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In an interview with Cody Rhodes by Kenny McIntosh from Inside The Ropes, Cody opened up about his mindset after losing to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39 and shared the happiest part of winning at WrestleMania 40.<\/p>\n
\u2022Cody on leaving WrestleMania 39 without the championship:<\/strong><\/p>\n “That might be the most false ‘I\u2019m not concerne’\u201d that I ever gave, because of the amount of time that fans may stick with you. You never know and can\u2019t take it for granted. There were characters like Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, John Cena, and Randy Orton who maintained the attention of the audience for years and years. You don\u2019t know if that\u2019s going to be you.<\/p>\n “I had a lot of really good people around me to put it in my mind that, hey, the champion is not going to be around as much as you are. These live events and this weekly business WWE puts on that sometimes we don\u2019t see because we\u2019re looking at the big picture, like SummerSlam or WrestleMania.<\/p>\n “You will need to be their guy, you will need to be their champion, this will need to be your team and I had a lot of people encourage me that in terms of keeping an eye on those metrics, the shows with just you on them, how\u2019d you do here? How\u2019d you do there? It went from being a false ‘I\u2019m not concerned’ to ‘I really did own up to the idea of hey, okay, I will do all I can to be the lead dog in WWE\u2019s most prolific era without being the champion.’ I think we accomplished that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022Cody on staying as positive as possible:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t allow myself to really get rock bottom because it\u2019d be super irresponsible of me to do that, because as much as I have the fever and love this, the things I love the most are my wife and my daughter and I don\u2019t help them at all by taking my eyes off the prize. Me being older when I had Liberty means I got to continue to put in the time because, in terms of something that\u2019s in the back of my mind, a goal I have is I want her to see me on top. She needs to start getting older so I can do that.\u201d (To read more, CLICK HERE.)<\/p>\n \u2022Cody on the happiest memory of his WrestleMania 40 win:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe best thing that happened if you\u2019re asking me about what\u2019s in my heart – and I don\u2019t think I even articulated this to this individual – is Charles Robinson, legendary WWE official and Little Naitch. Charles handing me the title. Even now I\u2019m just tensing up thinking about it. Charles Robinson handing me the title was the happiest memory I could possibly have.<\/p>\n “In terms of willing something into existence, it doesn\u2019t always happen, it\u2019s not always a happy ending. I wasn\u2019t going to get the opportunity to wrestle Roman again, really, if we didn\u2019t get it done in Philadelphia. Charles handing me the title… I think also because he\u2019s the senior official, in terms of being in charge of officials, leading the ring crew… to have that moment with him. Maybe he does know, I think he might be the type that we don\u2019t have to say anything to each other. But that was incredibly special.<\/p>\n “I think the thing I love the most about the weekend was at the Hall of Fame before where I kind of realized, oh, man, they\u2019re making a big deal with me here. I also got to do a dinner with my family that I didn\u2019t want to do because I was so stressed out and I was so behind on time and sleep. Then when I got there it was great that I got to sit with them and see everybody, guys like Shawn Spears who I wish had been in the ring with me, some of my friends from AEW, of course, who came.<\/p>\n “Then we got to have that same group backstage right before I did the press conference and we just took a big picture. To have little Brodie, again, tensing up thinking about it, it might be a big deal to him that he was in the ring for that, he probably will tell you it is. I think it was a bigger deal for me. I think it was. My family is not always flesh and blood. I\u2019m actually kind of hard on some of the members of my family that are flesh and blood. I got to be there with my real family and share that moment.\u201d (To read more, CLICK HERE.)<\/p>\n RECOMMENDED NEXT:<\/strong> Mandy Rose discusses Vince McMahon docuseres on Netflix, says she\u2019s a little nervous because they are \u201cputting everything out there\u201d<\/p>\n OR CHECK THIS OUT AT PROWRESTLING.NET:<\/strong> McGuire\u2019s Mondays: Overthink Mondays \u2013 WWE Bash In Berlin edition<\/p>\nCheck out the latest episode of “Wrestling Night in America” with Greg Parks, part of the PWTorch Dailycast line-up: CLICK HERE to stream (or search \u201cpwtorch\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n