Michael Oku suggests that there was a chance Mad Kurt could have challenged Cody Rhodes for the AEW TNT Title during the open challenge days of the title's early lineage.
Cody Rhodes' TNT Championship open challenges provided a door into AEW for wrestlers such as Ricky Starks and Eddie Kingston and provided unique challenges for names such as Warhorse looking to get in front of a global audience.
On Twitter, Michael Oku, responding to a compilation video of promos from Kurt, recently revealed that there was a chance that "Mad Kurt" Kurtis Chapman could have also challenged Cody Rhodes in 2020 for AEW's then-secondary championship.
Yes there was a chance of Mad Kurt vs Cody Rhodes for the TNT Title happening in 2020 https://t.co/TlWaK3yPH6
— Michael Oku (@TheOJMO) March 21, 2024
Sadly Mad Kurt passed away in December 2023. Fans can read tributes to Kurt at this link.
Fans can read a story that Michael Oku shared about Kurt getting scammed by banana bread at this link.
The TNT Championship was recently won by Adam Copeland, formerly Edge in WWE, as he defeated Christian Cage on the March 20 episode of AEW Dynamite. Learn more here.
