Cody Rhodes Reflects On Destroying That Triple H-Style Throne At AEW's DOUBLE OR NOTHING PPV

At Double or Nothing, Cody Rhodes retrieved a sledgehammer from beneath the ring and used it to smash a throne which was clearly meant to pay homage to Triple H. It was a moment perceived to be a shot at WWE and an apparent response to comments The Game had made aboit All Elite Wrestling during his induction speech at the WWE Hall of Fame. 

Now, in a chat with Chad Dukes, Rhodes has revealed why it was a shot not on AEW's part but his own after his interactions with Triple H shortly before he left the company. 

"The decision to blow up the throne was my decision alone and doesn’t reflect on AEW at all. It was something I had thought long and hard about, and I, honestly, think it came from more of a personal standpoint than the company firing that first shot. And that’s gonna be something that, I don’t know how many more of those I get in me, because as I become more engrained in the AEW business side, as an employee and as one of the executive vice presidents, I don’t get as many, ‘Oh, well he’s just a dumb talent doing dumb things.’

 

"Plain and simple, I was a huge fan of Triple H. I learned a great deal from Triple H, a great deal. I probably wrestled him in the Capital One Arena. But when push came to shove and I thought I was better than 99 percent of the people he was putting ahead of me, he didn’t see that. So in that moment, there is no greater revenge in the world than success. So I knew I was walking out to a sold-out crowd, wrestling a 50-year-old man in a match that people, at one point, deemed unworthy and the place was literally shaking. So I felt no need. Like, this is the perfect time to do it, to fire my own shot, and it was my own shot, not an AEW shot."