Cody’s Hard Times (11/6/2019)

Tony Schiavone: We've talked about this. I know you have an announcement that's weighing heavy on you right now please tell us all what that announcement is.

Cody Rhodes: I'm not surprised. We're not surprised the arrival of Chris Jericho with the inner circle it's been blunt but to use more apropos term it's been strategic they have taken a scalpel to The Elite.
But it's a short victory lap man and here is why we were already
looking for you. We looked within our own club at one point we have searched all over the world for a card that we could put our names on and match up with Matt and Nick Jackson with Kenny omega with Hangman Adam Paige with Myself hell with my Brother!

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So. We were looking, we were looking and you found us and November 9th this Saturday I find myself on the marquee with our AEW World Champion Chris Jericho. Tony and I have talked about it he knows what i'm about to announce but before I do humor me I'm gonna go in a bit of a detour and rattle off a few names Eddie Graham, Cowboy Bill Watts. The American Dream Dusty Rhodes

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DUSTY! DUSTY! DUSTY! DUSTY! DUSTY! DUSTY! DUSTY! DUSTY!
All- all of them were Titans in our business they were the best bell-to-bell and they were the best at the box office, and for those who saw them with their own eyes those memories reverberate in their heart it is a good feeling it is positive!
But for the cold and sterile historians of our business there's an air of controversy that surrounds it, it's from the simple fact that those men were also in addition to being competitors.. they were management!
Not not unlike myself and for the last year I've told everybody every podcast, every radio, every correspondent I've shouted it off the rooftops how proud I am of AEW!!
How proud I am of the all inclusive nature of the schedule of the pay of-of the fact that we will listen!
This this is Ellis Island for a professional wrestler. This is freedom!

[Applause]
crowd chants: AEW! AEW! AEW! AEW!

So when I hear when I hear the same criticism attached to my name for being management and being in a title match I can't not hear it..and with that said I am announcing that if I do not defeat..
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If I do not defeat Chris Jericho at Full Gear I will never challenge for the AEW World Championship again!

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- Chris Jericho that is a very big if!
It's not an encumbrance it's not an albatross that it's gonna sit on your chest and weigh you down it is going to vanish! You've taken to calling my lot entitled "Millennials".
You've called me an "entitled millennial bitch"!
I neglected to read in your best-selling book "A Lion's Tail" which you could get on Amazon for 3 dollars or at any or at any flea market I neglected to read about the upbringing you had that was so hard!
You talked about my silver spoon Gosh!- It must have been so difficult being the upper-class son of a famous hockey player it is almost like we shared the exact same silver spoon do you stupid dick!

You dismissed- You dismissed every accomplishment I've made! You've talked about my father...We'll you call me an entitled millennial then I'll call you a carnie succubus because the dirty secret about you!
The dirty secret is you need this generation more than it needs you and you've surrounded yourself with impressionable youth!
This isn't about my Dad this isn't about the dead it's about the living it's about my Mother it's about my Sister it's about my Wife!
It's about the 14 years [Applause] that took me to go from undesirable to un-goddamn-deniable!!!!! [Applause]

At Full Gear at Full Gear - I beat you I become the world champion and you fall back into your circle your Inner Circle and you let them know the ground should be rumbling between their feet because The Elite are coming and when The Elite and The Inner Circle square off it'll be a match beyond and we are going to eat you alive!!!

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