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Chairshot Shuffle: WWE2k20, WWE Draft, Chris Jericho, and More! (9/5/19)
Get caught up to speed with the latest news on WWE2k20, WWE Draft, Chris Jericho, and More!
Get caught up to speed with the latest news on WWE2k20, WWE Draft, Chris Jericho, and More!
Another WWE Draft?
According to John Pollock from Post Wrestling, the WWE will be holding yet another draft. This draft is scheduled for next month and it will begin on Friday, October 11th on Friday Night SmackDown in Las Vegas. The draft will continue into Monday Night Raw on October 14th from Denver, Colorado. The idea of this draft is for superstars to stick to their respective brands
Jason’s Take
Superstars will stick to their respective brands until the wild card rule is reinstated two weeks after the draft. In all seriousness though, it would be great to see stars stick to their brands. Also, with NXT being aired live by this rumored draft date, it would be interesting to see NXT get in the mix and have the availability to draft some of the main roster talent as well. This could be the chance to move Cessaro or Apollo Crews back to NXT.
Match Announced For AEW Full Gear
The official Twitter account of AEW has announced a matchup between Moxley and Omega for the company’s next pay per view, Full Gear. This match was supposed to take place at All Out, but the match was changed to Omega vs Pac when Moxley had to pull out of the match due to a staph infection.
🚨#AEWFullGear – Match Announcement🚨
Saturday, November 9th, 2019 – 7pm Local Start Time@RoFoArena – Baltimore, MD
Jon Moxley vs Kenny Omega
Tickets go on sale THIS FRIDAY, September 6th at Noon ET / 9am PT – https://t.co/UN1cNiJJrQ pic.twitter.com/20rlpL862S— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) September 4, 2019
Jason’s Take
One of the complaints that many fans had with All Out was the lack of story in many of the matches. With Full Gear airing a month after AEW debuts on TNT, there most likely will be a proper build up for this match.
Latest On AEW Championship
Speaking of AEW, as many of you know and commented on our Facebook page, Chris Jericho’s AEW went missing this weekend during a visit to Longhorn Steakhouse. Many have speculated if this was a work or a shoot. In a post that has since been deleted, the Tallahassee Police Department shared a photo on Facebook saying they found the AEW title. Moments later it was posted that they can’t confirm the belt was found. The second post was deleted as well. Chris Jericho stated a world wide investigation will be launched to determine the whereabouts of the AEW championship.
BREAKING NEWS! @AEWrestling Champion has Title Belt stolen in grand heist…. pic.twitter.com/k6K4qxSnt9
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) September 4, 2019
Jason’s Take
Work. But what a work it is as it does have fans talking. This potentially is all build up for some sort of angle, which makes sense with the upcoming AEW on TNT debut. Anyone care to speculate who is behind the heist ?
WWE 2K20 Legends Commercial
WWE2k’s social media accounts have posted a new commercial hyping the legends appearing in WWE2K20.
Jason’s Take
Video game fan or not, you need to watch this commercial. I marked for the legends in the video, and thought it was quite entertaining.
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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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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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