Cody Rhodes Admits To Wanting ‘All In’ Covered In ‘American Nightmare’ Documentary

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Cody Rhodes has admitted to wanting “All In” covered in the “American Nightmare” documentary on Peacock.

Cody Rhodes’ journey took a dramatic turn when he left WWE in 2016, found himself on the independent scene and went on to run the biggest independent event of all time, “All In”, alongside The Young Bucks.

The unbelievable success of 2018’s All In led to the creation of All Elite Wrestling in 2019 when Tony Khan partnered up with Rhodes, the Bucks and Kenny Omega to launch the company.

In a new interview with Denise Salcedo of Instinct Culture, Cody Rhodes was asked if it was challenging to have moments of vulnerability in the documentary. He answered:

“No because I had really minimal requests.”

“Here’s why I had minimal requests. I’ve done enough reality TV where you think, ‘Oh, you’re a producer. Please, ask for this and you’ll get it.’”

“Then you’ll find out they’re not interested in what you have to say. They’re gonna run their show and that’s their job.”

“So now my expectations are really low. So I have, ‘Hey, these are two things I’d like to see in there.’ They were really small. I wanted to see if they found any footage of me wrestling when I was in high school or younger.”

Rhodes continued on and finally revealed that he was adamant about wanting “All In” to be covered in the documentary, saying:

“Found it. I was adamant that All In be covered. You cannot tell the story unless you cover All In, and All In is not mine, it’s someone else’s. That’s a troublesome but also beautiful thing, in the spirit of it.”

“So for it to be covered here, I was really happy, and for WWE to allow it to be covered kind of goes along with how WWE has treated me since I’ve come back. The song says, ‘Wrestling has more than one royal family.’ It doesn’t say sports entertainment has more than one royal family.”

“There hasn’t been a revision to me. Kevin Dunn and Vince (McMahon) and Bruce (Prichard) and Stephanie (McMahon) and Hunter [Triple H] have just tried to make me bigger, and I thank them greatly for doing that because they haven’t changed me in the process.”

Cody Rhodes is now set to face Brock Lesnar in a rubber match of their series at WWE SummerSlam on August 5. For the full lineup for the event, click here.

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