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Claudio Castagnoli Wins World Heavyweight Championship (Video)

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• Claudio Castagnoli Wins World Heavyweight Championship (Video)

AEW star Claudio Castagnoli (fka Cesaro in WWE) defeated Gran Guerrero to become the new CMLL World Heavyweight Champion tonight at Arena Mexico. You can watch the finish below:

Claudio ended Gran’s 3-year title reign to become champion. AEW President Tony Khan tweeted the following about it:

“Congratulations to @ClaudioCSRO, the NEW @CMLL_OFICIAL World Heavyweight Champion!

On behalf of AEW, we’re very proud to have an @AEW star, especially one of Claudio’s immense stature, as Champion in CMLL!

Congratulations to CMLL, I think that Claudio will be a great Champion!”

Claudio Castagnoli Cesaro wins CMLL World Heavyweight Championship

Speaking of Claudio, he will face fellow Death Riders member Jon Moxley in the Continental Classic this coming Wednesday on Dynamite.

• Another Top WWE Star Almost Slipped On RAW

During an interview on the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast, Bronson Reed recalled Brock Lesnar slipping on this week’s RAW. Reed also revealed that Drew McIntyre almost slipped as well.

Here’s what The Vision member said:

“So knowing Brock Lesnar as I do. I’ve known him for a short amount of time. He is a very intense individual. He is The Beast, that is him. And I saw him slip, and somehow backroll, gets back to his feet.

In my mind, I’m like, ‘He’s either going to laugh this off.’ Which he seemed to do, he laughed it off and got to business, or ‘he’s going to be very angry, and all the guys in the ring are going to pay for it.’ So I did see it. But I just let it slide, and made sure to get back to business.

I think Brock himself said it (backstage). He walked through the curtain, and he had slipped on something. So I think… I don’t know who wrestled beforehand. Because Drew said in his entrance he almost slipped. So I don’t know if someone wet their hair or oil, or something was on the entranceway.

I don’t think it fazed him too much. He’s the sort of individual – you know, if that was someone else and they were to slip, they’d probably fall on their a$$ and that would be it. And people wouldn’t engage anymore from there, it’d be hard to get people back.

But because it’s Brock Lesnar, he almost backrolled, got straight back to his feet. Took his cowboy hat off and you knew he was still going to beat the hell out of people. So if it was going to happen to anyone, at least it was him.”

On ESPN First Take, Paul Heyman said the following about Lesnar falling down on RAW:

“The reason why I think it is a G.O.A.T move is because we all fumble at some point in the game. We all do. There’s no such thing as someone that doesn’t fumble in life.

Brock Lesnar turned a fumble into a touchdown just like that. He is The Beast. There’s no one like him. He’s one of one. Look at that boom, there was water on the entrance way, slips, falls, rolls through, comes up and there he is, smiling and just coming down to the ring for war.

Who else could do that but Brock Lesnar?”

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