We just wanted to give people an option and give people a platform for our brand of storytelling and our style of wrestling. “That’s sort of where the Bucks and I differed – we never wanted to go to war with Vince or WWE. One of the big differences Kenny Omega pointed out was that he and the Bucks were never interested in the idea of ‘competition’ with WWE, whereas that was something Cody very much believed in. I can only guess as to why he would leave, and I just think that he saw it with his deal up as an opportunity to investigate something within wrestling, or just life in general, that would bring him more happiness. So I don’t know how he personally feels about anything. “But again, though my professional relationship with Cody was great, he’s not a guy that I go and get a Diet Pepsi with in my off time. And I can understand that there might be some heartbreak if you were promised that or told that, and it doesn’t come to fruition. “And you’re gonna get that I think when, finally, you’ve commmitted your life to an industry and a business, and finally someone goes, ‘Okay, you’ve done this job all your life, you’ve been raised into this business with these shackles on you to a degree by someone or something, now those are off, you’ve got carte blanche, what is it you wanna do?’. And I would say mine was more similar to what the Bucks had envisioned, and Cody’s was out-there. And maybe in the end, we had the Bucks and their vision, we had my vision, and then we had Cody’s vision, and all of our visions were different from one another. “But, I guess we never really sat down and talked to each other about, ‘Okay we have this opportunity to now change wrestling – how do you see it? How do you see it? How do you see it? How do we make this work?’. The issue of having different visions is something that Kenny Omega confirmed, saying: There had been a lot of rumors about the relationships between the EVPs, with the belief that Rhodes’ vision was very different to that of Omega and the Bucks, although the idea of ‘heat’ between them may have been blown out of proportion. If you use this transcription or any portion of it please credit and link to this page We had been optimistic about it, we had thought we would be where we are today where we would be considered a major promotion and we would have our fanbase and we would have hopefully a lot of satisfied customers watching our product.” And I think the original vision that the team brought to the table when AEW was first becoming a promotion – we didn’t know where this would go. Cody, he really believed in the vision, in the original vision, that he brought to the table for AEW. I don’t think it was Tony not shelling out enough cash to keep him invested with the company. “I know – I can’t say I know – I’m guessing, that knowing Cody as well as I know him, I don’t really think it was an issue of money. “So I would always encourage everyone, in wrestling, in life, whatever, if your work isn’t fulfilling, if it doesn’t make you happy, you really should look for opportunities elsewhere in a place where you can feel creatively free and a place where you feel that your work is being appreciated and fulfilled. Maybe that isn’t your inspiration, that isn’t what gets you out of bed every day. However, that being said, feelings change, the environment around you is ever-changing, it’s constantly changing, and maybe the mission statement or the goal or the revolution, whatever it is that you’re searching for, trying to create, maybe that isn’t what it is anymore to you. So it was strange for him to choose to just up and walk away. “Especially since when this thing first started, I would say the most passionate person about a revolution, the most passionate person about creating an ‘us vs them’ mentality – that was Cody. When we would hear that, ‘Okay there’s possibly some difficulty with the renegotiation’ or whatever, it was almost like, you never think it’s gonna go in that direction where the talent is going to opt for leaving. We knew Cody’s, much like the Bucks, it was that time. As you know, I’m up next year, just straight up done, so I’d have to re-sign a new one, there’s no (extension) option. For myself, I don’t have a deal like that. We all know when are deals are up, especially the EVPs, we know when our deals are up, we know when our – in the case of the Bucks – when their (extension) options kick in. Kenny Omega appeared on Wrestling Observer Radio after winning the Observer’s 2021 Wrestler of the Year award, and spoke in depth about Cody Rhodes, one of his fellow original EVPs, exiting AEW.
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