This nigga delusional

>>17973522 (OP)
based cody exposing the decade long gaslight that anyone gave a fuck about the old cucks

literally where's the lie

>>17973522 (OP)
Deep down, Cody knows he's dimeless and the only reason E took him back was to be Paul's pawn.

>>17973522 (OP)
Wasn’t he in that Andrew Schulz guy’s podcast saying he was a BC leader lmao

>>17973532
Vince brought him back, retard.

>>17973522 (OP)
Kek he literally rode their coattails from start to finish, no one even remembers this nigga in the bullet club

>>17973522 (OP)
I remember all those times on Steve Austin's podcast when he talked about how many dimes he's drawn.

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody exposes shitters left and right, and raped Disco Inferno into non relevance forever.

Thanks for drawing the house Cody-san

>>17973522 (OP)
oh yeah well explain THIS slapnuts

The Bullet Club shirt was popular long before Codetty joined

How much vodka he drink?

Even back when Cody joined BC it was clear he was jumping on their bandwagon and never felt like a true member.

>from undeniable to unlikable

>>17973522 (OP)
It's kinda wild, I remember seeing this guy in multiple New Japan matches live and no one ever really gave a shit about him. I was pretty convinced at the time he'd just bow out and become an actor. He was Hangman tier at the time.

>>17973576
>Hangman tier
Hangman is actually over

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody and Punk will be the heads of WWE creative in 10 years

>>17973522 (OP)
>>17973525
Lol, no one gave a shit about Cody until he popped back up in WWE with a pyro filled entrance that instantly made him stand out amongst the rest of the dimeless roster. Cody is a John Cena wannabe who'll kiss any ass if he thinks it'll get him over.

>>17973522 (OP)
The tweet cuts off the rest of the quote.
>I joined and it did start making money. However, it was the least cool thing ever.
>When I look at the leaders of the Bullet Club, I don't mind when people get into these heated arguments over how awful I was for it because, well, we were doing well. We were- places were sometimes empty, you know, but yeah I know I was a pretty poor [leader].

>>17973593
It really makes you wonder about the power of WWE's promo-machine. Was this all planned out ten years ago?

By the time he joined the Bullet Club they already ran the original popular shirt to the ground and were doing a bunch of variants

>>17973522 (OP)
But they had the t-shirt deal long before him

When did the Bullet Club shirts actually start making it into Hot Topic (PWTees doesn't count for mainstream)? Were they already in there before he joined?
I only vaguely remember seeing them in stores when every fucking member had a shirt and if there was a special edition for Tekken or Halloween or some shit.

>>17973593
>aewist still mad Cody left
puh-lease

>>17973595
>We were- places were sometimes empty, you know, but yeah I know I was a pretty poor [leader].
He wasn’t a leader.

>>17973541
Vince is gone. LMAO. Now where's Cody.

>>17973603
pEdrones don't care for facts

>>17973595
I'm starting to think Cody needs to go away.

>>17973606
Young Bucks were in Hot Topic before Bullet Club, I believe. It was right around the time Cody joined, but he was just one of many. Marty Scurll was a bigger star than Cody at the time by far.

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody should be kissing Kevin Owen's feet because if it wasn't for his blessing and telling the Bucks to 'look out' after Cody he'd been a multi-time TNA champ by now

>>17973608
My bad. I fucked up the brackets because he didn't actually finish the sentence and my brain autofilled it.

>>17973606
Around the time Young Bucks and Kenny Omega were at like peak Bullet Club popularity. Bucks struck a deal with Hot Topic for their shirts to be sold

I now understand that Wade Keller report on people who've interacted with Cody in depth calling him a sociopath

>>17973583
With whom?

>>17973676
Actual fans of wrestling aka non retards aka non Edrones

>>17973680
There’s only like 5 trannys that watch AEW

>>17973522 (OP)
This fact got them uppity

>>17973624
Not true. Bucks got BC into Hot Topic in 2017. Deal was probably inked before then. Had nothing to do with Cody.

Story goes Hot Topic executives were walking around some festival or something and saw all the Bullet Club shirts and asked why they weren't selling those shirts. Don't quote me on that, but I remember reading that.

Cody literally joined bullet club bc Owens told the Bucks to help Cody on the Indies. Cody randomly joined bullet club, had mid matches with no memorable angles, then ruined the Omega vs Ibushi fued. No one gave a shit about Cody until AEW. Then the fans got sick of him after a year and a half of the Codyverse. His bits on early BTE were good, but that was about it from his Bullet Club era. I will not let history be rewritten.

>>17973583
I meant Hangman at the time, not Hangman now.

Based Cody helping out the indies by being the top draw.

You now remember
new Japan more like old Japan

>>17973724
Are you saying it was Young Bucks before Bullet Club then? Because that's what I said. Bullet Club was blowing up at the same time, but it was The Young Bucks who made it happen since Bullet Club is owned by New Japan/Bushiroad.

>>17973522 (OP)
Are people unironically going to pretend that New Japan Cody was good now?

>There’s only like 5 trannys that watch AEW
I guess the rest watch WWE

>>17973522 (OP)
He killed Bullet Club dead in its tracks with that retarded dimeless civil war storyline

>>17973576
I still remember him getting dead silence when he beat Ibushi at Dontaku in 2018. Japs did not give a single fuck about Cody. He didn’t put the work in, only showed up when he felt like it, never entered any tournaments, and never did any tours. He didn't give the audience a reason to care about him. Michael Elgin of all people was infinitely more over during that time because he actually bothered to put the effort in

>>17973793
I was at Wrestle Kingdom 12 for his match with Ibushi and it was the same vibe, no one could be bothered to give a damn even though he was a WWE guy and typically they get some sort of reaction just based on notoriety. He never got over with the Japanese audience just like he never got over with AEW's audience but we are supposed to pretend like he left WWE and reinvented himself globally, it's all a bunch of horse shit.

>>17973807
>>17973793
I was told we loved the codester here

>>17973815

>>17973815
i'd love if cody stopped lying that's for sure

>>17973815
Cody ruined wrestling and was an agent of the Fed sent to end pro wrestling's global expansion.

>>17973844
So never then.

>>17973522 (OP)
there is no AEW without cody

>>17973864
I hate people like this. I had a friend who lied to me so often I changed my number to get away from him. People like this are legitimate psychopaths.

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody is a bigger star than anyone in the Bullet Club, past or present, combined, so this is factually correct. He makes more money selling t-shirts to little Codymaniacs at a house show in bumfuck nowhere than the entirety of the Bullet Club has drawn in their lives

I love how every new episode of Cody's podcast induces another AEWtist seethe-fest.

Reminder that Cody's final AEW match was the lowest rated segment of that night's episode.

>>17973522 (OP)
खराब व्याकरण

>>17973522 (OP)
AJ and Kenny were massive draws in Japan. Why is CAWdy burying them?

>>17973576
>He was Hangman tier at the time
I think even Hangman had some Japanese fans warming up to him in 2018

tbf cody played his part in getting bullet club more popular in america, mainly to do with him being funny on BTE but thats as far as his contribution goes.

Kenny omega and his match with okada alongside the young bucks and doing BTE were what made bullet club become more mainstream, even then bullet club had become a lot more known when aj and the rest came over to wwe which probably helped as well.

>>17973978
because they’re both too nice to respond

>>17974028
Hangman got himself over with the Okada match + he's a 6ft tall blonde Chad so Japanese women were flicking their beans to him

If WWE was actually worth a shit they would have heel AJ respond to this and call Cody out. Just for a Raw match, nothing too big. But it could be a hell of a tv episode if they were worth a shit

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody be like

>So after I broke my spine in 4 places slamming Andre so hard he died, I flew out to Japan so I could wrestle for the 400th time that year. I didn't even go to the doctor. When I landed in Japan, I had a match with a guy called Atonio Inoki. He's the guy who created wrestling, but he came to me for advice on it, and basically everything I told him is what he went with. I could take credit for creating wrestling if I wanted to I guess, but I'm too humble for that. Anyway, I murdered Antonio Inoki in the ring and brought him back to life by shedding a single tear on his face. Everyone was congratulating me-- Right brother?-- and that's when Godzilla came up out of the sea and challenged me to a match.

>Wow, really?

>Afraid so.

Bullet Club shirts didn't start making money until the hot topic deal and that was after Cody joined

>>17974028
>>17974093
I used to go to a lot of NJPW shows during Bullet Club's peak when I lived there, made friends with Zack Sabre, so I got into a lot for free too. By my estimation I would say the gaijins face and heel alike ranked by popularity were as follows:

Kenny
The Bucks
Ospreay
Juice
Marty Scurll
Ricochet
Big Mike
Murderhawk
Hangman
ZSJ
Cody

Honorable mention to Chris Jericho who was arguably more over than half the list but wasn't active enough to really be considered.

>>17973522 (OP)
Gotta love the Codemeister

>>17973522 (OP)
Based Codeman working the obese smelly smarks by spitting straight FACTS.

>>17973600
Vince called Drew a future world champion way back when he was skinny, pale jobber.
>>17973607
I actually liked Cody before it was the cool thing to do. I realized he was the guy to lead the industry in 2019 after AEW's first show. He's a poor man's John Cena in that he can be a white hot babyface but not as good as Cena. Everyone knows he's a self mark (neck tattoo, lol) but that's what makes him good. Most babyfaces are too humble.

Dronies like to pretend they're smart but they aren't. Cody looked like a god next to average WWE wrestlers because he had pyro TWICE in his entrance. Most wrestlers don't even get pyro anymore. The ones who do tend to be the most over. The WWE marks warmed up to Penta and Fenix because they have pyro and cool entrance themes.

>>17974028
>>17974093

>>17973522 (OP)
Is this a gimmick or is this retard really this delusional?

>>17973522 (OP)
Holy based

>>17973522 (OP)
Wwe really trying to rewrite history. And the edrones are dumb enough to believe it.

>>17973583
Kek

Thanks Cody, all you achieved here was reminding me you sucked the entire soul out of Kenny's entire hebby-q title reign.

>Cody claims his NWA title match that nobody even remembered the next day stole the show at all in
>now he claims BC didn't make money until he joined
This nigger is the most deluded self mark since dwayne

>>17973607
FOR ME ITS PIMP CLUB

>>17973554
BASED. Gotta love the Jeffster. Last outlaw and bullet club legend baby. How did gedo fumble this guy is he the worst people.manager ever?

>>17974782
Cody vs Dustin stole the show the second time around, All In 1's best match was probably Omega vs Penta.

>>17974236
>made friends with Zack Sabre
how is zsj as a person? i get the vibe that he might be fun to chill with but if you get him going on world of sport or thatcher he'd never shut the fuck up

>>17974236
>Bucks as second

No way. They came out to crickets too.

kek what a liar

>>17973724
I remember the story as HT wanting to work with WWE. They go to a show to talk business and notice over 9000 BC shirts. WWE has to admit that BC isn't theirs.

>>17973522 (OP)
fucking KEK

>>17973522 (OP)
rhodes put butts in seats while the bullet shart put tards to sleep you faggot lel

>>17975664
if that was true cody wouldnt be riding their popularity

>>17974900
nice headcanon dipshit

>>17973522 (OP)
To be more specific, Bullet Club was dimes during the Devitt and AJ years. It became massively gay when Kenny and the Bucks joined. Cody made it temporarily less gay but it was still gay because Kenny and the Bucks were involved. Cody then make the Elite which was dimes but then became almost immediately gay because Kenny and the Bucks were involced.

>>17973525
>>17973531
>>17973532
the proof is that aew went no milly as soon as the codeman left them. the bucks tank the ratings when theyre on and kenny doesnt move the needle. FRAID SO YESSIR

>>17974236
Kenny posting on 4chins again

>>17974206
It literally was not

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody wasn't even the leader of the Bullet Club. He just knew it was one of the hot angles in NJPW at the point and inserted himself into it.

>>17973724
This. I live in NYC and I've never seen a Young Bucks shirt in the wild. I definitely saw Bullet Club shirts. Young Bucks getting their shirts in Hot Topic was piggybacking off of whatever deal they made to license Bullet Club merch.

>>17973583
>Hangman is actually over

>>17978493
Sabrina carpenter

>>17973522 (OP)
It always annoyed me how Kenny, The Bucks, and Cody reaped all of the rewards for Balor, AJ, Gallows, and Anderson's work.

Cody responded https://x.com/CodyRhodes/status/1932847929695338901

>>17973531
Everything between " and "
But I think that might make you upset...

>>17973565
All of it, by the sounds of it

>>17973585
>wwe will no longer exist in 10 years
A little pessimistic of you, anon

>>17973724
>some festival or something
Wrestlemania

>>17973815
Don't listen to "Trev!"
If he tells you the sky is blue, dont believe it

>>17973522 (OP)
Still annoys me that e drones bought into this mofo

>>17974300
>John Cena in that he can be a white hot
Cena has never even been luke warm. He just gets millions people to never watch again
Personally, id aim to not be shitty and suck, but you do you

>>17979211
THEY'RE TRYING THEIR BEST!!

>>17978412
>the proof is that aew went no milly as soon as the codeman left them
And now they can barely hold 500k

>>17974839
Zack is a really nice dude. I can't find a bad thing to say about him, really. I did photography for his company SPLX and after that for like a solid year he would give me free tickets whenever he was in my area. I'm a Trump supporter so I didn't stay on politics for too long with him, but he's really not like you would expect from his Twitter, just a really pleasant and polite dude.

>>17979221
Still triggered after like 20 years lmao, based GOAT

>>17974900
>>17977851
The Japanese respect kayfabe, you couldn't go to a NJPW show back then without seeing a variety of Young Bucks shirts.

>>17979266
Yeah, being aware he ran off over half the audience is triggered
I see youre still delusional. Good for you

>>17973522 (OP)
Cody is literally the face of the top wrestling promotion in the world. He is right the rest of you are wrong.

>>17973576
>>17974028
Hangman was getting 50/50 chants with Tanahashi in their G1 match

If he had stayed, he would've gotten Kenny's top gaijin spot for sure

>>17979266
>youre mad he killed the business!
>best wrestler ever runs 3 million people off who never will never watch it again because of him!
>he ran off more people than currently watch now world wide at their new highest peak, according to Dave meltzer!
>Cena is the goat!!
>you must be gotten to if you actually follow wrestling
>hopefully it dies by next year you MARK!!!!
Wow sure have me crying uncontrollably. I may end up killing myself from getting btfo this badly.
Woe is me
I will totally go cry and seethe now

>>17979388
It really could not have gone any worse than it did for New Japan after AEW started, they lost all their core gaijin and even the guys who were getting great reactions like Marty and Lance both left for Tony. It doesn't make any sense to me how they ever became partners after Tony did them so dirty.

>>17979375
Nitro was literally getting better ratings than raw is right now when it was decided to kill the company.
Dying wcw was right and current wwe is wrong

>>17979411
I'm more of a WWF guy personally, I wish it never got cancelled.

>>17979404
>It doesn't make any sense to me how they ever became partners after Tony did them so dirty.
The Japs do the big dogeza to anything that will help them earn money for their companies. They put business first, to their credit, and NJPW has benefited massively on a financial level from the partnership in a way that is measurable. The loss of wrestlers as assets is much more difficult for the suits at Bushiroad who doesn't know the wrestling business to understand. They just see the money coming in from Forbidden Door or whatever and think it's a good thing and NJPW itself is entirely at the mercy of the Bushiroad suits.

Tanahashi is just a figurehead.

>>17979404
He did them dirty? They tried an alliance at the beginning and got waved off like a joke. And the ended up fucking themselves over it.
They practice Buddhism in japan. They know what karma is.
Dismiss the people who brought you your fortunes, and have them squandered. No fucking shit

>>17979404
They needed revenue and Tony was willing to pay. Tony literally raided their roster and turned them out. Absolute gigachad shit.

>>17979420
Thays more Vince being Vince, though, no?
>you want me to uphold my end of this contract!? You're nazi fascists!! Fuck you!!
>...but how did this not go my way?

>>17979430
I was told by a number of people when I lived in Japan that the country was godless and they just put on a front for the rest of the world, but who really knows. I lived there for two years and I had to look up the stats for Buddhists after you said that because I didn't run into any who were open about it.

>>17979440
If they dont practice, they have enough temples that'd id be shocked they weren't at least aware of it, though maybe im naive myself and giving people too much credit.
It's sad when they cant meet my own baseline of me....
It's really sad how many people don't....

>>17979439
It makes me wonder if Vince could potentially bring back the name, pay off The World Wildlife Foundation and just own the initials. Would be a ballsy move.

>>17979431
based tonedog

>>17979450
People go to the temples and stuff but I'm not sure if it's just a tourist attraction or what. I think maybe it's like Catholics going to church only on Christmas kinda thing maybe.

>>17979411
Nitro literally lost to WWE and so therefore the face of the WWE is right.

>>17979467
More people left wrestling forever with nitro than currently watch all wrestling. Shut the fuck up. More people wanted to see Jeff Jarrett with the strap than Cody Rhodes win it

>>17979464
As someone who was raised in a church but doesnt follow the faith any more, such fakes really bother me. And always so easy to spot. And they always get super defensive like any kind of cockroach that has a light shined on them
Separate discussion for not here

>>17979491
Nitro was Russo shit, Bischoff shit, and gay NWO shit. If you liked Jeff as the silver NWO Chose One then you're an inbred redneck with no braincells left to know the difference. You probably liked Goldberg because you're of his tribe. Cody > Dubya Cee Dubya trash

>>17979520
Then why cant he draw half as much as any of that inbred gay red neck trash? How much lower than that IS cody?

>>17979500
So like I went to a Shinto ceremony with my ex girlfriend and her folks around New Years to get rid of the bad luck fortune I got from the previous year. That was the extent of the religious experiences I saw there, that and the big Buddha, a few Catholic schools that were near where I lived..other than that you basically never heard about it.

>>17979534
Fuck, why cant wwe as a whole get half as many people as never watched wrestling again after wcw dies, even with the goat running off the remaining half afterwards?
Maybe it actually sucks and whats enroned as a boom period is just another dark age. No one qears wrestling merchandise in public, so im probably wrong

>>17979544
The noble savage

>>17973522 (OP)
Oh come the fuck on. He married into the BC and benefited from it.

>>17979570
Yeah, basically. Japanese girls are incredibly easy in my experience, everyone eats fast food and smokes, I don't even think people live as long as people claim, it's just that so many people are lying to the government that their parents are still alive in order to collect a check, or so I have been told. I think there are less fat people simply because less people drive in general. If America fixed their public transport I think you would see a huge drop off in fat fuck at least for a short period of time.

>>17979534
Why did WCW bow down to the E Gods and disappear to Youtube? Hmm, that's a good question

>>17979629
>who is Jaime kelner?
Zoomer, it is well oast your bedtime

>>17979656
>it is well oast your bedtime
Who is HULK HOGAN was the correct answer. Sorry, YOU LOSE AGAIN.

>>17979659
Don't talk shit about Terry.

>>17979599
I expect it at this point, but God damn, everything really is a total work
Except that idiot in this thread. I think he's actually stupid and doesnt know anything. Maybe friendless and needs validation? I dont know
Anyway, thank you for your cultural insight. I guess I figured it was maybe something they got raised with as kids, cuz my indoctrination was strong yet personal, and during childhood.
It's a shame that cynicism always ends uo being right, but I appreciate it. Thank you again. If there's any other bit of knowledge you could pass on, id love to hear it

>>17979666
Forgive him, he doesnt know his own ass hole from a hole in the ground. He's trying his absolute very best, bless his heart

>>17979666
>>17979683
Hogan ruined the entire industry in the 90s

>>17979687
Yeah, giving wcw renewed life really sucked. If only wrestling died before he could have helped start the Monday night war and revitalize wrestling. What a fucking prick

>>17979677
I mean, I'm sure it does exist, maybe not in the metro area I lived in near Tokyo, probably more near Fuji, but it was actually at the Mt. Fuji Museum I was told this by a Japanese woman who was also there, she said no one from Japan climbs Mt. Fuji, it's all tourists (which is mostly true as I've hiked it). The superstition is that if you climb it twice you'll get bad luck, but she said if you climb it one time you're an idiot, if you climb it two times you are two times an idiot. As far as women being conservative dressing and cute/put together, that's all true, but to an annoying degree, and you basically can't ever break plans with a Japanese or else you are dead to them. Japanese nightlife is the most insane I've experienced and if you go to places like Roppongi you can party until 9am if you meet the right people. You're welcome.

>>17973565
gms

>>17979687
>>17979713
>What a fucking prick
I used to be like this guy, it felt like a lot of early 2000s wrestling internet boards were strongly anti-Hogan which was a culture shock to me as a young Hulkamaniac..I got back into Hulkamania after he dunked on the tabloid media and I realized he was based and out worked everyone in the industry for a reason. I was present at his last WWE match and I'll never forget the pop he got, it was the loud thing I've ever heard, it felt like my ears were going to bleed. I'm convinced that Hulkamania on it's own was bigger than wrestling as a whole.

>>17974329
I miss these images, too bad nj died

>>17979791

>>17979713
>>17979786
hogan sank the ship by never putting anyone worthy over.

>>17980284
>Lex Luger
>Sting
>Kevin Nash
>GOLDBERG

>>17973873
Anon...

>>17980286
he giveth then he taketh away. he would get the belt back and ruin the shows

>>17980302
Name a babyface title run you thought was great and don't say Bret Hart.

>>17974184
best post ITT

>>17980310
sting, sid, macho man, hall, booker, flair, prince ikea

>>17974184
He's exactly the same. And the lies are gonna get bigger as time goes on, just like Hogan's. I think both men were mindbroken by kayfabe.

>>17979248
They’re getting at least that much on Max alone. Dynamite is currently beating Raw in the ratings

>>17980558
>Sting
But not when Hogan put him over? Because of the finish?

>>17973522 (OP)
Dumb thing for Cody to say. Bullet Club was DIMES when Devitt was leading, and still pretty DIMES when AJ was leading it.
Bucks and Tama Tonga were the worst things about it and were dimeless. It didnt go to complete shit until Kenny started leading it.

>>17980814
YES. Yes because of the finish it was bad! Hogan ruined him and paid off the ref!

>>17980831
Yeah but the nWo angle went on for another three years after that and then again after. The Sting character continued for another 25 years. It was actually a success.

>>17978412
So you're saying AEW Champion Punk never drew a milly?

>>17978399
Everything with Kenny Omega's influence gets ruined, now its was exposed that SF6 after all these years sold only 5mi and the player count is low.
he poisoned the well hard

>>17973595
Wait when was Cody a BC leader lmao

>>17981780
I feel like he was leader briefly when Omega got kicked out or am I misremembering?

>itt: pEdrones finally realize Cody is a fake piece of shit
took the pigs long enough

>>17979687
What ruined wrestling was the nWo shitshow of a culture Eric Bitchsoff created since he wasn't a business man but a shitwood agent in charge of a wrestling show and Ted's money until Time Warner lost all of it.
The Only reason he didn't came back to WWF as Flair was because turner was desperate to keep all of them there, and Vince loving it because without the politics backstage we got Stone Cold, Taker, Kane, DX and all of attitude era, and Vince himself became a legend, while the old dinos were at WCW.
Only Hogan and Flair adapted to WWE quickly as they came back, the rest couldn't

>>17981828
in your dreams bitchtits

>>17973522 (OP)
this got the pork crippled legs seething

>>17973606
I doubt anyone on earth bought the Gallows bullet club shirt lol