... You're kidding right?!?! The Golden Shovel BEFORE the Golden Shovel!!! How many people has Cody put over versus HHH? The people he puts in those high level matches have gone on to be stars in AEW. He sucks as a face, has been better as a heel in other organizations. Chris Jericho, Brodie Lee, Malachi Black, Darby Allin, MJF (now I will give you QT, but NOTHING good is gonna come of that program) but beating him has always been in the best interest of his opponents.
I never understood the burial critique of Cody. If anything, he's gone out of his way to not be self-serving doing that stipulation where he doesn't go after the AEW title. And then with putting all those guys over, he's nowhere near what HHH, Cena and Hogan did with their backstage politics.
I think people just turned on Cody because of the Ogogo feud. I think Ogogo would've went over had he not got hurt. But because he didn't win, people wanna act like Cody buries everybody when he hasn't.
Cody did fuck up trying to make the shit about America, tho. That legit turned people off.
But he definitely needs a heel turn and I think him acting like he'll never turn heel is a work.