AEW star Willow Nightingale is aware of a factor or two about being profitable in tournaments, and she or he is advocating for the AEW Continental Basic to be added to the ladies’s division as nicely.
The 2024 Continental Basic is reaching the ultimate phases, with the semis and finals set to happen at AEW Worlds Finish later this month. Nightingale, throughout her latest look on AEW Meal and a Match, acknowledged that she can be eager to see a Girls’s Continental Basic match.
“I feel it could be very cool [to have a Women’s Continental Classic tournament]. After I noticed it final yr, and clearly I simply spoke earlier than about how a lot I loved it, I used to be like, ‘Oh, we gotta do that.’ That may be so cool. However even when we had, like, our personal factor, I feel if we did our personal form of cool match,” mentioned Nightingale.
The AEW star then mentioned how a ladies’s Continental Basic match can be totally different from one other match that is part of the AEW calendar — the Owen Hart Cup, which Nightingale reached the ultimate this yr and received the earlier yr.
“So the match varieties are like an Owen, for instance, is single elimination, Continental Basic is a spherical robin. In order that’s one thing the place you get to wrestle each single one who’s within the match. I feel that may be cool. I feel it could be good to form of be, like, you may map out precisely the way you need to assault each match versus a single elimination match.”
The Continental Basic, which was added to AEW final yr, is much like NJPW’s G1 Climax match, with one main distinction between the 2 being the factors awarded for a win. AEW CEO Tony Khan, whereas discussing the significance of the match for AEW, just lately revealed that he was impressed by the English Premier League for the factors scoring.
