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WWE Announces NXT Live Event Dates
WWE issued the following:
“NXT returns to the Mid-Atlantic region this April with four huge Live Events in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Maryland.”
WWE COO Triple H made the announcement on Twitter:
See @WWENXT on the road in the Mid-Atlantic after NXTTakeOver: New Orleans: #NXTDC 4/19 #NXTBethlehem 4/20#NXTBelAir 4/21#NXTJohnstown 4/22
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am ET at https://t.co/pcQU3cALRh… #WeAreNXT pic.twitter.com/5jdrqodySH
— Triple H (@TripleH) February 26, 2018
“NXT makes its debut in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., at The Anthem. The black-and-yellow brand then heads to the Sands Event Center in Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday, April 20, and the APF Federal Credit Union Arena in Bel Air, Md., on Saturday, April 21. The road trip wraps up Sunday, April 22, with an NXT Live Event debut in Johnstown, Pa., at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena.
The Mid-Atlantic tour will feature many of your favorite NXT Superstars, including NXT Champion Andrade “Cien” Almas and Zelina Vega, NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon, NXT Tag Team Champions The Undisputed ERA, Adam Cole, Kairi Sane, Aleister Black, Velveteen Dream, Ricochet and more!
Tickets for the events will be available at www.nxttickets.com starting this Friday, March 2, at 10 a.m. local time. Don’t miss out on your chance to see sports-entertainment’s hottest brand live and in person.”
My Thoughts:
Its amazing that NXT has grown to it’s own touring brand. Rivaling that of popular smaller promotions around the world with ticket sales and attention. NXT could truly be argued as the second largest promotion in Wrestling. It’s awesome that they have picked up more your dates and is good for HHH as he is the future, of the business. Also it’s good for the talents as they get to experience some if what it’s like to be on the main roster. With travels, different crowds and working the WWE style.
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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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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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