All Elite Wrestling star Cody Rhodes has made no secret of the fact he wants to get back trademarks for events his father Dusty Rhodes created like Starrcade and The Great American Bash, and it's pretty obvious that this and next week's NXT event is using the latter to take a shot at Rhodes (the next two episodes of Dynamite will be branded Fyter Fest, hence why WWE is trying to counter program them).
During a recent interview with Pro Wrestling Sheet, Rhodes shared his thoughts on the way WWE has used the Starrcade brand in recent years for often underwhelming house shows aired partially on the WWE Network.
"I'm not going to get angry because it still brings up his name in a positive way. It's a unique marketing thing and I'm not really upset about it," Rhodes said. (h/t Pro Wrestling Sheet for transcript). "I know my sister thought it was strange that it was announced willy-nilly and last minute. In the strangest of ways, I would hope that they do something special with it."
"I think our show is better. I think our show it will be better in execution, but I hope they do something special with it because I hated what Michael Hayes did with Starrcade," he continued. "He took a creation of my Dad's and made it a live event because they weren't selling any tickets in North Carolina and he wanted to save his job."
Needless to say, the ratings war between NXT and All Elite Wrestling is going to be very interesting over the next two weeks, and it's hard not to root for Rhodes and AEW in this case given the way WWE has behaved lately...