is ‘best for the whole business’.on Saturday as he beat Seth Rollins in his return bout six years after leaving Vince McMahon’s company, leading to a spell which brought All Elite Wrestling into existence.how he didn’t want to become a ‘gatekeeper’ wrestler after ‘locking’ himself out of AEW’s world championship picture.
‘I told myself I didn’t wanna be a gatekeeper wrestler. I didn’t wanna be, “Oh, new debut, Cody programme”. I didn’t wanna be that. So around that time, I started thinking, “Would it be different?” ‘What happens around the Rumble, this is gonna sound super marky and that’s fine. I have really good Rumble stats,’ he laughed. ‘I’m one of the only two in that top 10 to not win it.
Before that point, Cody didn’t think he’d get ‘another shot’ in WWE, given his huge responsibilities in AEW as an executive vice president and leader of the company’s community outreach programme, as well as a wealth of other projects.‘I didn’t think I’d get another shot at it, in terms of – I was really proud of the run I had in WWE, and in AEW I was executive vice president, head of the community outreach department,’ he explained.