Carmelo Hayes Shares His Thoughts On His Match With Cody Rhodes

WWE star Carmelo Hayes appeared on the latest episode of WWE’s The Bump, where he talked about a number of topics including his match with Undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes on SmackDown.

Hayes said, โ€œIโ€™m feeling like I see what I could have did to beat Cody Rhodes after I watched the match back. Thereโ€™s a couple of slip-ups that we could have fixed up, and I might have had him when I had him in that Crossrhodes. Then he tried to catch me with the Cody Cutter in mid-air, but he was just too slow, and Iโ€™m too fast. But all of that removed, I feel like Iโ€™m just so ready to put the rest of the SmackDown roster on notice. Iโ€™m so much hungrier than a lot of these guys. A lot of these guys have been up there for so long, theyโ€™ve been getting paid for so long theyโ€™re comfortable. The one thing you canโ€™t be around Carmelo Hayes is comfortable or complacent because Iโ€™m coming for it all, like I did in NXT. I took everything, and I plan to do the same thing on SmackDown.โ€

On not wanting to wait for opportunities:

โ€œOne of the things Iโ€™ve always been about, closed mouths donโ€™t get fed on this boulevard. I donโ€™t sit around and wait for opportunities to come to me, I never have. If you look as far back as my NXT career, I stepped to the man at that time in my second match. My first match was a Cruiserweight Championship match. I donโ€™t sit around and wait for opportunities. I go out and I take them. Thatโ€™s part of my motto with shooting my shot. It takes shots to make shots. To go at Cody Rhodes, it was shot I was willing to miss if I had to miss it, but one thing that everybody on SmackDownโ€™s gonna learn and needs to realize is that Iโ€™m second to none. Iโ€™m the one, man. Iโ€™m one of one, and I am him.โ€

You can check out Hayes’ comments in the video below.

(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)