Just because a WWE star makes an exit from the company, it doesn’t mean that’s the end of their mainstream wrestling career.Sure, some of them fall off the radar and the unlucky ones end up in different professions to make ends meet.

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However, there are those that are big names already and they’re bound to be successful anywhere they go; and potentially to such an extent that either fans want them back in WWE or the company wants them back.

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There are a few obvious cases, with Drew Galloway and Johnny Mundo just two of the stars that have carved out brilliant independent careers, but perhaps the biggest name – in recent times anyway – is Cody Rhodes.

Now just competing as Cody on the indies, he’s been in the headlines a lot in recent times, simply because he’s having fun doing what he wants to do as there aren’t many limitations outside of the WWE.

He’s had incredible matches with guys like Kurt Angle, he’s hit his wife with a Cross Rhodes, he’s missed a moonsault off a steel cage and he’s flipped off a heckler – not many of those could be done in the WWE.

It’s no easy decision to leave the biggest company in the world, though, and he recently spoke to FOX News and explained his reasoning behind it.

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Don’t expect any controversy, though, as the door is perhaps still open for him to eventually make a return.

Answering a number of their questions, he said: “I reached a point where nothing scares me in this industry, mainly because I grew up in it. My earliest memory is 4-years-old getting in a wrestling ring.

“I’m a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family has been wrestling for 50-odd years. I get to carry the flag now, and I’m just a father-son trying to do what he did.

“I had several decorated characters within the WWE that I was really proud of, coats of paint that changed that I could show a different side to the audience because I’ve been in front of them since I was 20 years old, and none of them were necessarily the right one.

“The goal of leaving was to find myself.”

While it does seem like a typical answer to give, it perhaps does make sense as the Stardust character was not only directionless at the end, but it was an act which grew old very quickly.

There was no storyline to revert to the original Cody Rhodes character without it making look like a failed gimmick, and at least now he has that experience and fulfil his ambitions before potentially coming back a much better character.

What do you make of Cody Rhodes’ reasons for leaving the WWE? Have YOUR say in the comments section below.

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