Cody Rhodes reveals the reason behind his infamous act at AEW when he broke Triple Hs throne

May 2024 · 3 minute read

No matter if a decade passes, Cody Rhodes smashing Triple H‘s throne at AEW’s inaugural pay-per-view, Double or Nothing, will never get old. The intensity of that wicked sledgehammer shot was heard around the world, and it certainly rang some bells in WWE too. Everyone thought that Cody would never be able to return to WWE following that incident, but he did. However, why did he actually have to do the unthinkable?

He cleared the air following his WWE return at WrestleMania last year. While speaking to Talk Sport, the 38-year-old expressed his candidness. He was simply upset with WWE, or potentially with Triple H, over how things went down to the drain during Rhodes’ final days in WWE. However, he wasn’t angry at himself after committing the sin at Double Or Nothing. Why would he?

It’s the way Cody put his heart out during the aforementioned interview. At that point in AEW, he was an EVP too. The promotion was paying him an absurd amount of money, and he was just having fun being there. So there’s nothing like regretting smashing the throne even once. It was more like he was excited to begin his new chapter with AEW and went with the flow.

“Wanted to model so many things after as such. As many of you know, I talked a lot of smack. I destroyed his throne, I was very loud and vociferous and just very angry. And that was a moment of no anger, because why I would be angry? You guys are paying me this absurd amount of money and I get to be me,” said Cody.

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Cody Rhodes is still concerned about one thing in WWE

Well, it’s true that Cody wasn’t terror-stricken when he first arrived in WWE last year. He had a good meeting with Triple H, and The Game even hugged him before Rhodes went out to wrestle Seth Rollins. However, what does make Cody a bit wary is the content he filmed with The Young Bucks on their YouTube series, Being The Elite. When Cody was in AEW, the Bucks made some derogatory remarks about WWE.

During an interview with Fightful, the former AEW EVP revealed that he still lives under the impression that the day Hunter discovers those clips, what would it be like? Even though there was some initial scare about Cody’s contrasting relationship with Triple H, both have grown so much over the past year or so. In all senses, the WWE CCO has made it clear that he does see that elusive Dusty Rhodes spark in Cody.

“So we have never spoke about the throne smash, and I’m even further concerned that one day, Hunter is gonna watch the Exorcism of Cody Rhodes and be like, ‘Wait, I was the bad guy?” said Rhodes.

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