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What Cody Rhodes Told DDP About Leaving AEW

Added 2022-02-27 19:33:53 +0000 UTC

Much speculation has occurred over Cody Rhodes and his departure from All Elite Wrestling.

While some reports have suggested that Cody Rhodes left the company over money issues, that hasn't been the case, as far as he's relayed to people close to him. One source even went as far as to say "Tony Khan has money, and that's not what motivated Cody here." Beyond that, we got someone close to Cody in Diamond Dallas Page to open up on what he knew about the situation.

"Cody called me two days before. He said, ‘Listen, I’m gonna tell you something. But I can only tell you so much. But I know if I don’t call you and tell you, you’re gonna want to kill me. You’ll be so pissed off, so I have to call and tell you that I love Tony Khan. He’s a great guy. He loves me. But we’re gonna split up and I want to go off and do something else. I can’t tell you about what it is right now, but I promise at some point I will.’ I don’t want to know sometimes. You know what I mean? I want to be surprised. I gave him all of my viewpoints on everything. I don’t know if you’re doing this, I don’t know if you’re doing that, I don’t know if you’re doing this. But I gave him my viewpoints and then Cody’s a man. He’s very successful," DDP told us. "To me whatever he does, I wish him the best. I hope I helped him with some of my insights to help direct him. But he’s gonna do what he’s gonna do."

This lines up with what Fightful has heard in that on the surface, those we've talked to say there isn't bad blood between Tony Khan. We've heard that Cody and Brandi aren't likely to discuss much of the situation or Tony Khan in general, and have also heard that in a recent interview, Khan preferred to not discuss it at that time.

We'll work to find out more about the situation. We'll have a full interview with Diamond Dallas Page up later this week to promote the Sportskeeda Wrestling Awards Guardians of Justice.