Cody Rhodes has revealed that he is allowed to use his last name in wrestling whenever he likes, he just doesn't want to right now.

It takes a brave man or woman to step away from a good job where you're doing comfortably because you believe that you can do more and deserve better. That mantra applies to wrestling too. Only a handful of pro wrestlers have had the courage to leave WWE and try and make it somewhere else, and the man who has managed to make a success of that more than anyone is Cody Rhodes.

In the little more than two years that Rhodes has been a non-WWE wrestler, he has been Ring Of Honor World Champion, is currently the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, the joint leader of the Bullet Club, and has wrestled in countless dream matches. One thing he still can't do is use his very own last name when competing, or can he?

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A fan asked Rhodes on Twitter this week if he would ever be allowed to use his own last name in wrestling ever again. Surprisingly, the NWA Champion replied "I can use it whenever. I will not be using it any time in the foreseeable future though." He signed off the tweet by saying "I prefer just Cody."

Most fans had assumed that WWE was not allowing Rhodes to use his own name in New Japan, ROH, and elsewhere, hence why he only goes by Cody. When he comes to the ring with his wife Brandi, the two of them are announced as "Cody and Brandi Rhodes." Fans thought that was a clever way around WWE holding Cody's last name hostage, but clearly that isn't the case.

Thinking about it now, it's crazy that we believed WWE was powerful enough to stop somebody from being able to refer to themselves by their own birth name. That's why wrestlers almost always have to change their names when they arrive in WWE so that the company owns that intellectual property. Vince McMahon does not own the name Rhodes, it's something Cody got from his Hall Of Fame father, so he can use it whenever he chooses to.

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