Cody Rhodes Bio

 Cody Rhodes  Bio

Name                       :                    Cody Garret Runnels

Ring Name              :                    Cody Rhodes

Birth Date               :                    30 June 1985

Birth Place              :                    Georgia, USA    Mini Bio

Cody Garrett Runnels (conceived June 30, 1985) is an American expert wrestler at present performing for Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and the universal free circuit. He beforehand worked in WWE under the ring name Cody Rhodes and later Stardust. He is the child of WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes and the stepbrother of WWE wrestler Goldust. After a novice wrestling vocation that brought about turning into a two-time Georgia state champion, he took after his dad and more seasoned sibling's strides into the expert positions and joined WWE.

Subsequent to turning into a Triple Crown Champion in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), WWE's formative domain at the time, he was hoisted to the principle program, where he turned into a two-time Intercontinental Champion. A productive label group wrestler, Rhodes has won six label group titles (three World Tag Team Championships and three WWE Tag Team Championships) with four separate label group partners. Along with Goldust, he likewise won the 2013 Tag Team of the Year Slammy Award. Runnels left WWE in May 2016.

 Full Bio

Early life

Runnels was conceived in Marietta, Georgia. He had a fruitful secondary school wrestling vocation, going to Lassiter High School. He put 6th in the 171 lb (78 kg) division as a sophomore. As a lesser, he won the Georgia state competition at 189 lb (86 kg) in 2003, and rehashed as champion his senior year. He had wanted to wrestle collegiately at Pennsylvania State University, yet chose to end up an expert wrestler instead. During his time in secondary school, Runnels likewise went about as a ref in his dad's Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling promotion. After graduating secondary school, Runnels went to an acting school.

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

Ohio Valley Wrestling

Utilizing his genuine name, Runnels started wrestling in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) in June 2006. Runnels shaped a label group with Shawn Spears in mid-August 2006 and they rapidly got to be entangled in a quarrel with The Untouchables over the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. They initially caught the title from The Untouchables on October 18. In November 2006, Runnels and Spears vanquished The Untouchables in a label group match, and won the administrations of Cherry, The Untouchables' manager. Cherry went with Spears and Runnels to ringside, and soon Spears started to begin to look all starry eyed at her, which started meddling with their matches. On November 29, the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship was cleared after a match between The Untouchables and Runnels and Spears finished in a draw. The next week, a rematch between the two groups was held for the empty championship. During this match Cherry turned on Spears and Runnels, rejoining The Untouchables and helping them recapture the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. Two weeks after the fact, on December 20, Runnels and Spears crushed Deuce 'n Domino in a Street Fight to win the title for the second time. Shortly thereafter, Runnels and Spears got to be included in a scripted contention with each other, after Spears got to be desirous of Runnels' prosperity as a singles wrestler. This crack began when Runnels won the OVW Heavyweight Championship from Paul Burchill at a house show on February 17, 2007, just to lose it to Burchill the following day. Spears went ahead to win the OVW Television Championship in response. On April 11, the twosome lost the Southern Tag Team Championship to the group of Justin LaRouche and Charles Evans. Runnels went ahead to annihilation his now warmed opponent on July 6, to wind up the new OVW Television Champion. Exactly one week later, in any case, Runnels lost the title to Spears.

On the July 2, 2007 release of Raw, Runnels made his TV debut, utilizing the ring name Cody Rhodes, in a backstage fragment with his dad Dusty Rhodes and Randy Orton, where Orton acquainted himself with Rhodes and after that slapped Dusty as an indication of disrespect. On July 9, Rhodes slapped Orton consequently, and the next week, Rhodes confronted Orton in his introduction WWE match, yet lost. Rhodes showed up at The Great American Bash to keep Orton from further assaulting his father. The following night on Raw, Rhodes tested Orton to a rematch from the earlier week, just to lose once more. Orton tailed this up by kicking Rhodes' dad in the head, like how he had in storyline almost finished the professions of both Shawn Michaels and Rob Van Dam. Rhodes' next storyline was a competition with Daivari, after he stuck him on the July 30, 2007 release of Raw, to keep his job. amidst this contention, he additionally quarreled with The World's Greatest Tag Team, crushing both individuals, Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin in singles matches. The two fights consolidated, when Rhodes, alongside Paul London and Brian Kendrick, beat The World's Greatest Tag Team and Daivari in a six-man label group match. The next week, Rhodes collaborated with Mickie James to overcome Daivari and Jillian Hall, finishing their scripted rivalry. Three weeks after the fact, he started a quarrel with Hardcore Holly and lost three sequential matches to him. Rhodes in the end earned Holly's admiration, inspiring Holly amid their matches with his tirelessness and a few close falls, and the two shaped a tag team. They earned a shot at the World Tag Team Title by vanquishing Paul London and Brian Kendrick and The Highlanders in a WWE.com restrictive match after an Alabama Slam. They battled against the Tag Team Champions Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch at Survivor Series, in what was Rhodes' first on-screen title shot and pay-per-view match, yet were unsuccessful. On the November 19 Raw, Rhodes confronted Holly for a fourth time, and beat him interestingly, in spite of the fact that they were both assaulted by Randy Orton afterwards. On the Raw fifteenth Anniversary extraordinary scene that publicized on December 10, 2007, Rhodes, alongside Hardcore Holly, vanquished Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the World Tag Team Championship, denoting Rhodes' first title in WWE. The next week, Rhodes and Holly held their title, in their first title protection, against Cade and Murdoch. They likewise effectively guarded the titles against the groups of Santino Marella and Carlito and Paul London and Brian Kendrick. In May 2008, Ted DiBiase started quarreling with the pair, undermining to take their titles in his first match as a major aspect of the Raw brand. At the compensation per-view occasion, Night of Champions on June 29, Rhodes turned on Holly by uncovering himself as Ted DiBiase's accomplice to help DiBiase win the match, turning into a scalawag without precedent for his vocation furthermore a two-time World Tag Team Champion.

The Legacy

In the wake of holding the title for a little more than a month, they dropped it to John Cena and Batista on the August 4, 2008 version of Raw. The next week, DiBiase and Rhodes utilized their rematch provision to recover the championship. Rhodes and DiBiase were joined by Manu, the child of Afa, in September, shaping a stable of multi-generational superstars. On the October 27, 2008 release of Raw, Rhodes and DiBiase lost the World Tag Team Championship by and by, this opportunity to Kofi Kingston and CM Punk. On the November 3, 2008 version of Raw, Rhodes, DiBiase and Manu entered a storyline with Orton where Orton continually reprimanded and offended them and assaulted DiBiase. At Survivor Series, Rhodes, alongside Orton, was a sole survivor, for Orton's group, in the yearly Elimination match. Rhodes and Manu acknowledged Orton's offer for a union in the next weeks and the trio named themselves the "Legacy"; appearing in a two-on-three impairment match against Batista and Triple H. Orton started planning tests for the Legacy individuals, so they could substantiate themselves and more than two weeks, both Manu and Sim Snuka were kicked out.

On the January 12, 2009 release of Raw, Snuka and Manu allowed Rhodes to adjust to them to assault Orton, alongside the returning DiBiase, yet Rhodes refused. As they trapped Orton, DiBiase rather joined with Orton and Rhodes to assault Snuka and Manu and turned into an individual from the Legacy. As a feature of the Legacy, Rhodes entered the Royal Rumble match keeping in mind the end goal to help Orton win, and kept going until the last three, preceding being disposed of by Triple H. Rhodes and DiBiase got to be included in Orton's scripted competition with the McMahon family, helping him to assault Shane and Stephanie McMahon, and Stephanie's genuine spouse, Triple H. Rhodes was additionally lifted to headliner status as a consequence of joining the Legacy, contending in debilitation and six-man label group matches against Orton's adversaries and rivals. On April 26, at Backlash, Rhodes, DiBiase, and Orton crushed Triple H, Batista, and Shane McMahon in a six-man label group match, which, per the pre-match stipulation, brought about Orton winning the WWE Championship. Rhodes endured a minor neck damage in June, however did not require at whatever time off to recover. Throughout mid-2009, Rhodes and DiBiase kept on going up against and assault Orton's opponents, particularly Triple H. This prompted Triple H improving D-Generation X (DX) with Shawn Michaels, and DX vanquished Rhodes and DiBiase at SummerSlam. Rhodes and DiBiase vanquished DX at the accompanying pay-per-view, Breaking Point in an entries check anyplace coordinate, yet were vanquished in a Hell in a Cell match at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view in October, when Rhodes was stuck after a heavy hammer shot to the head. Rhodes was thereafter taken from the field on a stretcher after the match.

Strain inside the Legacy got to be obvious at the 2010 Royal Rumble, when Rhodes endeavored to meddle in Orton's match for the WWE Championship. Rhodes was gotten by the ref, bringing about a preclusion for Orton, who assaulted Rhodes and DiBiase, who had attempted to help Rhodes, after the match. On the February 15 Raw, Orton went up against Sheamus in a non-title rematch, however was again precluded after Rhodes and DiBiase interfered. During the WWE Championship Elimination Chamber match pay-per-view, Rhodes meddled, passing a lead channel through the pen to DiBiase. DiBiase hit Orton with the channel and disposed of him from the match. The following night on Raw, Orton assaulted Rhodes and DiBiase amid a six-man label group match, and they assaulted Orton the next week in retaliation. This prompted a triple danger match at WrestleMania XXVI, in which Orton crushed Rhodes and DiBiase.

Intercontinental Champion

On January 21, 2011, Rhodes confronted Rey Mysterio in a match, amid which Mysterio hit Rhodes in the face with his uncovered knee prop and honest to goodness broke Rhodes' nose, which prompted Rhodes announcing he was no more dashing and had required facial reconstructive surgery. Rhodes was off TV for a few weeks, missing both the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber pay-per-view occasions. Upon his arrival, he wore a reasonable defensive veil over his face, and conspired with his dad to assault Mysterio and expel Mysterio's cover on the February 25 SmackDown. Rhodes then frequently utilized his defensive veil as a weapon amid matches by headbutting rivals and once in a while removed the veil to utilize it to hit his opponents. Rhodes and Mysterio went head to head in a match at WrestleMania XXVII on April 3, which Rhodes won. The pair likewise went head to head in a Falls Count Anywhere coordinate at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view in May, which was won by Mysterio.

On consequent scenes of SmackDown taking after Wrestlemania XXVII, Rhodes, with the assistance of aides, would pass out paper sacks to the crowd amid his promos. Rhodes requested the group of onlookers to put on the paper sacks on their heads to cover their offensiveness and blemishes, since they insulted him. Rhodes additionally put paper packs more than a few of his adversaries' heads after matches with them. Rhodes changed his union with Ted DiBiase on the May 20 SmackDown, and the pair went ahead to fight with Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan. At the second yearly Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Rhodes took an interest in the Money in the Bank stepping stool match, yet was unsuccessful as Bryan won the match.

At the August 9 recordings of the August 12 SmackDown, Rhodes vanquished Ezekiel Jackson to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship, his first singles title with the company. He made his first title barrier the next week on SmackDown, by crushing Jackson in a rematch. That same night, Rhodes and DiBiase had a verbal encounter with Orton. The next week, Rhodes assaulted DiBiase after the last lost a singles match to Orton, finishing their partnership and bringing about an Intercontinental Championship match between the two at Night of Champions, which Rhodes won. Simultaneously, Rhodes had started a quarrel with Orton, with Orton overcoming Rhodes on the September 9 SmackDown, yet Rhodes vanquished Orton on the September 12 Raw with the assistance of Mark Henry's diversion of Orton. On the September 23 SmackDown, Rhodes crushed Orton by exclusion when Orton took Rhodes' veil off and hit him with it. Post-match, Orton assaulted Rhodes with the timekeeper's chime, honest to goodness cutting Rhodes and creating bleeding. The footage was very altered for some broadcasts. The next week on SmackDown, Rhodes asserted he required nine staples to close the wound. in the meantime as his fight with Orton, Rhodes was effectively safeguarding his Intercontinental Championship, incorporating into a 10-man fight imperial and against Sheamus in a singles match.

At the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view on October 2, Rhodes appeared another outline for the Intercontinental Championship, which incorporated a white strap and plates indistinguishable to the title's exemplary 1980s configuration, before effectively shielding it against John Morrison. Throughout October, Rhodes kept quarreling with Orton, costing him the World Heavyweight Championship and assaulting him. At Vengeance, Rhodes was vanquished by Orton in a non-title match. On the November 4 SmackDown, Orton crushed Rhodes in a Street Fight to end the quarrel; simultaneously, Orton broke Rhodes' mask. On the November 14 Raw, Rhodes returned without his cover, asserting that Orton had set him free, flagging the end of his conceal gimmick. Rhodes was an individual from Team Barrett for a conventional Survivor Series match at Survivor Series, in which he and Wade Barrett were the main two survivors and won the match against a group drove by Orton.

Rhodes then quarreled with SmackDown analyst Booker T, assaulting him from behind on a few events, and effectively holding the Intercontinental Championship against him at Tables, Ladders and Chairs and on the January 6, 2012 SmackDown. In the 2012 Royal Rumble match, Rhodes kept going more than 40 minutes, and wiped out a bigger number of wrestlers than other some other contender with six, preceding he was wiped out by The Big Show. At Elimination Chamber Rhodes stuck Show in the World Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber match, before being wiped out by Santino Marella. Rhodes spent the next weeks highlighting Show's humiliating minutes in past WrestleManias, regularly costing Show to lose matches in the process. At WrestleMania XXVIII, Rhodes lost the Intercontinental Championship to Big Show, finishing his close to eight-month rule of 236 days.

Taking after the misfortune at WrestleMania, Rhodes went on a brief losing streak, because of Show diverting him amid matches. Four weeks in the wake of losing the title, Rhodes recaptured it at Extreme Rules in a Tables match. On the May 7 scene of Raw SuperShow, Rhodes held his title against Show in a rematch subsequent to getting himself tallied out. Two weeks after the fact at Over the Limit, Rhodes lost the Intercontinental Championship to the returning Christian. At No Way Out, Rhodes neglected to recover the Intercontinental Championship from Christian in a rematch. On the June 29 SmackDown, Rhodes and David Otunga were vanquished by Christian and United States Champion Santino Marella in a Money in the Bank capability match for the World Heavyweight Championship, because of Otunga being pinned. Afterwards, Rhodes asserted that he hadn't lost and requested another chance. Four days after the fact on Super SmackDown Live, the WWE Board of Directors conceded Rhodes another shot and he crushed Christian to procure a spot in the match. However, at Money in the Bank, he was unsuccessful as the match was won by Dolph Ziggler. In August, Cody Rhodes restarted a fight with Sin Cara where he was fixated on unmasking Sin Cara, whom he guaranteed was appalling. In any case, Sin Cara showed signs of improvement of Rhodes twice in singles and label group matches. On September 16 at Night of Champions, Rhodes neglected to catch the Intercontinental Championship from The Miz in a deadly four-manner match, likewise including Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara.

Group Rhodes Scholars

Rhodes then adjusted himself to Damien Sandow, assaulting Tag Team Champions Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) on the September 24 Raw and vowing to end up the following champions. The group, now known as Team Rhodes Scholars, were entered in a Tag Team Championship competition and vanquished The Usos to advance. On the October 8 Raw, Team Rhodes Scholars crushed Santino Marella and Zack Ryder to progress to the finals in the tournament. Ultimately, Team Rhodes Scholars vanquished Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara on the October 22 Raw to win the competition and turn into the main contenders to the Tag Team Championship. Team Rhodes Scholars got their title opportunity against Team Hell No on October 28 at Hell in a Cell, where they won by exclusion, subsequently Team Hell No held the title. Rhodes Scholars got another shot at the WWE Tag Team Championship on the November 14 of WWE Main Event, however were vanquished by Team Hell No. During the match, Rhodes endured a blackout and a strained shoulder, bringing about him being expelled from his conventional five-on-five label group match at Survivor Series.

Rhodes came back from harm on the December 10 Raw, donning a mustache, where he and Sandow vanquished Primo and Epico, The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neil), and The Usos in a lethal four-manner label group end match to acquire the privilege to confront Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara in a main contender Tables match at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs. Six days after the fact at the compensation per-view, Team Rhodes Scholars crushed Mysterio and Sin Cara to wind up the main contenders to the WWE Tag Team Championship. Team Rhodes Scholars got their title shots on the following Main Event scene, however were at the end of the day crushed by Team Hell No. On the January 7, 2013, Raw, Team Rhodes Scholars vanquished Team Hell No in a non-title match to gain another shot at the WWE Tag Team Championship. The title rematch occurred on January 27 at the Royal Rumble, where Team Rhodes Scholars at the end of the day neglected to catch the label group titles. Soon thereafter, Rhodes partook in the Rumble coordinate and went on for twenty seven minutes (the fourth longest of the match), wiping out four men including his stepbrother Goldust, before being killed by the possible champ John Cena. On the following SmackDown, Rhodes and Sandow commonly chose to break down Team Rhodes Scholars and stay "best friends". However, they rejoined amid the pre-show of Elimination Chamber on February 17, yet were crushed by the group of Brodus Clay and Tensai. Rhodes and Sandow then adjusted themselves to The Bella Twins as they started fighting with Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay and Tensai) and The Funkadactyls (Cameron and Naomi). The two groups were initially reserved to confront each other in an eight-man blended label group match on April 7 at WrestleMania 29, yet their match was sliced because of time constraints. The match rather occurred the next night on Raw, where Tons of Funk and The Funkadactyls developed victorious. On May 19, amid the Extreme Rules pre-appear, Rhodes was vanquished by The Miz in a singles match.

On July 14 at Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Rhodes contended in the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank step match, however was unsuccessful as the match was won by his label group accomplice Damien Sandow after Sandow turned on Rhodes and threw him off of the stepping stool pretty much as Rhodes was going to win the match. The next night on the July 15 scene of Raw, Rhodes assaulted Sandow and adequately dissolving Team Rhodes Scholars, turning face in the process surprisingly since 2008. On the July 26 SmackDown, Rhodes stole the folder case from Sandow and tossed it into the Gulf of Mexico; Sandow was not able spare it as he couldn't swim. On the August 5 Raw, Rhodes gave Sandow the attaché that he recovered from the Gulf of Mexico yet kept the agreement itself. Rhodes proceeded with his fight with Sandow on that same week's SmackDown, by keeping Sandow from trading in for cold hard currency his new Money in the Bank contract on a defenseless Alberto Del Rio.[citation needed] On August 18 at SummerSlam, now no more donning a mustache, Rhodes vanquished Sandow in a singles match, and did as such again the next night on Raw. The next week on Raw, Rhodes collaborated with The Miz to overcome Sandow and Fandango to end the feud.

Joining and quarreling with Goldust

On the September 2 Raw, as discipline for taking a stand in opposition to Chief Operating Officer Triple H's tyrant principle, Rhodes was compelled to put his employment hanging in the balance when he confronted WWE Champion Randy Orton in a non-title match; (it was additionally said that Rhodes was impending hitched) Rhodes lost and was appropriately "fired". This storyline was set up to give Runnels time off for his marriage and special first night to Brandi Reed, all the more notable as Eden, now's identity a ring broadcaster on WWE Main Event and Smackdown. It was additionally set up to put in the looming return of his relative Dustin Runnels, who is all the more notable as Goldust. Throughout the following couple of weeks, his sibling Goldust likewise lost to Orton with Cody's reestablishment hanging in the balance, while his dad Dusty Rhodes was thumped out by Big Show while arguing for his children to receive their employments back. consequently, the vindictive Rhodes siblings gatecrashed Raw by assaulting the Shield.

On October 6 at Battleground, Rhodes and Goldust won their employments back when they vanquished the WWE Tag Team Champions, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins in a non-title match. The Rhodes siblings then crushed Reigns and Rollins with the assistance of Big Show in a no exclusion match on the October 14 Raw, to catch the tag title. On October 27 at Hell in a Cell, the Rhodes siblings' first fruitful title guard accompanied winning a triple risk match against the Usos and Rollins and Reigns. On the December 13 scene of SmackDown, it was reported that Cody Rhodes and Goldust would safeguard the WWE Tag Team Championship against The Real Americans (Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro), RybAxel (Ryback and Curtis Axel), and Big Show and Rey Mysterio in a Fatal Four Way label group match at the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs (2013). At the Royal Rumble, Rhodes and Goldust dropped the label title to The New Age Outlaws. He and Goldust likewise entered the Rumble match itself. Goldust coincidentally wiped out Rhodes just before Roman Reigns killed him. Goldust and Rhodes confronted the Outlaws in a rematch on Raw after the Royal Rumble, which finished in a no challenge after Brock Lesnar assaulted them both. The titles rematch was then rescheduled for the February 3 Raw in a steel confine. Rhodes was stuck after a moonsault off the highest point of the confine onto Road Dogg, who was not the legitimate man at the time, permitting Billy Gunn to utilize the Fame-Ass-er and win the match for The New Age Outlaws.

They lost energy and experienced a losing streak. In the wake of losing to Curtis Axel and Ryback, Cody, advised Goldust to locate a superior label group accomplice and left his sibling. Taking after Payback, Rhodes attempted to locate another accomplice for his sibling, getting Sin Cara, R-Truth, and Kofi Kingston to supplant him in the group, both times losing to Axel and Ryback.

On the June 16 scene of Raw, Rhodes appeared another character called Stardust (a ring name likewise already utilized by his dad amid his time in AWA), with face paint, a bodysuit, and quirks like those of Goldust. He cooperated with his sibling to crush RybAxel that night, and again at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, and again on Raw. On the August 18 scene of Raw, Stardust and Goldust vanquished the WWE Tag Team Champions The Usos in a non-title match. This prompted a rematch on the August 25 scene of Raw, where Stardust and Goldust vanquished The Usos by means of check out, in any case, didn't win the titles. After the match, both Stardust and Goldust turned heel and assaulted the Usos. The following week, Gold and Stardust clarified their activities that the fans were keeping them down and that assaulting the Usos put them one stage nearer to achieving the Cosmic Key in the Galactic Universe. At Night of Champions, Stardust and Goldust vanquished the Usos to wind up WWE Tag Team Champions for their second reign as a team. At Hell in a Cell, they effectively held against The Usos. They lost the title to Damien Mizdow and The Miz in a Fatal Four Way label group match, likewise including The Usos and Los Matadores the following month at Survivor Series, and lost a rematch the following night on Raw.

Toward the beginning of February 2015, Goldust and Stardust were vanquished by The Ascension and at the end of the day started strains with Stardust demonstrating his dissatisfactions at Goldust. After the match, Goldust called Stardust "Cody" and Stardust reacted by advising Goldust to never allude to him by that name again. On the February 16 scene of Raw, Stardust hit Cross Rhodes on Goldust after a label match, dissolving the group. He then disclosed to his dad that Cody Rhodes was dead and Dusty should be, too. This prompted a match amongst Goldust and Stardust at Fastlane, which Goldust won by means of rollup. A while later, Stardust assaulted Goldust backstage, while shouting to his dad that he had murdered Cody Rhodes. The fight amongst Stardust and Goldust finished when Stardust assaulted Goldust after Goldust won a match against Adam Rose while putting on a show to be one of Rose's Rosebuds in an outfit suit. The quarrel formally finished up as Stardust then got to be included in the Intercontinental Championship step match at WrestleMania 31, contending with the present champion, Bad News Barrett, R-Truth, Dean Ambrose, Luke Harper, Dolph Ziggler, and the victor of the match, Daniel Bryan.

On the April 6 scene of Raw, Stardust addressed John Cena's United States Championship open test, yet neglected to win the title. Stardust was crushed by R-Truth in the 2015 King of the Ring and at the Payback pre-show.

The Stardust character in the long run developed to take after a comic book supervillain, which prompted him entering a storyline contention with performing artist Stephen Amell. After going up against Amell on the May 25 Raw, Stardust renamed his completing move The Queen's Crossbow, after Oliver Queen, Amell's character from Arrow. After taking a brief break taking after the passing of his dad, Stardust returned on the July 13 scene of Raw, vanquishing Neville, beginning another competition between the two. Stardust then went on a triumphant streak, crushing any semblance of R-Truth, Zack Ryder and Fandango. He assaulted Neville taking after his match with King Barrett, furthermore assaulted visitor star Stephen Amell, prompting Amell assaulting Stardust. At SummerSlam, Stardust and Barrett were crushed in a label group match by Amell and Neville.

On the September 3 scene of SmackDown, The Ascension adjusted themselves to Stardust by assaulting Neville before their match, framing the group "The Cosmic Wasteland". At Night of Champions, they crushed Neville and The Lucha Dragons in a six-man label group match in the pre-appear. After this, they were crushed in each match they took part in. During the 2015 Slammy Awards, Stardust stole Stephen Amell's trophy for big name snapshot of the year. He then endured consecutive loses amid his quarrel with Titus O'Neil, who endeavored to persuade Stardust to backtrack to being Cody Rhodes.

On the February 15 scene of Raw, Stardust took part in a five-manner match for the Intercontinental Championship, yet did not win the match. At WrestleMania 32, Stardust contended in a seven-man stepping stool match for the Intercontinental Championship, which was won by Zack Ryder. Post-WrestleMania, Stardust lost to Apollo Crews four times on television, which was trailed by a misfortune to Zack Ryder on the May 20 scene of Superstars.

On May 21, Runnels uncovered on Twitter that he had asked for his discharge from WWE, which was authoritatively allowed the accompanying day. Runnels refered to dissatisfactions with WWE's imaginative division and his position inside the organization as the purposes behind asking for his discharge, taking note of that he had "argued" with essayists to end the Stardust contrivance for more than 6 months and pitched various storyline thoughts which had been ignored.

Thinking about Runnels' WWE vocation, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer composed that taking after his keep running with Legacy, Runnels was "utilized as all the more a lower and mid-card wrestler in various evolving parts", including that "his profession had gone no place and he wasn't utilized well." James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch composed that Runnels "had been fumbling as the Stardust character over the previous year or somewhere in the vicinity, for the most part arriving on Superstars or Main Event". Jason Powell of Pro Wrestling Dot Net remarked that Runnels leaving was "shocking as in Cody and his family have worked for WWE for so long". Meanwhile, Dave Scherer of Pro Wrestling Insider thought of, "I can't say I censure him a bit. Not even a tiny bit. WWE never gave him a genuine chance, and that is only pitiful to me."

TNA Wrestlings

Rhodes is required to work occasions for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) while at the same time working in Ring of Honor. Both arrangements are non-exclusive. On September 22, TNA affirmed Rhodes, charged basically as "Cody", would make a big appearance for the advancement on October 2 at Bound for Glory.

Individual life

Runnels is of incomplete Cuban plunge through his maternal grandfather. His dad was WWE Hall of Famer, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, and his stepbrother is WWE hotshot Dustin Runnels, who is better known by his ring name Goldust. On March 31, 2007, Cody and Dustin enlisted their dad into the WWE Hall of Fame. He likewise has two sisters, Teil Gergel and Kristin Ditto, who is a previous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. He is the nephew of previous expert wrestlers Jerry Sags and Fred Ottman, and the godson of Magnum T.A.

In September 2013, Runnels wedded Brandi Reed, who worked for WWE as a ring commentator under the name Eden Stiles.

His wrestling boots included the Triforce image from The Legend of Zelda arrangement of computer games of which he is a fan; he has expressed he replays A Link to the Past yearly. Runnels is additionally a comic book fan and has worn wrestling gear motivated by Archangel and Mister Sinister, characters from X-Men. He refers to Omega Red and Cyclops as his most loved anecdotal characters, alongside the Inhumans. He by and by claims a diversion bureau of the 1992 X-Men arcade game.

Titles and achievements

Georgia State Tournament

Champion at 189 pounds (86 kg) weight class (2003, 2004)

Ohio Valley Wrestling

OVW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

OVW Television Championship (1 time)

OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Shawn Spears

Fourth OVW Triple Crown Champion

Genius Wrestling Illustrated

Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2008)

PWI positioned him No. 23 of the 500 top singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2012

Moving Stone

Best Special Effects (2015)

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

WWE Intercontinental Championship (2 times)

WWE Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Drew McIntyre (1) and Goldust (2)

World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Hardcore Holly (1) and Ted DiBiase (2)

Slammy Awards (2 times)

Exceptional Achievement of Baby Oil Application (2010)

Label Team of the Year (2013) – with Goldust

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Most exceedingly bad Gimmick – Stardust (2015)