If i may be so bold as to turn this question into what will he do if he wins it?
Win - YAY FINALLY DONE IT... Oh nobody wants to break out of their already established plans to feud with me given a sketchy track record of feuds. What do I do?
Lose - Oh. Nobody wants to work with me because I don't even have the free World Title shot to offer them. I've gone on about it so long that I now look silly. Umm...
The way I see it, theres so little momentum here what I'm genuinely baffled as to what Cody does in either scenario. I don't see myself chasing the title if I lose it, because I've worked with Cody before and I'm working with Dims (Who granted I've worked with before but I've been able to go back to the well as he's a complete character).
Do all roads point to a Cody vs Trance/KD/D-Jack match at Road 2 Glory in this instance?
But then what? Where do we go from here? You've suddenly got guys "lower down" the card doing better work than the perceived "main event" of the time, meaning that suddenly we're in a weird situation where people are leaving the arena early so they don't hit traffic instead of watching a compelling main event with a well built angle leading up to it. Most of the OCW audience at large loves to see an interesting match - gamebattles this is not.
This is the problem that OCW poses. We're not a competition fed, but we're not fully roleplaying... so what happens when somebody with a sketchy record of feuding (Not quality, but definitely quantity) is handed a World Title match that, I won't skirt around the issue, he could potentially win?
Where does OCW go from there? Does it become purely competition based as this potential World Champion has already admitted he has minimal interest in building storylines? Do we actually abandon the element of OCW that makes it different and just have a line of people queuing up for title shots based on perceived in game merit? Because then we have exactly the same issue of "The same guys" in and around the picture.
Dis... Cuss...