>>13584254Cody's gimmick is about how his father was considered one of the GOATs in wrestling as a worker and a booker but was treated like a joke by Vince. It's that Dusty was a booty shaking midcarder and Dustin was a weirdfag. These two respected people were punished by Vince for having the name "Rhodes" because Dusty and Vince had a mini war when Dusty was WCW booker and invented supercards before Wrestlemania. Cody was similarly treated as a joke and had to go away and make himself into a huge star to come back and be forced to put him in the main event.
That's Codys "story". It's about redemption for him and his family name after being humiliated for years by taking the top title at the top event that his father should have gotten the chance at.
This tag match is "Jericho used to know a guy 30 years ago". That's not a story, it's a piece of trivia. At best it's a reference. AEW constantly confuses references with a story.
