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This Day in Wrestling History – October 14th

Liz continues her research to bring you the highlights of today in wrestling history. October 14th brings us multiple birthdays, the passing of a legend and multiple title changes.

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Liz continues her research to bring you the highlights of today in wrestling history. October 14th brings us multiple birthdays, the passing of a legend and multiple title changes.

Born On This Date:

  • 1935 – Jack Lanza (BlackJack Lanza)
  • 1947 – Josip Nikolai Peruzovic (Nikolai Volkoff)
  • 1952 – Daniel Eugene Spivey
  • 1959 – Bruce Woyan (Buzz Sawyer)
  • 1979 – Stacy Ann-Marie Keibler
  • 1990 – Shaul Marie Guerrero

On This Day in Wrestling History:

1966 – Lou Thesz defeats Buddy Austin to win the WWA World Heavyweight Title.

1966 – El Santo defeats Espanto I for the Mexican Light Heavyweight Title in Mexicali, Mexico, ending Espanto’s second title reign.

1978 – The Assassin defeats Jose Lothario  to win the Mid-South Louisiana Heavyweight Title, ending the Lothario’s second reign as champion.

1985 – Butch Reed defeats Dick Murdoch to win the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Title. As a result of this win, Reed had to vacate the Mid-South Television Title, which he had won from Dutch Mantell on July 22, 1985.

1989 – Tito Santana defeated Rick Martel to win the King Of The Ring tournament.

1989 – Bruce Hart defeats Gama Singh for the Stampede Wrestling British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Title.. This marked the start of Bruce’s sixth run with the belt, and the end of Singh’s fifth reign. Hart would end up retiring the belt, as Stampede Wrestling closed down two months later.

1996 – The Monday Night Wars continued, with Nitro scoring a strong win over Raw, 3.3 to 1.8.

1997 – Atshushi Onita, Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido defeat Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa for the FMW World Streetfight 6-Man Tag Team Title in Sapporo, Japan.

2000 – JJ The Ring Crew Guy defeats Inferno Kid in Laurel, Delaware to win the ECWA Heavyweight Title for the second time in his career.

2002 – Chris Jericho & Christian defeat The Hurricane & Kane for the World Tag Team Championship. This is the first title change for the tag straps since becoming an “exclusive” to the Raw brand.

2006 – CZW Last Team Standing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castignoli) defeated The H8 Club (Justice Pain & Human Tornado, substituting for Nick Gage) to win the CZW World Tag Team Championship. At the time of their win, the duo now had tag team titles in CZW, CHIKARA, and Ring of Honor, at the same time.

2013 – Low Ki announced his retirement.  He would return to the ring within a year.

2014WWE shocked many when they announced they had release ring announcer Justin Roberts.

2016 – The first night of the two night ROH event Glory by Honor took place in Illinois. It concluded in Detroit, the next day.

Died On This Date:

  • 2009 – Louis Vincent Albano


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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

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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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AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

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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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