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Wrestlenomics: Cody Rhodes leaves AEW

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

One of the founding members of All Elite Wrestling moves on, as Cody Rhodes and AEW announced this week the former is leaving the company. Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo discuss what might have led to his exit and what his future, likely with WWE, may be like.

Plus, WWE stock continues to climb and outperform the market. Brandon's new financial estimate argues WWE will need live streaming distribution as a component of its next live broadcast rights deal.

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0:00.0

And that big question of what happens next with this group, we are stinking together.

0:17.6

That brings us here today putting words down on a brand new sheet of paper, brand new

0:26.1

chapter, brand new book that we like to call all-eat-leaf wrestling.

0:32.5

I guess we never really sat down and talked to each other about, okay, we have this opportunity

0:39.8

to now change wrestling.

0:42.3

How do you see it?

0:43.4

How do you see it?

0:44.4

How do you see it?

0:45.4

How do we make this work?

0:46.4

Maybe in the end, you know, we had the bucks and their vision.

0:50.0

We had my vision and then we had Cody's vision and all of our visions were different from

0:55.6

one another.

0:56.6

I would say mine was more similar to what the bucks had envisioned and Cody's was out

1:02.8

there.

1:03.8

It was much different.

1:05.6

Someone told me to save this promo but I honestly don't know if I'm going to get the chance

1:09.8

so I'm going to do it now.

1:14.0

And it's very sad and I, you know, not something any of us wanted to happen I think, but I

1:24.3

believe that Cody got something else, you know, in the works, I'm not sure about that,

1:31.6

but we'll see.

1:34.5

I carry every ounce of anti-monopoly sentiment on my shoulders.

1:40.8

I help every grain of the revolution in my hand and each and every one of you cheer.

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