Cody Rhodes left WWE this year to start his indie wrestling career and things have been looking up for him. In a recent interview with Ring Rust Radio, he had spoken about his match with Kurt Angle and Jushin Thunder Liger in the Northeast Wrestling federation.
Cody Rhodes said: “I don’t think my perception of the independent scene has changed in the past few months at all.
There are guys that make you take notice, especially with social media. You can’t pretend certain entities and elements don’t exist when they are out there and hot as can be.
I mean, particularly because we are right on the cusp of it, the Kurt Angle match. He is a first ballot WWE Hall of Famer. I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was there in 1996 when he won the gold medal in freestyle with a broken neck. I feel like Kurt Angle has always been a part of my life as a fan, as a wrestler and now competing against one another. That one in particular, is a gleaming name on the list that’s kind of pulsing, so whatever happens, there is going to be very unique. The partnership that is just now cultivating, how it’s going to go and which way it’s going to work is Ring of Honor. They’re going to take me more places outside of the United States with some more International flavor and that’s really intriguing to me.”
Since then, Rhodes has gone on to defeat Kurt Angle at Northeast Wrestling’s highly-anticipated “Wrestling Under The Stars” outdoors wrestling show, at the baseball stadium in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. in a match that was won by Rhodes after reversing the Angle Slam into a Cross Rhodes and a pin thereafter. Even thought it was the first matchup we saw between these two great athletes, there was a feeling of familiarity and respect between the two wrestlers.
In a fitting post-match resolution, the wrestlers traded tweets showing respect towards each other’s capabilities in the ring, with angle even stating that he “absolutely loved” taking part in the matchup and Rhodes replying that nights like that is everything to the wrestler.
A fan posted this video of the match on Twitter:
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