Undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes recently appeared on an episode of the Cheap Heat podcast with Peter Rosenberg, where he talked about a number of topics including how Bruce Prichard started his talks with the company in 2022.
Rhodes said, “American Nightmare, the skull, the Cody-vator, all these fun stuff that I tried to bring to WWE … none of those things would have ever showed up at WrestleMania in Dallas without three people. One of them is Bruce Prichard, the other is Brandi Rhodes, who I often cite as the sole reason, and the other is Conrad Thompson and they know why, there’s nothing duplicitous about it but without Bruce reaching out when I became a free agent, without him verifying it, the conversation would have never started.”
On how instrumental Prichard was to his WWE return:
“Nobody wanted to get into a tampering thing, nobody wanted to cross any wires that they shouldn’t cross and Bruce was able to verify … when I took the initial meeting, I didn’t think I was coming back to WWE. I thought I was having a meeting to get some closure and show respect and love for WWE as kind of an adult, whereas I had left more as a child and I’d left a bit in disgrace, but yeah Bruce Pritchard was instrumental.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
