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This Day in Wrestling History – October 24th

Onward, our journey to backward continues. October 24th brings us the first WCW PPV under Russo and Ferrara and a confrontation between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar!

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Onward, our journey to backward continues. October 24th brings us the first WCW PPV under Russo and Ferrara and a confrontation between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar!

Born On This Day:

  • 1934 – Juanita Wright (Sapphire)
  • 1943 – William Crookshanks (Bill Dundee)
  • 1971 – Dale Torborg (The Demon, The KISS Demon)
  • 1987 – C. J. Esparza (Stanislav The Squeezer)
  • 1988 – Kazusada Higuchi

On This Day in Wrestling History:

1956 – Mitsuo Surugaumi defeats Michiaki Yoshimura in a tournament final to become the first Japanese Junior Heavyweight Champion.

1967 – Paul DeMarco and Lorenzo Parente defeat Kurt and Skull Von Stroheim to win the Florida version of the NWA World Tag Team Title.

1970 – Moondog Mayne defeats Mr. Fuji to win his 11th NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title.

1974 – Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens defeat Crusher & Billy Robinson to win the AWA World Tag Team Title for their third and final time.

1976 – Alfonso Dantes wins his second NWA World Light Heavyweight Title in Guadalajara, Mexico, defeating Carlos Plata.

1979 – Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood win the Mid-Atlantic version of the NWA World Tag Team Title ending the second reign of Paul Jones and Baron Von Raschke.

1979 – Bobby Eaton wins his second NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Title, ending the fifth reign of Dutch Mantel.

1980 – Tiger Jeet Singh scores the biggest win of his career, defeating Antonio Inoki in Okinawa, Japan for the UWA World Heavyweight Title.

1980 – Tony Atlas defeats Dennis Condrey to win the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title.

1981 – “Mr. Electricity” Steve Regal defeats “Playboy” Buddy Rose for the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title, ending Rose’s seventh reign and beginning his second.

1982 – Jumbo Tsuruta defeats Harley Race to win the NWA United National Heavyweight Title for the fifth time in Kitami, Japan.

1983 – Jimmy Garvin defeats Chris Adams for the WCCW Television Title in Fort Worth, Texas.

1994 – The Moondogs (Spot & Rex) defeat the Phantoms for the USWA Tag Team Title, starting their second reign.

1998 – Doug Gilbert wins the NWA National Heavyweight Title from Stevie Richards, starting his second reign. Christopher Daniels and Kevin Quinn defeat Danny Dominion and Ace Steel to become the first NWA Midwest Tag Team Champions, and E.Z. Ryder defeats Paul Atlas to win the revived NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title.

1998 – The Dudley Boys defeat Rob Van Dam & Sabu in Cleveland, Ohio to win their fourth ECW World Tag Team Title.

1999 WCW held their Halloween Havoc event, this was the first WCW PPV since the arrival of writers Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara from the WWF.

  • Disco Inferno defeated Lash LeRoux to retain the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship.
  • Harlem Heat (Booker T & Stevie Ray) defeated Kidman & Konnan and Brian Knobbs & Hugh Morrus in a three-way match to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
  • Eddie Guerrero defeated Perry Saturn by disqualification.
  • Brad Armstrong defeated Berlyn.
  • Rick Steiner defeated Chris Benoit to win the WCW World Television Championship.
  • The Total Package defeated Bret Hart via submission.
  • Sting defeated Hulk Hogan in just three seconds to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Well, Sting didn’t so much defeat Hogan as much as Hogan laid down for Sting.
  • Goldberg defeated Sid Vicious via referee stoppage due to excessive bleeding to win the WCW United States Championship.
  • Diamond Dallas Page defeated Ric Flair in a strap match.
  • Goldberg defeated Sting to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The result wouldn’t stand, however, as the title is vacated the next night on Nitro due to the match being unsanctioned and Sting hitting the referee

2008 – Reports began that Dos Caras Jr., despite denials, has in fact signed a contract with the WWE starting in January and he would be making his debut at the Royal Rumble.   While he did not appear at the Rumble, Caras Jr., now billed as Alberto Del Rio, would indeed become a major part of WWE in the years to come.

2008AAA presented the 2008 Antonio Peña Memorial Show from Estadio de Beisbol Beto Avila in Veracruz, Mexico.

2010 –  A post-fight interview from the previous night went viral and got wrestling fans salivating. MMA reporter Ariel Helwani was interviewing UFC fan The Undertaker when Brock Lesnar, moments after losing the UFC Heavyweight Championship to Cain Velasquez exchanged glances with Undertaker, who then responded if he wanted to “do this”.

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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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