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WWE News: SmackDown Tag Title Match Now Set For Hell In A Cell
Over the past couple of weeks on SmackDown Live, we’ve seen a pair of Triple Threat Tag Team matches as part of a tournament to anoint the next challengers for The New Day’s SmackDown Tag Team Titles at Hell In A Cell.
Two weeks ago, The Bar emerged victorious over Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, as well as The Colons to advance. Then last week, Rusev Day continued their roll when they defeated SAnitY and The Usos, setting us up for our match tonight as they battled The Bar with The New Day at their personal commentary desk ringside.
Sheamus and Cesaro were able to show what made them great RAW Tag Team Champions by controlling the pace early on, but a tag to Aiden English ramped up the offense for Rusev Day, as well as the speed of the match. Just as ‘The Drama King’ was dominating, a distraction by Cesaro turned the tables back in The Bar’s favor just as fast, isolating Aiden from his bigger, more powerful partner.
English would finally capitalize on a mistake by Sheamus to get ‘The Bulgarian Brute’ into the match, Rusev quickly looking to put Cesaro away. ‘The Swiss Superman’ would hang on to keep The Bar’s opportunity alive, but find himself locked in The Accolade. Sheamus would make the save before getting disposed to the outside, but Cesaro would have enough time to recover, nearly finishing Rusev with a double-DDT. ‘The Bulgarian Lion’ attempted to thwart off double team tactics long enough for Aiden to recover.
As Sheamus set up for a Brogue Kick, ‘The Drama King’ would step in harm’s way to save Rusev. This would give ‘The Bulgarian Brute’ an opening, clocking Sheamus with a Machka Kick to pickup the pinfall.
Some BRILLIANT investigative journalism by #KramerKingsman backstage at #SDLive! @WWEBigE @TrueKofi @XavierWoodsPhD pic.twitter.com/mjNBXmWtmT
— WWE (@WWE) September 12, 2018
Business just picked up… #TheBar @WWESheamus @WWECesaro #SDLive pic.twitter.com/mZ1VQS6Z5N
— WWE (@WWE) September 12, 2018
One victory away from a VERY happy #RusevDay! #SDLive @RusevBUL @LanaWWE @WWEDramaKing pic.twitter.com/TIetIOCBz6
— WWE (@WWE) September 12, 2018
SAME, @LanaWWE, SAME!#RusevDay defeats #TheBar to battle #TheNewDay for the #SDLive #TagTeamTitles at #HIAC! @RusevBUL @WWEDramaKing pic.twitter.com/xvkv1GdwbV
— WWE (@WWE) September 12, 2018
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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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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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