Posted on 3/02/125 by Bob Magee
Tonight’s AEW COLLISION was broadcast on TNT and streamed on
MAX live from the Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA!
Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness were the broadcast team
for tonight’s event.
It’s Saturday night and you know what that means! This is
for the Sickos!
FTR—Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler
vs.
The Undisputed Kingdom’s Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong!
Cash and Roddy chain wrestled at the start of the match.
Cash hip tossed Roddy. Kyle tagged in, as did Dax. Kyle
kicked Dax in the chest, and Dax returned the favor with a
chop. FTR used tandem offense to knock Kyle out of the ring.
Cash connected with a sliding baseball dropkick on Roddy.
Roddy blocked a DDT and then dropped Cash across the top of
the barricade.
Dax snap suplexed Roddy on top of Kyle. Dax cradled Kyle for
a two count. Dax rocked Roddy with a short arm lariat. Dax
spiked Kyle and pinned him. Kyle’s foot was on the rope, but
the official didn’t see it. Dax said he didn’t want to win
the match this way, so the referee restarted the match.
Roddy tagged in and cleaned house on FTR with dropkicks and
backbreakers. Roddy planted Dax with a fallaway slam. Kyle
put Dax in an ankle lock. Dax escaped, using his boots to
push Kyle into Cash, who cracked Kyle with a forearm. Roddy
ran in to save Kyle from a spiked piledriver attempt.
Dax superplexed Kyle and then Cash jumped off the top rope,
but Kyle kicked out of the powerplex! The Undisputed Kingdom
stopped the Shatter Machine from FTR and then countered with
the high-low combination, and Kyle pinned Cash!
“FTR could have had the victory but wanted to restart the
match, and this is what happened as a result of it,” said
Nigel.
Undisputed Kingdom offered to shake hands, but FTR left the
ring, declining.
AEW World Trios Champion The Deathriders’ Wheeler Yuta
vs.
Willie Mack!
Yuta raked Willie in the eyes and followed up with a senton.
Mack smacked Yuta with a discus elbow. Yuta hit a release
German Suplex. Willie charged at Wheeler with a cannonball
in the corner. Yuta ran into Mack with a knee strike and
pinned Mack!
“Wheeler Yuta with three straight wins,” said Tony
Schiavone.
AEW World Champion Jon Moxley came to the ring with the
briefcase and bashed Mack in the head, striking him from
behind.
Moxley: “I got a lesson to teach my young protégé about
finishing the job.”
Mox told Yuta that on Wednesday, he has to take out Cope, so
Cope doesn’t have a clear shot at the AEW World Championship
at Revolution.
Mox held Mack and told Yuta to finish the job. Yuta smashed
the briefcase against Mack’s head, leaving Mack unconscious.
This Wednesday on Dynamite it’ll be Cope against Yuta!
TBS Champion Mercedes Mone was walking backstage!
Billie Starkz was there and told Mercedes that at
Revolution, Momo Watanabe was taking the belt from her.
Billie then threw a drink into Mercedes’ face!
AEW Women’s World Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm was in a
bed, wearing a neck brace.
Storm: “You want my title, Mariah? You can pry it from my
cold, dead hips. Did you like Australia? Because I consider
it foreplay. You want a Hollywood ending? Well so do I.
Falls count anywhere in the building. I hope you believe in
God, because now you’re going to meet her!”
Toni Storm ripped off her neck brace and glared into the
camera.
Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana)
vs. Clark Connors!
Swerve side stepped Clark. Swerve connected with a flying
uppercut. Clark knocked Swerve down with a shoulder tackle.
Clark stomped Swerve in the corner. Clark chopped at Swerve.
Swerve served up a back breaker and then snapped Clark’s arm
backwards! Clark came back with a power slam, but he was
unable to follow up because of the damage to the left arm.
Swerve used an avalanche suplex on Clark for a near fall.
Clark headbutted Swerve and then sent Swerve soaring with a
German Suplex. Clark went for a spear but walked right into
a spear! Swerve went for a double stomp, but Clark moved and
scored with a spear. Strickland flattened Connors with the
House Call kick and pinned Connors!
Footage aired from after Dynamite with the Outrunners
approaching the AEW World Tag Team Champions the Hurt
Syndicate and MVP.
MVP told the Outrunners they earned a shot at the tag titles
at Revolution.
Harley Cameron joined the broadcast team after this.
Harley: “When I hit my finisher, I noticed you guys didn’t
call it anything. I think we gotta name my finishing move.”
Tony Schiavone: “You want to name your finishing move?”
Harley: “That’s genius! That’s it! It’s called ‘My Finishing
Move.’”
Big Boom AJ was backstage when Johnny TV invited him to find
some friends to face him and MxM Collection at Revolution!
Trios Match!
Shane Taylor Promotions’ Lee Moriarty and The Infantry
vs.
Nick Ruiz, Vinnie Massaro, & Dave Dutra!
Daddy Magic joined the broadcast team for this match.
The Infantry double teamed in the corner. Lee Moriarty
flattened him quickly with The Fang and picked up the
decisive pinfall.
TNT Championship Match!
Daniel Garcia (c.) vs. The Undisputed Kingdom’s Adam Cole!
“This has a big fight feel,” said Nigel.
Garcia executed a swinging neck breaker to perfection.
Garcia followed up with a clothesline in the corner. Cole
kicked Danny and then blasted Danny with a backstabber. Cole
nailed him with a neck breaker. Garcia fired back with a
dragon screw leg whip between the ropes. Garcia charged at
Cole and staggered him with a running dropkick.
Cole pump kicked Garcia and then hit a neck breaker for a
near fall. Cole stunned Garcia with another neck breaker.
Garcia anticipated the Panama Sunrise and began to pound
Cole on the turnbuckles. Garcia superplexed Cole and then
spiked Cole with a piledriver. Danny covered Cole but Cole
kicked out at the two-count.
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
Cole served up a Panama Sunrise, but Danny kicked out.
Garcia retaliated with a belly to back suplex. Cole rolled
out of the ring, but Danny followed him. Cole connected with
a thrust kick and then lowered the boom with a running knee
strike.
Garcia applied an ankle lock out of nowhere. Cole swam on
the mat and reached the bottom rope, forcing the ref to
break the hold.
“What an effort by Adam Cole to stay in this match,” said
Schiavone.
Garcia planted Cole with a piledriver on the apron! Fifteen
minutes had gone by, with five remaining. Cole and Garcia
were slugging it out when the Infantry and Lee Moriarty
sprinted to the ring and swarmed Cole and Garcia, punishing
them with strikes. The ref threw the match out! Daddy Magic
got up from his seat, but Shane Taylor clubbed Daddy Magic!
The Infantry crushed Cole with a double curb stomp. Moriarty
put Garcia in the Border City Stretch.
Big Justice got Orange Cassidy and Mark Briscoe to join AJ
for his match against Johnny TV and MxM Collection at
Revolution!
Hounds of Hell’s Julia Hart vs. Queen Aminata!
“The Professor” Serena Deeb said she gave Queen Aminata the
gameplan to win tonight, but it was up to the Queen to
follow it.
Hart connected with a running elbow. Queen Aminata chop
blocked Julia Hart and then rammed Hart’s knee against the
mat. Julia Hart used a leg trip and then a standing
moonsault for a near fall. Queen Aminata cracked Julia with
a headbutt and then a running kick and pinned Julia!
“I think she read that scouting report from the Professor,”
said Tony Schiavone.
Brody King checked on Julia Hart after the match when
Continental Champion Okada hit Brody with the championship
belt, blindsiding him!
We heard from Kenny Omega live from his home in Winnipeg!
Omega: “I was out for an entire year, having to sit in bed,
wondering if I’d ever wrestle again. I had to hear Uncle Don
week after week talking about how Takeshita beat me twice in
a week. It got on my nerves. But what I’m about to you,
Takeshita, it’s not about revenge. It’s about your belt and
what it represents. If you can beat me three times,
Takeshita, maybe it’s time for me to admit that you’re
better. Maybe it’s time for me to admit that I can never
challenge for a major belt again.
“But the way I see it, I’ve had an entire year to make my
weaknesses into strengths. I’m no longer EVP. My entire
focus is your belt. I want that gold. At Revolution, I’m
taking it.”
Powerhouse Hobbs & Bandido
vs.
The Learning Tree’s “The Red Wood” Big Bill & “Bad Apple”
Bryan Keith”!
Keith charged at Hobbs with a shoulder block, but Hobbs
didn’t budge. Hobbs hoisted up Keith and handed him off to
Bandido, who pressed up Keith with one arm. Bandido tossed
Keith to Hobbs and Hobbs planted Keith.
Big Bill tagged in and went for a choke slam, but Bandido
escaped. Keith pump kicked Bandido on the apron and then Big
Bill booted Hobbs to the arena floor. Big Bill dropped a
massive elbow on Bandido.
Bandido dodged a splash from Big Bill. Keith tagged in and
grabbed a side headlock. Bandido fought his way to the
corner and tagged out to Hobbs. Hobbs cleaned house, taking
Big Bill down with a leaping lariat. Hobbs splashed Keith in
the turnbuckles.
Hobbs planted Keith with a twisting slam from the second
turnbuckle. Big Bill broke up the pin attempt! Big Bill
blasted Bandido with a Bossman slam! Bandido and Bryan Keith
chopped one another. They collided into one another with
dropkicks, both men having the same idea.
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
Big Bill and Hobbs traded strikes. Hobbs crashed into Big
Bill, sending Bill to the arena floor. Bandido moonsaulted
off the shoulders of Hobbs onto Big Bill on the floor. Hobbs
pounced through Keith. Hobbs finished off Keith with a
spinebuster and picked up the victory!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS and streaming on MAX next
Wednesday live at 8/7c from the Sacramento Memorial
Auditorium in Sacramento, CA!
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