Cody Rhodes went from a frustrating spot in WWE in 2016,♔ to headlining ROH's biggest show of the year this🐲 coming Friday, and it was met with major financial success.
Rhodes🐼 recently appeared on and revealed that he passed the million dollar mark in 2017 between working for Ring of Honor, New Japan Pro Wrestling and the independent cir🎐cuit.
“Not to sound tacky, but this has been the first seven-figure year I’ve ever had and it blows me away that it happened, so on that end, for my family and well-being, that part has been the best. But also, the part I enjoy the most, the fans🔜 and the creative element of what we do, I keep saying it, but to play music how you want to play it, it's never been like this before for me. This is superseded…
I look at a time, my WWE Intercontinental Championship run as my favorite thing I ever did because I got to change the belt and I got to be involved in a couple of WrestleManias with that in the picture, but this time, now, has completely passed it by, blown it away. Being a world champion🎀 is all that it was cracked up to be from every world champion that there ever was that told me about it. It's certainly been everything that I dreamed and hoped for.”
This Fri🍒day, Cody Rhodes defends his Ring of Honor World Championship against Dalton Castle in the main event of ROH Final Battle. Fightful will have full, live coverage of the show, including a post-show podcast.
Rhodes left WWE in 2016 after several points of contention, 🃏🅰including the company's refusal to allow him to stop portraying the Stardust character.
You can hear Rhodes' interview
