Cody Rhodes: Revelation, Not Revolution

“Hook me up a new revolution, ’cause this one is a lie. We sat around laughing and watched the last one die.”

So sang Dave Grohl in the Foo Fighters song Learn to Fly.

In the modern professional wrestling landscape, there have been many signs of potentially revolutionary developments — from the All In event itself and the subsequent emergence of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), to call-outs for unionisation from individuals discontent with their own circumstances, and even those who ignored the requisite intersectionality of unionisation…