Cody Rhodes, All Elite Wrestling’s Executive Vice President – and one of its biggest superstars – was recently a guest on SiriusXM’s Busted Open radio, where he discussed the company and its upcoming move to television. Throughout the discussion, Rhodes was asked about how he plans on capturing some of the more casual wrestling fans.
According to Rhodes, his focus isn’t on the casual fan, but more so on looking to continue providing for the base that AEW already has. “The term casual fan, honestly I think I throw up a little in my mouth every time I hear it,” he said. “Because it’s this vernacular to describe wrestling that is based on the Monday night wars, when the Monday night wars are over, they’re not a thing as far as they’re not happening here and now in the present. What’s happening here and now in the present is, we can’t determine what it is, it’s something that only history will be able to tell us. So my focus is always the base that built AEW, and that base, if you’ve seen it, you get it.”
Rhodes went on to say that while sometimes his confidence can be misplaced as arrogance, Rhodes knows just how good the culture in AEW is, and how he’d rather focus on the diehard fans the company already has. “I want to focus on them first and foremost, you know, there’s people who are plenty critical of what AEW does, and instead of signal boosting that, I’d rather 100 of the fans that we have in that base than that one, salty son of a b—- that’s not coming on board anyway.”
The first match we ever see on @AEWonTNT come October 2nd will be @CodyRhodes vs. @sammyguevara
The @AEWrestling EVP says he's not concerned with the skeptics or bringing in the casual fan. Being true to who got them here in the first place is their top priority ?#AEWAllOut pic.twitter.com/YzNSG7ww5D
— SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) July 31, 2019
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