Cody Rhodes says next WWE contract will ‘probably’ be his last

With John Cena, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and El Hijo Del Santo all set to wrestle their final matches in the next few months, now Cody Rhodes, the biggest star in the world’s biggest promotion, is discussing the end of his career as well.

“The next contract I sign with WWE is probably going to be my last, and finish my days with WWE,” Rhodes said during an appearance on the All the Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes. “It’s the house that built me, and it’s the house that brought me back.”

Asked about his two daughters—one aged four years, the other just eight weeks—Rhodes said:

“You can only go so long. And I think I know my number, where I’d like to get with this. I was lucky that my dad, who I thought was the best dad ever, he was out of the game. He was in it as a producer and in it as a creator, pop in here as an old man wrestler every now and then, but he was out of the game. So he was No. 1 Dad, at every game, he coached our football team. He’s known in Cobb County as ‘Coach’ more than ‘the American Dream.’ I’d like to make it by the time I hit that age that I’m not gone that often or I can’t really walk around that much.”

Rhodes’ father, three-time world champion Dusty Rhodes, was done as a full-time pro wrestler by 1990, when Cody Rhodes was 15 years old. Obviously, his own daughters won’t reach that age for over a decade. Dusty Rhodes was 45 years old in 1990; Cody Rhodes turns 45 in 2030.