AEW Champion Feels Weird About Breaking Cody Rhodes’ Record
One AEW champion can’t quite believe that they’re about to surpass a record held by Cody Rhodes.
Cody Rhodes reclaimed the WWE Championship at SummerSlam from John Cena to once again cement himself as the top star in the entire wrestling industry.
Rewind five years, and Cody Rhodes was AEW’s inaugural TNT Champion with his first reign setting the standard for the title, at least in terms of successful title defences. Now at Full Gear, current TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher has the chance to surpass Rhodes when he takes on Mark Briscoe.
Cody Rhodes Set The Standard For TNT Title Reigns
Speaking to TMZ Inside The Ring, Fletcher was reassured that he’s following in the footsteps of the man at the top of the entire industry:
Especially a title like the TNT Championship, which has had such a crazy lineage, the amount of people, the people that have held it such like a high echelon, that you almost just by holding it feel like you have to live up to that. I keep saying that I want to be the greatest TNT champion of all time, and when I think about that, it’s like that means I have to be better than all these people that have held this belt before me.
Proclaiming that I’m the greatest TNT Champion of all time, and surpassing Cody as well …it’s a weird sense of, like, imposter syndrome, a little bit to me. Cody Rhodes, currently, the number one star in probably all of wrestling right now, like the top dog. And to be like, oh, I had a better championship race. Yeah, look at me.
But it’s also very reassuring to me, like, oh, I mean, look at me. I’m doing better than Cody Rhodes, better than Miro, better than WWE. You know, it’s kind of a weird thing. It’s a weird feeling, but it also reassures me that I’m on the right path. I’m doing, doing the right thing, you know, moving in the right direction.