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WWE Rumors: Finn Balor Sent Home From South American Tour, Speculation On Why

Published

5 years ago

December 10, 2018

Why did Finn Balor get sent home early from WWE’s South America Tour?

As has been noted, WWE’s RAW roster traveled far south of the equator to tour South America for Live Events beginning last Wednesday in Santiago, Chile (check out the results here).

Among the action on that evening, fans got to see a bit of a preview of Sunday’s TLC pay-per-view as Finn Balor met his opponent for the event, Drew McIntyre, in a Triple Threat that also included Dolph Ziggler. Unfortunately for Balor, McIntyre would get the win, however the following night in Buenos Aires he would have a chance at a little redemption (see results here).

Fans expecting to see Finn, who had been advertised, were disappointed when he was nowhere to be found as it’s been reported by multiple outlets that WWE sent Balor home early from the tour. There’s now been a lot of speculation and rumor as to why, as some believe he could have suffered an injury while performing in Chile. Additionally, there have also been others who have pointed out how AJ Styles was pulled from a tour last year in similar fashion in order to fill-in. If you remember, TLC last October succumbed to a health issue running through the locker room, forcing Bray Wyatt to be removed from a scheduled match against the aforementioned Balor and replaced by Styles.

At this time, there have been no definitive details given on why Balor went home so soon, as there has been no indication of an injury.

EA’s Take: This is rather…strange. The first thing that comes to my mind is an injury. Maybe he tweaked something and WWE doesn’t want to risk losing another body among the pile on the injury list right now. Precautionary measures, you know. As for Finn being needed someplace else, I honestly can’t think of where that would have been. There was nothing going on that was so important that he needed to be flown out immediately, last year was a completely different circumstance so I think we can rule that out as total hogwash. If I had to take a stab at what happened, give me option A…final answer.

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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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