Former WCW President and Executive Director of WWE SmackDown Eric Bischoff recently discussed Cody Rhodes leaving AEW.
Speaking on his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff praised Cody making the decision to leave the company and potentially head back to WWE.
‘I’m not surprised ’“ not nearly as surprised as everybody else is, and it’s not because I have any inside information or speak to Cody” Bischoff began.
‘When this happened, from my perspective, despite Tony coming out and saying I’m gonna try not to make the same mistakes WCW has made ’“ I think Cody was probably sitting around at one point looking at the landscape of where AEW was going and it didn’t coincide with the vision he originally bought into, and it wasn’t going to get him where he wanted to go and made a decision” Bischoff continued.
“I guess I’d bet a lot of money that Tony offered up a pretty substantial amount of money that any average person walking the face of this country could retire on in a very short period of time. But Cody made a decision that was different. He made a decision that took a lot of guts.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am of him for putting his family first and putting his confidence on the line the way that he did. None of us knows for sure until after it happens, but if he ends up in WWE, I’m relatively certain his future is very secure.
“But it’s not even about the money. It’s about staying true to yourself and doing what you feel is right for you and your family in the long term. That sounds like it would be easy, but it’s not’¦.Cody is still so young, and to be able to make that big of a decision and put himself out there ’“ you know he’s gonna get criticized and there are gonna be people who wanna bury him for doing it” Bischoff added.
“Cody is gonna take some heat, but he had the balls to do what was best for him and his family. I don’t know how you don’t admire that” Eric Bischoff concluded.
Eric Bischoff on Cody Rhodes
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