8 Wrestlers Cody Helped To Get Over In AEW

8. Mr Brodie Lee

Not, you understand, that the wrestlers on this list would have been lost without him. Certainly, your writer isn’t suggesting Jon Huber and others didn’t have everything it took to succeed without the help of “the son of the son of a plumber.”

Still, however over Mr Brodie Lee was in AEW, the Dark Order’s head honcho was even more revered after his delirious squash of Cody for his beloved TNT title. Still massively over as a top babyface, Cody cut a distraught, broken figure. the result was a shock, the excellent title run curtailed too soon. Nonetheless, so glorious was Mr Brodie Lee’s performance it was impossible not to revel a bit in Cody’s destruction. Such is the wonderful cognitive dissonance of professional wrestling fandom.

You can argue back and forth about whether or not Cody should have taken this or that victory but it can’t be denied when he loses, he loses definitively. Cody wasn’t protected by heel run-ins, he didn’t have a comeback to get his sh*t in. He was demolished.

The rematch, while levelling the score for Cody, was another great showcase for Jon Huber and remains a fitting final match for a man who should have had many, many more.