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WWE Rumors: When Natalya vs. Rousey Was Reportedly Set To Take Place

Published

5 years ago

December 27, 2018

When was the Natalya vs. Ronda Rousey match originally supposed to take place?

In case you didn’t catch this week’s episode of RAW due to the holiday (find all the results with Mitchell’s Live Report), the main event of the evening saw two friends battling over gold as Natalya challenged Ronda Rousey for the RAW Women’s Championship.

If you remember, last month it was reported that initial plans called for Natalya to turn on Ronda, however the untimely passing of Nattie’s father, Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart, caused WWE to call an audible (read the story here). While it doesn’t seem like much as the match still took place this week, another report today says that it actually had a huge affect on the company’s biggest annual event.

According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, who originally reported the change in plans, Nattie was set to square-off against Ronda at WrestleMania 35 in April, which would have been the “women’s main event”. Instead, now the plan is reportedly for Becky Lynch to face Ronda Rousey, but it’s still unclear if the RAW Women’s Title would be on the line or if Charlotte Flair would be involved as well.

EA’s Take: No…nope…NO! I don’t believe that Natalya vs. Ronda Rousey was ever scheduled to be the top women’s match at WrestleMania or was even going to happen at WrestleMania in any fashion. I’m sorry, all due respect to Nattie and the career she’s had, but does anybody think for one second WWE would have that as a WrestleMania match? No. Freakin’. Way. All we’ve heard about since last WrestleMania has been Ronda vs. Charlotte, or some iteration of Horsewomen vs. Horsewomen and then recently it’s been all about Becky. Again, all apologies to Natalya, but that would be a waste of a Mania match for Rousey, in my opinion. Look, WWE is much smarter than that, despite what anybody thinks. With no way of telling how much longer you will even have Ronda for (because let’s be honest, we really have no clue how long she plans on doing this), I find it incredibly hard to believe WWE would use one of what could be very few opportunities on Rousey vs. Natalya with much better options on the table.

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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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