Cody Rhodes Credits Hollywood Franchise Worth $563 Million as a Motivation to Develop an Aggressive Style of Wrestling

No one has come this close to pushing Roman Reigns off of his pedestal in WWE than Cody Rhodes. The American Nightmare is one of the hottest wrestlers who could possibly take the titles before Reigns’ title run comes to 1000 days. Not only is Reigns’ faction, The Bloodline, showing signs of breaking up, but Rhodes also has Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn‘s help if things get dire during the main event.

But while he could have all the external support, Rhodes still needs to have internal motivation. While he has his father’s dream in his head, Rhodes just revealed another source of his motivation, and this isn’t the first time he has mentioned it.

Cody Rhodes brings up the Rocky movies as inspiration to move forward

Cody Rhodes sat with WrestleJoy to talk about everything leading up to his career’s biggest match at WrestleMania 39. Talking about his shocking performance at last year’s Hell in a Cell, Rhodes revealed how he moved forward despite so much pain. He said, “Rocky Balboa, before the Creed series, the six Rocky movies… I wrestle very aggressively and I love that, I even said it in Raw.”

This isn’t even the first time that the American Nightmare has brought up Rocky Balboa. In an interview on Out of Character with Ryan Satin, Rhodes mentioned the Rocky movies as his therapy during recovery. In the interview, he also revealed that Rocky III is his favorite among the bunch.

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Further, he talked about the images that appear in his head while going through such hard pain. He said while someone thinks about the money, and some about the story, he thinks about the women in his life. His wife, Brandi Rhodes, his mom, his sister, and her daughter, are the ones that pop up in Rhodes’ mind and push him forward.

Lastly, he credited the fans that have been supporting Rhodes ever since he left WWE. He talked about the feeling of walking into the Allstate Arena in Illinois. He even mentioned that hearing those cheers, he could take on two Seth Rollins in that cell despite his pectoral injury.

After everyone found out about the pectoral spot, the cheers were enormous. Rhodes also commented that this intense physicality is what he loves in this business. We hope that Rhodes can muster up all this support into coming victorious at the end of WrestleMania 39.

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