Cody Rhodes Reveals He Didn’t Have A Plan When He Exited AEW

Cody Rhodes returned to WWE after exiting AEW in 2022, but he says that when he left AEW that he didn’t have a plan. Rhodes departed AEW in February of that year and returned to WWE at WrestleMania 38. The now-Undisputed WWE Champion noted on The Flagrant Podcast that whatever fans may have thought, there was no plan for him in place when he decided to exit.

“It looked like I had a plan to everybody else, it was a total bluff,” Rhodes said (h/t to Fightful)> “I didn’t know what the plan was.”

He added, “I certainly could have gone back (to AEW), we could have figured that out and been fine. Something inside was pointing a different direction for me.”

Rhodes helped start AEW and was an Executive Vice President at the company until he left.