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In what would have been a gigantic story in a normal week, Steve Austin’s return to the ring ended up buried in the news cycle.
On the same day WWE started angling for his return, news began to swirl that Cody Rhodes was leaving AEW, almost surely for WWE.
A few years ago, the idea of Austin’s return being overshadowed would have been unthinkable. Rhodes leaving AEW for WWE, on the other hand, wouldn’t have been quite as surprising because this is the wrestling business. But at this point, Rhodes’s departure from AEW, which has become the most successful No.