but pillman literally did this in WCW minus the reality show plot, and you KNOW thats the shyt that tony khan eats up.
We'll see.
Of course, but Pillman also worked WCW into giving him a release for real. Bischoff thought he was in on it and then he wasn't.
Then he got in a crash and his value dropped so he took the guaranteed $ from WWE (one of the first new guys to get such a deal, I believe Marc Mero was the very first months earlier)
Etc etc
I just think Cody and AEW couldn't come to a $ deal. I don't have the disdain a lot of us here do for Cody but I agree he seems to have quite the ego about himself now and can totally see him asking for the same $ as Punk and then being miffed when it didn't happen.
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and it could be TK's belief that it would get over as the BIGGEST SWERVE OF ALL and be a great work shoot.
