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WWE News: Ricochet Reportedly Still Dealing With An Injury

Published

6 years ago

August 10, 2018

This week on WWE’s NXT, Ricochet was set for action, but as the music hit for him to make his way to the ring, he was instead dragged out to the stage by The Undisputed Era. Of course, ‘The One and Only’ is scheduled to face Adam Cole at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn IV on August 18th for the NXT North American Championship. It now appears as if the reason for that angle was more than just to further their feud.

According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Ricochet has been working through an unspecified injury, which is being described as a “tweak”, initially suffered at an NXT Live Event in Paris, France back on June 11th. While it’s not certain exactly what he’s dealing with, the ailment in question came during a match when Ricochet attempted an outside dive that missed its mark.

Ricochet has not competed for the last six weeks with his last match coming back at the United Kingdom Championship Tournament on June 26th when he teamed with Aleister Black to take on EC3 and The Velveteen Dream. Currently, it’s being said that he will be just fine for TakeOver: Brooklyn and is just taking some time off to heal up.

EA’s Take: Good thing all these people keep doing outside dives! In case you didn’t notice, that’s what we call “sarcasm”. We know there was a pretty severe injury at last night’s Mae Young Classic tapings due to an outside dive so the question has to be asked…is it worth it? In Ricochet’s case, you’ve basically made your career off of these types of maneuvers, essentially pigeon-holing yourself into that box where it’s expected on a nightly basis. Just, why? Why does there need to be an outside dive on EVERY damn show? They’ve been used to death and aren’t even exciting anymore in my eyes. Save those for big events or at the very least, something that’s televised. It’s just such an unnecessary risk that I will never understand. Meanwhile, people want to say stupid things like, “Well they shouldn’t have done all the Mae Young Classic tapings the way they did. Spread it out over three days to give them time to heal”. Are you friggin’ serious?!?

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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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