It would appear that AEW has had some of their big title changes planned for quite some time.
After Scorpio Sky's AEW TNT Title win on the March 9 Dynamite, Fightful Select learned that the title win had been planned as far back as late 2021. We're told that the Cody Rhodes departure caused a "minimal" hiccup, but that a lot of what happened still went as planned.
In addition to that, when Miro was still AEW TNT Champion, Fightful learned word that Sammy Guevara would win the championship, lose it to Cody Rhodes, then regain it. However, Cody Rhodes being unable to make his scheduled title defense delayed that by a week. Regardless, it looks like AEW has general long term plans for much of their titles. AEW Founder Tony Khan told media in November that he always knew who the first four AEW World Champions would be, and it didn't deviate.
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