Cody Rhodes Reveals Paul Heyman’s Career-Changing Advice

Cody Rhodes has worked hard to reach the top of the roster, and he’s had veterans in the industry guiding him to stardom.

Currently, The American Nightmare is the Undisputed WWE Champion. He dethroned John Cena as the champion at SummerSlam 2025.

Previously, it was Rhodes who ended Roman Reigns’ championship run of 1,316 days at WrestleMania 41.

Cody Rhodes revealed why he starts his promos by acknowledging the crowd

Recently, The American Nightmare had Becky Lynch on What Do You Want To Talk About? With Cody Rhodes. During that conversation, the duo spoke about improvising during the promos and trusting oneself with that.

Cody Rhodes revealed that the name of the show is directly influenced by such an advise which was given to him by Paul Heyman.

The WWE Hall of Famer told him to ask the fans what they want to talk about and then build on that. Heyman believes Rhodes will make a great governor, and hence the advice took shape.

Do you know it directly affects this show? What do you want to talk about? The whole, hey, town, so town. What do you want to talk about? A individual backstage who I heavily seek for advice.

I consider him a super genius. I have the utmost respect for him because he was incredible. Incredibly helpful to my family. Incredibly helpful.

He told me that I should always say, hey, so, Atlanta, what do you want to talk about? And that the story, the promo, what I do should follow suit and not just appear. Because he told me, he goes, you would make a great governor. You’d make a great.

Currently, Paul Heyman is working as The Oracle for Seth Rollins and The Vision.