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WWE Rumors: More Speculation On What Led To Big Cass’ Release

Published

6 years ago

June 21, 2018

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, arguably the biggest story coming out of the WWE this week is the surprising release of Big Cass, reportedly being fired by Vince McMahon after the WWE Chairman called a meeting at this week’s SmackDown Live in Toledo, Ohio. There’s been a lot of talk about what happened and why The Seven-Footer was let go, reportedly due to heavy drinking on the recent European Tour, as well as just having a bad attitude in general.

Today, The Wrestling Observer has added a lot more information to the story about why the release occurred, reiterating that there was heat on Cass after he reportedly went off-script during a segment on SmackDown Live where he delivered a beat down to a little person who was impersonating Daniel Bryan (which you can read here). It’s also being said that Big Cass had blown off a promo rehearsal with Kevin Dunn, then later went long on the promo on television. The Observer also noted that Vince McMahon reportedly “hated” the promo and actually fired a writer over it.

ProWrestlingSheet is also reporting that there was another incident on the European Tour in which Cass had accidentally locked himself in the bathroom on the Superstars’ tour bus, then destroyed it to free himself all while thinking somebody was ribbing him. This led to other Superstars not being able to use the facility and WWE was forced to cover the damages.

EA’s Take: For me, it’s really tough to tell how much of this is true and how much is “Let’s see what sticks”, especially when it comes to the bathroom incident. Anyone else remember a while back when there was an incident in which Sin Cara had reportedly been kicked off of a tour bus? We heard about that almost immediately, not weeks after the fact, so that’s why I’m a little skeptical. Does that mean it didn’t happen? Of course not, but it just makes me a little more (as they do on Impractical Jokers), “Wellll….”. I’ve got a bit of an “in” with somebody in WWE (I know what you’re thinking, “Yeah. Okay, BS”), but I can assure you it’s a good source and I haven’t heard anything about it. Again, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

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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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