Cody Rhodes wants a group of his own on WWE television.
Rhodes brought it up while talking with Chelsea Green about working with younger wrestlers on the latest episode of his podcast, What Do You Wanna Talk About?
“It’s no secret I’ve been actively trying to maybe get, like, a little bit of a group on TV, and I’ve made some. Well, maybe it is a secret,” Rhodes said. “I’ve thought I’ve Easter egged it multiple times, but I’m not doing it hard enough.”
Green told Rhodes she was surprised to hear it. “No, no, I don’t watch wrestling. That might be the problem,” she joked.
“That’s you once again defending your wrestlingness,” Rhodes answered. “You watch wrestling.”
Rhodes did not say who he would want in the group or what it would look like.
Rhodes on working with younger wrestlers
The comment came after Green said she prefers going to NXT to work with younger talent who are “really hungry” and come to her with ideas. Rhodes said he takes a different approach with wrestlers whose ideas he is not sure about.
“Do you know what I do with the rein-them-in types? I don’t rein them in,” Rhodes said. “In my mind, I just keep a track going. ‘This isn’t going to work,’ and I’m going to tell them after.”
He singled out one younger wrestler, who he said he can’t wait to have on the podcast, as someone who “has so many ideas.”
“You never want to be the guy like, ‘It ain’t gonna work. Maybe we try this,'” Rhodes said. “I’ve just enjoyed like, ‘Yeah, let’s try that, man. Like, yeah, why not?’ And he’s such a go-getter and, like, passionate.”
Team USA at Survivor Series
Rhodes is the captain of Team USA for the traditional five-on-five Survivor Series elimination match against Rey Mysterio’s Team Mexico, which Rhodes proposed after Crown Jewel.
On Monday’s Raw in Greenville, South Carolina, CM Punk volunteered for Team USA after Dominik Mysterio offered to join and Rhodes turned him down. “Cody, if you’ll have me, I’m your Huckleberry,” Punk said. Rhodes, Punk and Mysterio then cleared the ring of Dominik and JD McDonagh. Later in the show, Je’Von Evans told his tag team partner Penta, who had just joined Team Mexico, that he would join Team USA.
Team USA has two spots left to fill, and Team Mexico has three. Survivor Series: WarGames takes place Saturday, November 28, at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas.
Rhodes and groups
Rhodes has mostly worked on his own since he returned to WWE at WrestleMania 38 in 2022. Before that, he was part of Bullet Club in New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Ring of Honor, and led the Nightmare Family in AEW, the company he helped found.
Rhodes beat Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match at Crown Jewel on November 7.
