Cody Rhodes addresses his relationship with 'The Final Boss.'
In the lead up to WrestleMania 40, The Rock and Cody Rhodes shared several memorable moments, leading to The Rock pinning Rhodes on night one of the event. While Cody would go on to capture the WWE title from Roman Reigns the next night, the pair shared a moment on the RAW after WrestleMania that suggested there was more to the pair's story.
While speaking to TheOneMona in a new interview ahead of the WWE Royal Rumble, Cody was asked about his relationship with 'The Final Boss'.
"I tell people always when it comes to The Rock and The Final Boss, I think personally that I feel he either sees something special in me and as the head of the board and as him and Nick Khan and Triple H leading us into this next generation, he sees something and wants to push me to go for it. That's more from a behind-the-scenes perspective, but I also wonder in my own mind sometimes just kind of laying there looking up thinking maybe he hates me, absolutely hates me, and is planning some devious way to get back at me for the things that took place at WrestleMania 40, which he shouldn't. I mean, the night before I won it all, he actually has a win over me. But I can tell you that I know people don't love when the curtain gets pulled back too much. Really, really unique outside the box thinker and for a guy who's been on every movie set, he's been around the A list. He is A list. He's walked into every room. I can look in someone's eyes and know when they have the fever for wrestling when they're a wrestler.I think we might hate each other, but we're both wrestlers and I think that's what the connection is about, it's the idea that he knows if he puts me in a Macon, Georgia at a live event or somewhere around the country and I'm representing this company, which is also his company, that I won't leave anybody hanging that I, that I will do my damnedest to deliver. So, yeah, but all that to say, I don't know where we stand again. The dude could run up on me right now and pop me in the ear and we'd be right back in it, but I don't know where we stand now. It'll always be in question, but he's certainly been helpful to me as champion."
During the January 6th Monday Night RAW debut on Netflix, the pair shared a moment during Rock's promo that buried the hatchet between the two for the time being.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Rhodes discussed the idea of facing John Cena during his 2025 retirement tour. You can read more about that here.
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