Cody Rhodes maintains that he will continue to chase his own legacy.
Rhodes has been back in WWE for around a year and a half now. However, he has not been able to Finish The Story in WWE as he failed to defeat Roman Reigns back at WrestleMania 39.
Speaking on Keyshawn, JWill, & Max on ESPN Radio, Cody was asked about creating his own legacy.
“A big secret there is when it comes to second or third generation wrestlers, this trickles down to any athlete where your parent came before you and did something great. The thing you don’t always say is, ‘I want to honor them,’ but also, you want to be better than they were. Not in a negative way. You want to take it a step further. For me, winning the Royal Rumble. My dad passed away in 2015, it’s so unique that he’s not able to see it, but I feel like he’s still here with me. To be able to do some things that he never touched. Dusty did everything. To be able to win the Royal Rumble, to go to WrestleMania and be the main event of the biggest thing in wrestling, I’m blessed and lucky, but I’m still on the hunt. You mentioned SummerSlam, [on Monday] in Buffalo (at WWE Raw), I’m hopefully going to get to talk about what I’m going to do at SummerSlam, but I’m still on the hunt to find my own legacy. That’s the tricky thing when you’re in these families. You want to look at everybody and say, ‘they were different, they did this. He was different and did this.’ That’s my way of honoring them. Trying to be different from both dad and my brother. That’s certainly a struggle because they laid out a great path,”
Cody Rhodes
Cody has often stated that one thing he wants to do that his father and brother never did was “finish the story by becoming WWE Champion in the company.
We will have to wait and see if Rhodes can finish the story in WWE before his career is through.
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