>>16691497>AEW had lightning in a bottle with Cody RhodesYa lost me. Cody is fucking mid. You don't notice it in WWE because mid is their standard, but in AEW Cody was outshined in every category on every show. He had a good match with Dustin, but that was it. He was always doing sports entertainment shit on shows and it stood out.
AEW fucked up by being stale; pushing geeks, having two shows of just squash matches, ruining ROH, running the same markets into the ground, pushing too many ex-WWE guys, flavor of the month booking, and not capitalizing on what made people want a WWE alternative. People wanted a wrestling company that was polished, varied and wrestling focused, not sports entertainment lite. That's why AEW PPVs are still almost universally well received, because it just focuses on the wrestlers telling stories in the ring and being exciting. Rather than having ex-WWE midcarders cut boring promos. Or having top guys go 50/50 with perma-jobbers in a 15minute "banger" no one will remember in a week.
