Cody Rhodes apparently isn’t satisfied with just being one of WWE’s biggest stars. He’s been poking around the company’s headquarters looking for another job to do — and no, he isn’t trying to book the show.
During his What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast with Chelsea Green, Rhodes revealed that he loves visiting WWE’s offices and sitting in on meetings that have absolutely nothing to do with creative. Instead of showing up and expecting everyone to cater to the WWE star walking through the door, Rhodes said he genuinely wants to know what the people working behind the scenes actually do.
“Not the creative meetings, all the meetings. And here’s what you’ll find happens. Some people realize out of the gate, ‘Oh, he wants to actually know what we do.’ And then other people think they’re introducing themselves to you and like, ‘Listen, what can we do for you? What are you interested in?’ We’re not doing that. I actually wanna know what you guys do. Like, tell me.”
Rhodes basically wants to understand how the WWE machine works once you get away from the ring. That includes learning who handles different projects and even remembering the outside companies WWE works with when something needs to get built or put together.
“I just wanna know so I can be like, ‘Hey, remember that thing we were working on?’ Or that third-party company that helped build constructs for us or whatever.”
Apparently, Cody got curious enough that he actually started hunting for something he could do around the office himself. He never found the right fit and has backed off the idea for the moment, but he stressed that he wasn’t secretly trying to slide into WWE creative.
“I think every time I go, I actively — and I have moved away from it for a minute — I actively try to find a role, something I could do. And there wasn’t one. But not in a creative sense, just something. The office, there’s an energy at that office.”
Green could relate because she’s had her own peek behind the curtain. She recalled attending a WWE holiday party and meeting employees with jobs she didn’t even realize existed, including people whose work involves going through interviews and figuring out which clips WWE can use.
That brought Rhodes around to Bruce Prichard, who apparently has an interesting way of introducing wrestlers to WWE’s corporate world. Cody initially thought it was just Bruce being Bruce, but eventually realized there was an actual point behind what he was saying.
“Bruce Prichard says something. He said it on this podcast, and he says it to people. And you think, you know, Bruce is really charismatic, so you think it’s just part of the charisma, but it’s actually real. And it’s not meant in a negative.”
Prichard’s message to visiting wrestlers is pretty wild when you hear it without context — he tells them everyone in the office works for them. Cody doesn’t take it quite that literally, but he understood what Prichard was trying to accomplish.
“But Bruce will always look out on the office and tell whoever’s there that day, whoever the wrestler is visiting, and say, ‘Just so you know, they all work for you.’ And that’s part of his big thing to kind of make you feel better. And I think we all work together for each other. But the way he said it, I thought, yeah, don’t be afraid of asking a real question in here.”
So Cody hasn’t found himself a desk at WWE headquarters just yet, but he’s clearly interested in much more than showing up, wrestling and going home. Whenever the day comes that being Cody Rhodes on television isn’t his full-time job anymore, he certainly sounds like someone who already wants to know his way around the other side of the building.
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