Cody Rhodes: Maybe There’s A Future For Me In WWE Beyond In-Ring Wrestling
Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes is thinking about potentially working in a different role with WWE later in his career.
In an interview with Cathy Kelley that WWE posted on their YouTube channel, Cody Rhodes was asked to comment on how he was feeling about his title run.
“If I had any complaints, they’d be so surface level to the point where they’re not gonna remotely compete with the fact that I am the happiest I’ve ever been, in terms of where I would like to be professionally,” Cody Rhodes said. “It’s a dream come true. There’s some things that come with it that were surprising to me. I don’t know, it might sound cool, it might sound cheesy, but there’s an element of leadership involved that they don’t say. They just kind of plug you in. You’re attending corporate meetings and events that typically you would be really out of your depth at, and you’re supposed to be there.”
Cody Rhodes On Potential Backstage Role
Rhodes continued by referencing his time as an executive in AEW. He noted that he thought that he failed. However, he said there might be a future for him beyond wrestling itself with WWE.
“That’s something that I would say has actually really excited me because in the past, I felt like when I had a leadership role in wrestling, I didn’t do well with it. I feel like I failed with it, but I knew why perhaps I failed with it. So this has been an opportunity to plug back in, and maybe there’s a future beyond the actual wrestling, with WWE in a different setting. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about a little lately.”
Cody Rhodes is set to appear on the November 8 episode of WWE SmackDown
Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands “don’t need to be scared” of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi’s head of experiential marketing. Other power sources including fuel cells may turn out to be more effective than batteries, Bernhard Neumann told Dezeen, although he said “the end of the combustion engine will come for sure.” When asked whether brands like Audi felt threatened by the hype around battery-powered electric vehicles being developed by American companies, Neumann said: “I don’t think we need to be scared. We are very aware and we are adapting very fast.” Californian company Tesla has led the charge towards electric cars, launching the Tesla Roadster in 2008, and Apple is widely expected to follow suit.
Mainstream rivals have since raced to catch up and develop battery-powered vehicles. BMW launched its first electric car, the i3, in 2013 while Porsche unveiled its first all-electric sports car in September.
But while petrol is on its way out as a fuel source, its replacement is not yet certain, Neumann added. “That is the million-dollar question. Everybody is thinking now that it is electric, but I also see alternatives. For example the fuel cell.”
Neumann spoke to Dezeen at Design Miami in Florida last week, where the brand presented its forthcoming E-tron Quattro electric sport-utility vehicle. This will be the German car brand’s first all-electric car when it goes on sale in 2018. Yet Audi is hedging its bets, and will also next year showcase a version powered by fuel cells, which convert energy from fuels such as hydrogen into electricity via a chemical reaction rather than combustion.
Audi is also joining Tesla, Google, Apple and others by developing concepts for driverless cars, adapting its RS 7 performance cars to travel at speed around race tracks without a driver. Sven Schuwirth, vice president of brand strategy and digital business at the brand, told Dezeen last month that autonomous vehicles could “disrupt the entire business of domestic flights” as business travellers sleep in their cars rather than fly.
