I wonder if he didn’t give Cody the money he wanted because then he’d had to give the rest of the elite the money as well when their contracts were up.
Probably and I think Cody saw the money Tony gave Punk and felt he wanted that too. But also Cody had been off doing his own show within a show as part of Dynamite and people werent feeling it and he and the other Elite guys werent talking and he wasnt turning heel and it was probably like "what are we doing here? What do you wanna do?"
At the risk of contradicting myself earlier cause I feel like the Elite pushed Cody, Cody didnt really seem as attached to company stuff as before and I dont know if he was the glue that held the company together like some wanna make it out to be.
Its easy for people to be like "This all happened when Cody left for WWE" reality is it was probably gonna still happen and probably be worse