10 Storylines AEW Should Abandon RIGHT NOW
4. Cody Rhodes Is Weird
It's getting tiring, this one.
Cody Rhodes generates discussion regardless of what he does and Cody Rhodes doesn’t believe in heels or babyfaces anymore and these things can both be true, but Cody Rhodes isn’t AEW’s biggest hero anymore. And a failure to lean all the way in to that has thus far done more damage to the company’s midcard than ‘The American Nightmare’ likely imagined was possible.
He's beginning to prove yet again that you can be all things in wrestling, but you categorically can't be them all at once. The TNT Championship win was a big moment in the recent fog of action - a title vindicates a megalomania he's trying to keep a lid on, and will surely work wonders for whomever he hands it over to.
But these are very pro wrestling parameters, and Cody's done away with loads during the last year or so. He is at least still the AEW's avatar - at a time where the promotion has never felt more unfocussed, 'The American Nightmare' too is (still) all over the f*cking shop.