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XFL News: How Much Vince McMahon Is Expected To Spend On XFL Reboot

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We’re still quite a ways away from the relaunch of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon’s XFL, currently slated to begin in February of 2020. While the brand is currently on the lookout for bodies to fill positions for the league ranging from players to front office personnel and everything in between, more information on how much the reboot will cost McMahon has been revealed today.

Darren Rovell of ESPN, who spoke to the XFL’s new CEO and Commissoner Oliver Luck (read about his hiring here) is reporting that McMahon has been informing insiders he expects to spend roughly $500 million on the league for its first three seasons. Previously, Vince sold $100 million of his WWE stock to put into Alpha Entertainment LLC, which was created solely for the new XFL in order to keep it separate from McMahon’s wrestling company. Luck stated the following to Rovell regarding the amount of money being put into the project:

“People were focused on the $100 million, but the truth is that doesn’t even get us to the 20-yard line.”

Luck would also add that the biggest cost will be player and coach salaries as the average for a team’s 40-man roster is expected to be around $75,000, $30,000 more than the original XFL average. On top of that, insurance coverage to cover player injuries is said to hit more than $10 million per year for premiums.

EA’s Take: One thing nobody can never say about Vince is that the guy doesn’t have the “grapefruits” to take a roll of the dice on something he believes in. My biggest issue with all of this is how they’re going to compete with the NFL, on top of the also announced AAF headed by Dick Ebersol which is set to launch a year before the XFL. Personally, I love me some football, but I don’t even watch college. The NFL is so ingrained in me that I just see no reason why I would stop watching it or even WANT to watch another, lesser league. Does the NFL have its issues? Of course it does, but let’s be real here. If you have a favorite team like I do (New England Patriots, go ahead and hate on me haters), why would I go from watching the greatest quarterback who ever lived to tuning into a bunch of players that couldn’t make it to that league? That’s one of the problems the XFL had before and I’m sorry, I don’t see how that’s been fixed regardless of how many other original issues have been rectified. I certainly think the legalization of gambling could be a good thing for the XFL because people who are into that will bet on anything, so maybe that’s the “saving grace”? I guess we just have to wait and see.

 

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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

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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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AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

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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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