Cody Rhodes Reveals What Lessons Dusty Taught Him About Being A Father

Cody Rhodes Reveals What Lessons Dusty Taught Him About Being A Father

Cody and Brandi Rhodes are currently expecting their first child. Having your first child will undoubtedly be one of the most memorable moments in anyone’s life and now Cody has opened up about what his dad, the late great Dusty Rhodes, taught him about being a father.

In a recent interview with the New York Post, Cody said the biggest lesson his father taught him was to be true to who you are. Great advice, regardless of who you are. Here is the quote:

“My dad was really big, and it was because he was a wrestler, on being true to who you are. He told me around 4 or 5, he said ‘if the teacher asks you, “What does your dad do for a living?” you can tell him I’m a salesman. You can tell him I’m a mechanic’. I told him, ‘I don’t want to tell them that, I want to tell them that you’re a wrestler.’ He said, ‘That’s what I want too. Don’t ever feel the pressure to do it.’ That kind of really shaped my whole childhood. I wore a leather jacket in 3rd grade, everyone made fun of me. The next day I wore that leather jacket again and the next day. That was kind of growing up with such a character of a father and a larger than life personality.

And where I grew up, people really looked down their noses at our family because we were like the circus. He was adamant about just being true to who you are all the way to the point where I said in that funeral home, and they asked me what do you want to put. It’s like a flashback. The guy said I can put he has a college degree and I stopped him and I said, ‘Just write pro wrestler.’ That’s what he was. So for me, that was a great lesson that I hope I can pass on to my own child.”

Cody and Brandi Rhodes announced that they were expecting their first child on a recent episode of AEW Dynamite.

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3 years ago by Tempest

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