News

WWE Rumors: Did WWE Purposely Create A Rift Between Colt Cabana & CM Punk?

Published

6 years ago

August 12, 2018

As has been noted this week, the saga between WWE Doctor Chris Amann, Colt Cabana and CM Punk isn’t quite over for all parties as Cabana has now filed a lawsuit against Punk, alleging that he backed off on his word to cover Colt’s legal fees stemming from the Amann lawsuit (read about that here).

More details regarding the spat between the now-former friends also emerged, as Cabana alleges he also received an email from Punk that looks to be quite damning for the former WWE Champion (check that out here). However, some are speculating that perhaps this is all WWE’s doing and may very well have been one of their goals from the outset.

On the recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer has speculated that WWE may have planned the rift, hoping that Punk would turn on Cabana at some point in the legal process. While it clearly did not have any bearing on the verdict of the Amann lawsuit, if this is the case then WWE has certainly succeeded.

EA’s Take: What the…what? Conspiracy theories much? To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to cover this and give Meltzer any more free pub than he already gets. However, I felt that I needed to take this opportunity to offer my opinion, which is this…ARE YOU F******* KIDDING ME? To me this screams, “Let’s throw some s*** at the wall and see if it sticks”. It’s no secret that CM Punk is a dick, no two-ways about it. He’s turned on other friends for a lot less, just ask Hornswoggle. I mean, I GUESS I can see why Meltzer would say this if you want to play devil’s advocate, but man, it’s a REALLY hard sell for me and I just don’t buy it. How could WWE know for a fact that something like this would happen? They wouldn’t. It’s just complete and utter stupidity to me that Meltzer would throw this out there. What exactly is HIS goal by saying it? I honestly don’t have any idea, it makes no sense and I don’t know what the reasoning would be. Probably because there’s little-to-NO reasoning to it at all. I think your phone’s ringing Dave, Alex Jones wants to speak with you and be friends.

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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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