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WWE News: Seth Rollins Talks Dean Ambrose’s Injury, The Shield & More

Published

6 years ago

August 11, 2018

WWE Superstar Seth Rollins has been touring China this week to promote WWE’s upcoming show in Shanghai in September, when he did a phone interview with the South China Morning Post. Many topics were discussed, including the Dean Ambrose injury when Rollins said this:

“Not that I would wish injury on Ambrose at all, but that was something that lit a fire underneath me. It’s definitely been a blessing in disguise for my singles career.

Yeah, it’s been a really good year for me. Honestly, you look at my body of work from SummerSlam last year to SummerSlam this year – I really don’t think there’s anybody on the main roster, aside from an AJ Styles give or take, that can compare with what I’ve done.”

These comments seem to be pretty inflammatory and a lot of Ambrose/Shield fans were not too happy with Rollins over this. However, these were not the full comments. This is his full comment about Dean Ambrose:

“Being part of the Shield is a special thing, any time the three of us are healthy and in the same place we can get into some trouble.

Not that I would wish injury on Ambrose at all, but that was something that lit a fire underneath me. It’s definitely been a blessing in disguise for my singles career.”

“It was like OK, I’ve got to kind of refocus, reset my priorities and move forward. I was presented with some cool opportunities early in the year.”

He also discussed his Intercontinental Title run, how much main eventing Extreme Rules meant to him, and his plans once he regains the Intercontinental Championship, including possibly challenging Roman Reigns in a Champion vs Champion situation if Reigns beats Brock Lesnar for the Universal Title at SummerSlam.

To read the full interview, go here.

Tiff’s Take: My original theory was that this was a work to lay the groundwork for a Rollins/Ambrose feud. Except that after smelling something fishy and doing some more research, I found out that those were NOT the full comments. The part in bold was not included in fansite coverage, nor was the Shield comment, but I included that to give context to what was being discussed. Taken in their full context, Rollins’ comments still don’t sound great, but they aren’t as awful and selfish as they originally seemed. I work for a fansite, I totally get the need to generate clicks for your articles, clicks equal revenue which helps pay to keep the website going, but what was done with Rollins’ comments by some is the biggest load of BS I’ve seen in a long time. The original article wasn’t hard to find, so the sites that published this can’t say they couldn’t read the whole interview to get the context of his comments, and to have gotten the comments they did, SOMEONE must’ve read the same article I did, so there’s no excuse for not publishing the FULL comments except to get clicks and stir the pot. I get that most of us who write for fansites aren’t professional journalists, but we still need to have some journalistic integrity when reporting on a wrestler’s comments. You don’t have to be a fan of a wrestler or like them as people, but you at least owe it them to be fair when reporting on them.

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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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