It’s crazy what AEW has done with Hook. He maybe their most impressive job as far as marketing and bringing someone along. They managed to take a kid who had never wrestled, spoke or done anything other than stand and look tough and got him to the point where he outsells CM Punk in merch after one match. And it’s just a plain white shirt with the word HOOK on it. 😂
It’s mainly due to the fans being tired of this version of him. They want him to turn heel and his stubborness not wanting to turn just makes them boo him more.
Lately I’ve actually thought he might be going somewhere unexpected with this but time will tell. The issue is he took himself out of the title picture to try and please a sections of idiots (which didn’t even work). So he can’t challenge for the AEW title, and he won’t change his character. He’s put himself in a spot where it’s hard to care about what he does because it’s kinda meaningless. Hence his last handful of feuds until Black and Andrade. They just felt like filler. A wrestler has to have something to strive for (AEW title), take that away and it just feels like your treading water.
I want him back as he was in 2017-18. Heel Cody with Bullet Club was must see everytime and he was one of the top 5 guys in the world. I’m long over the blonde hair babyface Cody. Go back to natural brown, rejoin The Elite and heel shit up. He’d go back to being one of the most over guys in the world overnight if he did.