10 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For WWE

6. Cody Rhodes

A post-Raw promo confined to WWE's online output was one of the only times Cody Rhodes got to foreshadow much of what he became in the second half of a transcendent decade for North American pro wrestling.

Speaking to Brandi (then working as Eden Stiles), he stops just short of burying the Stardust gimmick in an impassioned plea to anybody that'll listen about how the stars of yesteryear need to f*ck off out of the way to give him and his ilk at least a chance of fulfilling their potential. It's to help sell a feud with Goldust, but knowing what we know now adds tremendous heft to a well-delivered cry for help.

Coincidentally, he names future AEW signees Big Show and Mark Henry in his list of "old men talking" in contrast to the "young men dying", before rounding his rallying cry by having a couple of sly pops at what's expected of a WWE promo.

Inspired in and of itself, it only gets more fascinating the older it (and AEW) grows.

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