Former AEW Women’s Champion Reveals MJF Once Believed Cody Rhodes Tried Stealing His ‘Spotlight’

Cody Rhodes is one of the top superstars in the WWE roaster and he was one of the top superstars in AEW besides being one of the founding members. Despite being a top performer he has never won the World title in WWE or AEW, thanks to Roman Reigns and his former protégé, MJF. While recalling their rivalry, the former AEW Champion revealed the controversy in the feud that led to Rhodes’ last title match at AEW.

Britt Baker reveals that MJF was upset with Cody Rhodes

Former AEW Women’s Champion Dr Britt Baker DMD was invited as a guest on Mostly Sports podcast episode 100 on February 9th. In the interview uploaded on YouTube, Britt Baker DMD talked to the host Mark Titus and Brandon Walker about her wrestling experience. During a segment in the interview, she revealed an important detail from the feud between the former AEW World Champion MJF and Cody Rhodes.

When asked about Cody Rhodes’ neck tattoo, Britt Baker revealed the backstage rivalry between Cody Rhodes and his former protégé MJF. She said, “So, there was a lot of controversy around that internally at the time because…MJF, at the time, I don’t know if I can say this, I’m just going to say it because f*ck MJF. He felt that Cody was trying to steal his thunder at the time because they were in a feud at the pay-per-view.”

The neck tattoo in reference here is now Cody Rhodes’ signature mark that is often displayed during his entrance. It has a skull painted in The American flag pattern. The moment in reference happened during the AEW Revolution PPV in 2020 when The American Nightmare revealed his neck tattoo to the world.

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The rivalry was intense since MJF not only cost Cody Rhodes a title opportunity but also further cost him the opportunity to ever challenge for the title in the future. This was due to the stipulation in place for the match between the then AEW World Champion Chris Jericho and Cody Rhodes.

MJF thought Cody Rhodes tried to steal his spotlight

Britt Baker then explained why MJF was upset with Cody revealing the tattoo. She says, “Cody vs. MJF, MJF big coming out moment, and it was like his Harrah, and Cody shows up, bam, with a neck tattoo. MJF was like ‘Stealing the spotlight a little?’ Yup, that’s what MJF says. I’m sure he doesn’t care now because MJF is successful on his own.”

As of now, MJF is out of AEW after losing his World title to Samoa Joe while Rhodes is gearing up to face Roman Reigns again at WrestleMania in a much anticipated rematch for the World title.

Do you like Cody Rhodes’ neck tattoo? Do you think it took away from MJF’s big PPV moment? Let us know in the comments.

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