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AEW Continental Classic

Professional wrestling tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Continental Classic (C2) is an annual professional wrestling round-robin tournament hosted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The tournament is held at the end of the calendar year, beginning after November's Full Gear pay-per-view (PPV) event and culminating at the Worlds End PPV in late December. The prize of the tournament is the AEW Continental Championship. The most recent 2025 tournament was won by Jon Moxley.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Continental, Classic and Professional can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “AEW Continental Classic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.