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[Alucard]

the field for the Continental Classic which begins this week:

Gold League:
Darby Allin
Pac
Kevin Knight
Speedball Mike Bailey
Kyle Fletcher
Kazuchika Okada

 

Blue League:
Konosuke Takeshita
Jon Moxley
Claudio Castagnoli
Orange Cassidy
Roderick Strong
Mascara Dorada

[Tetsujin]

That's a superb tournament right there. I would have put Okada/Takeshita on the same league just to add more uncertainity, and I really wanted heel García to make it, but other than those two nitpicks this is an absolute gem of a C2, holy.

[Stiva]

Yeah, that’s just a wild collection of great matches. Darby/Okada will be fucking great if Okada turns up. Roddy Strong is a great pick for this too. He’s probably just going to eat pins but he’ll have a great match with everyone in the Blue League. I sincerely hope Moxley loses every match; they’ve started on this story, they may as well continue with it and I assume it leads to Claudio assuming control of the Death Riders

[Blehschmidt]

I bet @C.S. will still hate Pac even after he has a fantastic match with every guy in his bracket too!

[Boss Rock]

Terrific blocks. An Okada-Takeshita final still seems pretty likely, but lots of great matches for sure.

[C.S.]

17 hours ago, Blehschmidt said:

I bet @C.S. will still hate Pac even after he has a fantastic match with every guy in his bracket too!

I don't hate Pac at all. I just - correctly - don't see him as a top guy. He has never has been and never will be. At most, maybe he'll get a token Kazarian-like reign late in his career, and even that feels like a wildly optimistic prediction.

Meanwhile, Sting - an actual main eventer, which PAC will never be - spent three years helping to establish Darby Allin as a big deal and future World Champion.

Darby shouldn't be losing to PAC, period.

[sek69]

I just think they had PAC go over Darby for two reasons: one it was playing off the build of him saying Darby couldn't hang with him in a straight up m match with no gimmicks, but got outplayed and had to resort to using a bat to get the win. Secondly, I think this is going to play into the Death Riders imploding when PAC starts pointing out he was able to get the job done but Mox wasn't. I don't think for a second TK is suddenly going to try to make PAC a top guy over this, it was just a progression point in the story. It's not even the first time they've booked Darby losing to advance an angle. I don't think @C.S. has any reason to fear any megapush for the guy. 

[Stiva]

Yeah, the whole DR story is that the others can get the job done and Moxley can’t. I have no doubt that this all ends with Darby beating PAC on the way to the semis of the CC