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>"Why I thought it didn't need me was... okay, I'm not being totally honest, maybe it did need me, but here's what I needed. I didn't want to be a gatekeeper wrestler, I did not want to be 'oh, this is Cody's thing, AEW,' and some people look at it that way, not everybody does... 'oh first program, they wrestle Cody Rhodes, then they do Chris' [Jericho] podcast' [laughs]. There's a whole meme about it and I just didn't want to be a gatekeeper
He literally already said what it was. He didn't want to be a midcard guy that people just beat on their way up the card to feud with the main eventers like the world champion - the problem is, HE blocked HIMSELF into the situation where he couldn't challenge for the world title and he refused to turn heel, so how the fuck is Khan supposed to book him like a main eventer?