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WWE Backlash Results: WWE Championship
After Carmella held off the challenge of Charlotte Flair, it was time for SmackDown Live’s top championship to take center stage as Shinsuke Nakamura set his sights on AJ Styles’ WWE Title. Nakamura attempted to get into Styles’ head to no avail, as ‘The Phenomenal One’ turned the viciousness up and hammered the challenger to the outside. A missed splash against the barricade gave Shinsuke control, peppering AJ with a violent barrage of strikes. Styles would find brief moments of offense, but ‘The Artist’ would counter to stop it every time. Shinsuke would go to the foreign objects first, planting the champion onto a chair with a reverse exploder, then set for a Kinshasa. Styles would fire the chair into Nakamura’s knees, but it would ricochet back into AJ’s face and bust him open.
The challenger would thwart off a Calf Crusher and go to his new trademark low blow, however Styles would finally return the favor with one of his own. Both men would struggle to their feet and exchange shots, connecting with in-sync low blows, to which neither man could answer a standing 10 count for a No Contest.
The @WWE Championship is about to be decided LIVE on @WWENetwork…
Can @ShinsukeN capture the gold from @AJStylesOrg at #WWEBacklash?! pic.twitter.com/F3yxbK7p8k
— WWE Network (@WWENetwork) May 7, 2018
#WWEBacklash = PHENOMENAL.@AJStylesOrg is ready for a battle! pic.twitter.com/tUfsoQrZrE
— WWE (@WWE) May 7, 2018
We are seeing a VICIOUS side of @AJStylesOrg in the opening moments of this match! #WWEChampionship #WWEBacklash pic.twitter.com/ajs0spLGCH
— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) May 7, 2018
What makes @ShinsukeN the #KingOfStrongStyle? Moves like THIS.#WWEBacklash #WWEChampionship pic.twitter.com/GteXzuDwHJ
— WWE (@WWE) May 7, 2018
… and a CHAIR has been added to this NO DISQUALIFICATION match between @AJStylesOrg & @ShinsukeN!
This should be interesting! #WWEBacklash #WWEChampionship pic.twitter.com/NAv0iqeHIh
— WWE (@WWE) May 7, 2018
HE DID IT AGAIN.#WWEBacklash #WWEChampionship @ShinsukeN pic.twitter.com/P44z2ZOaU7
— WWE (@WWE) May 7, 2018
After a DOUBLE LOW BLOW, neither @AJStylesOrg nor @ShinsukeN could answer the count of 1️⃣0️⃣, so AJ Styles is STILL your @WWE Champion! #WWEBacklash pic.twitter.com/Aql9vG3iZ2
— WWE (@WWE) May 7, 2018
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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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