During a recent episode of his Monday Mailbag podcast, former WWE referee Mike Chioda answered a few questions about Cody Rhodes’ first WWE run, and more. Check out the highlights below.
On Cody Rhodes first WWE stint:
"I’d have to say one individual that’s going back to the WWE was Cody Rhodes. He never got the props he deserved. He was always working hard, doing what he had to do. Even when him and Ted DiBiase Jr. were working under Randy Orton at the time, I remember him being so bummed out he wasn’t getting a push, wasn’t getting recognized. They just didn’t care about him. I think RVD, they really could’ve pushed RVD a lot more.”
On longtime ring announcer Tony Chimel potentially signing with AEW:
"Rafael [Morffi] and Dean Malenko and some other guys were blowing up my phone a couple weeks ago about Tony Chimel’s number. I’ve got to call Tony and he’s like ‘what do they want with me?’ I’m like ‘I don’t know Chimel, they might want to sign you for something.’ It’s exciting for him and it was funny he’s like ‘what the f*** do they want with me?’ I was like ‘maybe to ring announce,’ he’s like ‘ah, I don’t know if I want to ring announce anymore.’ I told him maybe they want you to work in production or maybe they want you to do some backstage interviews or something. I said you still have your name, he goes ‘alright, tell Rafael Morffi to call me, here’s my number.’ He was like ‘Thanks Chioda’ and that’s the last I heard from him.”
