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Possible Backstage Roles For Cody & Young Bucks In AEW, BJ Whitmer Confirmed?

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5 years ago

January 1, 2019

What might Cody and The Young Bucks be doing backstage for AEW?

Following the official announcement of All Elite Wrestling’s launch and reveal of an upcoming rally for a future event entitled Double Or Nothing (see that story here), there are obviously still a ton of details that need to be addressed, some of which we got a little bit of possible info on this morning (find that here).

While it’s been reported that Cody Rhodes has already signed a multi-year AEW deal and The Young Bucks are expected to sign very soon, we still don’t know their full involvement with the promotion outside of obviously being members of the roster.

Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Ryan Satin is reporting today that a source informed him a few weeks back that Cody’s role would include being the Executive Producer of Events and a possible television show. Meanwhile, other members of The Elite would also have backstage roles, including The Young Bucks who reportedly would be doing the booking, although it was also said that could have changed in the past few weeks as well.

Additionally, Satin also notes that there are a number of WWE Superstars who aren’t pleased with their spots in the company and reportedly will be keeping a close eye on AEW as a possible destination for a “change of scenery”.

Lastly, after departing Ring Of Honor over what he deemed to be “utter disrespect” from management (read more on that here), it was recently reported that BJ Whitmer likely would wind up with AEW fulfilling duties similar to what he had with ROH (check that out here). After the announcement of All Elite Wrestling, Whitmer sent out the following via Twitter, which many have taken as a sign that he’s officially on-board with the company:

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— BJ Whitmer (@BJ_Whitmer) January 1, 2019

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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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