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2019 Chairshot Team Of The Year: The New Day

Greg DeMarco presents the Chairshot Team Of The Year for 2019! Who excelled throughout the past 12 months?

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Greg DeMarco presents the Chairshot Team Of The Year for 2019! Who excelled throughout the past 12 months?

2019 was a crazy year in professional wrestling, leaving us all thirsty for more. I liken it to 1996, when competition started swinging at each other–but 1997 was year it got real. Could we see that in 2020? Who knows what we’ll be saying in 12 months, but first we need to take our annual look back as we do so well here at The Chairshot.

In episode five of The #Miranda & Greg DeMarco Super Such Good Shit Show, Pal, Miranda Morales and myself came together to review the past 12 months and pick the Man, Woman, and Team Of The Year for 2019. Over the next few days, I give you the winners!

2019 Chairshot Team Of The Year: The New Day

The year of 2019 was full of ups and downs, none with more peaks and valleys than the year for Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods…The New Day!

Kofi Kingston started the year off as he always did–with an amazing appearance in the Royal Rumble. He obviously didn’t win, but shortly after that he ended up being a replacement for Mustafa Ali in a Gauntlet Match featuring all of the participants for the Elimination Chamber. Kofi excelled, putting on an amazing show, and fans began calling for him to be Daniel Bryan’s next challenger. What followed was a stand out performance at Elimination Chamber, but one that closed out the show with Kofi dejected, sitting with his New Day brothers.

At this point, his partners showed their value as a team, pushing for Kofi to be “the guy” in the company, challenging for and wearing the WWE Championship. This was its own storyline as Kofi would have challenge after challenge, winning another Gauntlet and even seeing The New Day win their own Gauntlet as a team to finally give Kofi his shot at Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania.

Had Kofi Kingston lost at WrestleMania 35, there likely would have been a riot at Met Life Stadium (the scene after the show was bad enough). But Kofi won, and became WWE Champion. What followed was even more surprising: Kofi Kingston had a legitimate title reign, including feuds with Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler (who thought it should have been him).  Big E and Xavier Woods were there every step of the way.

Kofi’s run came to an end in October on the first Smackdown on FOX, where he lost to Brock Lesnar in a matter of seconds. The finish was likely a result of other segments running long (this show did feature The Rock in his own segment, along with a Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair segment). Kofi didn’t stay down for long, as he and Big E would once again capture the Smackdown Tag Team Championship.

Kofi Kingston New Day Team Of The Year

The year ended much like it started: with The New Day as a team. What happened in the middle will never be forgotten, as Kofi Kingston will always be a man who held the WWE Championship, and The New Day made it happen. That’s a team effort, and THAT is why New Day is your 2019 Chairshot Team Of The Year.

Consideration was also given to:

  • The Undisputed Era

Who was named Man Of The Year? ? Stay tuned the rest of this week to see!

I want to know what you think: Does The New Day deserve recognition for Kofi Kingston’s accomplishments in 2019? Leave a comment on this content, hit me up on social media @ChairshotGreg or email me at [email protected]!


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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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