Cody Rhodes a potential heel turn has long been speculatedand he seems to have opened its door.
Rhodes appeared in “Not sportyAmerican Nightmare said he has a special relationship with the Hall of Famer because of Heyman’s relationship with his father, Dusty Rhodes.
“I’m really open (to a heel turn). That’s the biggest thing I tell people all the time. you’re going to make that shift or you’re going to stay as a babyface, whatever’s good for WWE. But we’re starting to enter an area where if you think I’m a heel, then I’m already a heel,” he said. “I went out there the other night and said I love punching Randy Orton. I liked it. I tried to growl a little into it and they just cheered. And I thought:
The former WWE Champion also argued for him to be turned into a bad guy, insisting that he couldn’t be in storylines like the latest one where he would lead Team USA against Team Mexico at Survivor Series. He also said that there was a chance that he would say something bad that would eventually lead to his “cancellation”.
“To hit it on the head a little bit more specifically, if something like Heyman or someone else, me as a heel would take a lot away from what I’m doing right now,” he added. “I don’t know if the bad version of me would be that worried. And in 2026, starting in 2027, you get a lot of upset, a lot of cancellations. Because everyone has it (to say the wrong thing). And then you start saying out loud some of the things you’re thinking, it’s like, “Wow.”
He concluded by saying that despite his reservations, he would willing to do so when the time is right
