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Cody Rhodes

Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes (born June 30, 1985) is an American professional wrestler. As of April 2022, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. He is also known for co-founding and serving as executive vice president and wrestler with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2019 until 2022.

The son of Dusty Rhodes and half-brother of Dustin Rhodes, Rhodes won two Georgia state high-school championships as an amateur wrestler in 2003 and 2004. He signed with WWE in 2006 and featured for its developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he won the OVW Television Championship, OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (with Shawn Spears) and OVW Heavyweight Championship one each, becoming a Triple Crown Champion. Between 2007 and 2016, Rhodes won eight world tag team championships with five different partners and the Intercontinental Championship twice. During this time, Rhodes adopted various gimmicks, including performing as Stardust, a melodramatic spin-off of his brother's gimmick, Goldust. Rhodes departed WWE in 2016 and returned in 2022, and has since won the Royal Rumble match in 2023 and 2024, the Undisputed WWE Championship once (becoming WWE's 34th Triple Crown Champion), and headlined WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania, four times (39, both nights of 40, and 41).

From 2016 until 2019, Rhodes wrestled on the independent circuit and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and Ring of Honor (ROH) under the mononym Cody, during which he won the ROH World Championship, ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion (with Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), and the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship one each. In 2018, Rhodes and the Jacksons independently promoted All In, where he won the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship. All In marked the first event by a promoter outside of WWE or World Championship Wrestling (WCW) to sell 10,000 tickets in the U.S. since 1993 and directly lead to the formation of AEW in early 2019. Between 2019 and 2022, Rhodes served as an executive vice president and also wrestled for AEW, winning the TNT Championship three times.

Outside of wrestling, Rhodes served as a judge on the competition television series ''Go-Big Show'' and starred with his wife Brandi Rhodes on the reality television series ''Rhodes to the Top''. Provided by Wikipedia