GO BIG SHOW - CODY RHODES INTERVIEW

GO BIG OR GO HOME! GO-BIG SHOW Is TV’s most extreme talent competition featuring supersized talents performing the most daring acts and wrestling phenom Cody Rhodes is on the judging panel!!

Monster trucks, alligator trainers, stunt archery and much more – Go-Big Show on TBS and CTV Comedy Channel (in Canada) celebrates the most daring acts on a scale never before seen on television. Each week, the hour-long series delivers the most radical acts of courage and showmanship alongside personal, behind-the-scenes stories from the competitors. Contestants will need to impress the show’s celebrity judges as they battle it out for a $100,000 grand prize! Go-Big Show is hosted by Bert Kreischer along with celebrity judges Snoop Dogg, Rosario Dawson, “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, and Jennifer Nettles.

“The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes is an in-ring talent for All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he also serves as an Executive Vice President for the organization. In 2018, after more than 13 years of successfully earning wrestling titles from around the world, Cody and The Young Bucks staged the famous All Inevent in Chicago, selling out over 10,000 seats in less than 30 minutes – an industry-defining moment that helped pave the path for the creation of AEW in January 2019. As the son of legendary professional wrestler Dusty Rhodes, and brother to Dustin Rhodes, Cody has been at the epicenter of wrestling royalty since birth. Also an actor, he played the recurring villain Derek Sampson in the fifth and seventh seasons of The CW’s Arrow. Cody can be seen on Wednesday nights at 8pm on AEW Dynamite on TNT and was the inaugural TNT Champion.

The show, which filmed last year in a production bubble in Macon, Georgia, provides a chance for Rhodes to dip his toe into another part of the entertainment landscape. Rhodes, who is 35, only sees himself wrestling for another handful of years, making “Go-Big Show” a chance to start figuring out his future.

I spoke with Rhodes about filming the show in an arena where he used to wrestle, why the competition came along at a perfect time for many of the contestants and learning life lessons from Snoop Dogg.