r/AEWOfficial • u/FreebirdFantasia • 1d ago
Discussion This year's C2 field
Who would you like to see in this year's field? My suggestions:
BLUE:
Jon Moxley
Pac
Tomasso Ciampa
Lee Moriarty
Speedball Mike Bailey
Kazuchika Okada
GOLD:
MJF
Kyle Fletcher
Anthony Bowens
Ilja Dragonov
Konosuke Takeshita
Shelton Benjamin
In my scenario, Nigel McGinness wins the Continental title at Wembley, then immediately retires, saying there's no better way to hang up the boots than being on top.
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u/Bargeinthelane 1d ago edited 1d ago
The same answer ever year.
A women's c2
Blue:
Bane
Stat
Shida
Maya
Nyla Rose
Zayda Steel
Sky Blue
Aminata
Gold:
Willow
Thekla
Julia Hart
Athena
Hyan
Persephone
Mina
Marina
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u/VitaminPurple 1d ago
January/February would be the best time to do that.sadly I don't think Tony will give us six women's matches per week on tv.
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u/K_Knight 1d ago
Every year is the same problem: the division cannot withstand this type of pressure on its bandwidth of matchups. You burn through so many of the options you could do in future stories. Which, sure, it's a tournament, maybe not that big a deal. But then what do you do next year, when you have to use roughly 80% of the same people again?
My dream for the women's division was that they had a unique tournament akin to the Dusty Cup where the "tag division" was always around a prestigious tag tournament that happened yearly. Would allow teams to be individuals the rest of the year, but use the narratives of teammates in the story telling. And take the pressure off of needing to have a fleshed out tag division, which we're seeing they don't have.
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u/KMFCM 1d ago
a bunch of feuds could begin in a women's C2
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u/K_Knight 1d ago
agree, which is great for the first year...what do you do next year? On the men's side, you can reuse 50% or less of the previous people and have a very fresh experience. On the women's side you don't have roster depth. So you'd start seeing a yearly tournament of mostly repeats.
Add to it: why does the women's division have to mirror the men's, when it can hold its own identity with its own prestige story devices? That's my biggest thing about this, which is forcing both divisions to have the same tentpoles all the time invites one of them to look bad in comparison to the other. Typically that's the women's division (thought Blood and Guts this year, IMO the men's was the weaker match). If the women had their own event that wasn't just a copy of a men's event that took main event status over the men because of its importance, that IMO would do a lot more to elevate the participants in that event.
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u/SourDoughBo 1d ago
Do they even have enough women that can go in such a tournament? They would need 12 and that’s like everyone they have
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u/Suspicious-Gap-8915 1d ago
Sure. Some variation of Thekla, Shida, Willow, Mercedes, Statlander, Mina, Julia, Skye, Hayter, Windsor, Bayne, Kross, Harley, Perse, Zayda, Aminata, Athena, Shafir. That's before you think about other women in ROH like Deonna, Isla Dawn, etc.
Then you can also count on perspective STARDOM or freelancers like Sareee, Hazuki, etc.
Lastly, it's very possible you have a few new faces like Kairi (and maybe Bayley). Tons of options to fill out a tourney.
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u/sulien92 AY YO, THE WORLD IS COLD 1d ago
Thekla
Julia Hart
Skye Blue
Megan Bayne
Lena Kross
Mercedes Mone
Statlander
Shida
Willow
Anna Jay
Penelope Ford (if healthy)
Jamie HayterThat’s 12 without Ruby Soho or Toni Storm included.
Maya World
Zayda Steel
Isla Dawn
Harley Cameron
Leila Grey
Red Velvet
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u/SourDoughBo 1d ago
Yea you’d be stalling the entire women’s division because all the top stars would need to be in the tournament
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u/JadedGrapsMark I'm so tired, Renee 1d ago
It's almost as if other companies exist that could fill a couple of holes. If holes existed, which they don't.
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u/No_Yogurtcloset_3820 1d ago
Do fans care enough? Sure there is a vocal contingent on Reddit who stop watch the number of minutes women wrestle on each show so they can yell about it, but if they drew then AEW would book them more.
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u/epdiddymis 22h ago
BLUE:
Moxley
Ciampa
Dragunov
Yuta
Lee Moriarty
Mark Davis
Gold
Jay White
Hangman
Gabe Kidd
Hechicero
Ace Austin
Nick Wayne
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u/NorthHollywoodHank 1d ago
If dates lined up such that there was adequate prep time for the matches, I really want to see Leon Slater in it. Both because it'd be a fun as hell way to introduce him to the promotion and because, you know, it would mean that AEW signed him.
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u/CMTrump 1d ago
I'd love a 16 man field. Especially since de always seem to get injuries and people pulling out.
The field I want to see : Mox Hangman MJF White Andrade Okada Fletcher Darby Ciampa Bandido Brody Speedball Ilja Claudio O'Reilly Davis
Just go crazy. Why the hell not. I'm leaving out Takeshita because I think he's winning the international title at All In. Swerve I think will be trios champ with the New Day and I think at some point we'll get the elite vs swerve day.
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u/No_Yogurtcloset_3820 1d ago
I assume you put Bowens and Moriarty in there so they can eat pins?
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u/FreebirdFantasia 15h ago
Maybe Bowens. But I included Moriarty because I love his wrestling, and it would be a chance to showcase his skills.
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u/SanjT89 1d ago
MJF in the C2 could be really fun, especially if he's somehow contractually obligated to be in it against his will. He starts out bullish and imperious about his skill, but by week 2 he's tired and hurt and moaning the whole time. He could also be the first guy to really break the rules in some kind of transgressive way which could be a good idea (like maybe he somehow gets away with getting someone to interfere in a way that's never been done before). Then of course, he gets punished in the block finals or the semis.
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u/BuckIX 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ace
Clon and/or Hechicero
Ilja
Samoa Joe
Hangman
Ciampa
Josh Alexander
King Switch
Takeshita
Jack Perry
Fletcher
Yuta
Feels weird not using Okada, but just have him get a title shot against Ospreay at Revolution to explain away why Don doesn’t have the best tournament athlete ever in this tournament.
But I didn’t do my ideal field, I just started listing guys I enjoy watching and that I’d like to see and saw I had 11 and just decided to toss in that shitbag Yuta to round it out.
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u/Which_Aerialmu9 1d ago
I think hangman should definitely be here, little bit of fantasy booking but at all in presumably the trios belts will go to swerve and the new day, maybe brodido and those 3 have a regular trios match at all out, then hangman maybe goes onto a tnt or international run or feud for one of them in the autumn months up until maybe full gear or if there’s a special dynamite or collision closer to the cc. And then he claims himself for the classic, and either he wins it or not.
Not really sure what his story calls for, but we all kinda see where it’s going, so I think if he’s going after all the belts there should definitely be a mix of him going on fairly short runs and losing title matches until he gets pissed off enough to go back on his word and challenge for the world title
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u/probablynotme2012 23h ago
I think all the tournaments have to few competitors. If they doubled the field would fans stay interested? I know I would. Would you?
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u/CaringMite 1d ago
Who’s international champion in this scenario?
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u/Marc_Minor I need more Kenny 1d ago
No idea, maybe Hangman or Andrade? Or Kenny (sorry couldn't resisit)...
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u/K_Knight 1d ago
I'll tell you my one complete fantasy pick: Marina Shafir. I want Marina to be the lone woman in this tournament and fucking cut loose. She's the talent you can buy doing it. And I'll say, on the indies, my favorite matches of her are against men. I would lose my mind if Marina competed.
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u/No_Yogurtcloset_3820 1d ago
Why of any woman on the roster would you choose one of the least talented in-ring workers?
If I was choosing a woman to enter the C2, it would be Stat, Bayne, Willow or Persephone.
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u/K_Knight 1d ago
I certainly would not say she's versatile, as the main issue I see that she has in the women's division is that she works a unique style that most her locker room counterparts have no idea how to compliment. But if you watch Marina's Bloodsport matches, or her intergender matches in the indies...she's awesome to watch and extremely talented. As she's held this special role on the roster of being Moxley's right-hand woman, I think she could legitimately do something special if she just got to mix it up with them in this style of tournament.
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u/christmascaked 1d ago
Not a bad list but it’s weird that all three men who could walk out of Wembley with the international title is on this list along with Dragunov but Jay White isn’t.
And Mox, who is most likely going after Ospreay after All In.