Cody Rhodes discusses All In being covered in new documentary.
You can't tell the story of Cody Rhodes without discussing his departure from WWE in 2016, finding himself on the independent scene, and running the biggest independent show of all-time, All In, alongside The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson). The success of All In in 2018 helped launch AEW in 2019.
In Cody's new documentary, "American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes," Cody wanted to make sure All In was covered.
“No because I had really minimal requests," he told Denise Salcedo of Instinct Culture when asked if was it challenging to have moments of vulnerability in the documentary. "Here’s why I had minimal requests. I’ve done enough reality TV where you think, ‘Oh, you’re a producer. Please, ask for this and you’ll get it.’ Then you’ll find out they’re not interested in what you have to say. They’re gonna run their show and that’s their job. So now my expectations are really low. So I have, ‘Hey, these are two things I’d like to see in there.’ They were really small. I wanted to see if they found any footage of me wrestling when I was in high school or younger. Found it. I was adamant that All In be covered. You cannot tell the story unless you cover All In, and All In is not mine, it’s someone else’s. That’s a troublesome but also beautiful thing, in the spirit of it. So for it to be covered here, I was really happy, and for WWE to allow it to be covered kind of goes along with how WWE has treated me since I’ve come back. The song says, ‘Wrestling has more than one royal family.’ It doesn’t say sports entertainment has more than one royal family. There hasn’t been a revision to me. Kevin Dunn and Vince (McMahon) and Bruce (Prichard) and Stephanie (McMahon) and Hunter [Triple H] have just tried to make me bigger, and I thank them greatly for doing that because they haven’t changed me in the process."
During the red carpet premiere of the documentary, Cody told Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp that Being The Elite footage is also used in the documentary.
Cody won the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship at All In by defeating Nick Aldis.
American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes premieres on Peacock on July 31.
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