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After NXT’s ‘Curtain Call,’ Could The Undisputed Era Turn Face?

After the events of (and after) Takeover, NXT may be losing three top faces. Could The Undisputed Era fill that void?

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5 years ago

January 27, 2019

Greg DeMarco

After the events of (and after) Takeover, NXT may be losing three top faces. Could The Undisputed Era fill that void?

Saturday night saw an amazing NXT Takeover: Phoenix event, as the WWE yellow brand delivered as it tends to with their signature events. But, long-term, it may be the events AFTER the show that have the biggest impact.

As reported by many sites, after Tommaso Ciampa beat Aleister Black to retain the WWE NXT Championship, the champion celebrated with newly crowned WWE NXT North American Champion Johnny Gargano, standing in what appeared to be some sort of unholy unity. It didn’t end there, as after the broadcast ended they were joined by Velveteen Dream (much to the delight of the crowd), Adam Cole (but still no BAY BAY, dammit), and Black himself.

The six finally started pushing and shoving on the stage, but were brought to the back where a bigger brawl would ensue at the Gorilla position. Once Triple H stepped in to break things up (also to the delight of the crowd), the three babyfaces (Aleister Black, Velveteen Dream, and Ricochet) came out to embrace the crowd once more, with each theme playing and all celebrating together despite not having won anything. (God Bless Aleister Black–that statement itself is hilarious–for still selling his leg the entire time.)

The speculation is obvious–it’s easy to expect Velveteen Dream to appear in the Royal Rumble, but it’s equally easy to see Ricochet and Aleister Black in there with him, and all three moving to the main roster.

So let’s assume that it’s true, and that the three biggest faces in NXT are gone for the main roster, or gone after the next set of NXT tapings. Who takes over?

The company is solid on the heel side with Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. But who can fight them? Matt Riddle is an obvious choice, but he still has work to do and will develop even more. Who else? Well, how about The Undisputed Era!

Led by Adam Cole, and including Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly, and Bobby Fish, The Undisputed Era has been getting a face reaction since their debut, and they would easily be accepted by the fans as faces. They don’t have the size to be a force on the current main roster, but in a few years that may change. They, along with Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa, can really anchor NXT as a viable touring brand.

Besides, Adam Cole’s brief run with the North American Championship was hardly an example of what he’s promised as a decade of dominance for UE–he would make a hell of a challenger for Tommaso Ciampa at Takeover: New York (or Brooklyn, or WrestleMania, or whatever they are going to call it).

So I say do it–turn The Undisputed Era face, and change nothing else. We are in an era where faces and heels are more of an alignment and less of an attitude, which makes such great heels like Shayna Baszler and The New Daniel Bryan so rare.

And just for the fun of it, what if you turn ADAM COLE only, and let Bobby Fish take the lead with Undisputed Era?

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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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.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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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!

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!