Tonight, two of the four matches in the second round of the Continental Cup will take place! With the other two taking place on Collision, the semi-finals will be set for next week in the greatest city in Europe: Glasgow, Scotland! Elsewhere this week, Will Ospreay seemingly still finds himself in the United Empire, and he’ll team with fellow members Francesco Akira and Henare to take on three members of the Don Callis Family. Meanwhile, his All In opponent Kenny Omega will re-form The Elite to take on another three members of the Don Callis Family!
Match One: United Empire (Will Ospreay, Francesco Akira and Henare) vs. Don Callis Family (Rocky Romero, Lance Archer and Brian Cage)
Ospreay and Cage start off, lockup, Cage presses Ospreay to the corner, shoulder tackles, whip, Ospreay floats over, hurricanrana, blocked, Cage goes for a powerbomb, blocked, Ospreay goes for a German, blocked with an elbow, Ospreay with a kick, Rocky in, Ospreay with a kick, Akira in, Ospreay with a body slam, tosses Akira onto Rocky for two, Henare in, tosses Rocky across the ring, Archer in, staredown, trading forearms, Henare with a tackle, trading shots in the corner, Henare goes for a fireman’s carry, blocked, dodges a boot, hits a kick, Ospreay in, UE clean house, Akira in, covers for one, Archer goes for a chokeslam, blocked, Akira with kicks until Rocky hits a cheap shot, DCF clean house, Cage in, tosses Akira around, Rocky in, goes up top, double axe handle, trading chops, Rocky with stomps in the corner, foot choke, arm wrench, Archer in, double team shoulder tackle, Cage in, double team delayed vertical, Cage takes over solo to lower the boom, cover for two, Akira with chops, Cage with a chop, stands on Akira’s neck, slam, whip to the corner, Akira fights his way out, Cage hits him with an elbow, Henare in, tosses Cage around, Cage hits an elbow, Henare responds with a Black Hole Slam for two, Cage with a superkick, leaping knee, angle slam, Archer in, whip to the corner, running elbow, sets Henare up top, Black Out, blocked, Henare hits a German, Archer with a Black Hole Slam, Rocky in, Ospreay in, cleans house, brawl erupts, Ospreay hits Rocky with Hidden Blade while he’s showboating for three.
Winners: United Empire
Backstage, Renee asks Okada about the positive spin Don Callis tried to put on Okada and Fletcher both being in the International Championship match. He says Takeshita was kicked out of the family because he was too selfish, but Fletcher is too smart to make the same mistake. He says he’ll be happy if Fletcher retains, and he expects Fletcher to be happy if Okada wins.
Tony Schiavone then welcomes Kyle Fletcher to the ring. He asks Fletcher about his upcoming defense. Fletcher says this is one of the greatest reigns of all time, and he doesn’t expect it to end any time soon. He seconds Okada’s declaration that family is the most important thing, and says he expects Okada to live up to it. He says they’re united by their hatred of Takeshita, who interrupts and immediately starts brawling with Fletcher. Takeshita eventually hits Raging Fire, then poses with the championship.
They show a sit-down from earlier today between Ospreay and Omega. Renee asks about their first meeting in PWG, Ospreay says he was already a fan, and his only goal was to keep up. Omega says he knew Ospreay’s name from his efforts to keep up with the internet darlings of the day. Renee asks what had changed when they met up again in 2022. Omega says Ospreay was a completely different athlete, and he’d taken over as the face of New Japan. He says people think it was Omega seeing if he could hang, but really it was New Japan needing a draw that Ospreay couldn’t provide. Ospreay says Omega can’t compare their experiences leading New Japan, because COVID hit New Japan way harder, and because it was a lot harder living in the UK and working in Japan than it was living and working in the USA. Kenny pushes back on that. Renee asks Omega about his history with Don Callis, Omega says the results he was getting with Don Callis fooled him into thinking he had his best interests at heart. He said he wanted to be a cautionary tale, but Ospreay still fell for it. Ospreay says Omega embarrassed him, so he had to. He says he’s embarrassed that he relied on Don Callis at Forbidden Door 2023, and Omega says that, hearing that, he forgives him, because it’s a confession that Ospreay couldn’t beat Kenny on his own. Renee asks about their respective recent injuries. Kenny says he’s tired of talking about the diverticulitis, but it did force him to get smarter. He asks if Ospreay can say his injury similarly made him better. Ospreay says it told him about Kenny when everything he told him didn’t motivate him to show up every week until he said Omega had given up on himself, because it cut his ego to hear it from someone he regarded as beneath him. Omega says Ospreay wanted Omega to win because he thought it would be easier than facing MJF. Ospreay says that’s not true, he needs to beat Omega at 100% to know that he belongs on top. Omega says it mattered most in 2023, only this time he’ll fail in front of his country and his family. He says Ospreay is going to fail in front of his mom, which causes Ospreay to get in his face. Kenny says that, no matter what, he’ll still respect Ospreay, and Ospreay’s mom will still be proud, but maybe his son will want a new hero. He walks off as Ospreay starts to lunge forward.