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AEW TNT Champion Cody spent nearly an hour with the media Thursday, answering questions about whether a trilogy match with Nick Aldis will ever happen, why he will stick to the stipulation of never challenging for the AEW World title, Dark, and why the TNT title means so much to him.

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While he is happy to get the Rhodes last name back, he won’t use it in the wrestling space. His real goal was to use it for third party ventures (ex. Go Big Show, acting gigs). He didn’t provide any details on the negotiations but said it was a “no hard feelings” type arrangement.
He reiterated that he will never challenge for the AEW World title because stipulations matter. He later put over how much the TNT title meant to him, how it’s the “ace” title, and that maybe someday, Jon Moxley could challenge him for it.
He said that Tony Khan reached out to Billy Corgan about making the Serena Deeb-Allysin Kay NWA women’s title match and that the “bridges are down” when it comes to bringing in new talent.
He talked about his early comments regarding AEW being more “sports-centric” and that he was referring to his own work.
He put over the company’s medical and concussion protocols and said the roster was having a meeting with Chris Nowinski today. He added that wrestling is violent and he thinks some fans have forgot that. However, while it’s violent, he said it can’t be so much that talent is injured. “We do ourselves no favors by running a sloppy shop.”
He said the credit for the current format of AEW Dark goes to Khan with indie talents in competitive matches. The name came from the Universal Dark Universe monster movies.
He said he was “genuinely pissed” about not being no. 1 in the PWI 500 and said if wrestlers tell you they don’t care about it, they aren’t successful. He had a whole idea that was ruined because he didn’t get the honor.
He said he and Khan are on the same page with treating legends as luminaries as he didn’t like how Dusty Rhodes was treated toward the end of his career.
He was asked about whether he and Nick Aldis will face each other a third time and he was very doubtful that it would as he’s happy about how the second match turned out.

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