying it directly, alluding to the NDA that we can presume he signed on his way out the door.
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Funny thing about NDAs – they don’t actually prevent people from saying whatever it is they want to say; you just end up paying whatever the contract says you pay for breaking the contract’s terms.
Just saying what should be obvious here – I’d be shocked if there wouldn’t be somebody out there who would be willing to help Rhodes tell the story of his departure from AEW in 2022 (ahem, a book publisher).
But, now, also, if I was the book publisher, I’d want Rhodes to write honestly and in depth about how things have gone for him in WWE the past couple of years – you know, for starters, about Dwayne Johnson interjecting himself into the Wrestlemania 40 storyline that was clearly supposed to have Rhodes be the one to finally dethrone Roman Reigns, and ultimately did, but only after Johnson backed off from insisting, publicly and more to the point, behind the scenes, that he replace Rhodes in the main event.
And then there was how Johnson once again stuck his beak into the plans for Wrestlemania 41, forcing an odd John Cena heel turn that put the Undisputed Title on Heel Cena for his retirement tour, with Cena’s brief reign as champ ending after Cena inexplicably turned face ahead of losing the belt back to a now-diminished Rhodes, who was booed lustily in his main-event win over Cena at SummerSlam.
Me personally, I’d be interested to know Rhodes’s thoughts on having “The Rock” all up in his business, and how his second title reign feels like an afterthought, with the attention on Cena and a returning Brock Lesnar, and not on Rhodes, who is clearly no longer the top babyface in WWE.
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Not that he’d go there now – not with WWE paying him what they’re paying him.
Anyway, back to Rhodes whining about AEW.
“Everything I say these days when it comes to that is, somehow, I’m rewriting history, I’m remembering it wrong, even though the receipts are literally on social media, stop. But every time I say anything, it’s the wrong thing to say,” Rhodes said in his convo with Lynch on the podcast.
“And it hurts, it hurts my heart, because I’d love to tell the story. I just have to wait for somebody else to tell the story, and hopefully they include me in it,” Rhodes said.
Man, is somebody butthurt over not much.
He left, got an immediate push in WWE, he’s a two-time champ now, everything worked out, life goes on.
Instead of prattling on like a jilted lover on his podcast, what Rhodes needs to do is get somebody in a suit at TKO to buy out his NDA, and I’m sure TKO would be interested in doing this, given how the suits there are doing everything they can to drive Tony Khan out of business.
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Whatever the cost of that NDA has to pale in comparison to what TKO is spending to prop up the current distant #3, TNA, and the haircut TKO took to go with ESPN for its big WWE events, trading a couple hundred million, at least, for the added exposure.
Cut TK a check for a cool mill, and the book – which wouldn’t, of course, include any of that business about “The Rock” mucking things up the past couple of years – will more than make its money back, on top of delivering a mule kick to the gonads of Tony Khan, ahead of his next TV negotiation.
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