Again, because Gedo isn't a dumbshit, most likely saw a mile away that #TheCodyMan was going to win the belt at BITW and decided to put him against his top guy before the switch so Delirious was screwed because "I ain't changing my main event, that was your call Lizard Man [EVIL LAUGH]".
I find it fascinating that not a lot of people seems to get the symbolism of New Japan's two top guys beating the current ROH champion and the longest reigning one of the modern era pretty much clean on US soil.
Not putting the belt on him should have been step one of "Rebuilding the ROH World Title".Not to feed only into antagonism, but does Cody's loss to Okada seem to anyone else a form of Deliri-ism (compare to: Inoki-ism)? How does ROH address that Cody lost clean in the biggest match of his career? He is two weeks into his title reign, and I fear that he may already need building back up to the general audience, especially if ROH is keen on making him babyface--which may or may not be what was indicated during the tapings. And how do you go back into building up the top belt? In and out of kayfabe, the ROH World Title feels completely inconsequential.