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#1 Cody responds to Roman Reigns' jibe

'The Big Dog' Roman Reigns made some controversial remarks when he suggested that Seth Rollins was being generous in calling AEW their competition. The former WWE Champion made it clear that he doesn't see AEW as a threat.

The EVP of AEW, Cody Rhodes, spoke to Sport 1 in Germany, and had an interesting response on being asked to comment on Roman Reigns' jibe:

To Roman's point: He is very, very smart, he has WrestleMania main event under his belt, he has incredible talent. I think at the time, a lot of people were … I don't wanna say naive. People were turning away from it, but there's no turning away now."

Cody further talked about AEW and WWE:

"WWE's on a 49 year head start and I tip my hat for that. But what we're doing is to build upon what fans have been talking about for 20 years, what they want from a wrestling product and what perhaps wasn't delivered to them. We want to be the alternative. If that means stepping into competition, so be it. It's better to have competition for me, for Roman, for everybody."