After abandoning the WWE In 2016, Cody Rhodes He made public A list of some fighters you would like to face in his new chapter as independent.
► The Cody Rhodes list
Then we knew that Mike O’Briengreat friend of Dusty RhodesI was helping him with that project. Now, we confirm that it was not the only one. Also Kevin Owens:
«I remember talking to you about the listwhich is now like a symbol of how we mobilize fans to say: 'Ey, I am doing something', and not simply 'keep attentive to the next chapter. I have not finished 'yet.' There was a promise, ”says Cody in an interview with Kevin in What Do You Want To Talk About?.
Owens adds:
«Actually it was a great idea to do that, because even things that could have seemed worldly or not so important to some … For example, some of the names you had on the list. Great fighters, but not necessarily someone that people would be excited to see you face. Mike Bennett was on the list. I love Mike, but Cody Rhodes vs. Mike Bennett, for me, is not a fight that people were waiting for. Mike is a great fighter, but I don't think people thought: 'He and Cody would make a tremendous fight.' But as you put it on the list, and the list became something important, that fight became something that people wanted to see. It was something bigger for all the hype that generated. “
Rhodes concludes:
«You helped me to build the list. It was not always, 'put this person'. Sometimes it was, 'I don't know, brother', as with Moose. I tried to be like Batman at that time, where I have a plan and a plan behind the plan. Some of these struggles were already agreed. Kurt Angle, for example, was already scheduled, had to be on the list. The most important part was that I asked you about the people who walked out there, simply fighters.»
