Though Rhodes won the day at All In, Aldis would come back out on top a little over a month later. Since then, both men have traveled down very different paths in their careers. Aldis said at the time, it was all a matter of going his own way and sticking to himself, something he thinks Rhodes also did.

“So I don’t want to sit here and go ‘Oh it’s always the best way.’ It was the right thing for me to do at that time, and it was the right thing for Cody to do at that time. I think it depends on your level of experience, and your level of maturity, and your willingness to take risks, and I think your self-awareness. You’ve got to be willing to sort of go, ‘Okay how do people see me, and why is that?” Aldis explained.

“In Cody’s case, I think it was the same thing. He said, ‘Okay people see me as this, where I see me as this. So now, I have to go and show them this guy. I have to go show them the guy that I see because right now they only see me as this.’ And it worked out. He’s the ultimate example of a guy who bet on himself, and it paid off huge and I’m very happy for him, very proud of him.”