In the latest episode of the “Ten Pounds of Gold” series, The NWA documented their championship being defended against Cody Rhodes at All In.
What you see happen in this special episode of Ten Pounds of Gold is a behind-the-scenes look at the day, their first reaction and the major announcement of how the NWA and the Worlds Heavyweight Championship will be involved in ALL IN. Including the surprising announcement by Cody Rhodes he would be challenging for the NWA Worlds Championship. Billy Corgan spoke at the press conference regarding the Ten Pounds of Gold and current NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis is approached after as well.
Starrcast, the official wrestling convention during the weekend of All In during Labor Day weekend in Chicago, confirmed lots of new names for the event that will be running from August 30 to September 2 at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Tickets for Starrcast go on sale Tuesday (May 15) at Starrcast.com.
Names advertised as of now to appear include:
Cody Rhodes
The Young Bucks
“Papa Buck” Matthew Lee Massie
Bruce Prichard
Eric Bischoff
Tony Schiavone
Billy Gunn
Kevin Nash
Shane “Hurricane” Helms
James Ellsworth
X-Pac
Ron Simmons
Scott Hall
Diamond Dallas Page
Lex Luger
Tully Blanchard
Jeff Jarrett
JJ Dillon
David Penzer
Teddy Long
Dutch Mantell
Macaulay Culkin
Jerry “The King” Lawler
Joey Janela and Penelope Ford
The Blue Meanie
Sean Mooney
Road Warrior Animal
Ron Funches
Colt Cabana
Wade Keller and Bruce Mitchell of PWTorch
Vince Russo took to Twitter noting that he is being blocked from appearing and attending the upcoming All In event in Chicago.
Russo tweeted out:
The ABSOLUTE FACT that I am ready, willing and able to appear at ALL IN while others are already attempting to do EVERYTHING in their power to keep me from attending-tells you just about everything you need to know about ME & THEM.
After months of speculation about whether a self-financed, ten-thousand-seat event put on by The Young Bucks and Cody could sell out, we finally have our answer … it’s yes.
Tickets went on-sale Sunday afternoon and it only took around thirty-minutes for All In at the Sears Centre Arena in Chicago, Illinois — which has a capacity of 11,800 people — to be considered a sell out. No word on the exact number of tickets sold as of yet.
Rhodes revealed that tickets, which went on sale Sunday afternoon, were sold out in just under a half hour officially at 29 minutes and 36 seconds.
As you may you recall, this comes about a year to the date after Cody Rhodes claimed he’d “take that bet” when Dave Meltzer tweeted saying Ring Of Honor wouldn’t be able to sell out a ten thousand seat plus arena “any time soon.”
As we first reported back in November of last year, Cody and the Young Bucks had started to put together the plans for the event and shortly after a date/venue were announced. Since then they’ve put together an incredible line-up of talent for the event including Kazuchika Okada, Deonna Purrazzo, Pentagon Jr, Rey Fenix, Tessa Blanchard, Stephen Amell and just announced earlier today – Rey Mysterio.
ROH announced the Louisiana Wrestling/Boxing Commission confirmed that Cody will be receiving a police escort to the ring on Saturday for his entrance. Cody will be taking on Kenny Omega in a much anticipated match that should settle who is the leader of the Bullet Club. This event will be in front of a record ROH crowd of just under 6,000 fans.
The Louisiana Wrestling/Boxing commission has confirmed that @CodyRhodes will have a police escort to the ring on Saturday for his entrance. pic.twitter.com/jH48xLvrrF
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) April 6, 2018
Below is episode 98 (“Strong Style Evolved”) of Being the Elite. We see some of the backstage footage surrounding Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi vs. The Young Bucks. At the event, after The Young Bucks lost to Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi, Cody came out, yelled at Matt Jackson and shoved Nick Jackson to the ground. In the back, Cody apologized to The Young Bucks, but Nick told Matt and Marty Scurll, “I don’t think we can trust this guy.”
The Young Bucks and Cody have finally announced the location of their upcoming “All In” event and Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned a wrestling podcast convention will be going down as well.
The self-financed event will take place on September 1 at the Sears Centre in Chicago, Illinois — which has a capacity of 11,800 people — the group announced on it on the latest episode of Being the Elite via “Arrow” star Stephen Amell.
According to sources, there will also be a wrestling podcast convention attached to the event that will feature live podcast sessions with many of the top names in wrestling podcasting, as well as legends signings and several official “weigh-ins” for “All In.”
Additional talent already announced for the event include: Kenny Omega, Marty Scurll, Hangman Page and Tessa Blanchard. Flip Gordon still isn’t booked (yet).
Below is the latest episode of Being The Elite, which features the fallout from Cody attacking Kenny Omega at NJPW New Beginning earlier this week. In the video, Cody and Brandi Rhodes go skiing while Matt Jackson’s wife asks him what happened in room 710. Matt said that he wasn’t ready to talk about what transpired in the room.
The end of the video features Nick Jackson looking into the future. It cuts to Colt Cabana and Ian Riccaboni at ROH Supercard Of Honor XII talking about a matchup later that night that people thought they “would never see in the history of wrestling.” Riccaboni then revealed the match: “The American Nightmare” Cody vs. “The Cleaner” Kenny Omega.
Cody and Omega have been teasing a split since last summer, when Cody attempted to “throw in the towel” for Omega during his IWGP Heavyweight Championship match against Kazuchika Okada at Dominion in June, which ended up in a draw. Omega attempted to get Cody’s wife, Brandi, to do the same during Cody’s title match against Okada the following month at NJPW’s G1 Special. Things came to a head last Sunday at New Beginning when Cody hit Omega with the Cross Rhodes following an argument after Omega lost the IWGP United States Championship to Jay White. Cody then grabbed a steel chair, but Koto Ibushi ran out to make the save for Omega and chased the Bullet Club off.
Nothing has been announced from ROH so far regarding the main event for Supercard Of Honor XII, so it’s possible that it was just a gag for the episode. Omega and Cody are confirmed to be wrestling on the show, as are The Young Bucks, Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi and ROH World Champion Dalton Castle, although no matches have been officially announced yet.
ROH Supercard Of Honor XII takes place during WrestleMania weekend on Saturday, April 7th at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, LA.
Get ready to mark this down on your calendars … because the date was announced today for the 10,000 seat show Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks are self-financing called All In.
Cody and the Bucks dropped the news by tweeting, “I’m @ALL_IN_2018 September 1st” and the event’s twitter page now has over 15,000 followers.
Thanks for taking this journey with us. The location for ALL IN will be revealed on an upcoming episode of #BeingTheElite -Nick, Matt, Cody
As we previously reported, the group have been in talks with various venues for months. Our sources say the front-runner locations are Chicago, London, San Francisco and Ontario, California.
Kenny Omega is officially confirmed for the event and All In’s Twitter page says the location will be revealed on an upcoming episode of Being the Elite.
The 10,000 seat event Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks are planning to self-finance in 2018 has now been confirmed by all parties and the ROH champ has an ideal main event in mind.
Cody appeared on Sirius XM‘s Busted Open today and revealed that his dream opponent for the main event is Daniel Bryan, whose WWE contract will expire next summer.
Rhodes said he can’t reveal too much until the location is locked down, but reiterated that they are “swinging for the damn fences.”
As we previously reported, the trio are in talks with multiple venues to put on a 10K seat event with Chicago, London, San Francisco and Ontario (CA) being the location front-runners.
When host Bully Ray asked why they’re doing this, Cody said it’s because they want to leave the wrestling business better than when they found it.
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