WWE star “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes recently appeared on the Double Coverage podcast.
During the episode, he discussed various topics, including his choice to always wear suits and how WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair influenced that decision.
Rhodes said, “A lot stolen from the Nature Boy, Ric Flair, as far as suited and booted and the whole concept of… he’s kind of wrestling’s, and this is going to sound strange, but the first pro athlete of wrestling in a sense of that big 80s flashing the cash, the jets, the suits, the high lifestyle that came with it. It’s funny because he’s wrestling my dad, the majority of the 1980s, and Dusty’s running common man, man of the people, blue-collar. But so much of what I do is more stolen from Ric than Dusty, which is hats off to Ric. I mean, what pro wrestler doesn’t want to steal from the greatest of all time? Nature Boy is the best.”
On trying to move away from them leading to him being shamed by his wife Brandi, Matt Cardona and Chelsea Green:
“I tell people, cause I think some of my peers for a long minute thought that the suits and stuff were real performative and maybe they were, but after a while it became this really great feeling. Felt professional. We were talking about your clean sneaks earlier. You like this sense of pride, and when I was away from WWE, the sense of that guy is doing things. The classic case of dress for the job you want, I suppose. Now to the point where it’s all I have. I got shamed because I bought some polos. You can’t just wear suits all the time. So I wore jeans and some polos. Chelsea Green, Matt Cardona, and my wife shamed me for, I guess, it was too fancy of a polo. I don’t even know how you can go too fancy. But yeah, I’m just going to go all suits, all the time now at this point. I couldn’t get it right.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
