Lee Johnson last competed at the 2022 AEW Full Gear pay-per-view event where he and his allies faced a defeat in a 10-Man tag team contest.
During the latest edition of the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Johnson discussed training with QT Marshall in his early AEW days and praised Cody Rhodes for helping him become a better wrestler. Johnson said,
“It was early 2019, I did a show called Southern Honor, and I had the worst match. It was so bad. QT was backstage and I heard that he had a school. I was like, ‘I have to go train.’ I really think, at that point, I hadn’t trained in two or three months. You go in there after being gone two for two or three months, it was an independent show so it’s not like I was signed, I wasn’t consistently getting reps. I had this match and it was the worst match in wrestling history. I swear. I reached out to QT the following week and from there, I started training with him and it’s been really good to see everything come full circle. To go from there, and even what we did last year, storyline wise with him and I, to now and being in his group. Honestly, something I never thought would happen is me and him crossing paths in the ring that way. It’s been really cool to go from here to there.”
“Cody is great. He made me such a different man, in ring and outside of the ring. Things like, I would be sitting backstage and slouching and he would be like, ‘You’re slouching. Stand up tall.’ Things that I don’t even think of, Cody made me such a different wrestler, my mindset. He coached a lot of my matches, even just at the school, him and I would talk consistently.”
