The 2025 Continental Classic tournament continued on the Holiday Bash edition of “AEW Dynamite,” in addition to the primary half of “AEW Collision” with the second half airing this Saturday at a special start time of two:30ET. The fans in Manchester, England got to see motion in each the Gold and Blue Leagues, where one competitor became the primary performer to be mathematically eliminated from the tournament.
That elimination got here within the Blue League where Jon Moxley and Roderick Strong kicked off the motion for the night. Strong walked into the match because the only man within the tournament and not using a single point on the board, while Moxley was trying to bounce back after two consecutive losses to Claudio Castagnoli and Konosuke Takeshita. Very similar to quite a lot of the Continental Classic bouts, it was hard-hitting and it could have gone either way, especially because the match was dangerously near hitting the 20 minute deadline. Nevertheless, there was a winner and that man was the previous AEW Men’s World Champion as Moxley hit Strong with two Death Riders (the move, not his stablemates) to secure the victory. With the win, Strong is officially eliminated with two matches still to go. Moxley has one match left against Orange Cassidy, and he might want to win to maintain his hopes of reaching Worlds End alive.
Over within the Gold League, “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher was also trying to bounce back from his loss to “Speedball” Mike Bailey as he took on PAC. With a homefield advantage, PAC looked to make use of the English fans in attendance to his advantage as he was aiming to choose up his second win of the tournament, and it worked. Fletcher went for a Brainbuster on the turnbuckle but PAC escaped, who hit “The Protostar” with an Avalanche Poisonrana. Fletcher would roll perfectly into position for PAC to hit the Black Arrow for the pinfall victory. With the win, PAC joins Fletcher on six points having wrestled one match less, and with Kazuchika Okada and “Speedball” Mike Bailey also on six points, the Gold League can have to depend on tie-breakers with the intention to be decided.
Rounding out the motion was Orange Cassidy taking over Mascara Dorada within the Blue League. The 2 men have turn out to be friends over the course of the tournament, but they’d to place that friendship aside as they each looked to double their tally from three points to 6. In the long run, it was Cassidy who managed to make use of Dorada’s speed against him as he managed snatch a fast crucifix pin to maintain the CMLL star down for the victory. Cassidy now sits in joint second with Jon Moxley, who he still has to face, on six points, while Dorada stays on three points with two matches to go.