Cody Rhodes Conquers the World: How a Wrestling Fairy Tale Became Global Self-Help for the Doomed
PARIS – Somewhere between the cigarette haze of a Montmartre café and the neon glow of a Tokyo pachinko parlor, the planet’s collective id has decided its new sovereign is a 38-year-old American wrestler who enters arenas wearing a transparently Freudian cape of rhinestones and daddy issues. Cody Rhodes—yes, the one with the surname that…