Posted on 3/31/126 by Colin Vassallo
WWE stars Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch and Nattie recently sat
down for a SiriusXM Front Row Series hosted by Nikki & Brie
Garcia on SiriusXM Stars.
During the interview, Cody Rhodes revealed that he might
approach his fashion differently in the ring after seeing
how much attention Rhea Ripley has been getting and shared
his thoughts going into WrestleMania 42, his big match with
Randy Orton and how he’s approaching it.
Becky Lynch told Nikki & Brie that she is excited to launch
AMO Coffee with her husband, Seth Rollins, and Nattie shared
that that a moment of reflection after WrestleMania 41 led
her to take a different approach to her career.
You can listen to the full interview airing on SiriusXM
Stars (ch. 109) on Wednesday, April 1 at 11AM ET.
Cody Rhodes on WrestleMania 42 Matchup: I’m Not a Little Kid
Anymore
Nikki Garcia: Let’s talk Randy Orton WrestleMania.
Cody Rhodes: Ruined it. I was having a good day.
Brie Garcia: Nothing like Nikki to ruin someone’s day.
Nikki Garcia: Birdie’s on your side. Birdie does not like
Randy Orton.
Cody Rhodes: Well, somebody asked me, do I hate Randy Orton
and I said, “Well, I can’t really answer it,” because how
could I hate Randy Orton when all the things it takes to
beat Randy Orton at WrestleMania 42, everything it would
take, 80% of it I learned from Randy Orton. So, that’s a
very difficult place to be in. You have a match with, for
example, C Punk versus Roman Reigns, two guys who just hate
each other. Unfortunately, with myself and Randy Orton, even
though it doesn’t look this way, it’s two guys who I think
love each other and because we have 20 years of television
equity, my first match on TV, my dad’s last match, punting
me, legacy, all those things, it’s real and when it’s real,
it’s best. Standing across the ring from Randy at
WrestleMania 42 will be a hundred percent looking at him
like I’m looking at you right now and hoping, “Hey, I hope
you see me,” because I’m not a little kid anymore and
sometimes they still are like, “Oh no, he is a little,” you
know, but I need him to know, and I’d like it to be one and
done. I hope that doesn’t put, you know, rain on anyone’s
parade, but I’m getting tired of wrestling guys. Okay.
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Becky Lynch: You’re getting tired of wrestling guys?
Cody Rhodes: No, no, no, no, no. I just, you get into these
long standing rivalries and you’re just like, you’re in
there. I mean, me and your husband wrestled four times now
and more than that, really, like four, and I think took a
great deal out of each other on the way, I mean, so I don’t
know if that’s what I’m looking to do here. As much as I
want him to see me, that’s the hill in front of me.
Cody Rhodes Tells Nikki & Brie: I’m Trying to Draw Attention
to My Butt
Cody Rhodes: I think you’re starting to see, ’cause there’s
a lot of fans who notice, I’ll give you an example. Rhea
Ripley’s cover that she does. It’s quite, it’s provocative,
right? So, now I think there’s some guys who are starting to
go, “Cool, I’m gonna lean into my thing.” So like, I started
trying to draw attention to my butt a lot more. I’m like,
“Hey, if they’re doing it, I also wanna do it.”
Brie Garcia: Wait, did you make your trunks smaller?
Cody Rhodes: No, I just like the suits were carved out a
little bit more, and then I started wearing the braces or
the suspenders, which is a new bit.
Brie Garcia: I do like that. That’s sexy.
Cody Rhodes: Give it a little extra. You know what I’m
saying? I’m not doing anything that anyone else isn’t doing.
Becky Lynch: You gotta put the ones around your thighs.
There you go. Like matching your tie. You know?
Cody Rhodes: Rhea does the promo and does the turn, you know
what I’m saying? What’s to stop us from, you know?
Brie Garcia: You should. All of us women, we’re not gonna
say no.
Cody Rhodes: It’s a fight at that merch day. You know what
I’m saying? So, you’re just trying to get your percentage
up, you know? Whatever it takes, you know?
Becky Lynch Is Excited for Her Coffee Entrepreneur Era
Becky Lynch: I started drinking coffee from a young age. I
started, well, young, relatively, I got into cappuccinos at
14, and you know, I would always, whenever I was anywhere,
like I’ve lived all over the place and I would always, my
happy place was always in a coffee shop and I would sit
there and I would drink coffee and I would write and that
was how I spent my free time wherever we were, and then
whenever I got together with Colby, I realized that maybe
the quality of my coffee was not up to par ’cause this man
is a snob of the highest order, so then I got into, I would
go with him to all these different cafes that at one point I
would’ve been like, “It’s pretentious. Where’s the soul?”
Then I was like, “Ah, the soul is in the coffee and this is
giving me soul and life,” and so we would just, you know,
because when you’re on the road and you’re traveling
constantly, you don’t get time to sightsee or take
adventures, but going to a good coffee shop is its own
experience, its own adventure, and you know, we kind of
bonded over that and that was always the thing that we would
do first thing in the morning, and then we’d go train and
then we’d go find another coffee shop, and so we got to try
the best coffees all over the world and we were like, “Oh
man. How great would it be to be able to bring this to our
audience?” We want people to love coffee as much as we love
coffee. We want people to taste what we are tasting and to
be able to get access to the best stuff, so we created this.
Nattie Tells Nikki & Brie About Her New Mindset
Nikki Garcia: When was the moment that you realized like,
“I’m not Natalia anymore. I want everyone to see Nattie.”
Nattie: So, last year when I wasn’t a part of WrestleMania,
I could feel and sense that I wasn’t gonna be included, and
so I decided I could do one of two things. I could bitch
about it or I could take action, so I decided that I would
about it to TJ.
Nikki Garcia: That’s what our husbands are for.
Nattie: And then I decided to take action and I walked right
up to Triple H the following week at Monday Night Raw and I
said, “I wanna do blood sport. I want to do this match that
nobody has ever seen me do a match like this.” This is
something outside of WWE. It was the first time I would ever
stepped outside of WWE. It was my first time stepping
outside of the company in 18 years and doing an independent
show with, you know, there’s no ropes. It’s very serious
fighting and he said yes immediately and I actually said to
Cody Rhodes, I said, “I’m gonna blow this motherfucker up.”
I said, ‘And when I say motherfucker, I meant blood sport.”
I was like, “I’m gonna steal the whole entire weekend.”