Cody Rhodes Feels He Has ‘A Year, Maybe Three Years’ Until He Becomes A Bad Guy

Cody Rhodes teases a heel turn.

Cody Rhodes talks potentially becoming a bad guy in professional wrestling.

Over the past year, there has been much discussion about Cody Rhodes potentially turning heel, including with The Rock lobbying for Rhodes to sell his soul to him earlier this year.

While speaking to Kay Adams in a new interview, Cody was asked how people will know it is time for him to turn heel.

“You’ll know because X and Instagram will hate it. Because today, heels are like, oh, that’s a cool heel. We’re loving John Cena, no, if you’re if you’re burying it and hate it and talking about how you don’t want it on your TV that’s what an actual bad guy is.”

Kay would then ask Cody about how long until we will see him as a bad guy, with Rhodes noting that fans have a solid year, maybe even three years until he turns.

“I think you have a good solid year, maybe even three years, because I am not changing until I’m changed, if that makes any sense.My hair is naturally dark. I don’t know if I could go back. But if The Rock had it his way, I would have been changed already. So I think he sees something that maybe I don’t see, and that’s a very smart individual. So maybe I follow his lead. Maybe not.”

Cody Rhodes, are you tired of being the good guy?@CodyRhodes @Fanatics pic.twitter.com/5A6xFnmrzb

— Kay Adams (@heykayadams) June 24, 2025

On the June 23rd editon of WWE Monday Night RAW Cody Rhodes qualified for the finals of the 2025 King Of The Ring tournament. You can read more about that here.

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