Cody Rhodes

* Cody
* Stardust
* Alien Stardust

### Aliases

The American Nightmare, Stardust, Alien Stardust, Smoke and Mirrors, Dashing, Undashing, The Undeniable, The Undesirable

### Relatives

Dusty Rhodes (father)
Dustin Rhodes (half-brother)

Magnum T.A. (godfather)

Typhoon/Tugboat (uncle)

Jerry Sags (uncle)

Scorpio Sky (cousin-in-law)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Charlotte, North Carolina, US
billed from Atlanta, Georgia

## Appearances

### Debut

12/19/2020

**Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes** (born June 30, 1985) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WSC under his real name and is the current WSC World Hardcore Champion in his first reign. Rhodes is the second longest reigning World Hardcore Champion at 288+ days as of January 1, 2024. Rhodes also makes Multiversal appearances as **Stardust** and **Alien Stardust**.

### One-Off Appearance (2020)

Rhodes made his WSC debut when he entered the November 2020 Royal Rumble at #18, but got eliminated by The Great Khali.

### Main Eventer (2022)

Rhodes returned to WSC when he appeared in the WSC Pool Rumble at #6 as **Stardust**, where he would shoot a water gun at Finn Balor. Then, at #7 was **Alien Stardust** and the two stared down, then attacked. Alien Stardust managed to eliminate Kurt Angle. then at #8 was finally **Cody Rhodes**. Rhodes and Normal Stardust teamed to take on the Alien, but Cody accidentally eliminated Normal Stardust with a sledgehammer, then the Alien eliminated Cody. Seconds later, Balor eliminated Alien.

Cody later showed up as the mystery opponent for CM Punk vs Roman Reigns. They had a banger of a match, where Rhodes would sadly lose to Reigns. Weeks later in a interview with The Stage Creator, Rhodes states that he swore that he will win the Hardcore Championship to his families legacy at WrestleMania Hollywood.

It was then revealed that Rhodes will have a qualifying match against John Cena for a spot in the Deadly Games at WrestleMania. Rhodes then successfully defeated Cena. While doing a promo in September about his father, Dusty, Rhodes gets jumped on and beaten by adversaries Seth Rollins and Austin Theory. He was later saved by Ricochet.

### WSC Hardcore Champion (2023)

On March 19, The Fifth Deadly Games Match finally came. The match included Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Austin Theory, Ricochet, CM Punk, and Cody Rhodes. However, Nathan talked on the mic announcing one more guy in the Deadly Games. That being, the one and only Joker Jon Moxley! Interestingly, Nathan meant to invite the ordinary Jon Moxley, but looks like that didn't went to plan. During the match, AJ Styles attempted to cash in his Money in the Bank but got hit with a GTS by Punk before he could. Unfortunately for Reigns, Moxley got him ready to hit a Paradigm Shift, but all of a sudden Seth came and pushed the two off, and both went through the cell, eliminating them. Not to long after, Brock Lesnar came back in a Semi to try and steal the belt from the competitors. He went to grab the belt, but got hit by a Cross Rhodes from Cody, knocking him to the scaffolding. Cody then grabbed down the title and became our NEW WSC Hardcore Champion, ending the 351 day reign of Reigns.

Rhodes then cemented his reign by defeating Lesnar via Cross Rhodes from a forklift, and Reigns 2 weeks later with interference from Jimmy Uso. However, his reign came at a halt when it was announced that the 2023 Royal Rumble would take place on August 12, 2023, as in Rhodes has to defend his title against 29 other wrestlers. During a promo of him talking about said Rumble, Joker Jon Moxley came out with his Jokerz and laid a beat down on Rhodes, sending a message to him (which confirmed Moxley would be in the rumble). Seconds later, Styles once again tried to cash in, but got attack by Punk. During this time it was confirmed that the WSC Hardcore Championship was renamed the WSC World Hardcore Championship.

that day eventually came on August 13, were he would enter the rumble at #22. he quickly laid waste to everyone, and thrown out debuting Jay White from the rumble. Rhodes was eventually in the final two with Moxley, and after a Cody Cutter and two consecutive Cross Rhodes, Rhodes tossed out Moxley to retain his championship, the first person to retain their title in a WSC Royal Rumble.

Afterwards, Rhodes cuts a promo stating that he understands what Moxley is going through and will help him get through this. Moxley, naturally, stabs Rhodes with a damn screwdriver, busting his head open. The Jokerz then proceed to beat up Rhodes. Cody's brother, Dustin, would then come out to save Cody, but then *he* gets beat up by The Jokerz. Eddie Kingston then pulls out Moxley's Barbed Wire Bat and passes it to Moxley. Moxley then takes Dustin out by the bat across the head, as Cody watches with handcuffs attached to the ropes. The segment ends with Moxley smearing a smile on Cody's face with Dustin's blood. Weeks later, Cody states that he no longer cares to help Moxley, he wants to fight him after crossing the line when he attacked his brother. Cody would ultimately challenge Moxley to a No Mercy Match, as Nathan recently announced the second WSC premium live event, WSC No Mercy.

The episode after that features a contract signing between Rhodes and Moxley, similar to the No Mercy Match contract signing last year between Moxley and Reigns. Cody states that this title isn't going anywhere, and that he hopes that Moxley realizes who he really is. Moxley snaps back saying that Rhodes "is a footnote in my ultimate plan to take this company back to what it used to be". Moxley also mentions how Rhodes also said that The Jokerz are cowards, with Moxley responding "these masks represent the movement messed with the established order, and everything becomes chaos. We are Agents of Chaos". After more talking, Cody flips the table on Moxley and attacks The Jokerz. However, while throwing one of The Jokerz out of the ring, his mask fell off with Cody still holding it. Cody turned to see the third Joker staring at him. That Joker took off his mask and revealed himself to be Claudio Castagnoli. Moxley then came out of nowhere and started to stab Rhodes with a pen to sign the papers. The Joker that Cody unmasked then got up and punched into Cody's skull repeatedly, revealing himself to be Wheeler Yuta. Castagnoli and Kingston join in on the beatdown and all of The Jokerz, now known as the Agents of Chaos, are stomping down on Cody. Nathan (who was there to announce the contract signing) tried to interfere but MJF stopped him in his tracks telling him not to piss them off. The Agents of Chaos ends the segment with putting Cody in a triple powerbomb through the table.

### WSC is Cody's Kingdom (2024-present)

The No Mercy main event between the two took place on January 15, 2024, and according to some people is one of if not the best match in WSC history. Before the match started Nathan announced that the winner of this match will get the new designed Championship. Certain spots in this match included, jamming a screwdriver in Cody's head, stealing Cody's weight belt from a kid he gifted to and strangling Cody In front of him, Cody hitting a back body drop on a barb wire chair, stabbing Cody's tongue with a fork, breaking Cody's finger with a wrench, hitting Cody's ribs with a hammer, stabbing Cody's ear with the screwdriver, Moxley hitting a Curb Stomp on a brick lighting Cody on fire and hitting a Spear through a barb wire table, hitting light tubes across Cody's head, throwing Cody on a bed of spikes, an elbow drop through the announce table, whipping Cody with a barb wire chain, smoking a cigarette (as Nathan puts it, "he's smoking that Cody Rhodes pack") and burning it into Cody's neck, hitting a suplex on a barb wire bed, drinking a can of Budweiser and cracking it across the back of Cody's head, almost running Cody over with his own monster truck, interference from Agents of Chaos, The Elite, and Dustin Rhodes, and hitting a Death Rider through a glass pane. And finally, Cody hits Moxley with a Cross Rhodes from the top rope through a flaming table, and pins him, retaining the championship and saving WSC. As Moxley is on the ground, the rest of the Agents of Chaos took there masks off and throwing it down to Moxley and leaving, which means that Moxley's reign of terror has been destroyed.

### Personal Life

Rhodes is of partial Cuban descent through his maternal grandfather. His father was WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes and his half-brother is Dustin Runnels, who is better known by his ring names Goldust and Dustin Rhodes. On March 31, 2007, Cody and Dustin inducted their father into the WWE Hall of Fame. He also has two sisters, Teil Gergel and Kristin Ditto, who is a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. He is the nephew of former professional wrestlers Jerry Sags and Fred Ottman, as well as the godson of Magnum T.A. He is also the cousin-in-law of current All Elite Wrestling wrestler Scorpio Sky.

In September 2013, Rhodes married fellow professional wrestler Brandi Reed. The couple have one child together.

Rhodes is a fan of *The Legend of Zelda* video game series, incorporates its style in his wrestling gear and has stated he replays *A Link to the Past* yearly. Rhodes is also a comic book fan and has worn wrestling gear inspired by Archangel and Mister Sinister, characters from X-Men. He has cited Omega Red and Cyclops as his favorite fictional characters along with the Inhumans and he personally owns a game cabinet of the 1992 *X-Men* arcade game.

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