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Today in Wresting History – October 2nd
Liz’s takes a look back at wrestling news and history for this 2nd day of October, including the night Cody Rhodes revived the old school Intercontinental Championship!
Liz’s takes a look back at wrestling news and history for this 2nd day of October, including the night Cody Rhodes revived the old school Intercontinental Championship!
Celebrating Birthday’s Today
- 1912 – Paul Boesch
- 1962 – Roberto Gutierrez Frias/El Dandy
- 1966 – Rodney Agatupu Anoa’i/Yokouna
- 1969– Jun Akiyama
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Today In History
1989 – The Brain Busters lost the WWF Tag Team Titles to Demolition.
1993 – Tommy Dreamer lost in his ECW debut to Tazz, when Eastern Championship Wrestling presented NWA Bloodfest Part 2.
1999 – Turner Management pulled Lenny Lane, a controversial gay character from programming. At the time he was the Cruiserweight Champion. On TV, they announced that Psicosis had won it from him in a non televised match.
1999 – The UK exclusive Rebellion was presented by the WWF in Birmingham, England. It was the last show that Vince Russo booked for them.
2000 – Champion Vince Russo vacated the title to open Nitro. Booker T became the new champion when he defeated Jeff Jarrett in a “San Francisco 49’ers match”.
2010 – John Cena’s 380 day run as champion ended when he was forced to vacate the title due to a torn pectoral muscle.
2011 – Alberto Del Rio defeated CM Punk and John Cena in the first ever triple threat Hell in a Cell match to win the WWE Championship at Hell in a Cell. Additional matches:
- Sheamus defeated Christian.
- Sin Cara Azul defeated Sin Cara Negro.
- Air Boom (Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston) defeated Jack Swagger & Dolph Ziggler to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship.
- Mark Henry defeated Randy Orton in a Hell in a Cell match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.
- Cody Rhodes defeated John Morrison to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
- Beth Phoenix defeated Kelly Kelly to win the WWE Divas Championship,
2011 – At the same HIAC, Cody Rhodes debuted a new design for the Intercontinental Championship, which included a white strap and plates identical to the title’s classic 1980s design.
2016 – Cody Rhodes, as well as his wife Brandi, debuted at TNA’s Bound for Glory. Rhodes attacked Mike Bennett, who was alongside his wife, Maria. This began a feud between the two couples.
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2007 – Sean Evans
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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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