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I’m not trying to add to the pressure or become anxious about it, but when it’s your whole life that’s the chase, the stakes are high.” It’s a much longer story, and that’s what I feel maybe puts a lot of pressure on it.

It’s very different than what the American Dream went through in Florida.

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“Not just my whole professional life, my whole life. “The chase has been my whole life,” Cody told The Ringer from a studio he’d set up in his home, never for a moment wanting to look like anything but a star. But the American Dream’s title chase was a history that hung over Cody’s quest to win the WWE championship, and it was a history WWE was counting on to hold the Orlando crowd’s attention and pull at heartstrings. They all fell to the force of his bionic elbow, and Orlandoans in the early days of the theme park revolution were enthralled by this son of a plumber, who was putting on a show every bit as spectacular as anything happening in the Magic Kingdom.Īncient history, sure. Here, Cody’s old man had exuded an indefinable energy as he ran over and through a litany of wrestling’s most historic names. It was a Monday night in Orlando, the old stomping grounds of his father, Dusty Rhodes. It’s easy to forget now, just a little more than two months after that February 6 Raw segment, how precarious it all was, how close to disaster.Ĭody, resplendent in a peacoat so burgundy it almost shimmered purple, the color of royalty, looked every bit the champion he longs to be as he made his way to the ring.