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WWE Rumors: Who’s The Early Favorite To Main Event WrestleMania?

Published

6 years ago

June 4, 2018

While this year’s ‘Showcase of the Immortals’, WrestleMania, was less than two months ago, it’s never too early to look forward to next year’s big event. The 35th WrestleMania will take place at MetLife Stadium, the home of the NFL’s New York Giants and Jets in East Rutherford, New Jersey and there are already early odds on who could main event the show.

According to SkyBet, Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair is the favorite right now with 8/11 odds, one of two women’s matches that make the top ten favorites:

1) Charlotte Flair vs. Ronda Rousey – 8/11
2) Daniel Bryan vs. Roman Reigns – 8/1
3) Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles – 12/1
3) Daniel Bryan vs. Shinsuke Nakamura – 12/1
3) Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz – 12/1
6) Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman – 14/1
7) Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman – 16/1
7) Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose – 16/1
8) Ronda Rousey vs. Asuka – 18/1
9) Daniel Bryan vs. Brock Lesnar – 25/1
9) Brock Lesnar vs. Finn Balor – 25/1
9) Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns – 25/1

For the complete list, you can go here

EA’s Take: No real surprise to me at the top of the list, I think most of us here at The Chairshot would agree that Rousey vs. Charlotte is the early favorite and we’re obviously not alone in that since there’s been rumblings of it since Ronda’s arrival. If we’re going to have a women’s match main event the biggest wrestling show there is, this is the most obvious match-up with arguably the biggest name you have in the entire company (Rousey) against the tried-and-true champion. What’s interesting to me is the amount of times Daniel Bryan’s name shows up on this list as it looks like most everyone is expecting him to finally be in the title picture by then…except for the Roman Reigns match. I’d be more interested to know how they think WWE books that, for example; does someone win the Rumble, does someone get traded from their brand, etc.

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AEW Coverage

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

What a start to the tournament!

Published

5 months ago

November 27, 2023

Steven Mitchell

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 Coverage

AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

5 months ago

November 22, 2023

Steven Mitchell

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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