Top WWE Star and winner of the 2023 Men’s Royal Rumble Match “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes had a conversation with Logan Paul on the IMPAULSIVE podcast on a number of topics such as getting a neck tattoo of “The American Nightmare” logo just two days before a production meeting was held in AEW and how a lot of people were distracted by the tattoo like pro wrestling legend Jim Ross, who was staring at the tattoo the entire meeting.

“The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes said:

“The tattoo on the neck… The dude drew it and I’ve always liked the design and “The American Nightmare” design was what it was but, I powered through because I have one tattoo on my chest for my dad and stuff so I don’t have a lot of tattoos, and I’m powering through and he’s like, ‘Do you really want to take a break? You probably wanna take a break, right? You wanna take a break?’ And I kept thinking, ah, I’m good, I’m good. I wish I had took a break because I didn’t know it was double the size of the drawing I saw and I thought, oh my God, I’m wrestling in two days because he said, ‘Either do it months out or just two days before…’ I don’t know if it was a mistake or I wasn’t paying attention. A lot of people were like, ‘Neck? Neck? Neck?’ And then my boss at the time, this was when I was at AEW, he just thought, ‘No way. Not gonna be your neck’ and then I walked into the production meeting the next day… I remember Jim Ross was — legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross — literally just (staring at me). The whole meeting was just staring at it. Not listening to anything.”

You can check out Cody Rhodes’ comments in the video below. H/T to PostWrestling for transcribing the above quotes.