10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Cody Rhodes

10. Slamming WWE Creative

Cody Rhodes asking for his WWE release in 2016 was simultaneously surprising and expected. He'd been mired in midcard purgatory for years and didn't seem to be going anywhere fast, but that hadn't exactly stopped many of his similarly positioned peers from turning up, not getting used properly, and collecting a paycheque anyway.

Rhodes took action so he could pursue other endeavours elsewhere. And after a couple of days of silence, Rhodes posted a candid statement to his official Twitter account, detailing the reasons for his leaving.

He talked at length, but perhaps the most glaring thing about the statement was Cody's scathing attack on WWE creative. He detailed how he'd gone time and time again to the head writers of Raw and SmackDown with ideas for his character, only to be big-leagued and ignored.

Rather problematically, he said that the heads of the writing teams were busy 'pretending to be former Raw lead Brian Gewirtz, and 'hitting on developmental divas'.

This wasn't a man afraid of burning bridges and at the time, WWE couldn't have been happy he was dishing the dirt on the men in charge of shaping their product.