>>5152541Tony didn't want him to be the world champion.
The deal was for the EVPs to contribute to creative and Cody agreed to do the lion's share of it, but they never put quantity down on paper.
Over time he got less and less input through to Tony Khan, in part because Khan's delusional and thinks he knows best, and in part because the people he does listen to reinforce that delusion to get their shit in that doesn't draw dimes.
Cody's most recent work for AEW has been rotten, and Brandi's bad ideas that went away when Cody's little jobbers squashed the egg and got Brandi pregnant got diabolically worse when she came back, probably because by that point Cody's pull was gone and the fags were coming up with her creative.
It's probably why he left AEW.
Cody doesn't get his wrestling fix, so he's going for the biggest paycheck right now and that's WWE.
