Cody Rhodes Opens Up About WWE Hall Of Fame, 2024 Class

Beyond the multiverse vision of a Rhodes-Heyman partnership, Rhodes expressed appreciation for Heyman’s authentic adoration of his father. Though so many in wrestling looked up to Dusty, who to this day, has the respect of the industry across the board, there are only a few who truly knew him, according to Rhodes, and in that group stands Heyman, front and center.

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“All of this was a conscious decision,” he said of Heyman’s mentioning Dusty, “because of what we were celebrating and how he looked [at] and revered my father. And he’s one of the very few guys that when they talk about Dusty, I don’t roll my eyes. I don’t bang my head against the table because he did know him. He knows some things about him that I don’t even know. And I was glad he was present in Mr. Heyman’s speech, as wild a speech as it was.” Other than Heyman, Rhodes singled out Bull Nakano from this year’s Hall of Fame class as one of his favorite speeches, offering up that he knew “she worked on it for a great time.”

And regarding the ceremony as a whole, he recognized its importance to many wrestlers and fans alike, who put it near the top of their list of WrestleMania weekend events in terms of things to get excited about. Rhodes also spoke of the presentation of the annual gathering, expressing a wish for it to somehow get back to being a standalone event. “Here I am trying to will something into existence,” he joked. “I do wish we could move it back into the theaters and maybe not after ‘SmackDown,'” Rhodes added, before being sure to note that he is not “in charge of anything.”

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