Cody rhodes

The son of wrestler Dusty Rhodes and the half-brother of wrestler Dustin Rhodes , he rose to prominence during his first tenure with WWE from to He adopted various gimmicks under his real name before being repackaged as a melodramatic spin-off of Dustin's Goldust character named Stardust. Outside of wrestling, he served as a judge on the competition series Go-Big Show and starred with his wife Brandi Rhodes on the reality show Rhodes to the Top.

In , Rhodes, along with the Jacksons, promoted an independent pay-per-view event called All In that took place in September, where he won the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship , marking the first time the championship had been won by both a father and son. In January , Rhodes was named as an executive vice president of the newly formed AEW, where he would also wrestle.

After failing to negotiate a new contract, he departed AEW in February He then won both the and men's Royal Rumble matches , becoming the fourth wrestler to achieve back-to-back victories at the event and the first since "Stone Cold" Steve Austin who won in and He is of Cuban descent through his maternal grandfather.

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Rhodes grew up in Georgia and went to Lassiter High School in Marietta , where he had a successful high school wrestling career. Rhodes credits his father for starting to train him as a wrestler from the age of 12, which was limited mainly to simple fundamentals. On the July 2, , episode of Raw , Runnels made his television debut as a face , using his family's wrestling last name, Rhodes, in a backstage segment with his father Dusty Rhodes and Randy Orton, where Orton introduced himself to Rhodes and then slapped Dusty as a sign of disrespect.