This 12 months’s Continental Basic kicked off throughout “AEW Dynamite” with a slight deviation from final 12 months’s format. The 2023 event noticed the inauguration of the AEW Continental Championship, with rivals qualifying from the spherical robin stage seeded for semi-final bouts throughout “AEW Dynamite: New 12 months’s Smash” and people winners – Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley – happening to combat for the title within the ultimate at Worlds Finish. Kazuchika Okada can be going into this event because the reigning champion, and will have a steeper activity forward to retain his title because it was introduced that this 12 months each the semi-finals and ultimate can be fought throughout the Worlds Finish occasion on December 28.
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Okada is getting into the Continental Basic within the Blue League alongside Shelton Benjamin, Kyle Fletcher, The Beast Mortos, Daniel Garcia, and Mark Briscoe, with Benjamin and Briscoe kicking off the event throughout “Dynamite.” On the opposite aspect, the Gold League is comprised of Will Ospreay, Ricochet, Juice Robinson, Brody King, Claudio Castagnoli, and Darby Allin. King vs. Allin and Castagnoli vs. Ricochet are scheduled to open that aspect of the bracket throughout “Dynamite.” Okada vs. Garcia, Ospreay vs. Robinson, and Fletcher vs. Mortos are scheduled to proceed the event this Saturday on “AEW Collision.”