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Speculation On The Women’s Tag Team Elimination Chamber Match

Who would YOU add to the match?

Published

5 years ago

February 3, 2019

Greg DeMarco

Who will be the final teams entered into the Women’s Tag Team Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships?

WWE announced the Women’s Tag Team Championships over the winter holidays, and the wrestling world is excited to see what that set of titles brings. The first ever champions will be crowned on the February 17 Elimination Chamber PPV, and it will feature six tag teams in an Elimination Chamber match. Daniel Bryan is also set to defend his WWE Championship inside the same structure (albeit not at the same time!).

Two teams qualified during Raw, one was added during Smackdown, and WWE recently revealed another on social media today to bring the field to four teams:

Nia Jax & Tamina (earned on Raw)
Sarah Logan & Liv Morgan (earned on Raw)
Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville (declared on Smackdown)
The IIconics of Billie Kay & Peyton Royce (added via social media)

It’s worth noting that only the teams from Raw had to “earn” their way into the match–it’s also worth noting that Raw has three hours of television time to fill each week!

On Monday’s Raw, Sasha Banks & Bayley will wrestle Alicia Fox & Nikki Cross for a spot in the match, and if the winner of that match isn’t obvious than I don’t know what we’re even doing here.

The fifth spot is up in the air, and WWE can go in one of a few directions:

Legend Team

It would be easy to bring out Lita & Trish Stratus, or Brie & Nikki Bella for this match. I think you can argue that The Bella Twins should win the titles, even if the assumption is that it is going to Sasha Banks & Bayley. If The Bellas win, you then build to a shot for Bayley & Sasha at WrestleMania, where the babyface duo would go over in front of over 80,000 screaming fans. Not a bad trade off if you ask me.

Many fans will scoff at that, but they’re short sighted. It’s about building a moment, and you can do that at WrestleMania.

Main Roster Team

You can also use a team from the main roster, either Raw or Smackdown. The issue there is that no other true teams exist on the main roster (that’s a problem with this concept in its entirety). Alexa Bliss and Mickie James, who already lost a shot, are the only other true team on the roster not already in the match. Anyone else would be a makeshift team–which Sasha Banks & Bayley really are as it is.

NXT Team

NXT has two true women’s tag teams at the moment. Jessamyn Duke & Marina Shafir are part of the MMA Horsewomen, spending most of their time running with NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler. They lost this week on NXT to the Sky Pirates, Io Shirai and Kairi Sane, in a match taped in Phoenix before Takeover. Kane & Shirai make the most sense to add to the match.

So that brings me down to three options:

The Bella Twins
Alexa Bliss & Mickie James
Kairi Sane & Io Shirai

Of the three options above, The Bellas bring the most heat to the match (and the titles). But if I took them out, I’d add in Sane & Shirai, since they didn’t just lose a qualifying match like Alexa & Mickie.

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!