>>11237593It did. Tony just swooped in after all the real work was done, pumped his money into their project, then took over everything and stole most of the credit just because he was an NFL-owner's scion and could get away with it.
Not that every single good idea was Cody and The Bucks and every bad one was Tony's, but Tony's flaws are much less amiable to the reality of the wrestling business. He has no spine, is incapable of treating the talent like employees instead of friends no matter how much damage it causes, is overly focused on things fitting his plan to the point of seriously lacking as an improviser, refuses to delegate booking even if stuff he doesn't care about, and the cocaine has fried his brain at least as much as it fried Vince's.
Rafiki would've greatly benefitted from giving Cody and The Bucks more leeway unless what they did was really stupid, like Cody refusing to turn or break his strip of never wrestling for the title. For that matter, even coming up with the stip.
