It’s a Tuesday morning in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Cody Rhodes is wrapping up a series of media appearances and interviews promoting “Dynamite,” All Elite Wrestling’s signature — and to this point — lone television offering.
This particular edition, which features virtually every top talent the fledgling promotion has, is the final one of 2019. This is significant because 12 months earlier, AEW didn’t exist — at least not in its current, concrete form. The Corpus Christi show caps off a year that saw Rhodes and his colleagues disrupt the professional wrestling industry and generate a kind of buzz that hasn’t been seen in decades.