Ok so here’s the thing.. if AEW fans were so tired of Cody and shytting on him for a year straight why do they care so much about him leaving AEW? Shouldn’t they be happy and keep it pushing? Why is there a thread with 1,100 replies on here? I honestly thought this would get a couple hundred replies at most. Obviously people care about him.
Because nobody wanted him to leave, they just wanted the character to evolve.
Cody's relationship with the AEW crowd was not unlike what Roman's was before he turned. The WWE crowd shytted all over Roman for a while. Not because they disliked him, but because the character was stale. WWE was insistent upon running "The BIG DAWG" gimmick way past its expiration date and the crowd pushed back.
Same thing with Cody. Fans don't hate him. At all. They just wanted to see something other than the white meat babyface. They wanted to see something other than the, "I'm muh daddys boy
," promos. Rather than evolve the character, Cody stood in the ring and told everyone that he wasn't going to change anything. Then, he left for WWE where, in his first two appearances, we're seeing the same Cody that got booed out of the building numerous times in AEW.