I feel like both Tony and Cody genuinely wanted to work things out, but behind closed doors the contract negotiations were miles apart. So they both postured publically about how everyone agreed they had to work something out --including booking!-- while neither were actually willing to budge, leading to the breakdown.
Yeah it's not crazy for this to happen at all. Either way this is all so much so fast. Again can't wait to hear the full story someday.
To add to this I totally believe the backstage stuff where some people had fallen out of favor with Cody(and Brandi), they asked for a big money deal after Khan's been signing much bigger names then Cody and Brandi like Punk, Danielson, people Rosa, Mercedes, and Deeb on the women's side with more to come, and Khan couldn't justify their asking price against their drawing power
You think 2k and yukes just email each other .wrestler files? I'll give you cody if you send us your aleister.wrestlerYukes, getting the morning briefing that they're removing a character from the AEW game instead of adding 20 more new signees:
the animators quietly weeping at today's news would 100% do that if they could, lol
Oh my God imagine this lol. Get Khan on a hot mic stat for his real feelings
The developer who spent hours programming Cody's middle entrance:Yukes, getting the morning briefing that they're removing a character from the AEW game instead of adding 20 more new signees:
100%. Had this vibe when he won at All In. Felt it even more when he lost to MJF.
Not for lack of trying. Towards the end there Cody was putting himself through physical and cutting Triple H-length promos in an effort to show he can be the guy. And he's just not. Unfortunately for him, he was working in an area of the industry with fans who are against anyone who they perceive as trying to inorganically make the fans commit to a specific reaction. He'll get that a little less in WWE, but even those fans boo stuff if it's lame enough.
Can Sammy at least drop the strap to Andrade before he gets sucked into a vortex of mediocrity for the next 3 months?
It's ok. Todays news makes me think AEW outgrew Cody awhile ago. I'm grateful for some of what he's accomplished. Getting younger names over and a handful of great moments. But they have others that'll do that sort of thing gladly, I think.
It's not a shoot. Honestly, I got the impression that it barely even tries to portray itself as real. That's how blatantly fake it is.
Yukes, getting the morning briefing that they're removing a character from the AEW game instead of adding 20 more new signees:
This is like looking at a table with 20 legs and saying this table doesn't need THAT leg anymore, no one would say this about Hangman or Kenny and they were both gone for months during some of AEW's hottest streaks
Not sure this makes sense with her shitting on Chicago by calling it Cleveland right at the top of her promo. I think they had no idea whether they wanted to embrace a heel turn or not and so kept riding the fence.
Barely any of Cody's stories were any good. It's like... the run up to the Jericho match was good, the MJF build up was good, the TNT open challenge and loss to Brodie was good, then... what? Lots of nothing. He lost to Malakai and that was cool. He put Sammy over on his way out and that was cool.
I mean, I'm 100% confident this happens if he goes to WWE. And instead of opening the floodgates of AEW->WWE defections, it's gonna shut the gate because who in their right mind would want to make that jump when they turn one of the founders of AEW into a joke.
Gonna be hard to convince them when he's pushing hot dog carts and being featured on Main Event in 3 months.
