Carmelo Hayes Opens Up About Cody Rhodes Helping Him

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WWE NXT star Carmelo Hayes recently appeared on an episode of Insight With Chris Van Vliet, where he talked about a number of topics including how he and Joe Gacy helped train Cody Rhodes for The American Nightmare’s return at the Royal Rumble.

Hayes said, โ€œSo I know Cody had like, heโ€™d been reaching out and helping me out give me like little pointers and telling me that things are good and giving me like, you know, just talking to me a little bit about certain matters prior to that. And then I know he was getting ready to come back from the Rumble. And he had picked Joe Gacy and myself to kind of work around with him. I think it had a lot to do with you know, Joe Gacy being a little bit bigger, me being a little bit more agile and faster. And then obviously Cody, you know, just want to get to know us younger talent and stuff like that. But it was a huge honor. And like I said in his documentary, I didnโ€™t feel like I was helping him. I felt like he was helping me. He was fine. He was chilling but I was like, Oh my god. This is how these guys do it. This is such a difference when you get in there with guys like that. Is such a difference like you like oh, this is that pacing this is that you know I mean, this is that energy. This is where you turn it up here. Like I learned a lot with Cody. I really did.โ€

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