I don't really disagree that AEW strayed from its original vision, but this is pretty hilarious revisionist history. Every angle Brandi put herself in was change the channel bad, and Cody had major go away heat by the time he finally left due to a number of terrible booking decisions on his part (e.g. Cody solves racism by having a mixed-race baby).
The best thing for everyone involved was Cody going back to WWE.
https://www.cagesideseats.com/aew/20...-own-eyes-cody
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In covering the Rhodes’ 2022 departure from the company they helped create just a few years earlier, Vannini notes that Brandi — who served as AEW’s Chief Brand Officer — never thought they’d leave. However, she says:
“What I feared with that company, I was seeing before my eyes. When you start to see things drift from the original vision and… I’ve seen this happen before, then you start to (think) this may not be what we thought it was.”
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“That woman got hugely scapegoated and hugely just misinformation, and everyone knows who they are that was involved. If ever there was a moment for her to just feel like a princess and feel like somebody who did a lot more for wrestling, there’s many people working at AEW who, she was the one who said their name. She was the name who wanted to keep them in the fold when something went wrong.
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