Cody Rhodes Makes House Shows Pitch To WWE Management

WWE have dramatically cut back on house shows in recent years, particularly since the merger of WWE and UFC into TKO Group Holdings in 2023. The company would often hold over 300 events in a year, but that has been reduced to under 200.

This has allowed wrestlers to work a much lighter schedule, but one talent opposed to such a schedule is Cody Rhodes and he revealed on What Do You Wanna Talk About? that he pitched to WWE management for the company to run more house shows.

"I had suggested some of the top brass in the company for a myriad of reasons: camaraderie, the reps, the general sense of working here. It's hard to think you work somewhere if you're only there a couple of days a week, right? Versus the schedule for when we first started, where it was full tours, live events, then you come to TV, and then you're home less time...I had suggested to them, I said, run one weekend a month, call them house shows, make them almost - poke the fourth wall a little bit in terms of what they are. They're canon, but they're not," Cody said.

"You're going to see some of the stuff you see on TV, but it's going to be a bit more of a mixed bag. And maybe you're going to see some people you've never seen before who are getting their first rep in front of you. Run them that way where there's an intimacy to them that's advertised. 'This is a house show. That's what you guys are getting, and it's going to be awesome.' They're so fun, so fun."

Rhodes, despite knowing it gets him in trouble with his colleagues, recently noted that he misses house shows "so much" and he believes they actually prevent injuries.

WWE do still run house shows, but it is primarily during international tours and during the period between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

H/T F4WOnline