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Chris Jericho Discusses Why He Changed His Mind About Appearing At All In

Published

6 years ago

September 7, 2018

While some fans still predicted, there were many others that were surprised when IWGP Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho showed up at All In last Saturday after the Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr. match to attack ‘The Cleaner’.

Of course we know that previously Jericho stated he didn’t want to work shows in the United States out of respect for WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, however ‘Y2J’ addressed why he changed his mind about All In on the most recent edition of Talk Is Jericho:

“So months ago when All In was announced, Cody called me and said, ‘Do you want to be involved?’, and I said, ‘No, I’m not really wanting to work any shows in the States that aren’t WWE shows’, for various reasons. I just didn’t feel like it was where I was at, you know, career-wise. So I told him I appreciated the offer, but I’m not going to do it. I also got asked to do Long Beach and then those New Japan shows and all that other stuff as well. So that was kinda the thing, but over the course of the last few months my mindset’s kinda changed a bit to where I’m enjoying being a part of this kinda new revolution of wrestling that’s going on and you know about it too, Jack. So I just thought, ‘Well you know, I’ll consider it, but the idea has to be right’.

So Cody called me again and originally asked me if I wanted to be, you might know more about this than me, but Bernard the Bear? I guess sometimes people take off the bear mask and it’s certain people. So the idea was maybe do something in the main event where The Bucks come down with Bernard the Bear or something and then I attack Kota Ibushi, obviously Kenny’s partner in The Golden Lovers. I was like, ‘Why don’t I attack Kenny?’, and it’s like, it’s not really an angle, match. We just couldn’t really figure it out and I was like, ‘Nah, I’m not really interested in it again’. And then Cody called me again and I started thinking like, ‘I wonder if I can make this work’ and we started kicking around some ideas and the idea was, well what if I could come in earlier in the show and attack Kenny because that’s the idea of kinda keeping this angle alive from the Tokyo Dome to the [Jericho] Cruise and you know, maybe elsewhere. I just thought, ‘What a great to kinda last-minute promotion for the Cruise’.”

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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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