Full NXT Tapings Spoilers: Loser Leaves NXT Match, New Tag Team, Dusty Classic, More

Published

6 years ago

February 1, 2018

WWE NXT made its second trip to Atlanta’s Center Stage to tape three more episodes of NXT on Thursday night. Spoilers below include a debuting tag team, a new feud, and a Loser Leaves NXT match!

Dark Match:

The Street Profits defeated Raul Mendoza & Fabian Aichner in a match that saw Fabian get busted open after colliding with the announce table.

Matches presumed to be taped for February 7:

NXT Tag Team Champions Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly fought SAnitY’s Eric Young & Alexander Wolfe to a no-contest when Adam Cole and Killian Dain got involved; NXT General Manager William Regal signed a six-man tag team match for that episode’s main event
Heavy Machinery defeated Tino Sabbatelli & Riddick Moss; Sabbatelli and Moss teased a break-up when Moss walked out on Sabbatelli
Johnny Gargano cut an in-ring promo about his rise to the NXT Takeover main event, and was interrupted by NXT Champion Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas & Zelina Vega; Candice LaRae eventually came out and the end result was Vega agreeing to give Gargano another shot at the NXT Championship with the stipulation that if Johnny lost he would have to leave NXT
Bianca Blair defeated a local talent
SAnitY defeated The Undisputed Era in a crazy six-man tag team match when Killian Dain pinned Bobby Fish

Matches presumed to be taped for February 14:

TM61 defeated John Skyler & a local talent
WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne defeated Roderick Strong to retain his championship in what was called a great match
Aleister Black cut an in-ring promo declaring his intention to win the NXT Championship; Killian Dain interrupted to assert his championship intentions; there was no physical altercation
Shayna Baszler defeated NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon by disqualification when Kairi Sane interfered to prevent Baszler from trying to injure Moon

Matches presumed to be taped for February 21:

Velveteen Dream defeated No Way Jose with the Purple Rainmaker and cut a promo in the ring after the match
Nikki Cross defeated Vanessa Bourne
The Forgotten Sons of Steve Cutler & former NXT Tag Team Champion Wesley Blake debuted and defeated two local talents, after the match the Sons cut a promo claiming they’d been cast aside and declared their intentions for the Dusty Rhodes Classic
NXT Champion Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas with Zelina Vega defeated Johnny Gargano with Candice LeRae to retain his championship; Tommaso Ciampa interfered to cost Gargano the match; Johnny Gargano was given a sendoff by the crowd to end the tapings

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

What a start to the tournament!

Published

5 months ago

November 27, 2023

Steven Mitchell

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 Coverage

AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

5 months ago

November 22, 2023

Steven Mitchell

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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