Cody Rhodes hates receiving gifts.
The Undisputed WWE Champion sat down with WWE superfans Sean & Finn Rhatigan for the latest episode of his podcast. Among other things, they discussed the topic of fans giving gifts to wrestlers. Speaking on it, Cody Rhodes revealed that he actually hates receiving gifts from fans, giving an example to explain his point:
“So this is secret now, it’s not gonna be a secret anymore, but I hate gifts. Hate them. Because I don’t know how to receive them. I feel like I’m not being grateful enough, or I’m not appreciative [enough]. Sometimes I get so insecure, I’m not worthy, but then also fans give you gifts sometimes that are so nice, but so insanely big. Where am I gonna take this?
Last year, at WWE World, there was a fan who had the full production crew with them. This was a moment. They were in my line to meet me, and they had a poster board, like a giant board. And I can tell this is big and I’m not gonna ruin anyone’s party. I’m excited to see what you got. But I can tell they’re filming it, so it’s a whole thing. We’re on, right?
Okay. He turned it around, and God bless, it’s a picture of my whole family, completely AI-generated except for my Pomeranian. So Yeti is a real photo. Then surrounded by AI images of my family, like, Liberty’s hair is wrong because, they AI-generated what her hair [would] look like.”
I Still Have This: Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes took the gift home and showed it to his daughter, Liberty. This turned out to be a mistake, however, because the board still sits at his home:
“I took it and it was, honestly, the thought is always so important. But we have to do something with this. I have to get this back. Get it in a car. Have to get this somewhere. So we’re kind of giving it a hard time. And I brought it to my hotel room and I showed it to Liberty, and it was a mistake.
Because I said, ‘All right, we gotta take this. You know, we’re gonna get rid of this.’ And [she] started crying, ‘No, that’s my family.’ So we had to sit it by her bed. And as we can hear on the monitor, she’s like, ‘Goodnight, Yeti. Goodnight.’ Like, she’s talking to it. So now I still have this, this ridiculous thing.”