Report by: Cory Strode, pwinsider.com
It’s Saturday and AEW Collision is live at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia PA. Our commentary team is Tony Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness, and Matt Menard.
Jon Moxley w/Marina Shafir vs Daniel Garcia
They start with a knuckle lock and Mox forces them back to the corner, but Garcia reverses as they are in the corner and breaks clean. They lock up again and more to arm bars. Garcia gets a drop toe hold and goes into the STF. Garcia rolls Mox over for one and they reset. Mox gets a snap mare and Garcia pops up and beats Mox into the corner. Mox then charges into the corner with a clothesline. Mox does it a second time and Garcia drops to the mat. Mox then snaps the fingers for Garcia and face washes him in the corner.
Mox goes up for ten in the corner and then gauges the eye until the ref forces the break. Mox beats down Garcia and Garcia defiantly gets to his feet. They trade blows and Mox forces Garcia back to the corner with blows. Mox is whipped across the ring and Garcia gets a dragon screw out of the corner on Mox. Garcia gets a big kick and then stands on Mox’s ankle in the ropes. He then wraps the leg around the ringpost.
Garcia gets a figure four around the ringpost. After they break, Shafir helps Garcia up. When he gets on the apron, Mox kicks him off. Mox goes to the floor as well and Mox stretches and we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, Mox breaks an arm bar as they are both in the ropes. Mox picks him up on the apron and Garcia fights his way free. Garcia gets a pile driver on the apron and rolls into the ring as Mox is on the floor, recovering. Mox ducks a lariat when he gets in the ring and grabs a choke. Garcia turns it into a back body drop. Garcia beats Mox into the corner and then stomps him down.
Garcia gets a running face wash twice and then keeps it up until the ref stops him. Mox grabs Garcia’s and tries for a sharpshooter, but Garcia pulls him in a small package for two. Garcia gets a swinging neck breaker and then puts Mox on the top. Garcia hits a super plex and covers for two. Garcia gets a bulldog choke and Mox escapes and hits a DDT for two. Mox drops the knee for two. Mox grabs a bulldog choke and Garcia escapes and gets a sharpshooter in the middle of the ring. Mox crawls to the ropes for a break.
They have words as they use the ropes to get up and Garcia is on his feet first and throws haymakers. Garcia then starts stomping Mox down to the mat until the ref pulls him off. Mox and Garcia tumble over the top rope to the floor. Mox is up first and is stomping around the ring. They roll into the ring and trade blows. Mox tries a sleeper and Garcia rolls Mox up for two. Mox reverses it for the pin and the win.
Winner: Jon Moxley
There is no post match beat down and Mox takes off through the crowd. Shafir stays at ringside and when Menard goes to talk to him, Garcia shoves him away. Tony Schiavone goes to interview Garcia, and Garcia says he has had what people call incredible performances for five years and he has nothing to show for it. He says when he falls he gets back up. He says it’s been a really good five years, but sometimes good isn’t good enough and he goes to the back.
Next is a video of the Don Callis family attacking Adam Page and Kenny Omega on Wednesday.
Bill Bill says this is the city and building where his life hit rock bottom and the people mocked him. He mocks the local sports team and their fans. He then brags about how he has turned his life and career around. He says it is because he is from a place where real tough guys are made. New York City. He says there was a guy who tried to be a tough buy, but he’s been gone a long time so he is calling him out. Eddie Kingston.
FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) w/Stokely vs Adam Priest and Tommy Billington
Cash and Adam start the match. They lock up and go to waistlocks. They mat wrestle and return to their feet. They lock up again and run the ropes with Cash getting a shoulder tackle. Adam gets a side headlock takeover and they run the ropes again. Cash hits a running back elbow. He chops Adam into the ropes and Adam dodges strikes and then an arm drag.
Tommy tags in and Cash slaps him before Dax gets in the ring. Cash gets an arm drag and then Tommy gets a side headlock over before resetting. They run the ropes and Dax gets a shoulder tackle. Tommy launches Dax with a kick and then a warm drag. Adam tags in and the double team charge into Dax for two. Adam finds himself in FTR’s corner and they double-team beat him down.
Cash tags in and chops Adam to the mat in the corner. Adam gets a drop-kick and that sets off the tag team siren and all four men are in the ring with Adam and Tommy getting stereo snap suplexes on FTR. FTR rolls to the floor to regroup. Dax tags in and slaps Adam Dax goes to the floor and Adam chases him. When they get into the ring, Cash tags in so that Adam does set it and they double clothesline him as we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, Adam and Dax are brawling on the floor. Cash tries to get into the fight and that brings in Tommy, who dives front he top onto FTR. FTR returns to the ring and Tommy gets a shotgun drop-kick from the top. Adam dives on Cash on the floor and Tommy grabs an STF. Dax rolls out of it and tries to get a sharpshooter, but is kicked off. Tommy charges at Dax and Dax gets a back elbow and goes to the top. Tommy meets him there and gets a gut wrench slam for the top for two.
Tommy misses a diving headbutt from the top and Dax covers for two. FTR sets for the power plex, and Adam knocks Cash to the floor. Tommy and Dax fight on the top and Dax falls to the mat. Adam and Tommy are on top and hits a double flying headbutt for two, broken up by Cash. Adam tags in and Dax gets a back elbow. They trade waistlocks and Dax drops him with a lariat. FTR gets stereo German suplexes with a bridge for two and Cash and Tommy get into the ring.
FTR try for stereo pile drivers and Tommy and Adam drop to the mat and get stereo rollups for two. Cash tosses Tommy to the floor and set for the power plex, and this time they hit it on Adam for the pin and the win.
Winners: FTR
After the match, Stokely says this is all Cope and Cage's fault because FTR took their anger out of them, but in two weeks, Cope and Cage’s careers are over.
We then get a video of the Outrunners in Brother Nater in camo gear, but they hear a sound. As they investigate, they find Dalton Castle and The Boys, who says “Let’s go break some hearts.”
In the back, Mox says he keeps being told someone is trying to take away everything he has, but what does he have that they want to take away? He goes over things that he doesn’t have. He says a belt is a basic unit of measurement for small thinkers and they need to think bigger. He says his results will speak for themselves. He says he wishes Darby Allin had figured out what Mox is trying to do and fight beside him, but instead Darby just won’t go away. He will get rid of Darby for people who MOX wants to have around him. He will put Darby in the ground at All Out.
The Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue, and Thekla) and Megan Bayne vs Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, Mina Shiakawa, and Toni Storm - Everyone barred from ringside
Before the match, Wheeler Yuta gets on the apron and talks to Kris before leaving.
Thekla and Toni start by throwing hand and Toni tosses Thekla across the ring and stomps her down in the corner.
Mina is tagged in and they hit Thekla with a double back elbow for two.
Mina dodges a clothesline and Thekla does the spider walk. They knock each other back to their corners.
Harley and Julia tag in
Kris tags in. Harley and Kris get a series of tag team moves for two.
Mina tags in and she gets a mule kick and a sling blade on Julia for two.
Julia’s team pulls Mina’s team off the apron and Mina can’t tag out as Julie works her over.
Megan tags in and gets a leaping clothesline as we go to picture in picture
When we return to full screen, Mina has been the babyface in peril.
Mina is able to get a figure four with a DDT on Hart and Blue, and follows with a tag to Toni.
Toni runs wild.
She tags in Kris after a hip attack on Blue and Bayne pulls Toni out of the ring and Blue tries for a Code Blue but doesn’t get in.
Mina dives onto Bayne to free Toni
Harley tags in and slams Blue, who is held up by Kris for two
Everyone gets a big move on the last person in the ring
After it’s done, everyone is down and on the floor.
Harley and Blue get into the ring and throw hands. Harley then gets a sling blade and both women are down.
Julia and Kris tag in and throw hands.
Julia gets an octopus hold and people are brawling on the floor.
On the floor Harley and Megan keep fighting
Kris reverses the octopus, but Julie drops down for a rollup for two
Kris face-plants Julia and puts on the seat belt for the pin and the win.
Winners: Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, Mina Shiakawa, and Toni Storm
The brawl continues after the bell with Toni having the upper hand for a bit until Thekla takes over. Mina tries to save, but the Triangle of Madness overwhelms her. Jamie Hayter shows to help drive off the Triangle, She goes to help Toni up, and Toni is not having it. Toni grabs a mic and asks if they want to get nuts. She says Her, Matter and Kris will take on the Triqangle of Madness.
We get a hype video for Ace Austin.
Lexi Nair is with Austin Gunn and Juice Robinson, and they need to figure out what they are going to do without Colton Gunn and Jay White.
Next is a video from Mone about how she is unhappy that Riho has returned and attacked her. She says she has called in Ami Sakura to face her in a tag team match where Riho has Alex Windsor on her team.
We are told that Mox vs Darby is a coffin match.
Tony Schiavone is in the ring to speak with Don Callis and Kyle Fletcher, Josh Alexander is with them. Don Callis talks about how much he enjoyed Kyle and Josh beating down Kenny Omega and Adam Page. He asks Josh how it feels to be so dominant. Josh talk about he he has met Page once, and while he lost then, he’s a different man now and he will run through Page for himself and his family. Kyle then asks what happens next when it comes to his TNT Title.
Kyle says he knows Briscoe thinks he’ll beat him, but Briscoe has to get past Takeshita tonight. Kyle asks who will step up to fill the shoes of Omega, Swerve Strickland, or Will Ospreay, and the answer is him, and he will eventually hold the TNT Title and the World championship. Kyle wants a title shot at All Out. He won’t have to wait for three years to get the title, he just has to wait two weeks.
Next is a video about the glitch in Hologram’s system.
In the back, Lexi is with the Conglomeration and Kyle O’Reilly is happy they have figured out how to clone luchadors. Roderick Strong is upset with Tomohiro Ishii, and Kyle says Tomohiro has to go to Japan for a few weeks and Roddy says he’d be fine if he never came back and leaves. Kyle tries to say everything is fine.
Lexi is with Anthony Bowens and he’s not dressed to compete and he was at the opening for the new Conjuring movie. Bowens says he’s happy that Max Caster and Billy Gunn are not here. Jerry Lynn shows up and goes over Bowens’ bona fides and says he’s at the bottom now and needs to take a look in the mirror and find out what’s missing.
Konosuke Takeshita w/Josh Alexander vs Mark Briscoe
Don Callis joins commentary.
They lock up and go to arm bars and waistlocks. They run the ropes and Briscoe gets a drop toe hold and they trade quick two count rollups. Takeshita rakes the eyes and drives Briscoe to the corner. They throw hands coming out of the corner and Takeshita lays in elbows to Briscoe’s back. Briscoe gets a swinging neck breaker for two. We then go to picture in picture, which Tony called too early.
When we return to full screen, Takeshita knocks Briscoe down and then hits a DDT from the apron to the floor. Briscoe is rolled into the ring and grabs a rear chinlock. Briscoe works to his feet and breaks free with elbows and then lays in strikes. Briscoe lays in chops and then hits a flying forearm. Briscoe gets a lariat in the corner and then a fisherman buster for two.
Takeshita gets a back body drop and then a blue thunder bomb for two on Briscoe. Takeshita tosses Briscoe to the floor and then dives onto him. Takeshita rolls Briscoe into the ring and lays in blows on Briscoe, but Briscoe gets a low bridge and a dive of his own. Briscoe then gets a blockbuster from the apron to the floor.
Briscoe rolls Takeshita into the ring and a basement clothesline for two. They run the ropes and take each other down as we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, Briscoe gets a rolling Death Valley Driver and goes to the top. Takeshita joins him there and they fight on the top, and Briscoe gets a sunset power bomb and goes back to the top. Briscoe goes for a flying elbow but Takeshita gets the knees up. Takeshita gets a running elbow and then a running big boot in the corner. Takeshita gets a German suplex. Briscoe retaliates with a clothesline for two.
Briscoe sets for a Jay Driller and they go back and forth and Takeshita turns it into a package pile driver and follows with a casadora with a bridge for two. Takeshita runs into a back elbow and then they fight in the ropes. Briscoe goes to the top and Takeshita runs into him. They fight on the top and Briscoe gets a headbutt and Takeshita falls to the mat. Callis distracts the ref and the MJF knocks Briscoe off the top.
Takeshita gets a running knee and then the Burning Hammer for the pin and the win.
Winner: Konosuke Takeshita
MJF attacks Briscoe and Takeshita goes face to face with Takeshita. Callis tries to make peace between them and Takeshita leaves. MJF is then jumped by Briscoe and they go back and forth with blows on the mat. They are pulled apart by officials and referees.
MJF grabs a mic and wants a match anywhere, any time, any kind of match. Briscoe says they will meet at All Out and he will name the stipulation later.
