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News - Claudio Castagnoli Becomes World Champion!

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WhatCulture Wrestling

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On today's wrestling news:

0:00 AEW star becomes world champion

2:45 WWE stars get engaged

4:34 Huge AEW Championship match announced

6:59 AEW stars injured


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0:00.0

On today's wrestling news, an AEW star becomes a world champion.

0:03.7

Some WW stars have got engaged.

0:06.5

We've got a huge AEW title match announced.

0:09.0

And some AEW stars are both likely going to need surgery for their injuries.

0:13.2

Are you ready? Are you ready for the news times? My name is Phil Chambers.

0:15.9

I'm joined by Gareth Morgan to talk all things for wrestling news. First up, an AEW star has become a world champion.

0:23.0

And no, it's not Mercedes-Mune for a change.

0:25.5

It's Claudio Castagnoli.

0:27.7

He has become the world champion for CMLL, and he did it in Arena, Mexico last night.

0:34.0

He was facing Grand Guerrero, who he, like, who he beat, obviously, but has

0:39.4

finished up a three-year title reign with the belt. And now it's Claudio's, which, interestingly,

0:46.0

it's only really his third world title in his entire career. He had the Ring of Honor world title

0:51.8

twice, once in 2020, two, once in 2023, or 20203 and 24, one of them. And now he's got the CMLO world title,

0:59.6

unless you include the WXW world title, in which case it's five, but still, like it's,

1:05.6

for someone as incredibly talented as Claudio Castignoli, he's been very light on the world

1:09.6

titles kind of at front. So yeah, just good to see, well, Claudio Castagnoli. He's been very light on the world titles kind of at front.

1:11.5

So yeah, just good to see Claudio Castagnoli getting his gold.

1:15.5

Yeah, and he looks good with world title gold on him.

1:18.1

He's the horse of a man, I think, as Kevin Owens once famously said.

1:22.8

And he just, like you're saying, it is stunning that a guy that talented, that imposing,

1:29.5

you could just see as a world champion, whether it was a baby face or a heel,

1:33.3

just be so, like, could be money as a champion, hasn't really had those, those runs.

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