Cody Rhodes Says While He Was Stardust, He Wanted To Wrestle ‘Demon King’ Finn Bálor & Wrote Four-Page Email To Triple H About It

Rhodes was excited about the idea of wrestling ‘The Demon.’

There is a new episode of Cody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast. Joining the Undisputed WWE Champion for the show was Finn Bálor.

As they were conversing about Bálor’s ‘Demon King’ persona, Rhodes shared that during his first go-around at WWE, while he was portraying the role of Stardust, he wanted to share the ring with Balor’s demon persona. Rhodes shared that he wrote a four-page email to then-NXT overseer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque about it.

“I’ll give you a moment of vulnerability on my half that I thought, I’m not gonna tell him this. He’ll think this is — but I’m gonna tell you. Right before I left, when I was doing Stardust, I wrote Hunter like a four-page email, which you know how that goes. Any time it’s more than a page, it’s probably already an issue. That’s a lot for someone to look at and sit down and give their time over. I really wanted to wrestle ‘The Demon’ as Stardust, because Stardust had no legitimacy. It was all comedy. But there was one match or one moment away from providing it some credibility, even in a losing effort, and I remember I wrote this whole email about it and I don’t know what happened to the — I wouldn’t have read the email… But it speaks to not just The Demon itself but also, NXT Black and Gold, and that entire NXT era…”

Bálor has spoken at length about how ‘The Demon’ character was presented on WWE’s main roster. Click here and/or head over to this link for more on that.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.