Cody and Brandi Rhodes leaving AEW

[Bad News Gertner]

Originally Posted by Mr. JL It is definitely not a good look for AEW to lose an "EVP" as pivotal as Cody Rhodes after just 3 years. I honestly prefer most of Cody's work compared to Omega's and The Bucks. I like selling and meaning to things. I find Cody's work much more believable and meaningful. I can totally see how his vision would clash with the Bucks and Omega's and ultimately, I guess Tony's too. Cody's is much more rooted in tradition. I really enjoy AEW but fuck, when you look objectively at the product; it is definitely missing some key elements that would make it great. That is more selling and meaning. I really like their faithful adherence to feuds and building storylines with payoffs but it drives me fucking insane to see some of the movesets within matches just being stretched beyond reproach. Some of the moves performed in the ring are fucking GO TO WAR KILL YOU Brutal for meaningless matches and then its forgotten, yet in a backstage moment a wrestler might bump into someone or say something really little and ITS THE END OF THE WORLD. You see guys get spike piledriven into the floor, Canadian Destroyed off a cage and 450'd and tombstoned, dropped on their heads, kicked and kneed in the face x 18 but they fucking kick out; emphatically. Just some of the over the top moves overused and undersold. Its asinine. I like it here and there but when every single match has a, "HOW THE FUCK DID THEY KICK OUT" moment it devalues everything. And some matches have multiple moments where the wrestlers look like they've been killed but they kick out. Then 17 more moves happen to them and they kickout. Then they show up the next day and wrestle the same way like they are A-OK!

They all went to the Jon Moxley school of selling