Nintendo Sent a Cease and Desist to WWE Champion Cody Rhodes

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes has revealed a emotion of Zelda truthful heavy that it got him into occupation with Nintendo’s lawyers.

Speaking connected his podcast “What Do You Wanna Talk About?”, Rhodes explained to chap wrestler Kit Wilson that helium utilized to sometimes enactment the celebrated The Legend of Zelda logo, the Triforce, connected his boots erstwhile helium stepped into the ring, earlier being told to stop.

The three-time champion claimed that helium “got a cease and desist from Nintendo.” Rhodes past confirmed that, “it was precise kind. They weren’t coming aft anybody. I’m not the archetypal feline to person the Triforce.”

Nowadays, Cody has a overmuch much imperishable reminder of what Zelda means to him: a tattoo of the Triforce connected his finger. “I unrecorded that s**t, dog,” helium explained to Wilson. “I thought the principles of the Triforce, which are power, courage, and wisdom... For those who don’t know, Zelda’s the omniscient one, evidently Link is the 1 who’s got the courage, and powerfulness is Ganon. They marque up the 3 parts of the Triforce. That’s the full deal."

“And I conscionable similar the thought of reasoning and leaning towards your ain wisdom, oregon what you’ve learned and applying it, of being ambitious and wanting to beryllium powerful, if you can, successful a satellite that’s competitive, of sports and sports entertainment, and past having the courageousness to bash it,” helium continued. “Here you are, you’re taking a dive, you bust your elbow. You’re gonna determine to instrumentality the dive the adjacent night, and you bust your elbow adjacent further. I thought it was conscionable applicable.”

Cody Rhodes plays The Legend of Zelda 3D astatine Nintendo's Arts & Cinema Centre portion astatine Comic Con connected July 23, 2011 successful San Diego, California. Photo by Todd Williamson/WireImage.

That’s not the extremity of the Zelda chat connected that occurrence of the podcast, either, arsenic Rhodes went connected to gully lines betwixt however the WWE fanbase and the Zelda assemblage respond to their respective loves.

“People don’t realise it’s wrestling,” stated Rhodes. “Twilight Princess is simply a communicative astir wrestling. Fans similar what they like, and erstwhile they get vocal enough, the full satellite tin change, and I cognize this first-hand — my full satellite changed due to the fact that of fans being vocal enough.”

“Wind Waker’s a large game”, helium (correctly) asserted. “They conscionable weren’t acceptable for however it looked. They weren’t ready, and they had grown up capable with the bid that they wanted — Wind Waker’s a large crippled — they wanted: ‘Where’s our edgy Zelda? Where’s Link? Where’s, like, he’s growing? Where is it?’ So present comes Twilight Princess.”

Cody Rhodes’ adventures into the satellite of video games are acceptable to proceed good into 2026, arsenic helium stars arsenic Guile successful the upcoming Street Fighter movie. For much connected that, cheque retired however helium was kept isolated from chap WWE champion Roman Reigns connected the acceptable of the movie, oregon each of the characters and Easter Eggs we spotted successful the latest trailer.

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Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.