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10 Best Cody Rhodes Moments In AEW Cody Rhodes has left AEW and thus what better time to reflect than now? These are Cody Rhodes' 10 Best AEW moments and if there are any that we missed let us know in the comments!  0:00 - Intro 0:52 - 10 1:46 - 9 2:37 - 8 3:24 - 7 4:17 - 6 5:03 - 5 5:44 - 4 6:27 - 3 7:23 - 2 8:11 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: wrestleshop.com Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00 A peroxide blonde figure in wrestling, changing companies and hoping that people still like him

00:04 as much as he thinks people do, although there's a nagging thought in the back of his mind that

00:07 people absolutely don't. That gimmick will never work. Anyway, completely unrelated to that last

00:12 statement, Cody Rhodes has left AEW, the company that he helped to create, the first viable

00:16 competition to WWE in decades, and it's all but certain that not only will he be returning to

00:20 the heaven from which he fell, but he's also going to be in a major program at WrestleMania.

00:24 Life is weird, huh? Regardless of all the backstage rumours that are tying us all in

00:27 knots and whatever the young bucks put in their Twitter bio, Cody has done some phenomenal work

00:31 in AEW, haters be damned. As we embark on the "Rhodes to WrestleMania" - Oli insists I credit

00:37 him for that joke - let's mark one chapter of the American Nightmare's career closing,

00:41 but running down some of Cody's greatest AEW memories, because shut up, you mean people,

00:45 there are loads. Cody loads. I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunknown, and here are our Top 10

00:50 Cody Rhodes Moments from AEW. Number 10. 10 Lashes. Cody Rhodes' rivalry with MJF was one of

00:56 the most engaging stories told during the early days of Dynamite, with Maxwell "Jacob" Friedman

01:01 executing the first great heel turn of the promotion's history and crowning himself

01:05 King Turd in the Punchbowl. To get MJF to fight him, Cody had to accept MJF's terms,

01:09 a trial of Hercules-style gauntlet, one of which was to receive 10 lashes from MJF himself. The

01:14 segment is actually difficult to watch, seeing Cody's back being covered in welts as MJF and

01:19 Wardlow really take their time and draw these 10 lashes out, heels unrelated to the rivalry came

01:24 out on stage just to watch Cody suffer while the Young Bucks told him he didn't have to do this.

01:29 One of the last times Cody would ever interact with the Elite on camera, and the whole thing

01:33 has a very Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, ECW vibe to it. The pretty babyface taking these shots,

01:38 but standing triumphantly after the heel is given his best. Talk about a stark contrast

01:43 to the revival shaving each other's backs in the shower over on the other channel.

01:46 Number 9. Cody Rhodes vs. Wardlow. Sticking with the MJF feud, another of the American Nightmare's

01:51 trials saw him step inside a steel cage with Wardlow, MJF's giant man pet. The first cage

01:56 match in AEW history, and Wardlow's first match in the company, again a lot could go wrong,

02:01 but Cody led the way through a simple, yet effective match. After years of WWE's fairly

02:05 crap "escape the cage" rules, this match went back to NWA-style basics, locking the hero in a cage

02:10 with a monster and forcing him to take a big risk to slay the beast, and what a risk at that. Cody

02:15 scales this impossibly tall cage and hits a moonsault that probably should have cost him his

02:20 knees if not worse, taking out Wardlow and winning the match covered in blood. Cody standing on top

02:25 of the cage, crimson masked with finally nothing, standing between him and MJF is an unironically

02:30 heroic moment. Sure is a shame MJF beat him and Cody just sort of forgot about the whole thing,

02:34 but hey-ho, look at the moonsault again. Wee. Number 8. Cody cross-bodies Shaq. Feels surreal

02:40 to try and remember that. At the peak of pandemic wrestling, Cody Rhodes wrestled Papa John's Papa

02:45 John, Shaquille O'Neal on AEW Dynamite. Man, Big Show must have been just as sad as Panda watching

02:51 this, checking his phone and seeing his repeated requests for a Shaq match being left on read.

02:55 After months of trash talk between Rhodes, Shaq, Brandy, Red Velvet and Jade Cargill,

02:59 Cody and Red Velvet finally took on Shaq and Jade on the 3rd of March episode of Dynamite 2021. The

03:04 match was absolutely incredible, a good thing since this was Jade's first match and Shaq was

03:08 more well known for stuff, crust and athleticism at this point in his career, but this ended up

03:12 being one of the best celebrity wrestling matches ever, capped off by Cody cross-bodying Shaq off

03:16 the apron through a table as Jade got the win. I mean, who amongst you has gotten to put Shaquille

03:21 O'Neal through a table? Not me. Maybe Pete though. I think Pete has. Number 7. The flaming table.

03:26 That just... that just f***ing sucks, huh Cody? The poor lad would jump off anything or through

03:31 anything if it meant the fans would cheer him just once, and you people, you people wouldn't

03:36 even give him that, to be fair the neck tattoo is bad. On the December 1st 2021 episode of Dynamite,

03:41 Cody wrestled Andrade El Idolo in an Atlanta street fight, all things considered, this was a

03:46 very fun match, but then, oh no what are you doing Brandy? That's not how you set a table. Cody hits

03:50 an inverted suplex through a flaming table of all things, and Andrade goes through precisely dick of

03:56 that table, Cody taking the full bump. Most of the time, flaming table fight puts itself out pretty

04:01 quickly. It's a board covered in lighter fluid so the fluid should burn off quite quickly. Not this

04:05 time though, Cody lands and lies in a pile of flaming rubble, burning, literally burning as he

04:11 pins Andrade with his tights still on fire. It may not have gotten him cheered in the long term, but

04:15 gotta put some respect on the lad at least. Number six, Cody puts over new talent. It is hard to try

04:19 and narrow this down to just one moment, but it is worth pointing out that while a portion of the AEW

04:24 fan base became perhaps a little too obsessed with comparing Cody Rhodes to Triple H, you're not

04:28 really helping your case with that golden shovel though Cody. I don't really care that it's a meme.

04:31 However, while many accused Cody of burying new talent, more often than not the opposite was true.

04:36 Sure, Cody got many wins in AEW, but there are few who did the job to make someone else a star,

04:41 as many times like Cody did in AEW, whether it be MJF Revolution 2020,

04:44 Rody Lee in just minutes and one of the biggest shockers in Dynamite history, Darby Allin at

04:49 Full Gear 2021, Malakai Black also in just minutes, or Sammy Guevara in that ladder match that we'll

04:55 get to. Cody leaves behind a roster of guys who have benefited from beating him, mostly because

04:59 he beat so many people. Like that's how wrestling works, really. Number five, the TNT Open Challenge.

05:05 Boy, I do love a good Open Challenge. Single handedly turned John Cena's career around,

05:08 I don't care who agrees. Good matches were built in stakes and an ongoing story of the champion

05:13 getting worn down with each title defense only to finally be overcome when they run out of gas,

05:17 who could say no? Cody Rhodes was your inaugural TNT champion, if we're honest,

05:21 beating the relatively new Lance Archer could be seen as the start of his descent in the fans'

05:24 eyes, but then he started putting it on the line every week. He started with Jungle Boy and

05:27 proceeded to have really fun matches with Mark Quen, Jake Hager, Ricky Stark, Sonny Kiss, Eddie

05:32 Kingston, Warhorse, Scorpio Sky before finally losing in a legendary squash match against Brody

05:37 Lee. The Open Challenge didn't just benefit Cody either, with Starks and Kingston both earning

05:41 contracts from their performances against the grandson of a plumber. Number four, the Dog

05:44 Collar Match. This match holds a bittersweet place in many fans' hearts as this would end up being the

05:49 final match of the great Brody Lee's career, but did he ever make the most of this one? In response

05:54 to Brody capturing the TNT title from Cody, Cody returned weeks later with black hair looking an

05:58 awful lot like Robbie Rotten from LazyTown, challenging Brody to a Dog Collar match for

06:02 the title on the October 7th, 2020 episode of Dynamite. The match has the kind of old-school

06:07 Southern violence that AEW often really well mixes in with their high-speed technical wrestling,

06:12 lucha libre, and Japanese strong style. This was an old-fashioned fight with both men chained

06:17 together, bleeding together, and it was brilliant. Of all of Cody's title wins in AEW, this one was

06:21 by far the best match, and it holds an incredible amount of emotional weight and significance in

06:26 hindsight. Number three, Undesirable to Undeniable. While Cody Rhodes cut one or two great promos in

06:31 WWE, the "They Made My Father Dance" one being especially good, AEW is where he truly came into

06:37 his own on the stick. He cut a number of great promos during his time in AEW, but the best has

06:41 to be his go-home promo for Full Gear 2019. Setting up his AEW World Championship match

06:46 with Chris Jericho, Cody would announce that if he lost, he would never again challenge for the

06:50 title, a stipulation that may have handcuffed him narratively later on, but for the time,

06:54 these were big stakes, the kind that really sold AEW's early pay-per-views. He throws shade at

06:59 Jericho, saying you could buy his book for $3 on Amazon, but the real emotion comes when Cody says

07:03 this match isn't about his dad. It isn't about the dead. It's about the living. It's about his mother,

07:08 his sister, his wife, and the 14 years it took for him to go from undesirable to ungoddamn deniable.

07:14 Cody occasionally cut some weird, rambling promos in the house he helped build, but this promo

07:19 encapsulated everything about him that made him the face of the revolution at the time. Number two,

07:24 Cody Rhodes vs. Sammy Guevara. Holy s***, what a ladder match though. Cody Rhodes may have lost

07:29 that babyface shine he had early in his AEW run, but there is no denying that he elevated his in-ring

07:33 ability greatly during his time in the promotion, perfectly illustrated by what will come to be

07:38 known as his final match under the AEW flag for now. For his swan song, Cody put on one of the

07:43 best ladder matches ever with Sammy Guevara to determine the undisputed TNT Champion. Singles

07:49 ladder matches are very difficult to pull off because the time spent selling usually needs

07:53 to be cut dramatically to ensure the match doesn't grind to a halt. It's easier with multiple people

07:57 because you can just lay there after taking the best cutter off a ladder spot ever. Genuinely,

08:02 this spot almost out TLC2's TLC2. Cody and Sammy destroyed themselves for our entertainment,

08:08 sending Cody packing with an official five-star classic. And number one, Cody solves racism. Not

08:14 really. Number one, Cody vs. Dustin. And talk about blood-soaked Southern wrestling. For years,

08:21 the Rhodes Brothers wanted to wrestle a match at WrestleMania, and every other Royal Rumble

08:25 they would tease it only for the plug to be pulled. Hell, we got a bulls*** that finished

08:29 that singles match between Goldust and Stardust at Fastlane, and they still dropped the whole

08:33 thing before WrestleMania. Rude. On AEW's first pay-per-view, Cody and Dustin finally got to

08:39 wrestle a match they had always wanted to, putting on a five-star classic no less on AEW's first

08:44 show. Honoring their father in a match that still ranks highly amongst the best in AEW history.

08:49 Blood was spilled. A lot of blood was spilled, but many tears were shared not only from the men

08:54 in the ring, but from many of the people in the crowd who chanted Dusty as the son of a plumber's

08:58 two sons stole the show on one of the biggest nights in wrestling history. And that's our list.

09:04 What's your favorite Cody Rhodes moment from AEW? You do have one. You do. Let us know in the

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