Cody Rhodes Discusses His Connection To Tiger King, Says He Was Told Carole Baskin Story Years Ago As If It Was ‘Absolute Fact’

In an interview with Bleacher Report Live, Cody Rhodes discussed how he has a loose connection to Tiger King, revealing that he was told the now famous Carole Baskin story by someone else in the big cat world years ago as if it was absolute fact. Highlights are below.

On his loose connection to Tiger King, being told Carole Baskin story years ago as if it was fact: “I had this very loose kind of connection to Tiger King, very loose, as far as, I went to a sanctuary that was in Melrose, FL, a really great tiger sanctuary called Single Vision, and they took tigers that, situations like Joe Exotic or situations like, there is a bit of an epidemic in the country with people who get these big cats and then they don’t know what to do with them, like you saw on the show, so they would go to places like Joe, or Carole, whomever, however you weigh in on it, they would go to places like that, and he would be a sanctuary for certain cats, but, I’m trying not to implicate anyone, I had heard the Carole Baskin story like five years ago, and it was just a universally known thing, like amongst that world, amongst the tiger world, that like, ‘Hey, don’t mess with her, this is what she did.’ Now I’m not saying I believe it, but I was told as if it was absolute fact, so when it was brought up on the show, my mind was blown.”

On how they got into a situation of being told about Carole Baskin: “Brandi was told as well. Here was why we were told this. We were debating, do we go to Big Cat Sanctuary [Carole Baskins’ sanctuary] or do we go to our other place. And the individual was like, ‘Well, you don’t want to go to the former because…’ And that’s where we heard it for the first time.”

If using any of the above quotes, please credit BR Live with an h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.