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Impact News: Sami Callihan Calls Out Management, ROH, & Chris Jericho

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6 years ago

June 3, 2018

When it comes to the debate of who are the top heels in wrestling today you have to bring up Sami Callihan. Sami Callihan went from the hacker gimmick of Solomon Crowe in NXT a few years ago to The DRAW and one of the biggest heels in all of wrestling today.

Sami Callihan came to Impact Wrestling at year’s Bound For Glory PPV to help out oVe against LAX to retain the Impact Tag Team Titles and they haven’t looked back since. Even though they dropped the titles back to LAX they haven’t lost their spots as one of the top teams in Impact and that is due to the addition of Sami Callihan.

Earlier this year during Impact’s television tapings an incident occurred where Sami accidentally hit Eddie Edward’s in the face with a baseball bat when it bounced off the chair placed over Eddie. You would think that Sami would apologize for breaking Eddie’s face but no instead he doubled down and showed no remore for what happened. Ever since that day both Eddie and Sami have been in broiled in a blood feud with each other.

This feud has gotten so personal that Eddie’s wife Alisha Edwards has gotten involved and was even hospitalized due to an accidental kendo stick shot due to Eddie finally snapping after losing to oVe in a 6 man house of hardcore rules match back at the Crossroads special.

Recently Sami Callihan has taken this whole thing to a new level when he attacked Impact Wrestling Executive Don Callis while he was accepting an award. After this henious attack Impact Management was going to fire Callihan but Eddie pleaded with them not to so he could get his hands on Sami which lead to a street fight at House of Hardcore which Eddie won and that still wasn’t enough for Eddie.

Impact Wrestling recently held TV tapings this weekend in Windsor, Ontario and the cameras caught with same where he called out Impact Wrestling Management, All In, ROH, and Chris Jericho for being b**** for not booking him. Sami even went as far as to say he would invade the Chris Jericho Cruise. You can check out the promo below:

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: We caught up with @TheSamiCallihan outside of our Windsor tapings, and he wasn’t happy. He had some extremely inflammatory comments about @IAmJericho, @ringofhonor and the @Jericho_Cruise. pic.twitter.com/o1OhS3jDCc

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) June 2, 2018

Impact also posted this promo on their YouTube Channel and it has gotten 1.4M views.

Chris Jericho jas responded to this and you checkout his response below:

Hmmm …now this is interesting. @TheSamiCallihan @ringofhonor @jericho_cruise @IMPACTWRESTLING https://t.co/E0SvSrEauB

— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) June 2, 2018

Ja’ Von’s Take: I have been following all of thos from the very beginning and I have to say that I love how Impact has booked this whole thing. I would have to agree with Sami Callihan that he is a draw and any company would benefit from having him on their card. This blood feud with him and Eddie Edwards does need to come to an end though and I believe that it will next week when they fight in the woods. Yes you heard that right Sami and Eddie will bring fighting in the woods with no referees and no ring.

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Related Topics:All In anthem Chris Jericho Eddie Edwards Impact Wrestling ROH Sami Callihan

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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 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!

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!