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WWE Rumors: Speculation On Why Big Cass Was Released

Published

6 years ago

June 20, 2018

After the surprising news yesterday of Big Cass, real name William Morrissey, being released by WWE just two days after suffering his second straight pay-per-view loss to Daniel Bryan at Money In The Bank, many members of the WWE Universe have wondered what exactly led to the seven-footer being let go.

According to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon called a meeting at yesterday at SmackDown Live and fired the big man. Additionally, Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard is reporting that Cass also had been drinking to the excess during the company’s European Tour and having a poor attitude while under the influence. It’s being said that this is a reason WWE had soured on him, as public intoxication is something that the company frowns upon.

There’s also been talk that Cass’ attitude backstage has been a bit of a problem for some time now and Mike Bucci, also known as former WWE Superstar Simon Dean (Nova and Hollywood Nova in ECW), stated the following on Facebook yesterday regarding the seven-footer’s release:

“A former wrestling co-worker of mine from back in my WWE days was backstage at a show about a year ago and Big Cass big dogged him and asked him to leave the locker room. If their paths cross again on the indys, I hope I’m there to see my old buddy return the favor.”

According to WrestlingInc, they reached out to a source that stated Cass was getting a little too comfortable with his on-screen character and had been starting some conflicts with others backstage. It was also said he had been trying to make up for getting himself in hot water by “playing politics”.

EA’s Take: All of this kind of puts me between a rock and a hard place because Meltzer and Barrasso have both been known to be more “Let’s throw crap at the wall and see what sticks” or provide some false information, whether on purpose or not. However, a lot of this, if not all of it, makes complete sense. Cass was always pegged as a guy that could be a star (no pun intended) by the company due to his size and we saw indications of that going back to the split of Enzo and Cass last year. Plus, they put him right into a feud with the company’s most loved babyface upon his return, so you know they wanted to get the guy over. Therefore, they were obviously going to give him every opportunity to make something of himself. As anyone who’s ever been a part of the wrestling business will tell you, it can do crazy things to people and it looks like that’s the case here. Unfortunately, he just couldn’t get out of his own way and acted like a top guy before getting there and it cost him.

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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!

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