Interview: Cody Rhodes on All In, ROH’s Reaction to All In, His Impact Career

WrestlingInc.com held a recent interview with Cody Rhodes discussing his daily work for All In, Ring of Honor’s reaction towards All In, his Impact Wrestling career, and more.

On the topic of his daily work for Saturday’s All In event:

“I took all the little details of All In like all the detail work. All the stuff as simple as ‘are we using Sears Centre bike rack covers?’ and things of that nature for the show.

So every day has been a different very long email, very thorough, this and that so it’s cool though. It’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to cover all the details.”

On the topic of ROH’s reaction towards All In, Rhodes stated that ROH has been very supportive. He also praised ROH for helping secure a venue and lending some of their crew to help run the event.

ROH has [helped us]. Initially when we were like, ‘okay let’s self-fund it and self-promote it’ we had to ask ROH, ‘can we do that?’ Because me, Matt, and Nick are exclusive there which they were almost too excited about.

I don’t know if they thought that we wouldn’t get it — [ROH COO] Joe Koff seemed very confident in us. So he gave us many resources at his disposal. Including Gary Jester who has been working in wrestling since I was a little kid, you can see him on the WWE Network on several of the Clash Of Champions, you know.

Gary’s been around forever, he used to work for my dad. He doesn’t work for me at this moment but he worked with us as far as helping up secure the building. You know you need someone from that perspective. It’s kinda strange when three guys email a building — trust me I tried — and say, ‘hey we wanna run this show.'”

On the topic of his Impact career, Rhodes stated that his long-time friendship with David Lagana was the main reason why he worked for Impact even though he was never under contract with the company.

“Lagana was also one of the people who was close to my dad. We talk about the ‘rotating five friends’ that he had. Lagana was one of them. I just stayed close to Lagana.

Lagana was the reason — I never signed anything with TNA, I just shook Lagana’s hand and did those Impact shows and I had a lot of fun. He’s the reason for that happening.

His relationship with Billy [Corgan] and what they intend to do they’re running the real long form, the long game and I really admire people out there doing the long game. Because in a world where independent ‘let’s see if this can go viral’ wrestling, the long time is sometimes forgotten and they seem to have a good bead on where they want the NWA to go.”

Other topics discussed during the interview included CM Punk turning down offers to appear at All In, Stephen Amell’s training for All In, and changing his hair color.