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This is maybe the strongest Kobashi year. Absolute blast.

Even with the legendary Okada's reign, I'm still going with Naito. The Tanahashi trilogy is better than the Okada-Omega one, crazy good G1, amazing matches with Elgin, Ibushi, Juice, Omega, ZSJ, and he was at the peak of his popularity. He looked as good as anyone else in history.

WALTER.

He was cool before NXT. Not super great, but for a guy of his age and size he built a really strong aura around him, and the guy has undeniable charisma that can carry most of his matches to make them look better than they actually are. Once NXT turned him into an epic main eventer, I fucking started hating him. The Gargano trilogy will always be one of the worst series of matches I've ever seen, he has nothing matches against other guys too... He's just not a good big match worker. Cole is at his best when working 15 minutes on tv (take a look at the Daniel Bryan match in SmackDown, that happened in the middle of his horrible NXT title reign but he had such a great performance against Bryan. The Jungle Boy match at Dynamite is also a proof of this). Not a contender for my list, but has some cool stuff when working small.

I just watched the Tamura and Hideki matches for the first time ever and I'm hyped as fuck for watching more of his stuff. The MiSu and Moxley matches are amazing as well. Hell, the Hideki match might be the true 2011 MOTY. At his best, Barnett seems like one of the most talented ever. But gotta watch more, how many pro wrestling did he do?

The guy is building his case as we speak. Let's see what he manages to do in these next five years. 2026 will still be super early to compare him to the greatest pro wrestlers of all time, though.

Gotta say he was the last wrestler that made me enjoy ROH back in 2015 against Jay Lethal. His NXT stuff has obviously been a total blast. Excellent tag and midcard worker, and he improved a lot as a heel compared to his pre-WWE career. The Danielson match is amazing, but I need to watch much more of his indy stuff to see if it holds up, I'm specially interested in his PWG and ROH work, but any hidden gem like some of the matches Clayton spoke about will be well received as well.

The only way I could see Taue as underrated is when directly compared to the other Pillars. At his very best he's as good as them and I think an argument can be made about him being the best one, but he's the only one of the four with no overall #1 contendership defenders. Speaking about Taue and Akiyama, the have my favourite sub-10 minute match ever in early 1997 (forgot the exact date, maybe It was the same show as the Kobashi/Misawa GOAT match). They both work in a really intelligent way to tell their story as well as they could and managed to produce a under the radar MOTYC (to me, at least).

He's criminaly underrated, in a sense that most people will agree is great when asked about him, but nobody will bring his name to the conversation in the first place, when he's such an obvious pick for one of the greatest wrestlers of today. I need to dive deep in his first indie run, but his work as Neville at peak NXT is fucking amazing and his title run specially felt huge. His main roster run was a hit or miss when it came to booking, but he strongly delivered any time. He was a random midcarder by mid-2015, yet he managed to make everybody believe he could won the WWE Title against Seth Rollins in an open challenge (that match is soooo good, underrated gem). His Cena US Title match is one of my favourites of that reign (and god knows that title reign has aged poorly as hell). Fuck, his King of the Cruiserweights stuff was great, carrying an almost dead division (his matches against Gallagher and Aries are the highlights here, but he worked great with everyone on that roster and even carried Enzo to his best matches). Then he left WWE and had anither fucking crazy awesome title run, but this time not as a top babyface like in NXT, but as THE BASTARD gaijin of Dragon Gate. He also has the only Cara Noir match I really like. His AEW run is been limited by him being British in the pandemic era, and to me is a real shame he isn't one of the main heels of the company because he's a full package and is way better than anybody in The Elite has been. Help build Hangman as a top guy with a pretty cool series of matches early on the company's history, gave Omega great matches where he hadn't anything scheduled between the Moxley feud and the tag titles run, the Andrade matches are a DELIGHT even with shitty overbooking... Man, he's been consistently great throughout so much time right now, at many different points in his career and against a cool variety of opponents, a lot of them not even close to his level. One of the all time great bumpers, crazy mix of athleticism and ruthless agression, he can be a great underdog, dominant babyface top guy, dominant top heel, he can be a dirty scumbag or the biggest underdog in the world for one night, super unappreciated at elevating others, has the longevity... Maybe he doesn't have as much all time elite level matches as so many other contenders (right now I would only rank his match with Sami in a top 100 for GME), but he's the king of the very good to great matches and one of the strongest workers in any company and/or division he's been.

Honestly, right now this fella is closer to make my list than not, and that's crazy to me. Underrated consistency and has the great matches. Pretty god dam good at his peak. Great heel but also underrated babyface. Amazing execution of all his spots (GOAT powerslam, the worked stomps, the punt kick, obviously the RKO is one of the best finishers of all time, that weird backbreaker he does sometimes, etc). His character work in most of his big matches and rivalries is cool. Also, I've always found fascinating the prestige he receives from other wrestlers, they often call him one of the best to work with. Definitely a contender for my list, yeah.

First forty minutes or so of the show were AMAZING and exactly what I want in my pro wrestling: first the Hangman celebration, and man I'm in board for that, and then the next number one contender appears and the tension escalates quickly but organically. Loved that segment. Then, because Evil Uno is booked against Bryan, we have a reason for not having the Page/Danielson match right now, but we still move to the next segment of the show with logic, and boy was that opening match fun. Gotta love bully Danielson, but honestly Evil Uno surprised me, he showed potential here. And, my favourite part, the crowd went allong with all this stuff: they obvioulsy cheered for Hangman and reacted at everything Danielson wanted them to react and how he wanted them to react, but my surprise was to hear how over Dark Order as a whole is because of the Hangman story, and Evil Uno was pretty over as the underdog. This is pro wrestling when it's done right, and it's the most beautiful thing in the world. I don't care about Colt Cabana (and funnily enough crowd seemed to didn't care either, but next week they're on Chicago so I guess i'ts gonna be hot), but Danielson is having fun bullying Dark Order before having his title match, and that sounds fun as hell. Really liked the Ishii tag match, everyone played their role well. But man, I HATED that they didn't give Ishii his own entrance with his fucking badass theme song. It's TOMOHIRO ISHII. MAKING HIS AEW DEBUT. C'mon man. My biggest dissapointment with this show was how they decided to finish two really interesting rivalries after the first PPV match. Both MJF/Allin and Punk/Kingston had so much potential, why ending just like that after one match? Darby shouldn't accept the fact MJF cheated to defeat him, and oh my, Eddie DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T accept that Punk defeated him like that. I don't buy it. Punk/MJF will be fine, but at this point, I'm not nearly as interested because I'm assuming things are gonna end after one match so why should I be more invested for a rivalry? Is Cody Rhodes the only one allowed to have a multi-chapter rivalry? Speak of the devil, I'm kinda interested in that 4vs4 multiman they're setting up. It should be hard for Cody to fuck things up when he will be surrounded by PAC, Black, Andrade, FTR and the Lucha Bros + Arn and Tully doing their thing. Sounds like a very cool match, hope they dare to make it an elimination or, even better, a Gauntlet match, just to elevate the stakes and ending the rivalry in a big way (and hopefully with the heels winning). Nyla vs Shida was pretty good. Nyla looked great and I hope she wins the whole tournament and championship, because she's the only wrestler that forces the other women to fight a kind of different match where it's easier to do something, you know, good. The "monster heel vs underdog" dynamic almost always works, trying to have epic 50-50 matches when they're not at that level yet, doesn't. So yeah, I'm rooting for Rose here. REALLY liked the main event. I hate Jay Lethal because duh, everyone should, but he gave a pretty cool, motivated, performance. And boy, Sammy Guevara is a delight to watch, he countered everything Lethal had for him, and he moves so fucking fast and with so much... grace, and fluidity. He also puts so much energy behind every move he does, and he's believable in a way few other current high flyers usually are (even Darby, sometimes). Glad he retained, he's having a crazy run, and when that boy reaches his peak, I'm sure he's gonna have blast after blast.

He definitely has a case. An underrated contender for best wrestler of this last decade. He has the ability to shine in settings I usually don't like that much (Dragon Gate, 2019-onwards New Japan). And the crazy part is that we're still living his peak.

Tony Khan would be dumb if he doesn't sign Ember Moon, Mia Yim and Biff Busick. But specially those two women, they would help the division a lot.

Hangman is over as hell. I'm so hyped for him winning the championship, not only because I'm tired of Omega but because since day 1, it was very obvious the world championship booking: Jericho had to be the first, Moxley was the hottest guy in the business at the moment so he had to win it after, it was clear Omega would take the championship from Moxley since his lost against him at Full Gear, and obviously they were building Hangman alongside Kenny to eventually make him win the title from him. But after Hangman wins, what now? So much potential for new stories, match ups, rivalries, outcomes... Can't wait to see what AEW does with its first "home made" champ. Punk's promo was cool. I'm glad a huge wrestling persona appears on TV to say it's ok to ask for help when facing a difficult situation, like Moxley's. The Kingston feud will be awesome, I'm sure. I hope it doesn't finish after Eddie jobs to Punk one time, though. Aerostar looked horrible. Really bad shape. Haha Jericho joked about onlyfans and ganbanging VanZant and they called her a bitch haha Seriously, fuck off. 2021 everyone. The Lambert reveal was expected, but still cool, and Dan's reaction was golden. Not really interested in this rivalry but gotta admit, if ATT just reduced to Lambert, Sky, Page and VanZant they could have a good run. Absolutely loved that little Tully/Arn face-off. Miro is the perfect replace for Mox. Him and Orange have unsurprisingly good chemistry, and I hope they got more time to give a big tv match instead of just a sub-ten minute beatdown with a few hope spots. They're both great wrestlers, so the match was still good with just that, but I want a rematch sooner or later. Miro/Danielson has to be HUGE, and I'm not really sure about who's winning this. Asuming Hangman wins the title, I can see Miro as a better first challenger for him, while Bryan feels more like a real threat to Hangman's reign and it should come later. Also, I guess we're going to have the Omega rematch without any championship on the line, so Kenny can lose, so I don't see Bryan working Hangman in the near future. Whatever, there's no really a bad choice, either guy rocks, any possible match up between those four sounds interesting and could make sense, I can't wait for the actual outcome. Full Gear looks nuts.

Just watched this again. For many years this has been my absolute favourite, greatest match of all time. It's been a long time since I watched it last time, and my criteria has changed a lot since, so when I felt I was ready to revisit this one I felt a lot of pressure on me. I didn't want to lose the happiness and overall "out of the body" experience I've always had with this match. Thankfully, that didn't happen. This is still the best match I've ever seen. By far. When it comes to pure ringwork, trying to be as objective as possible, I would say the first couple sequences are a bit generic and serve just as a warm up, nothing special to kickoff the match. That means it COULD BE a bit worse than other GOAT contenders I have like Okada/Shibata, Bock/Hennig, or the 20/01/97 Kobashi/Misawa match. BUT. The meaning this match has is (almost) out of range for any other. This is all about the climax of a legendary saga. It's all about Kobashi finally being better than Misawa, and Misawa not wanting to lose his seat at the top of the mountain by any means. Since the very beginning and presentation of the match, with the atmosphere, the epic entrances, the staredowns, you immediately get that you're watching two of the best ever at their ultimate battle. It's 100% a must win scenario for both of them: Kobashi can't aford another lose to Misawa now that his knees aren't at their full and will never be again, and Misawa is starting to get old and fat. Whoever wins now, wins the whole rivalry. The stakes are as high as ever. I don't like to be hyperbolic when talking about wrestling, but stories and matches like these are on such another level that it's simply almost impossible to not sound hyperbolic. This is dramatic as fuck, epic as fuck, brutal as fuck. They kill each other in the first five minutes, and then manage to build another 25 minutes by going even further beyond! And it totally works, because they make you CARE about them with perfect body language and insane charisma. There's a criminally underrated sequence in this match, at the first half of it, when Misawa is suffering some nasty neck-work courtesy of gool old Chopbashi, and he stops selling his torture and starts to stare FEROCIOUSLY at him, no selling the following chops, starting to come back with elbows. It's like when Kawada pisses him off: the almighty Misawa coming back easily. And Misawa manages to turn the match around for a couple of minutes because, even when he's starting to lose the Ace position, he's still fucking Mitsuharu Misawa and he can destroy you with just a couple of well-timed strikes and a few signature moves... Only this time Kobashi regains control by countering him. People tend to enphasize Kobashi's resilliance by surviving the Tiger Suplex off the ramp and the Emerald Flowsion (and yeah, he's fucking Kenta Kobashi, the most resiliant motherfucker ever in his most important match ever), but to me the key is about Kobashi actually being a better wrestler; not only by being able to survive more stuff, but because he controls most of the match and is able to counter most of Misawa's attempts. He doesn't win at the end because he survives the Suplex and the Flowsion: he does it because he avoids the TD91 attempt and counters the running elbow attempt with his Burning Lariat. He's clearly the better wrestler, kayfabe wise, throughout the whole match, and you can TELL Misawa is pyschologically struggling with that. He has some of the best facial expressions I've ever seen in him, he's desperate as hell, and people have already talked enough about how part of the special feel of this match is the inversion of their dynamic: now Kobashi is the wrestler to beat (even if he hasn't won the title yet), and Misawa is the desperate guy trying whatever he can to win. That fucking Tiger Suplex off the ramp is not only a powerful moment because... well, is crazy as fuck, but because it shows how far he has to go, against his will, to the point that he makes all the other "crazy bomb off the apron" spots at their other matches feel like nothing compared to this one. Only that, again, this time Kobashi comes. Fucking. Back. Those last minutes are PERFECTION, easily the most epic comeback ever. Even though this match obviously have some of the same appeals their other classics have (you get the elbow vs chop battle, the crazy bombs, the tests of strength, the bomb off the apron spot, finisher kickouts at 2'9999...), the dynamic is different not only character-wise, but structure-wise. This match is shorter and they go all out since almost the very beginning, because there's no point in trying to work a more elaborate match right now. They know each other so much and their rivalry has reached a level of epicness so high, that everyone and their mothers know that both guys have to start throwing bombs as soon as possible. Misawa landing most of his signature spots in the first couple of minutes is fantastic, it's like his great exhibition of dominance at the start of their 20/01/97 match but with a totally different meaning: now he's desperate. I said it before, but seriously, Misawa's character work in this match is unreal. It would be talked about loudly if he didn't have the greatest wrestler ever making a hell of a performance in front of him. Kenta Kobashi reaches wrestling's heaven in this match. Pro wrestling has a lot of amazing stories to tell, but I can't think of any better story than the underdog chasing and finally winning the main title from a long-time rival. And Kobashi protagonizes the best of those stories, with this fantastic climax that is this match. He's the soul of the match and his final victory is one of the most satisfying moments ever. They worked their asses off for this moment, not only in this match, but throughout, idk, eight or so years of build up. There's no way this scenario can be duplicated, because this is the end of the greatest saga ever in pro wrestling, with two of the best ever, after so many years of build up, giving everything they have. Modern pro wrestling usually fails at epicness because they try to recreate the feeling of this match without caring about working a long-time rivalry with larger-than-life characters and sold out crowds; they want to have a dream, +5* match from out of nowhere, and sorry but it can't be done that way. This match is the Avengers Endgame of pro wrestling. And Kobashi being the protagonist of it is a huge part of why he's my favourite wrestler ever. I have some other amazing, spectacular, emotional, technically perfect matches that will be near the top spot on my list. But now that I watched this again, I don't think there's a single chance any other match could beat it as number 1. I get not everyone has to feel the exact same thing as I do, not everyone is gonna be invested in Kobashi's journey as much as I am, not everyone is gonna love the Misawa/Kobashi series as much as I do and not everyone is gonna see this match with the same eyes as I do, althought I would say everyone should at least appreciate what they're attaining with this rivalry and this specific match (the same way EVERYONE recognizes what 9/6/95 stands for). This is as perfect as Misawa and Kobashi pretended it to be: the ultimate battle between two living legends of the industry, and the decisive victory of the greatest underdog babyface ever built. It has to be my number 1.

Danielson/Kingston was pretty cool. Like, possibly the best tv match of the year, at least for AEW.

I don't think anybody else in history has been a best in the world contender as long as Bryan. You could say he was one of the BITW since 2002 onwards, nineteen years ago. Even with the 2015-18 gap, that's still fucking amazing, and he keeps adding to his case with a killer 2021 (both in WWE and AEW). I don't think he's gonna get any lower than #2 on my list, and we still have five years to go.

Well, The Wrestler is finally back. So hyped to see what he can do after four years to make his case bigger.

I like them all, but right now is close between Moxley and Reigns. If we only talking about Shield run, Ambrose was the one shinning the most I would say. Reigns' singles run between 2014-19 was better than Ambrose's, but his post-WWE stuff as a reborn Jon Moxley, specially his 2019 New Japan run, is absolutely amazing. You can add his FCW stuff and some highlights from EVOLVE or DGUSA and he has a pretty strong career overall. While Roman has been more consistent from a ringwork perspective, Ambrose/Mox always managed to be an interesting character to the audience, always over with crowds. He's also the most versatile guy of the trio. When it comes to Rollins, I think the guy is so overrated by many people that he actually has become a lot more underrated by some other people. He's always been solid: has some highlights in ROH and FCW, his Shield run is great, and his singles run is a mixed bag but I don't think you can't deny some of his best work like the Ambrose ladder match, the Lesnar SummerSlam match, the Styles match, the Edge matches, the Cesaro WM match... And he's quite different in all of them, from a character perspective. He never learned to chill the fuck out when necesary, true, but it doesn't bother me as much as other spotty guys, because at least Rollins works in a way that doesn't scream "HEY LOOK AT ME" like, idk, the Bucks or Omega or post-2018 Gargano. He's just athletic as fuck and is gonna take advantage of that while wrestling. I'm gonna go with Mox. Better character work, most versatile and overall the most charismatic of the three.

The thing is, how do we know some eternal babyface/heel wasn't great at the opposite role? Can we really blame Kobashi for not having the chance to have a heel run? Would have been necessary a heel run, in the first place? Just to give an example. If a wrestler does have great babyface and heel performances/runs, that's awesome and definitely a great argument for him/her. But with the babyface-heel dynamic being so different when comparing the classic pro wrestling countries, i don't think we should look for that kind of versatility for every single contender. I don't think "he never worked heel" matters against Kobashi, or other similar cases. Same for the all time heels. You can still be a very versatile wrestler while remaining a long time babyface/heel. Hell, in fact, Kobashi as a chicken shit heel is the last thing I would've wanted to see from a guy like him. I "don't care" if Savage was an all time great at it, when comparing those two in order to choose who's gonna rank higher, being a heel won't matter that much. Offense, peaks, selling, charisma and crowd control, consistency, how good they protrayed their respective character work, stuff like that will matter.

Yesterday I rewatched both WM Bret/Yokozuna matches and.... They're actually... Kinda cool???? Both of them have two of the most stupid, anticlimatic finishes ever in pro wrestling, but other than that they are really enjoyable David vs Goliath matches, minimalism done well. I also like how they have a different approach: while WM IX is a classic "technique and speed vs size and strength", WM X has this fun premise that both of them are fucked up because they've wrestle prior that night. Their selling is pretty good and I love how they usually were resting of the mat, while still attacking each other with kicks and punches and whatever. I'm now bothered about both these matches being cannonically considered two of the worst WM main events ever. They're not GREAT, because fuck those finishes, but man they aged well. Definitely two matches that help Bret's case.

Nick is definitely better than Matt.

Realy liked the opener. It's been a while since I enjoyed an Adam Cole match, but he and Jungle Boy were good at manipulating the crowd into cheering the right guy and booing the right guy, and they build up a great last couple minutes. Fast-paced 15-20 minute matches are exactly what modern pro wrestling needs more, and specially what Cole can be good at, so yeah, the match worked pretty well. Then we had a cringy Elite segment, and I gotta say, I HATE all of these guys. I hated them before they turned heel, you know, but that was serious hating, now I can appreciate they're trying to be hated. Then Bryan came in and gave Omega a nickname that I hope stays with him for the rest of his career. It is so cliché but so hilarious I can't help it, wrestling needs to be silly sometimes. I would have appreciated some direct confrontation between Danielson and Nick Jackson, because, you know, Nick is the one who's gonna face him at Rampage, and I would have prefered a set up to it instead of just randomly announcing the match later on the show. But well, Nick is probably the best singles worker of The Elite if you think about it (I know, I know, sounds crazy but I can't see it otherwise). Andrade's promos were disgusting to watch, but now he went full circle and is absolutely hilarious. I just can't take him seriously when he talks, but I want more of his shit. Anyway, whatever he does with the Lucha Bros should be awesome. Arn Anderson destroying Cody on the mic was golden. Glad to see the crowd is still turning on him. It was funny how Lee Johnson got the pin and basically the whole match all by himself, but when the interview comes it's Cody the one at the front page. Wtf Tony man INTERVIEW THE ACTUAL WINNER of the team. Set up some jealousy from Cody or something. But anyway, Double A dumped him so I guess they're still going somewhere with this storyline. I just hope it's a turn heel instead of another redemption arc, but at the same time Cody was a horrible (horrible, horrible) heel back in the day so... It also bothers me the fact that the story is about Cody, when in my opinion they should give more screentime to Black and continue his push doing his stuff with other notorious guys on the roster. Give Cody some holidays, let him focus on his stupid reality show or something, and then when he comes back he can turn heel and later explain his new motivations. But right now, I feel the focus should be more on Black than on him. But that's Cody Rhodes for you all. Dark Order reunited again was cool. This company knows how to build earned, satisfying feel-good moments (more on that later in this post) for every single part of their roster, being main events, midcard, women division, tag team division, comedy guys... ALSO, I'm so excited for Lio Rush. He's huge and kinda underrated if you ask me. I also like Lambert, Sky and Page, and hope they get more protagonism on the tag division, but I don't care about all the other guys that attacked Jericho last week. And I don't really care about the Jericho feud itself, either. Give me a Lucha Bros vs Men of the Year series! Still no much screentime and development for the womens division. Whenever I see there's a womens segment in this show, I just can't help but think "they're doing womens segment because they feel forced to do them, but they're not giving them any strong storylines, directions, gimmicks, etc". AEW is not trying with their women, and I know they in ring level is not that good, but fuck they are obssesed with signing cool male wrestlers to reinforce their roster, why not cool female wrestlers!? Why are they not trying to give their actual female roster more interesting stuff to do, other than the obligatory 10-minute match, maybe two matches, per show? I can see the potential in that division (Baker is a great character and it's only a matter of time she gets actually good in the ring, Soho too, Nyla is great, Thunder Rosa is fun, I want to like Anna Jay too even though I haven't see her in great performances yet...), and I'm sure the company does it too, so then why it feels like the company is not fucking trying to build a more interesting scene with all of them? The MJF/Darby rivalry can be great. I love how AEW is stablishing the "future four pillars" in Guevara, Jungle Boy and those two, I can see them all having very succesful careers if AEW becomes huge for a long time. But man I hate MJF promos. He just screams all the time. I also don't like how he always goes for black humour, because I remember the Moxley feud and all the "MJF 4 champ" campaing, and that was fun as hell and didn't need MJF to be screaming and talking about AIDS and/or dead relatives. Darby didn't look good at all at the mic this time, so I hope this feud focuses more on backstage stuff and the actual matches instead of regular promos at the building, because I don't want neither of them doing those. The segment also finished kinda akwardly... But hey, a very promising midcard rivalry, I'm in! The main event was great. Not because the match itself was (it was very good, specially Miro's performance, but not *that* good), but because the segment as a whole felt totally earned. After all the bullying Miro has done to Fuego del Sol and him, Sammy finally got his moment. I loved Sammy's high flying comebacks, dude is a magnificent athlete and a such a sympatethic babyface, and Miro. Man, what a guy. He looks better than ever. He has one of these kind of bodies you just can't look away, the same happens to me when I look at Cesaro or Kiyoshi Tamura, they're just... physically perfect. And he looks more motivated than ever too. This Miro is completely different from early-AEW Miro, and I'm so glad he regained his wrestling passion because he's that. Damn. Good. If you ask me, AEW would be much better if The Elite goes away and Khan puts Miro as one of their main heels (with PAC and Malakai). As for Sammy, he now has to prove he can be a great babyface midcard champion, and it feels exciting to be part of this new phase of his career. If Eddie Kingston wasn't gonna win the TNT Title, then I'm glad Guevara was the one.

I don't know who Jimmy Valiant is. I also voted for him.

The fhing with Cody is that, when he has to lose, he can't lose without some bullshit. He should have lost to Black clean again, but I guess two times are too much for him, so let's throw Arn Anderson and black mist to the equation. Same happened when Darby won the TNT title from him, they've been building that victoy since the very beginning of the company, but when it was time... He lost because he was a prick and got himself into a craddle, not because Darby earned that victory. And I completely disagree with him being heel being his best version: just look at his heel work at New Japan and ROH. He was ATROCIOUS, to the point of killing matches. Best non-WWE Cody was fired up babyface against Jericho, and that lasted like two months or whatever. He's awful, and he has got to a point where he doesn't fit anywhere in AEW. I can't stand Omega and the Bucks, but at least they have a clearly defined role in the company. Cody seems like he always needs to have something because he's Cody Rhodes you know... but everything he gets is boring, repetitive and/or with low stakes. They created the TNT title for him to have something to win (because he booked himself to not wrestling for the world championship even though he still treats himself as a super main eventer and doesn't put over almost anyone, what a humble guy!), but now that championship has found it's place in the company because they have a pretty fucking good midcard and that championship doesn't need Cody anymore, so... What now? Where's Cody's character going? Who cares, honestly?