Former WWE star and a former WWE Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes who is also the current and three times AEW TNT Champion recently said that 2022 will be the best year of the All Elite Wrestling.
Cody Rhodes is the younger son of professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer the late great Dusty Rhodes. His elder brother Dustin Rhodes is also quite famous in the world of professional wrestling. He is mostly known as Goldust, the gimmick he played throughout his WWE career.
Cody Rhodes Claims 2022 Will Be The Best Year Of AEW
Cody started his professional wrestling career back in 2006 at the age of 20 only. His professional wrestling career started under WWE. The promotion had high hopes from the young professional wrestler.
He was never presented as a main event star in WWE, but he was a solid card throughout his WWE career. He won the WWE Tag Team Championship a total of six times, and he also won the WWE Intercontinental Championship 2 times in total.
He stayed with WWE for a decade and he was quite famous in the promotion. But he was quite frustrated with the way the promotion was beating him resulting him asking for his release in 2016. He was granted his request and he was released from WWE in 2016.
After spending fun times on the independent circuit and other professional wrestling promotions, he came to the newly founded promotion that was currently the biggest Rival of WWE, the All Elite Wrestling. He is currently going quite strong in his new promotion.
Cody Rhodes who is also the current and three times AEW TNT Champion recently spoke to FITE in FOCUS where he said that 2022 will be the best year of the All Elite Wrestling. He said;
“2022, I think it’s easy to say it will be AEW’s best year yet. We are moving into our next phase of our relationship with FITE, our relationship with WarnerMedia. New talent is coming in, contracts coming up.
“All that crazy stuff you hear about makes for a really good wrestling television. Wrestling is best when it could be as real as it could be. As real as you could make it, at least.”
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