AEW All Elite Wrestling #9: Mox Aggressor Brings the Blood

[Emperoreddy]

Apparently not meant to screw Starks over. It's for all of GCW and it's because Effy was saying some stupid shit

 

[Blitzkrug]

Effy and Lauderdale running their mouths about how Shad Khan thinks his son is a piece of shit without realizing that could do serious damage to the working relationship between GCW and AEW. Good job dipshits.

Probably not going to help to rift between Starks and Tony either even if the latter is justified in this decision.

Starks/Cardona probably happens under another promotion now as well.

 

[GKJ]

That very well could be...I wouldn't be shocked if that were the case.

Cody definitely could have done that for AEW (I believe) with the simple heel turn...

Him leaving definitely started the downturn, but he was already stale in AEW by that time. And he has well past that for me in WWE...but I'm not the average fan that is still way into him

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

 

[Fro]

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

I can't disagree with you...great civil discussions here for most part...nice to not feel everyone is tribalistic

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

Cody was always going to go back to WWE. He left to prove he could be the man and he did prove it.

It worked for a while in AEW, then, it got stale, but he did it and, as you said, proved to Vince he could do it.