WWE Champion Cody Rhodes has never hidden his love of video games, but that dedication once got him in trouble with Nintendo. So much so, he was sent a cease and desist letter by the company.
On a recent episode of What Do You Wanna Talk About? With Cody Rhodes, he told all to guest star and fellow wrestler Kit Wilson.
Rhodes explained that he loves The Legend of Zelda so much that he used to rock a Triforce on his boot in the ring. “I thought the principles of the Triforce, which are power, courage, and wisdom,” Rhodes explains. “That’s the whole deal. And I just like the idea of thinking and leaning towards your own wisdom, or what you’ve learned and applying it, of being ambitious and wanting to be powerful, if you can, in a world that’s competitive, of sports and sports entertainment, and then having the courage to do it. Here you are, you’re taking a dive, you bust your elbow. You’re gonna decide to take the dive the next night, and you bust your elbow even further. I thought it was just applicable.”
He had to remove the logo once he “got a cease and desist from Nintendo.” However, “it was very kind. They weren’t coming after anybody. I’m not the first guy to have the Triforce.”
Rhodes also made a more permanent commitment to the symbol by getting it tattooed on his finger. “I live that shit, dog,” he gleefully tells Wilson.
A Tale of Two Fandoms
The wrestler even goes on to draw parallels between the two fandoms, which, let’s face it, are fairly intertwined for a reason. “Twilight Princess is a story about wrestling,” Rhodes explains. “Fans like what they like, and when they get vocal enough, the whole world can change, and I know this first-hand — my whole world changed because of fans being vocal enough. Wind Waker’s a great game. They just weren’t ready for how it looked. They weren’t ready, and they had grown up enough with the series that they wanted — Wind Waker’s a great game — they wanted: ‘Where’s our edgy Zelda? Where’s Link? Where’s, like, he’s growing? Where is it?’ So here comes Twilight Princess.”
You can catch Rhodes in the upcoming Street Fighter movie, where he will play Guile. You can watch the full interview below:
