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VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Accidental or on Purpose’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • Matt and Nick Jackson threatened to hit -1 with a BTE Trigger, but they missed. -1 then stole their shoes. 

The Elite —

  • Footage from Adam Cole, Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly’s match on Dynamite was shown, as well as The Young Bucks and Brandon Cutler watching the match backstage before they made their run-ins. The Bucks, Cole and Cutler speculated as to whether or not O’Reilly kicked Cole on purpose. 
  • The Bucks think O’Reilly can’t be trusted, while Cole wants to trust him. 
  • In the closing scene, Christopher Daniels returned and announced that he has work to do.

Dark Order —

  • The group returned to their old Daily’s Place lair. Colt Cabana did some magic tricks and turned himself into a miniature pumpkin. 
  • Adam Cole went to his hotel room and was secretly disappointed that Silver and Reynolds were not in this bed. They then cut to Silver and Reynolds in their hotel room, where they were a little sad that Cole wasn’t there for them to squeeze. 

Hollywood Hunk —

  • A commercial for milk aired. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Christmas Surprise’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • Trent continued his passive aggressive badgering of Wheeler Yuta. He told Yuta that he had taken his place in Best Friends while he was out injured, but he’s back now, so Wheeler can go. He then told Wheeler he was just kidding. 

The Elite —

  • The Young Bucks talked about how they hated to leave their families to make towns, but that’s what had to be done. They said that Adam Cole promised them a surprise. 
  • Matt and Nick went shoe shopping at a mall. 
  • Kyle O’Reilly’s debut was shown from Dynamite. 
  • Adam Cole told the Bucks that Bobby Fish had set up Kyle coming in, that he and O’Reilly have stuff to work through but they’re dangerous together. He said they’re a super group now with the three of them and the Bucks. Matt and Nick acted like they weren’t so sure about Kyle coming in and walked off. 

BTE Championship —

  • 2point0’s Matt Lee defended the Championship against Daniel Garcia in a rock, paper, scissors battle. 

Hollywood Hunk —

  • Ryan Nemeth got kicked out of a casting agency. 

Leva Bates & Peter Avalon– 

  • Leva Bates was trying on a Dark Order mask. JD Drake approached and said that Peter Avalon hasn’t been the same since she started messing with his mind. Drake tried to pay Bates to leave Avalon alone. Bates took the money and said she’s going to talk to Avalon anyway.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Spray Tan Party’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

Matt Jackson said that the was feeling blue as the holiday season approached. Nick Jackson and Adam Cole said that they knew the feeling. Cole said that he knew what would cheer Matt up — a spray tan party. 

Matt, Nick, Cole and Bobby Fish spray tanned each other. 

The Elite —

  • Cutler Cam footage showed The Elite’s match on Rampage. 

Dark Order —

  • John Silver and Alex Reynolds have moved on from Budge and are now into Hook. Cole seemed upset by no longer being the object of their attention. 
  • Hangman Page asked the group to keep an eye on his belt after his match with Bryan Danielson. 
  • Hangman announced that he’s getting stitches for Christmas. 
  • Dark Order exchanged Christmas movie quotes and decided to set up traps backstage.

2point0 —

  • The group fell victim to Dark Order’s traps backstage over a series of skits. 

Best Friends —

  • Trent showed Wheeler Yuta his new gear and called him a piece of sh*t. 

Leva Bates & Peter Avalon– 

  • Avalon gave Bates a Christmas gift. Bates gave Avalon a Christmas kiss.
  • Avalon had a video game deal go bad and he was attacked in a hotel room. 

Hollywood Hunk —

  • Ryan Nemeth, his assistant Milk, and Luchasaurus drank eggnog. Luchasaurus went on a bad trip from the eggnog.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Shoes & Behind the Scenes Views’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

A snippet of The Young Bucks appearing on Complex’s Sneaker Shopping with Joe LaPuma aired. 

The Elite —

The episode heavily focused on Matt and Nick shoe shopping in New York and spending thousands of dollars. Matt and Nick both joked that their wives would be upset with them. Nick mentioned that he had just spent $100,000 on a Tesla. 

They showed Cutler Cam footage from The Young Bucks and Adam Cole matches on last week’s AEW television.

The show is really desperate for content. 

Dark Order —

Leva Bates confronted Alex Reynolds for leading her on even though he’s married with kids. Peter Avalon and Alex Reynolds made up, but Bates said she wanted nothing to do with either of them. 

Hollywood Hunk —

Cezar Bononi sprayed Ryan Nemeth with tanner. 

Nemeth showed up at audition for a Michael Bay movie and got thrown out. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘BTE is Back’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

The Young Bucks spoke about taking a week off and how that had helped them recover from some burnout. They promised less personal information would be on BTE. They talked briefly about their three-year deals had always been three-year deals with a two-year option, and that they had their options exercised. 

The Elite —

Adam Cole did a commercial for the AEW General Manager mobile game. 

The Bucks shot some footage to be used for Giphy stickers. 

Dark Order —

Silver and Reynolds tried to talk to Adam Cole, but he told him that he hates them and doesn’t want to see them again. Instead of calling him “Budge,” Silver and Reynolds called him Cole and said they would respect his wishes. Cole acted sad as they left the room. 

The group discussed their problem with Bryan Danielson. Anna Jay told Danielson that she’s next and demonstrated on Stu Grayson what she wanted to do to Danielson, beating him up all over the backstage area.

Best Friends —

Kris Statlander prepared for her TBS tournament match. John Silver appeared and wanted to be part of the training montage, but Statlander kicked him low. Wheeler Yuta started joining in on the Silver beatdown, but Statlander choked him out. 

Hollywood Hunk —

Ryan Nemeth and Peter Avalon were both still caught up on their exes. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘So Long, Kenny’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • This week’s cold open was a commercial for Killing The Business coming out in paperback tomorrow. 

The Elite —

  • Matt Jackson stated that he and Nick were not medically cleared as of the filming of this last Wednesday. He said Nick had a foot issue and his neck was “giving him grief.”
  • They showed The Bucks doing a run-in on Rampage during Adam Cole’s match. 
  • The Elite gathered in Kenny Omega’s hotel room. He informed them that he wouldn’t be around for a while. Cole offered Omega a Monster energy drink, the same way that Cole was written out of the show when he went to NXT. Omega took a sip, teased “dying,” but was okay. Nick joked that he thought Kenny had signed with WWE or that he was going to die like Cole did. 

Dark Order —

  • John Silver and Alex Reynolds again crashed Adam Cole’s hotel room. The three argued over Cole being called Budge, they argued over Silver and Reynolds being in Cole’s bed. Cole woke up from a dream where he imagined Silver and Reynolds kissing him. 

2point0 —

  • Matt and Jeff cut a promo on Eddie Kingston on Chew of the Week. 
  • Matt and Jeff were informed that if they didn’t defend the BTE title in the next 30 days, they would be stripped of the belt. 

Best Friends —

  • Rocky Romero choked out Wheeler Yuta this week for impersonating Trent last week on the show. 

Hollywood Hunk —

  • Ryan Nemeth tried to invent a new genre of music called “the blues,” to get over his heartbreak. His assistant Milk agreed to join his band. Nemeth played the trumpet while standing in his swimming pool, then made Milk put on his “special big boy hat.”

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Hangman’s Tale’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • Nick Jackson continued his bit of doing funny voices when answering spam phone calls. 

The Elite —

  • Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks visited the Mall of America and the spot where the first WCW Monday Nitro was filmed, now a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles attraction. 
  • The group went to a casino and played slots. 
  • We saw backstage footage of Adam Cole and The Bucks at AEW Rampage, then preparing for their match at Full Gear. Matt explained that their gear was pink because that was his favorite color as a kid. 
  • Cutler Cam showed footage from the Full Gear pay-per-view. 
  • Hangman Page’s World title win from Full Gear was briefly touched on at the end of the episode. There was a little bit of backstage footage of Page being congratulated by the locker room and Omega walking away, then Page’s nameplate being put on the belt. 

2point0 —

  • Matt and Jeff cut a promo on Aubrey Edwards in their “Chew of the Week” segment.

Best Friends —

  • Chuck Taylor, Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander and Wheeler Yuta welcomed Rocky Romero to their hotel room. They tried to convince Rocky that Yuta was Trent. 

Hollywood Hunk —

  • Ryan Nemeth cut a promo on Cutler as he was dressed as a shark on the set of an “Untitled Michael Bay project.”

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Hot Jelly Bean Challenge in the Midwest’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • The SuperKliq cut humorous promos for AEW’s international TV partners. 

The Elite —

  • The gang went shoe shopping and spent $5,000. 
  • Nick had a deep bone bruise in his heel after being thrown off the stage by Luchasaurus in a shot that didn’t even make television. He needed an X-ray to see if the heel was broken. The heel was not broken. 
  • Nick answered spam calls on his cell phone in a funny voice.
  • Nick Jackson, Brandon Cutler and Orange Cassidy went to a casino.  
  • Cutler and The Young Bucks took scooters around St. Louis. 
  • The Bucks, Cutler and Cole competed in a spicy jelly bean eating challenge. 

Dark Order —

  • John Silver and Alex Reynolds continued to suggest ideas to Adam Cole for how to get over. 

2point0 —

  • Matt and Jeff tried to bribe Aubrey Edwards into increasing their ratings in the AEW mobile game. 

Best Friends —

  • Kris Statlander choked out Wheeler Yuta. 

BTE Championship —

  • Sammy Guevara beat Colt Cabana in a paper football challenge to advance in the contender tournament for the BTE Championship. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Elite Game’

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This week on Being The Elite —

This year’s Halloween episode was a parody of Netflix’s Squid Game. It probably made more sense if you have seen Squid Game, but you can easily follow the episode if you have not. 

The Elite opened the show in a hotel room, commiserating after their defeat on AEW Dynamite. Jokes were made about tossed salads and Brandon Cutler’s internet search history. 

Cutler received a business card with a phone number on the back. He called the number and was invited to play a game as a way to make up for the massive debt he said he’s gone into trying to keep up with The Young Bucks shoe purchases. 

Cutler is picked up in a van to be transported to play the game. Michael Nakazawa and Lulu Pencil were already in the van, passed out. Cutler was given some sort of sleeping gas and passed out as well. 

The next scene opens with Cutler, Nakazawa, Pencil, plus Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen of Private Party waking up. A video from a masked figure (Kenny Omega) told them that the game they were about to play was for as much money as an AEW wrestler who used to be in WWE makes. 

The game commenced. The losing player after each round was “killed.” I won’t spoil the winner. 

After the game, Omega “killed” The Young Bucks and Adam Cole.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Budge’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • Behind the scenes footage from The Elite’s promo segment on Dynamite aired. Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks joked about their toughness and how many fights they had been in, then talked about how the fans don’t like them talking about how they overpay for shoes. 

The Elite —

  • The Young Bucks tried to recruit -1 to The Elite, but he turned them down, hit Nick with a low blow and hit a crossbody to both Bucks. 

Dark Order —

  • Adam Cole was in his locker room warming up when John Silver and Alex Reynolds entered. They are trying to give Cole the nickname “Budge,” and suggested that he wear leather gear. They made another lewd suggestion, but Cole walked out on them. 

BTE Championship —

  • Dante Martin defeated Fuego Del Sol in a BTE Championship tournament match.

Hollywood Hunk —

  • Ryan Nemeth is feuding with Brandon Cutler after Cutler uploaded his segment last week against his wishes. Nemeth talked about all of his potential Hollywood projects and promised to embarrass Cutler.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Stolen Kiss’

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The cold open —

  • Adam Cole was on the phone. John Silver and Alex Reynolds entered and tried to kiss him. Cole freaked out. Silver and Reynolds pitched him on being their manager. Cole did a Howard Finkel impression, then turned them down.

The Elite —

  • A Young Bucks travel vlog and shopping spree aired. 
  • The Elite’s backstage attack on Jurassic Express aired. 
  • The Elite’s match from Saturday Dynamite was shown from Cutler Cam. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Ryan Nemeth discussed how his girlfriend broke up with him because he uses fake tanner to supplement his real tan. He wrote a song about the breakup and played it, then had second thoughts and asked Cutler not to air it. Cutler aired it anyway. 

BTE Championship —

No update was given on the status of the Championship tournament. First round matchups were announced last week, but this was a short episode and no BTE Championship content aired. 

First round matchups are:

  • Sammy Guevara vs. Colt Cabana
  • Fuego Del Sol vs. Dante Martin
  • John Silver vs. Evil Uno
  • Chuck Taylor vs. The Joker

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Powerbomb’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • The Elite mocked their botched powerbomb spot from their match on last week’s Dynamite. They practiced a powerbomb on Michael Nakazawa backstage, but had trouble lifting him. 

The Elite —

  • The Elite travel to Philadelphia was chronicled. Kenny Omega lost his passport in the airport and had to be paged by the airline to retrieve it. 
  • Practically the entire eight-man tag from Dynamite aired in Cutler Cam footage. 

Dark Order —

  • Hangman Page received his invitation to return to AEW in a letter sent to his home. He was informed that he had used up all of his PTO and had to come back to work. 
  • John Silver and Alex Reynolds tried to recruit Adam Cole again this week. They told him he’d have to change his name to join the group. They suggested BUDGE, Muff Flanagan and Gold Stretchblur. 
  • The episode closed with footage of Hangman Page winning the ladder match on Dynamite.

BTE Championship —

  • 2point0 chose names for their BTE Championship contender tournament. 

First round matchups are:

  • Sammy Guevara vs. Colt Cabana
  • Fuego Del Sol vs. Dante Martin
  • John Silver vs. Evil Uno
  • Chuck Taylor vs. The Joker

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Leva Bates and The Blue Meanie bonded over the color blue. 
  • Ryan Nemeth did a lengthy video from his ex-girlfriend’s apartment explaining how hot he was, how much hotter he was than all of the hot people and what a good boyfriend he was. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Righteous Rochester’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega went shoe shopping. They joked about fans complaining about the shopping segments and skipping over them. 
  • The Elite —
  • The sneaker shopping continued after the opening credits. 
  • The group had the back window broken out of their rental car in Rochester. 
  • The Elite’s segment from last week was shown from Cutler Cam. 
  • The Bucks and The Good Brothers compared temporary tattoos. Karl Anderson said Sour Boy was gone forever. Sour Boy then returned. 
  • Nick Jackson vs. Bryan Danielson footage from Rampage was shown. 

Dark Order —

  • Alex Reynolds and John Silver agreed that they needed to recruit a new friend after losing Hangman. They found Adam Cole backstage and told him that he could join their friend group if he shaved his head. 
  • The group put aside their differences and said they were glad to be back on the same page. Anna Jay appeared and shoved Stu Grayson, so things are back to normal. 

BTE Championship —

  • 2point0 went down a list of potential challengers for the BTE Championship. They said they need to institute a ranking system to determine the next challenger. An empty tournament bracket was shown at the end of the segment. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Ryan Nemeth’s film Heel was entered into the HollyShorts Film Festival. Clips from the film aired, including a cameo by Dolph Ziggler. 
  • Nemeth was interviewed and flashed back to whatever happened to Michelle that night.  

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Grand Slam’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • A Christopher Daniels video promo aired. The Fallen Angel is returning to Impact Wrestling.  

The Elite —

  • The Bucks and Brandon Cutler met up in New York before Dynamite last week. They went shoe shopping at a Nike store. Matt and Nick talked about how they weren’t nervous for performing in front of 20,000 people because they had been in the Tokyo Dome seven times. 
  • Footage of The Elite from Rampage was shown. It was explained that Karl Anderson was absent from the entrance because he was masturbating backstage. 

Dark Order —

  • Alex Reynolds told John Silver to stop drinking urine. 
  • Silver and Reynods then started hitting on Wardlow. Wardlow thanked them for their interest, but said he wasn’t into people that drank their own urine. 

BTE Championship —

  • 2point0 announced that they were instituting a ranking system for the BTE title. They challenged Renee Paquette to enter the system and work her way up the ranks. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • On his Hollywood Hunk segment, Ryan Nemeth played a bit on The Cream, then said that now that he had chased away the dirt sheet guy with his Cream bit, he was going to reveal all the backstage AEW gossip. 
  • Nemeth said that John Silver requires 24 hour nursing care, Anna Jay is a clergyman, Trent is seven people, plus Negative One was wounded in Vietnam. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘How’s It Taste’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The Elite —

  • No cold open on this week’s episode. Nick Jackson signed for fans waiting at the airport. 
  • Nick and Brandon Cutler went shoe shopping while Matt Jackson slept in. 
  • Backstage, Cutler asked Adam Cole to take out The Elite Hunter. Backstage footage of Cole’s entrance for the match was played. 

Dark Order —

  • John Silver threw coffee creamer at Bear Bronson.
  • Silver tried to recruit Leyla Hirsch, but failed. 
  • Alex Reynolds returned and told Silver that they need to recruit another friend, because Hangman isn’t coming back. 

BTE Championship —

  • Matt Lee of 2point0 defeated Colt Cabana to retain the title in a water bottle contest. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • On this week’s Hollywood Hunk segment, Ryan Nemeth meditated. 
  • Leva Bates received a letter from Peter Avalon that explained that Alex Reynolds has a wife and baby. Bates said that couldn’t be true, it was dirtsheet stuff that was fabricated.