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Cody Rhodes may be gone from AEW but at least he solved racism while he was there! Was that his worst AEW moment? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Cody Rhodes may be gone from AEW but at least he solved racism while he was there! Was that his worst AEW moment? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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00:00 Man, Cody Rhodes was one of the best babyfaces in wrestling.
00:03 Until he wasn't.
00:04 Yeah, the story of Cody Rhodes in AEW is a fascinating one given that during the company's
00:09 first year on television, Cody was one of the very best, churning out great segment
00:13 after great segment.
00:14 The contract signing with Chris Jericho, the ungoddamn deniable promo, the ten lashes,
00:20 the moonsault off the cage, the man was on fire.
00:23 Well no, that part came later, but you get the point.
00:26 But over time, Cody Rhodes grew less bearable to a large amount of the AEW audience, whether
00:31 it be because of a distaste for reality TV shows, or maybe they didn't like the Cody
00:36 solved racism promo.
00:38 Bottom line, people didn't like Cody no more.
00:41 Thus, the last year of Cody in AEW produced a large number of dud segments, which for
00:46 the sake of parody with our last list, we must list here.
00:49 Not all the moments come from Cody's last 12 months, but rest assured, these are all
00:53 moments to erase from your memory as Cody makes his climb back to the fifth dimension.
00:57 I'm Tempest hailing from PartsFunKnown, and these are the 10 worst Cody Rhodes moments
01:01 in AEW.
01:02 You know what your worst moment in AEW is?
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01:10 So give us the old three click combo and make yourself a subscriber to PartsFunKnown.
01:14 There you go, you have no more worst moments, have a blessed day.
01:17 Number 10, Cody gets booed at Revolution 2021.
01:21 Boy have there been some weird reactions to these spots over the years.
01:24 You know the one.
01:25 A big star hurts his knee or something and gets carried away, only to come hobbling back
01:29 out 10 minutes later.
01:30 People cheered The Miz when he did it at Money in the Bank 2011.
01:33 Interesting.
01:34 But they sure didn't cheer Cody at Revolution 2021.
01:37 Aw man, this guy eats an appropriate amount of s*** entering the match with a hurt shoulder
01:42 and taking a Canadian Destroyer on a ladder.
01:44 Ouch.
01:45 But when he comes back out, the boos are raining down upon him.
01:49 It's one of the first big anti-Cody responses that I can remember, and it just kinda goes
01:54 to show that fans weren't going to welcome him in that kind of heroic underdog role.
01:58 Doesn't kill the match by any means, but this certainly wasn't the reaction he wanted.
02:02 Number 9, don't scare dogs.
02:05 Talk about a thing that feels like it was a million years ago.
02:07 Will my mind ever properly process time before 2020 again?
02:12 Who knows?
02:13 But unfortunately, this was not long enough ago for me to have forgotten this incredibly
02:17 unfortunate moment from AEW's infant days.
02:20 Back in 2019, Cody's Siberian Husky and all-around good boy Pharaoh was as much a part of his
02:25 presentation as anything else.
02:27 I love dogs.
02:28 Dogs are great.
02:29 Which makes Cody's entrance at All Out 2019 for his match against Shawn Spears difficult
02:34 to watch.
02:35 Cody and company walk through the tunnel as fireworks go off.
02:38 Pyro and Ballyhoo.
02:39 Which is not good when there is a poor, confused pepperoni present.
02:43 Sure enough, Pharaoh is having none of it, resulting in a good deal of criticism for
02:47 AEW and, well, yeah, don't scare dogs.
02:50 The Rhodes's-es-es-es-es-es-es.
02:53 Seem like wonderful pet parents though.
02:54 I just love dogs.
02:56 Number 8, Cody Rhodes vs Malachi Black 2.
02:59 Cody Rhodes' first match with Malachi Black was very effective and engaging.
03:03 Malachi kills him in 5 minutes, 1, 2, 3, simple and effective.
03:06 The rematch however, a bit less simple.
03:09 We get the return of Brandi Rhodes, who delivers a wonderful new gif for everyone to save and
03:13 react to things with on Twitter.
03:15 But Arn Anderson also falls off the apron while setting up his spot, and the match just
03:19 feels considerably more complicated than it needed to be.
03:22 The action is good as always, but the follow up to such a unique and decisive first match
03:26 was likely going to struggle to capture that same magic, but Cody vs matches did often
03:31 use a lot more smoke and mirrors than other matches on the AEW card.
03:35 Number 7, Cody Rhodes on the waiting room.
03:37 There were a lot of awkward Pandemic Era wrestling segments, but for Cody Rhodes, this one might
03:41 top the awkward pile.
03:43 Cody is a guest on Britt Baker's "The Waiting Room" to discuss his new baby and
03:47 the Go Big Show, which has always sounded like someone sending out a Pokemon called
03:51 Big Show, but anyway, Britt says Cody's baby will get an action figure before she
03:55 will, and the only thing Cody can do is put on a nervous smile.
03:58 Jade interrupts saying she'll beat Brandi's ass when she returns, another potential feud
04:03 loss to the universe.
04:04 Jade and Red Velvet brawl, Britt finds out she's wrestling Thunder Rosa, and meanwhile
04:08 Cody is awkwardly nodding and saying "okay".
04:12 The whole thing feels incredibly rushed and unfocused, and aside from a brief interaction
04:16 with Jade, Cody didn't even need to be there.
04:19 This quickly becomes not a Cody moment, but he was the top star of the segment, and he
04:23 didn't exactly do much to save it.
04:25 This is more an example of AEW throwing an excessive amount of information into one segment,
04:31 but that is a topic for another day.
04:33 6.
04:34 Cody Rhodes - QT Marshall Rivalry
04:36 If Cody's goodwill with the fans was teetering on the edge at Revolution, this rivalry with
04:41 QT Marshall shoved it right off.
04:43 QT Marshall turned heel on Dustin Rhodes at Revolution in the Tag Battle Royal, and demanded
04:48 a match with Cody shortly thereafter.
04:50 This rivalry just went on forever.
04:53 It went on for three pissing months.
04:56 QT Marshall is a talented man, but he was the heel that had to wrestle Cody while the
05:00 fans were turning on him, and it's not like they were going to cheer QT Marshall.
05:05 Cody beat QT at Blood and Guts, and it still dragged out until AEW's return to the road
05:10 at Road Rager, and what kept us entertained during those three months?
05:14 Well, all the Anthony Ogogo stuff is what, and that deserves its own entry.
05:19 Or in this case, several.
05:21 5.
05:22 Cody Rhodes vs. Anthony Ogogo - Double or Nothing 2021
05:25 Cody Rhodes and Anthony Ogogo had an uphill battle when they were slated to wrestle at
05:29 Double or Nothing 2021.
05:31 Their match was one of the least anticipated on the card, the fans weren't into Cody,
05:35 and Ogogo could count the amount of matches he had had on one hand.
05:38 Considering all that, they did pretty well, making it through the entire match without
05:42 any noticeable screw-ups, but the match still just didn't quite click.
05:46 It wasn't what the fans were excited to see, and on top of that, Cody won with his backup
05:51 finisher The VertiBreaker, or if you watch New Japan Pro Wrestling and play massive amounts
05:56 of Zelda, you'll know Cody's VertiBreaker is named Din's Fire, because despite the
06:01 suits, Cody is still a big ol' nerd just like the rest of us.
06:05 Still, the match is dull, the worst on an otherwise stacked pay-per-view.
06:08 4.
06:09 That Dan Lambert Segment - Cody Rhodes vs. Anthony Ogogo
06:11 Throughout 2021, this backlash against Cody Rhodes grew, and then this segment took place
06:16 on the December 17th episode of Rampage, as Cody Rhodes was forced into a segment with
06:21 Dan Lambert.
06:22 Lambert cuts his usual anti-Tony Khan promo when Cody interrupts him, and at this point
06:27 in time, the fans became stuck between a Cody Rhodes and a Hard Place, wanting to cheer
06:32 for neither man.
06:34 Sometimes double heel rivalries can be fun, like with the Wyatt Family and The Shield,
06:38 where you just cheer for whichever side you prefer, but that just wasn't happening here.
06:43 I want you to think of magnets, and trying to push the negative ends of two magnets together,
06:48 forcibly refusing to cooperate.
06:50 The fans just weren't going to cheer for Cody, and having him play hero and try and
06:54 shut up Dan Lambert just made for a trainwreck segment.
06:57 Not to mention the weirdness of Cody and Lambert stealing the mic from each other a dozen times
07:01 before the fighting broke out.
07:03 The fans just weren't having it anymore, and this is a segment where you just wait
07:07 for it to be over.
07:08 3.
07:09 Teases Left Unanswered - Cody Rhodes vs. Anthony Ogogo
07:11 Say what you will, Cody is a businessman, allowed to make a business decision and take
07:14 himself wherever best suits him.
07:16 Those who get angry saying otherwise on Twitter probably shouldn't be allowed to operate
07:20 heavy machinery, but I digress.
07:22 One major bummer about Cody leaving AEW is the sheer amount of seeds that have been planted
07:27 for future storylines that will now need to be dug up and removed from the AEW garden.
07:32 Cody and Sting will now not get to cross paths after Mr. Stink took an interest in Darby,
07:37 and Cody will now never get to work his way back around to having a rematch with MJF,
07:41 something Cody teased being a goal of his after Full Gear 2020.
07:45 You can't have everything, and that's fine, but it is a shame that these potentially great
07:49 storylines will have to be shelved forever.
07:52 Or until Cody comes back to AEW, because time is a flat circle.
07:56 2.
07:57 The Anthony Ogogo Weigh In - Anthony Ogogo
07:59 Boy you wanna talk about trainwreck segments.
08:01 This was such a trainwreck that there's like a whole episode of Rhodes to the Top talking
08:05 about how it's a trainwreck.
08:07 It's just, why did wrestling get in its own head that weigh ins and contract signings
08:11 are what fans love?
08:12 These segments are fine if they're used for the narrative purpose of just getting two
08:15 characters together so they can speak.
08:18 Cool, they're not that offensive, but when you get a weigh in like this, where the scale
08:22 isn't cooperating, Tall Paul is your mediator, and all of this is just going on forever while
08:27 unrelated fireworks start going off adjacent to the building, this is what I imagine a
08:32 nightmare feels like.
08:33 There's chaotic energy with nothing going right, it's just a bad wrestling segment.
08:38 This is a reminder that Dynamite does, on occasion, have some absolute gong show bottom
08:44 of the barrel moments.
08:46 Just like...
08:47 Number 1 - Cody Solves Racism
08:50 I mean, it had to be this, did it not?
08:52 Poor Cody.
08:53 I can't imagine anything he said during this now infamous promo had any malice behind it,
08:58 but man does that not make it any less bizarre.
09:01 Cody himself has expressed his regrets about this promo and the whole Anthony Ogogo feud
09:05 in general, so it's good to know that his head is screwed on right, but as it was happening,
09:09 Cody's pro-America promo in the middle of some very depressing American times just didn't
09:14 feel helpful in regards to any meaningful conversation about change and real positives.
09:19 Instead it was a wrestling promo about a foreign heel and Cody wanting to call himself the
09:23 American Dream.
09:24 In May 2021, when America was still feeling a great deal of tension politically and racially,
09:29 the optics of this promo were never going to be good and this was a very poor time to
09:34 choose to do it.
09:35 Regardless of your personal views, many people will point to this moment as where it really
09:39 went off the rails for Cody in AEW, which I don't understand because he clearly solved
09:43 racism with this promo.
09:45 What an incredible act.
09:46 And that's our list.
09:47 If there are any terrible Cody Rhodes moments we missed, make sure to let us know in the
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