News

Road Warrior Animal Talks Managing and All Elite Wrestling

Would you take Road Warrior Animal as a manager? In AEW?

Published

5 years ago

April 10, 2019

Road Warrior Animal discusses managing and All Elite Wrestling!

WrestleMania weekend provided podcast journalists a year supply of interviews in one week. One of the most credible of those, Hannibal TV interviewed the legendary Road Warrior Animal. Attentive listeners can scrounge up some unofficial treasure from the legend’s exchange.

The interview starts by discussing the current professional wrestling scene and the benefits of competition. The interview continues with the discussion on WrestleMania, his work with the NWA, and finally his connections with All Elite Wrestling.

The interviewer points out Animal’s relationships with Dusty and Cody Rhodes leading to the question. Is there any chance Animal can join in a production or scout? Animal responded:

“I have been in communication with Matt Jackson, texting Cody, we’ve been talking about doing something together. I think down the line, I’ve talked to Billy Gunn about being an agent or associate producer. I’d like to manage a tag team. I don’t care what company, but hopefully AEW.”

Elisa looks great in her Chairshot t-shirts. You can too!

Get yours at https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/related/thechairshot.html

Since the inception of All Elite Wrestling, the company has signed multiple young talents from within the independent scenes. Very few have demonstrated the ability to cut promotions that engage the fans. The presence of Animal to prepare these young talents for this aspect of the business would be critical as the young company takes its first steps.

Outside of Paul Heyman, Lana, and a select few; the era of wrestling managers died off decades ago. 2018 began the return of wrestling managers, therefore will require a few years to build up. This makes bringing in experienced veterans to fill that critical role more important in the near term.

Manager’s are not random people bringing cheap heat upon their client. They build the storyline according to their client’s perspective. They also fill in the gaps in a story as well as helping to build up fan participation during matches. Historically, Managers came from veteran wrestlers who used their experience to gauge the level of enthusiasm among the crowd. If needed, built up that engagement through various antics, consequently bringing the fans back into the performance. If you have ever criticized WWE for lack of storytelling, part of the issue comes from the lack of managers to build the bare bones concepts.

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

Related Topics:All Elite Wrestling Road Warrior Animal

Up Next

Spoilers For Tonight’s WWE NXT Broadcast

Don't Miss

Chairshot Wrestling News Shuffle: Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins Next Opponents, AEW Signings and more!

AEW Coverage

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!

AEW Coverage

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!