Malakai Black Comments On Cody Rhodes Retirement Tease

The main event of this week’s (August 4) episode of AEW Dynamite: Homecoming was nothing if not eventful, as it saw Malakai Black emphatically defeat Cody Rhodes, before Rhodes cut a promo teasing his retirement after the match.

Black himself recently spoke to Sean Waltman and Nick Hausman on the Pro Wrestling 4 Life podcast in an episode that drops next Wednesday, with WrestlingInc exclusively obtaining comments ahead of the show’s release, where he discussed his match with Cody, talking about how he had the idea for the match.

Black said:

“I told Tony (Khan), ‘Look, I’ve got this idea. This is how I view it. What do you think Tony was like, ‘I love it. I love everything about it.’ He was confident enough to give me a shot at it. Clearly, I owe a lot to Cody, and Cody and me think very much alike in a lot of things, which is very pleasant.

“I laid out what I wanted to do, and they both really thought, ‘this is cool,’ and it worked. At the end of the day, obviously, I still work for someone else, and I still have to get their opinion. I have to get their clearance, and luckily, I got clearance, and everything that me and him did played out exactly the way I envisioned in my head, and the payoff, it worked and it was crazy fun.

“I remember when the bell rang and the fans did what they did, I was like, I’m not moving. I’m just standing. We don’t need to move. We can just stay here, and it was a good moment, not just for wrestling, but it was a good moment for my career. It was good validation as to understanding what you do and making it work.”

Black went on to talk about the post-match angle and Cody’s teased retirement. When asked if he believes that Cody is really retired, Black said:

“Stick around and see, I don’t know. The beauty of wrestling is that eventually stuff pays off.”

After the show went off the air, Rhodes continued to tease his retirement in a segment to the live audience.

transcription via WrestlingInc

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• retirement
• Dynamite
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