How Long AEW Planned Scorpio Sky’s TNT Title Win

Scorpio Sky won the TNT Title this week on AEW Dynamite and that brought a lot of questions off the heels of Tony Khan’s public statement about diversity. It turns out that things are going as TK planned.

Following Scorpio Sky’s AEW TNT title win on the March 9 episode of Dynamite, Fightful Select reports that this was a thing they planned for a while and Cody Rhodes’ exit didn’t cause that big of a hiccup.

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.

According to the outlet, Scorpio Sky’s recent title win was planned way back in late 2021. The outlet was additionally told that Cody Rhodes’ departure didn’t really hinder much of the plan in grand plot of the promotion.

A lot of what we have seen went exactly as it was planned. Also, when Miro was still AEW TNT Champion, Sammy Guevara was planned to win the championship, lose it to Cody Rhodes and then win it again.

As figured, Cody was unable to made his scheduled title defense which delayed it by a week. Nonetheless it seems AEW has general long term plans for much of their titles. Not to mention, AEW Founder Tony Khan spoke to media in November and opened up that he always knew who the first four AEW World Champions would be, and it never changed.