Tag: AEW Continental Crown

Continental Crown defense booked for AEW Rampage Homecoming

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Eddie Kingston will defend the AEW Continental Crown on Friday’s Rampage Homecoming episode. 

ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta will challenge Kingston for the Continental Crown on the Friday, January 12 edition of Rampage. The episode is being taped Wednesday night in Jacksonville, Florida at Daily’s Place. 

Kingston vs. Yuta was announced during Wednesday’s Dynamite Homecoming episode from the same venue with a video package. 

Yuta called out Kingston in the package for referring to Yuta as a “young boy b*tch” in a prior Kingston promo, and called Kingston a b*tch in issuing the challenge. 

While not officially announced for Friday’s show on AEW programming, Queen Aminata vs. Hikaru Shida, plus Swerve Strickland vs. Matt Sydal are also being taped Wednesday night to air on Rampage Homecoming. Strickland was involved in an in-ring promo segment on Wednesday that also included Hangman Page, and Hook as World Champion Samoa Joe threw down the gauntlet to future title challengers. 

The lineup for Rampage Homecoming: 

  • AEW Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston defends against Wheeler Yuta
  • Hikaru Shida vs. Queen Aminata
  • Swerve Strickland vs. Matt Sydal

Eddie Kingston’s first Continental Crown defense set for AEW Collision

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Eddie Kingston will defend the Continental Crown for the first time on this week’s AEW Collision. 

Trent Beretta won a four-way title eliminator match on Wednesday’s Dynamite to earn the right to challenge Kingston on Saturday’s Collision episode. 

El Hijo del Vikingo, Brian Cage, and Bryan Keith were the other three participants in the title eliminator bout. 

Kingston won the Continental Classic to become the first-ever AEW Continental Champion, defeating Jon Moxley at last week’s Worlds End pay-per-view in the tournament finals. The Continental Championship was unified with the NJPW Strong Openweight & ROH World Championships in the Continental Classic tournament, and AEW commentary has taken to calling the new title the Continental Crown. 

A tag team contest between FTR & House of Black has already been announced for Saturday’s Collision, as Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler team against Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews. 

Saturday’s announced Collision lineup:

  • Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston defends against Trent Beretta
  • FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. House of Black (Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews)

Eddie Kingston wins first-ever Continental Crown at AEW Worlds End

Posted on by Josh Nason

New York native Eddie Kingston became the winner of both the first-ever AEW Continental Classic and the first-ever Continental Crown championship at Saturday’s Worlds End on Long Island, New York.

Kingston, winner of the Blue League portion of the tournament, pinned Jon Moxley, winner of the Gold League portion, following a spinning backfist that concluded a striking exchange between the two.

As expected, the match was a hard-hitting one and one that was reminiscent of the Japanese style both wrestlers have emulated for years.

The Continental Crown Championship is what AEW is hailing as the “modern” triple crown, made up of the new AEW Continental Championship, the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship, and the Ring of Honor World title.

Kingston went into the tournament as both the ROH and NJPW titleholder, offering to put both titles up on the line in the tournament.

Kingston earned his way into the final with a win over Bryan Danielson while Moxley defeated both Swerve Strickland and Jay White in a three-way.