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AEW Rumors: Loads Of More Notes On AEW, Possible TV Deal, Talents On Their Radar

Published

5 years ago

January 2, 2019

Tons of notes on All Elite Wrestling!

There’s certainly been no shortage of news regarding the official launch of All Elite Wrestling (see the news here), as we’ve seen the company’s first official signings, roles for Cody and The Young Bucks backstage and much more, with even more on top of that likely to come in the next few weeks/months.

With so many details still yet to be revealed or determined, there’s been a lot of interesting stuff reported today. According to Rajah, AEW President Tony Khan is currently trying to broker a television deal with a network pretty familiar with wrestling, Time Warner, who reportedly would have All Elite Wrestling on either TNT or TBS, the former homes of World Championship Wrestling. Additionally, it’s being said that Khan has put up $100 million for AEW.

If you remember, the initial report about an upcoming new promotion, that has since turned out to be AEW, named Chris Jericho and Jim Ross as the proprietors of the new company. While of course that’s not the case, Rajah also reports that Ross will indeed be involved with a commentary position, but also an unspecified backstage role. As for Jericho, Rajah reports that he will have an “in-depth” role with AEW.

Now as it pertains to acquiring talent, another name we previously heard was involved was renowned agent Barry Bloom, who represents a number of big name talents. One name that has reportedly been brought up is that of Goldberg, as it’s being said AEW will “go hard” after not only current top talents, but legends.

EA’s Take: There’s quite a lot to digest here. Ross being involved in any fashion wouldn’t shock me, but the thing with him is that he’s still under WWE contract. He never was going to come right out and say, “Yeah, I’m involved”. Jericho on the other hand, I’m still not sure about. He’s a wild card really, but even before this report it was looking like he will do something with AEW. I think there’s going to be a lot of “wait-and-see” reports like this until this thing actually gets off the ground.

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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 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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