The First L for AEW

If you have been following my blogs I have been writing about how AEW is jam packed with talent. In a 4 hour weekly window and all the signings and originals there isn’t enough time to showcase your roster. Miro has been on the sideline for months, healthy just no storyline or any where to put him. If your aren’t Bryan Danielson, CM Punk or the Young Bucks your chances of being on tv every week are slim. With 44 signings in the last year and a half and no cuts of your own talent is going to get aggravated being kept in the back.

So with the breaking news today that one of the key people for bringing AEW to life, the Vice President of AEW Cody Rhodes is leaving the company. If the VP is upset about how things are going that can’t be a good look for the Khan man himself. The narrative of Tony Khan is he is a huge wrestling fan and he has been scooping up talent like he was collecting wrestling figures. Well what happens when you have too many? You put them aside and that’s what he did with Cody. The other rumor is that AEW is maxed out on its budget right now and until a major tv deal can come in for 2024 they really don’t have the funds to go out and do what they have been doing for the past 18 months. Just like the Monday Night Wars, Vince got shit on for losing talent going to the competition, but the competition didn’t have the money, the ideas to keep a sinking ship a float. Is that what’s happening now, when Cody shows up on Raw or Smackdown this week for the road to Wrestlemania, is that like when Jericho jumped from WCW to WWF? Is this the first domino to fall in the right direction for WWE? Will Cody have a pipe bomb moment when he comes back and lets us know that the grass isn’t greener.

If we thought the war between WWE and AEW was fizzling out then we were wrong. Vince has the money to do what he needs to do and acquire talent. 2022 should be a very interesting year for wrestling fans and with Cody coming back who will be the next to follow?