AEW: Continental Classic Match Announced for This Friday’s Rampage Show, Dates Announced for 2024 Canada Tour, More News

Dec 7, 2023

Continental Classic Match Announced for This Friday’s Rampage Show & Current Card

During Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, AEW announced that the card for this Friday’s AEW Rampage show will be featuring a Continental Classic tournament match.

This match was announced to be an AEW Continental Classic Blue League match of Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia.

Current card for December 8th AEW Rampage show:

AEW Continental Classic Blue League match – Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia
Don Callis Family (Powerhouse Hobbs & Konosuke Takeshita) vs. Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal
Trish Adora vs. Abadon

AEW Announces Dates for New Tour of Canada in 2024

AEW announced that they will be holding a new tour of Canada in 2024 featuring eight AEW Dynamite and Collision shows.

These shows were announced to be taking place during the months of March, April, May, and June of 2024.

It was also announced that tickets for all of these upcoming shows will officially go on sale starting on December 15th.

Official press release:

AEW Announces Eight Canadian Shows Throughout 2024
— Latest Canadian Tour Runs from March through July, Including Debut Shows in Four New Markets —
December 6, 2023 – During tonight’s live episode of “AEW: Dynamite” from Montreal, AEW CEO Tony Khan announced that the red-hot promotion will make eight separate stops across Canada in 2024 for its shows “AEW: Dynamite,” “AEW: Rampage” and “AEW: Collision.”
After drawing the then-largest gate in AEW history with “AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door” this past June at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto as part of an eight-show tour that concluded at the iconic Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, AEW will make return stops throughout Canada next year in March, April, May and July. In addition, AEW’s 2024 Canadian tour will include market debuts in Ottawa and London, Ontario, Quebec City, Quebec, as well as Vancouver, British Columbia.
AEW’s eight Canadian shows in 2024 are as follows:
• Saturday, March 16: “AEW: Collision” live from the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.
• Wednesday, March 20: “AEW: Dynamite” and “AEW: Rampage” live from the Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario.
• Wednesday, March 27: “AEW: Dynamite” and “AEW: Rampage” live from the Centre Videotron in Quebec City, Quebec.
• Saturday, March 30: “AEW: Collision” live from the Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario.
• Wednesday, April 10: “AEW: Dynamite” and “AEW: Rampage” live from the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• Wednesday, May 8: “AEW: Dynamite” and “AEW: Rampage” live from Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta.
• Saturday, May 11: “AEW: Collision” live from Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Wednesday, July 10: “AEW: Dynamite” and “AEW: Rampage” come to the Calgary Stampede live from the Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta.
Tickets for all eight shows go on sale Friday, December 15 at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets make great holiday gifts and can be purchased at AEWTix.com.
“I think that the global successes of 2023, especially our historic ticket sales record set at ‘AEW: All In London’ at Wembley Stadium and our foray into Canada where we saw incredible moments such as ‘AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door’ in Toronto and the crowning of the second Owen Hart Foundation Tournament winners in Calgary, helped make this a banner year for AEW,” said Tony Khan. “We’re in a great position going into 2024, and I can’t wait to plant AEW’s flag in four new markets across Canada, and revisit some of the amazing cities we debuted in last summer. Everyone at AEW is proud to continue paying homage to Canada’s rich wrestling heritage, and serving the great Canadian fans with massive shows across the country in the new year.”

The #AEW Canada Tour 2024 begins March 16th!
Tickets for all Canada events go on sale Friday, December 15th!
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 7, 2023

AEW News & Notes

AEW announced that The Von Erichs (Kevin, Marshall, & Ross Von Erich) will be making their official debut for the company at next week’s AEW Dynamite Winter Is Coming 2023 event on December 13th in Arlington, Texas.

As noted before, AEW held television tapings this past Tuesday in Montreal, Canada for this Saturday’s AEW Collision show. During the tapings, Bryan Danielson got busted open during his match against Andrade El Idolo and was checked upon by fellow members of the Blackpool Combat Club after the match. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Danielson getting busted open was just meant to be a storyline angle for his match and he did not suffer any actual injury.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW officials were very happy over how their Collision tapings went down this past Tuesday in Montreal and also for the overall match quality for the show.

AEW recently released a video on their official TikTok account featuring several AEW talents giving their thoughts about if Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not.

FITE TV recently announced that they have made several changes to their AEW Plus subscription service which includes more benefits and content available for subscribers.

Jack Perry filed a trademark for “Jungle Boy” on December 5th for wrestling and merchandise-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Montreal, Canada featured Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz making a special guest appearance. During the show, Mankiewicz gave a special introduction for “Timeless” Toni Storm entrance for her TBS Championship match against Skye Blue. Following the show, Mankiewicz reflected on Twitter about his appearance in AEW and thanked AEW CEO Tony Khan for helping make it be possible. Mankiewicz stated “Thanks for asking, Tony. We love finding classic movies in unexpected (for us, anyway) places.” In a follow-up tweet, Mankiewicz also gave his thoughts about his involevemnt on the show. Mankiewicz stated “I’m not entirely sure what I did here, but it’s further proof that classic movie fans are everywhere. And it is wonderful. Also, it got me texting with my idiot wrestling friend (I don’t think those things are related) @JimmyAltman, who I’ve always been faster than.“

In a recent interview with the New York Post, AEW CEO Tony Khan gave his thoughts about Ric Flair recently joining AEW and his appearances for the company. Khan stated “We’re not paying Ric Flair; Ric Flair is essentially paying us. We’re getting paid by Wooooo Energy for all of his appearances, so we’re collecting revenue from them.“

In a recent interview with DAZN, Bryan Danielson gave his thoughts on who he would like to recruit from AEW’s roster into the Blackpool Combat Club. Danielson stated “Anthony Ogogo. That’s a really interesting fit with his boxing background and he’s as tough as nails. Another interesting one is Hook. He’s got beef with Wheeler Yuta right now but sometimes those beefs lead to respect.“

In a recent interview with Wrestling Shoot Interviews, Tully Blanchard claimed that nobody would come to him or Arn Anderson asking for career advice during his time in AEW. Blanchard stated “Nobody. As far as I know, Arn or myself, nobody ever came to us.” Blanchard also stated that he is not sure what advice he would have been able to give had he been asked due to the differences in today’s era of wrestling compared to his era. Blanchard stated “I don’t know that…my mind and the world that I came from in this business, I don’t know if there’s anything that I could offer. Because I don’t know how to do what they do. Because it is a, ‘Okay, I’m gonna do this, and the fans have to cheer for it or boo it, or be quiet.’ But the match never changes. Whereas if I did something and the fans didn’t react, I changed course right then. But I had that ability because my job was to make people scream. I don’t know that they really know how to do that [be spontaneous] anymore.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)