 In September 2019, Rhodes revealed WWE Executive Vice President Triple H's reaction to his WWE departure, where Rhodes stated “Hunter [Triple H] took it very personally because he had done so much for my dad at NXT.There was one conversation where he said, ‘I’m shocked that you feel this way after everything I’ve done for your family.’ But I told him, ‘I’m not my dad.I can’t stay here out of loyalty to you for giving my dad a job in 2005.