Backstage News On Cody Rhodes Leaving AEW Due To Major Contract Dispute

Cody Rhodes has been one of the key figures in All Elite Wrestling ever since the company was first announced, but the former TNT Champion released a statement today confirming that he’s done with the company.

Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men Pro Wrestling podcast recently appeared on Josh Nason’s Punch-Out, and he noted that there was a major contract dispute between AEW and Cody Rhodes when it came to money.

“For this story specifically, the rumblings started last week. So whatever happened, Friday, I started getting messages from people asking if I knew anything about this. This was coming from the AEW camp that there was a major contract dispute. They could not come to terms on an agreement. There was a big mis-match as far as the financials go between AEW and Cody.

“On Saturday, this was downplayed totally, and they were saying, ‘No it’s not that big of a deal, everything is fine, everything is fine’. Yesterday, about, I wanna say about noon eastern, I started getting bombarded with questions and speculation, and some people were saying it could also be a work.

“Somebody called it the ‘Cody-Vortex’ to me. I don’t know what that means. They were in a ‘Cody work/shoot vortex’ – I guess maybe he does this a lot? I don’t know, I know nothing beyond that. To me it was 50/50, some people thought this was just a storyline and they were trying to swerve everybody, and other people thought that this was legitimate. I did get a call from somebody within WWE that would have knowledge on this and they said that Cody’s camp has been in contact with them over the last few days.”

It was recently reported that Cody Rhodes is expected to come to terms on a deal with WWE, and you can get more on that here.

H/T WrestleTalk.com