Abadon vs Tay Conti (lost footage of professional wrestling match; 2020)
Throughout 2020, American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling taped certain episodes of their weekly flagship show Dynamite, this was due to the COVID-19 pandemic and tapings took place at amphitheater called Daily's Place located in Jacksonville, Florida.[1][2][3] However during these tapings, a match between women's professional wrestlers Tay Conti and Abadon was taped but never aired.[4]
Background
American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling from 2020 to 2021 taped matches that were scheduled to air on Dynamite every Wednesday and would also tape matches for Dark, a smaller-scale show usually featuring mid-card talent and independent or unsigned wrestlers that would air on YouTube.[5]
The Match
The match, which was taped on the Thursday the week prior,[6] was set to air on the October 28, 2020 edition of Dynamite.[7] No details on the match have been publicly revealed. At the time no fans were in attendance, so no crowd footage of the match exists. The match reportedly stopped when Abadon took an elbow to the throat by Conti and "couldn't breathe",[8] forcing the match to stop.[9] Abadon was subsequently taken to a nearby hospital for medical evaluation.[10] and was kept off TV until she returned in December of that year.[11] The match was pulled off the airing schedule[12][13][14] with reports stating fellow AEW wrestler Shawn Spears would feature in a match to fill the spot,[15][16] which ended up happening as a match between him and independent wrestler VSK occurred as part of the broadcast with Spears defeating VSK in under a minute.[17]
Availability
No footage of the match has resurfaced and as previously mentioned, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic no crowds were in attendance, therefore no crowd footage of the match or stoppage exists. The match most likely resides in the Warner Bros. archives and will most likely never resurface due to Abadon's injury.[18]
See Also
- AJ Styles vs Kenny Omega (lost footage of professional wrestling match; 2006)
- Alberto Del Rio vs CM Punk vs Dolph Ziggler vs Jack Swagger vs John Cena (partially found master tape footage of untelevised Hell in a Cell match; 2011)
- Awesome Kong vs Melissa Anderson (lost footage of professional wrestling match; 2009)
- Bill Longson vs Whipper Billy Watson (lost footage of professional wrestling match; 1947)
- Blood Circus (partially found Santo Gold film; 1985)
- Braden Walker's "Knock Knock" promo (lost original pre-tapes of WWE backstage segment; 2008)
- Bradshaw vs Christian (lost footage of professional wrestling match; 2001)
- Bret Hart-Hulk Hogan photoshoot (lost professional wrestling promotional photos; 1993)
- Bret Hart vs Tom Magee (found untelevised professional wrestling match; 1986)
- Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling (lost early BBC televised professional wrestling matches; 1938-1939; 1946-1947)
- Celebrity Wrestling (partially found ITV professional wrestling reality show; 2005)
- Chowdaheads (partially found unaired professional wrestling cartoon show; 1999)
- Collision in Korea (found professional wrestling event in North Korea; 1995)
- Collision in Korea wrestler sketches (lost North Korean pencil sketch portraits of professional wrestlers; 1995)
- Cultaholic (found debut video of professional wrestling YouTube channel; 2017)
- ECW Anarchy Rulz (lost build of cancelled Nintendo 64 port of professional wrestling game; existence unconfirmed; 2000)
- ECW at E3 2000 (partially found footage of professional wrestling at gaming trade event; 2000)
- ECW Hardcore TV final episodes (lost episodes of Professional Wrestling Show; 2001)
- FMW at E3 2000 (partially found footage of professional wrestling at gaming trade event; 2000)
- The Game (partially found Disturbed cover of professional wrestling theme song; mid 2000s)
- GFW Amped (partially found unaired professional wrestling show; 2015)
- The Giant's moonsault (lost footage of professional wrestling move; existence unconfirmed; 1990s)
- Girls Gone Wild: Live from Spring Break (found WWE/Girls Gone Wild crossover special; 2003)
- GLOW (lost unfinished final season of Netflix comedy-drama series; 2019-2020)
- Goldberg's pre-television debut matches (lost footage of professional wrestling dark matches; 1997)
- Gotch-Hackenschmidt Match Film (lost world championship match; 1908)
- Gotch-Hackenschmidt Match Film (lost world championship match; 1911)
- Jake "The Snake" Roberts DDTs Hulk Hogan (lost Snake Pit segment; 1986)
- Johnny Gargano vs Velveteen Dream (lost footage of alternate finish to professional wrestling match; 2019)
- Kurt Angle vs Owen Hart (lost footage of professional wrestling match; 1999)
- The Last Battle of Atlanta (found untelevised professional wrestling steel cage match; 1983)
- Lita's training matches (partially found training videos of professional wrestler; late 1990s-2000)
- Low Ki & Mercury vs Ric Blade & TCK (partially lost footage of hardcore wrestling tag team match; 2000)
- Mark Jindrak in Evolution (partially found unaired vignettes of professional wrestling stable; 2003)
- Pat Tanaka vs Rocco Rock (lost footage of "Body Count" professional wrestling match; 1993)
- "Plane Ride From Hell" (lost photographs of drunk wrestler incidents; 2002)
- Radio WWF (lost professional wrestling radio show; 1993-1994; late 1990s-2000)
- Screwed: The Bret Hart Story (lost unfinished wrestling documentary film; 2005)
- Sex University (lost WWE webshow; 2006)
- Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Gekitou Densetsu (lost build of unreleased Virtual Boy wrestling game; 1995)
- Strange Kentucky People (lost recording of Chris Jericho "tribute"; 1994)
- TNA Impact! 2 (lost build of unfinished professional wrestling game; 2009)
- WCW 2000 (lost work on unfinished PlayStation 2 game; 2000)
- WCW All Nighter (partially lost professional wrestling compilation show; 1994-1995)
- WCW Classics (partially found professional wrestling compilation show; 2000-2001)
- WCW Internet-only Special Events and PPVs (lost audio streams; 1997-1998)
- WCW/nWo Live (lost build of cancelled PlayStation professional wrestling game; 1998)
- WWE Brawl (lost build of cancelled fighting game based on professional wrestling; 2012)
- WWE Crush Hour (lost build of cancelled Xbox port of vehicular combat game; 2002)
- WWE SmackDown vs Raw Online (lost build of cancelled online professional wrestling PC game; 2010-2011)
- WWE Wrestlemania 36 (lost footage of alternate finishes to professional wrestling matches; 2020)
- WWF Attitude (lost professional wrestling recap show; 2001-2002)
- WWF Backlash (non-existent unfinished Nintendo 64 professional wrestling game; 2001)
- WWF Excess (partially found professional wrestling talk show; 2001-2002)
- WWF In Your House 8: Beware Of Dog (partially found untelevised professional wrestling matches; 1996)
- WWF Livewire (partially found professional wrestling recap and talk show; 1996-2001)
- WWF No Mercy (lost Game Boy Color games based on Nintendo 64 wrestling game; 2000)
- WWF Shotgun (partially found July to December season of syndicated wrestling show; 1997)
- WWF Xperience (found pay-per-view event footage; 1996)
References
- ↑ https://f4wonline.com/news/aew/aew-filming-dynamite-dark-undisclosed-location-307786
- ↑ https://f4wonline.com/news/aew/aew-filming-dynamite-dark-undisclosed-location-307786
- ↑ https://news4jax.com/news/local/2020/03/13/aew-moves-show-from-rochester-to-jacksonville-due-to-coronavirus/
- ↑ https://411mania.com/wrestling/abadon-vs-tay-conti-pulled-from-this-weeks-dynamite/
- ↑ https://google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjZsM_dneqDAxU5i_0HHSXBAv84ChAWegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhappywrestlingland.com%2F2019%2F12%2F04%2Ftuesdays-are-for-youtube-nwa-powerrr-aew-dark-november-2019%2F&usg=AOvVaw31gioexLc7lzEzK_lJ0aTJ&opi=89978449
- ↑ https://fightful.com/wrestling/report-abadon-vs-tay-conti-pulled-1028-aew-dynamite
- ↑ https://fightful.com/wrestling/report-abadon-injured-and-hospitalized-aew-dynamite-tapings
- ↑ https://wrestletalk.com/news/aew-star-couldnt-breathe-following-botched-move-on-dynamite/
- ↑ https://fightful.com/wrestling/report-abadon-vs-tay-conti-pulled-1028-aew-dynamite
- ↑ https://fightful.com/wrestling/report-abadon-injured-and-hospitalized-aew-dynamite-tapings
- ↑ https://cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=298341
- ↑ https://reddit.com/r/AEWOfficial/comments/jihfw9/abadon_vs_tay_conti_not_airing_on_wednesdays_aew/
- ↑ https://wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/10/abadon-vs-tay-conti-match-reportedly-pulled-from-aew-676286/
- ↑ https://itrwrestling.com/news/abadon-vs-tay-conti-removed-from-aew-dynamite/
- ↑ https://f4wonline.com/news/aew/abadon-vs-tay-conti-not-airing-wednesdays-aew-dynamite-323576
- ↑ https://wrestlezone.com/news/1207607-abadon-vs-tay-conti-match-pulled-from-aew-dynamite
- ↑ https://cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=293622
- ↑ https://wrestlinginc.com/1472729/tony-khan-addresses-current-status-aew-warner-brothers-discovery-relationship/