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WWE News: Backstage Update On Neville Returning To WWE

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WWE Superstar Neville left the company late last year after he beat down Enzo Amore following his loss to the Certified G, which resulted in Neville losing the WWE Cruiserweight Title. Neville originally did not mind the loss to Amore, because it was understood that you take losses in WWE, sometimes even when they don’t make sense. The real issue he had was what happened after the program with Enzo ended.

WWE had no plans to take Enzo out of the title picture, and did not even have plans for Neville at all. As weird as it might seem, creative had nothing for him. Why? Well, who the heck knows? The King of the Cruiserweights was not happy to hear this, and it just compounded with other issues he had. Despite how well he did, WWE took his title match with Austin Aries off the WrestleMania 33 DVD set.

This made absolutely no sense, as every other match seemed to be on there. His match with Aries was pretty good too, and being taken off the DVD meant a loss in revenue for Neville. He took it on the chin but then was upset once more when the designers gave him a horrible t-shirt that made no sense for his character, nor did it look good for that matter. You may not have even known he had one, because he refused to wear it. All of this led to Neville wanting out, so he left.

What Happens Now For Neville When It Comes To His WWE Contract?

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Neville may have left and refused to work for WWE again, but the company had talks with him after all of this went down. They understood the issue and according to PW Insider, even offered him the opportunity to move to WWE SmackDown Live from WWE RAW. This would allow him to do things outside the cruiserweight division. Even allow him to challenge for titles like the United States or WWE World Title.

Neville and WWE seemed to be on the same page here, but talks started to die off and it ultimately led to Neville still not wanting to return. The weird thing is that Neville and many WWE Superstars are not happy in the company and see how the indies are doing. There’s talk of many wanting to go back there and even work for other companies like New Japan Pro-Wrestling. As it would allow for them to make more money in total than what they do now.

In addition to this, attention to the companies are higher than ever. All of this made it no surprise that the latest update on Neville is more of the same. The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer spoke on the story today on his radio broadcast and mentioned that Neville and WWE do not seem to be on the same page still.

Meltzer noted that he did not know when Neville’s current deal ended, but he will most likely have to sit out the remainder of it. This is quite similar to the CM Punk situation from years ago. Though they eventually released Punk when they knew he did not plan on returning. While Dave did not mention this, it does seem likely that Neville could be released sooner rather than later. Possibly during WWE’s Spring Cleaning period later this year.

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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

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Did your picks win points?

The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!

Here are your Gold League standings!

  • Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
  • Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
  • Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
  • Rush: 0-1, 0 points
  • Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
  • Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points

 

Here are your Blue League standings!

  • Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
  • Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
  • Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
  • Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
  • Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
  • Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete

 

My Thoughts:

Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.

Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.

In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.


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AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”

Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:

Blue League

  • Bryan Danielson
  • Andrade El Idolo
  • Brody King
  • Claudio Castagnoli
  • Daniel Garcia
  • Eddie Kingston

Gold League

  • Jon Moxley
  • Swerve Strickland
  • Rush
  • Mark Briscoe
  • Jay Lethal
  • Jay White

 

Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:

  • Every match has a 20 minute time limit
  • The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
  • EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action

 

Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!


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