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ROH News: Ring Of Honor Plans To Hold Event At MSG In 2019

Published

6 years ago

June 12, 2018

Coming off the recent news that management for the famed Madison Square Garden has been unhappy with their working relationship with WWE (which you can read here), the building is seeking to bring in other wrestling promotions for the first time in decades. We learned that the Mexico-based promotion AAA had a hold on the venue for an event in September (which WWE has right of refusal for), but it’s now been revealed that Ring Of Honor is getting in on the action.

Sinclair Broadcast Group CEO Chris Ripley (the parent company of Ring Of Honor) recently spoke with The Business Journal of Baltimore and revealed their plans for a show at Madison Square Garden in 2019. Additionally, Ripley commented that they’re looking at “scaling in terms of our production quality”. He would also state the reason why ROH TV has not been moved off of its Sinclair stations:

“We have not really brought it off Sinclair because the production quality is not quite there yet.”

At this time, there’s no word on if WWE no longer has right of refusal.

Quotes c/o The Business Journal of Baltimore

EA’s Take: There’s a lot to take in here, so let’s look at some other angles to it. To begin, there’s been zero word on if WWE would no longer have the right of refusal, when that agreement ends or anything along those lines, so that’s a little open to interpretation. Also, PWInsider is reporting this basically as a fact and is also teasing a possible All In 2 at MSG. Our very own Greg DeMarco also had that initial thought. Also, PWInsider does have a relationship with ROH, which you can clearly see if you ever visit their site. So you can take that as “They have inside information” or “They’re just helping promote”. Now remember, they were the ones who had the story that WWE had right of refusal, but now they’re making no mention of it. Back to All In though, we know that it’s a self-funded show by Cody and The Young Bucks, but can we still say that’s the case? It’s not out of the question that Sinclair/ROH took notice and decided to quietly get involved. Just sayin’. As I said, this presents a lot to think about with so many different angles to the story. You can get with this or you can get with that.

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AEW Coverage

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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