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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.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Catching Up’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks tried to get Adam Cole up to speed on all the things that have happened since he was last on the show. Cody Rhodes is now a reality show judge, The Bucks and Omega said that just the three of them started AEW, the group is not called Bullet Club anymore, and Hangman Page is on vacation. 
  • Cole grabbed an energy drink on his way out, as Omega and The Bucks tried to scheme a way not to let Cole know that they caused his demise with an energy drink years ago, and also that they drove Hangman out of the group. 
  • The group also did their Ric Flair impressions. 

The Elite —

  • The Bucks and Brandon Cutler detailed a long travel day getting from Chicago to Cincinnati. 
  • The episode closed with footage from The Elite’s segment on Dynamite. 

Dark Order —

  • John Silver cried to Anna Jay as he explained that Hangman and John Silver have gone missing and that everything in the group has fallen apart. 

BTE Championship —

  • Matt Lee of 2point0 defeated Marko Stunt in blackjack to win the BTE title.

Miscellaneous bits —

  • 2point0 went through Wheeler Yuta’s bag in an effort to prove that he dyes his hair and beard. 
  • Jungle Boy did a shooting star press into a swimming pool.
  • Ryan Nemeth’s Hollywood Hunk segment dealt with the mysterious Michelle and Nemeth’s inability to get over her death. Maybe this is going somewhere, maybe it isn’t. 
  • Wheeler Yuta was watching video of Britt Baker defeating Kris Statlander and taking notes as Orange Cassidy and Chuck Taylor looked on. Statlander entered and choked out Yuta. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Back From The Dead’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

The Elite held a seance to try to bring back Adam Cole from the dead. Instead, they summoned Sour Boy. 

After The Elite left the room, Cole appeared. He thought he was at PWG and was calling out for Super Dragon. He looked at his phone and realized that four years had passed. He sad that he still tastes Monster in his mouth.

The Elite —

  • The gang went shopping at a discount store for their Dynamite gear before last week’s episode. 
  • We got our second Sour Boy bit in the first ten minutes of the show. 
  • Cutler Cam footage was shown from Dynamite. 
  • Matt Jackson gave an update on his stolen Nike Dior shoes. He still hasn’t gotten the shoes back. 
  • Ric Flair made a cameo in the episode. The Elite went to a steakhouse. Kenny Omega was going to pick up the tab, but the bill said that Flair had already covered it. Flair was briefly shown from a distance. 
  • Footage from Friday’s fan fest was shown. 
  • Footage of The Bucks vs. Lucha Brothers from All Out aired. 
  • The episode closed with scenes of Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson in the go position before their entrances at All Out, then Cole and Britt Baker embracing, then Cole and The Elite happy to be back together. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Peter Avalon and Leva Bates did a Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake-based series of jokes. 
  • Ryan Nemeth is still addicted to The Cream. He took a shot of The Cream in a movie theater. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Milwaukee Young Bucks’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • The Elite showed off their new handshake and kiss on the cheek. 

The Elite —

  • The Bucks went shoe shopping in Milwaukee. 
  • Matt Jackson had his Nike Dior shoes stolen out of his luggage at the Ontario, California airport. 
  • The Bucks and Omega showed off their new shoes. 
  • Cutler Cam footage from Rampage was shown.
  • The Bucks and Chris Jericho met Giannis Antetokounmpo backstage. 
  • Cutler Cam footage from Dynamite was shown.

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Hollywood Hunk’s video this week detailed the cream addiction of two guys.
  • Best Friends again watched film and choked out Wheeler Yuta in their hotel room.
  • Leva Bates watched movies at home and was reminded of Peter Avalon.

BTE Championship —

  • Marko Stunt retained the title against Cezar Bononi.

Dark Order —

  • John Silver had a drink by himself to close the episode.

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘CM Punk’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • A few seconds of backstage footage from CM Punk’s debut on AEW Rampage made up this week’s cold open. 

The Elite —

  • Cutler Cam footage from The Bucks vs. Jurassic Express on last week’s Dynamite aired. 
  • Kenny Omega broke up The Elite’s Nike sneaker head clique by wearing a pair of Yeezys. Matt and Nick said that losing the Impact Championship made Kenny lose his mind and that they need to fix this. 
  • Sour Boy returned after Doc Gallows urinated in Karl Anderson’s drink. 
  • The Elite went shoe shopping in Chicago.
  • The group visited the Chicago Bulls locker room at United Center. 
  • The Bucks scouting the tag team tournament match on Rampage was shown from Cutler Cam. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Leva Bates and Alex Reynolds were in their hotel room. There was a knock at the door. Sammy Guevara was there with his cards and recreating a Love Actually bit on behalf of Peter Avalon. Guevara walked out when one of the cards read that BTE was superior to his vlog. Bates and Avalon had another brief, awkward interaction, but still haven’t gotten back together. 
  • Ryan Nemeth and his assistant had a brief cameo in a swimming pool. 
  • Kris Statlander choked Wheeler Yuta out in a hotel room as his education by Best Friends continues. 
  • 2point0 were backstage looking for Jeff Farmer. They ran into John Silver instead. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Partying in Pittsburgh’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

  • A mix of backstage footage and broadcast footage from Rampage aired. The Young Bucks joked that after his loss to Christian, Kenny Omega then had to go to Mexico to do a job for Andrade because Ric and Charlotte Flair said so. 

The Elite —

  • The Bucks shopped for their TV outfits. 
  • The Elite were shown preparing for their entrance on last week’s Dynamite. Omega referenced his “gas” and his “stack,” before they went to the ring. A big portion of the match was shown from Brandon Cutler’s point of view, as well as Christian and Jurassic Express entering in the post-match. 
  • Cutler’s footage and broadcast footage from The Good Brothers defending the Impact Tag titles on Dynamite was shown. 
  • The Bucks and Omega showed off their new shoes. 
  • The Elite showed off their new handshake. 
  • On their day off, The Elite went to a GNC, a casino and a mall. There was a brief Daniel Bryan tease as they looked at wrestling action figures in a toy store. 
  • Omega and The Bucks cut a promo on fans mocking their basketball skill. This was all in jest, but they said that 75 percent of their roster came from WWE and that means they failed at sports and failed at WWE. They said they were going to school the roster with their basketball skills. 
  • Omega and The bucks then beat Nakazawa and Cutler 11-0 in a game of 2-on-2.

Dark Order —

  • Evil Uno, Stu Grayson and Colt Cabana were having a heated discussion backstage. They were upset that they did as Hangman Page asked and he still left the group to go solo. Cutler approached and Cabana punched him. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Peter Avalon played his entrance music in an effort to win back Leva Bates. Alex Reynolds appeared and put his arm around Bates. Avalon was crestfallen. 
  • Ryan Nemeth explained his desire to make “cream pictures” to challenge the perception of what cinema can be. He ordered his assistant Milk around. 

VIDEO: Being The Elite – ‘Riding Solo’

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This week on Being The Elite —

The cold open —

Matt and Nick Jackson approached a figure in a sequined robe. The man was bragging about being Space Mountain, going sixty minutes, wooing, the whole Nature Boy bit. Matt and Nick said they were glad the rumors were true and Wrestling Inc. was right. 

The man turned around and it was Sour Boy, not Ric Flair.

The Elite —

  • Matt, Nick and Kenny Omega opened a Space Jam gift box from Warner Bros. 
  • The Elite and Juventud Guerrera played basketball backstage at Dynamite. 
  • Omega was interrupted as he was about to shave his facial hair. The JR impersonator told him that Hangman Page was in the ring live. 
  • Footage was shown from Cutler Cam of The Elite confronting Hangman on last week’s Dynamite. They played just about the entire segment. 
  • The Elite recorded an episode of Talk’N Shop. They broke down their backstage promo from last week’s Dynamite and talked about putting it together. 
  • Another Sour Boy cameo closed the show.

Dark Order —

  • Dark Order were arguing in their lair over whether or not they failed Hangman. They found the DVD that Page left for them during Dynamite and decided to watch it. 
  • The DVD played. Hangman said that they were expecting their movie, but for a ton of different reasons he couldn’t finish editing the movie. Instead, Hangman made a recruiting commercial for Dark Order. He said he may have to ride solo now, but he made this for them. The commercial was a video of the best times that Hangman had with Dark Order. The group was emotional after seeing the video. This was the best thing on the episode. 

Miscellaneous bits —

  • Peter Avalon saved Leva Bates from tripping over Cezar Bononi. Avalon and Bates stared longingly into each other’s eyes, then at Bononi’s urging, Avalon acted like he wasn’t interested in Bates. As Avalon and Bononi left, Bates had tears in her eyes. 
  • The next installment in the Hollywood Hunk saga saw a man turn into Cream Eyes during the filming of a commercial. This is bizarre stuff. 
  • Avalon confronted Cutler and berated him for becoming a cheater. When they were a team, Cutler refused to cheat. Now, he said, he loves cheating and referees never catch you cheating. 
  • Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander, Chuck Taylor and Wheeler Yuta continued to review Yuta’s matches. Statlander and Taylor gave Yuta a hard time for never winning. 
  • The former Ever-Rise argued in their hotel room over whether they encountered the real Sting or Jeff Farmer on Dynamite.