5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Dec 1)

1. 10,000 Reasons To Cherish Cody Rhodes

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Cody is set to undertake the most ambitious, erm, undertaking in the history of post-expansion independent wrestling on the back of a dare.

Dave Meltzer was asked on Twitter a while back if ROH was capable of selling out a 10,000-seat arena. "Not any time soon," came his trademark, curt response.

Cody, surely the best worker operating in a landscape of wrestlers, took this as a personal challenge. The ROH World Champion has this week confirmed to Pro Wrestling Sheet that this self-financed endeavour is deep in the process of actually happening. In 2018. Speaking to Busted Open radio, Cody confirmed his pipe dream main event as ROH World Champion Cody Vs. Daniel Bryan. If Bryan answers the challenge, and wrestles his first match in over three years, suddenly 10,000 seats doesn't feel that ambitious. Kenny Omega's U.S. appearances are so scarce that he pulled in excess of 3,000 punters to ROH's recent, record-breaking Global Wars tour. ROH's NJPW relationship hasn't yielded many dream matches, but there's every chance of real main event cross-promotion here, given New Japan's own designs on the North American market.

The show is provisionally entitled ALL IN - which might become ironic when WWE decides to run their own show in whichever market Cody narrows it down to.

Still, you may not rate Cody as an elite pro wrestler worthy of a World title. You may not appreciate his bellyaching over WWE's intellectual property usage of his father's creations.

But if the man can pull this off, and do something to terrify WWE from its anti-meritocratic slumber, he will genuinely become the trailblazer he markets himself as.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!