AEW Collision Review – 09.06.25

The week in AEW thus far – Dynamite | ROH

Collision is ON THE AIR LIVE from the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA. The announce team is Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness on match calls and analysis, Arkady Aura on ring announcements, and Lexy Nair on backstage and breaking news segments.

Jon Moxley vs Daniel Garcia

Matt Menard has joined commentary. Marina Shafir accompanies Moxley to the ring. Garcia bullies Moxley to a corner and doesn’t want to break so Moxley just ducks outside the ropes and puts the stinkeye on Garcia. Garcia works Moxley into an STF before rolling him over and getting a one count. Moxley goes behind and gets a full nelson. Moxley bullies Garcia down and kicks him in the back, but that fires up Garcia and he comes at Moxley with a bunch of right hands. Moxley breaks that up with a reversed irish whip and a lariat. Moxley taunts the crowd and then lariats Garcia again.

Moxley starts with some SMALL JOINT MANIPULATION. Garcia staggers to a corner where Moxley starts pie-facing him with his forearm. Moxley mounts the second rope and starts dropping rights on Garcia’s head. Moxley puts a thumb in Garcia’s eye and then barks at the ref after he breaks it up. Garcia hits a chop which causes Moxley to grin and wipe Garcia out with a chop of his own. Moxley offers his chest again and Garcia takes him up on it, but Moxley’s return shot sounds like a shotgun went off. Moxley works Garcia over in a corner and then stands on his head.

Garcia has had enough and manages two dragon screw leg whips that stop Moxley’s momentum. Garcia kicks Moxley in the knee before draping Moxley’s leg over the bottom rope and standing on it. Garcia posts Moxley’s knee and then locks on the half-assed Figure Four that everyone does when someone is wrapped around a ring post. Garcia breaks at four and as Moxley staggers around Shafir wanders over and offers Garcia a hand to get up. Garcia doesn’t want it so she yanks him up anyway. The distraction allows Moxley to dropkick Garcia off the apron. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Moxley bullies Garcia at the announce desk and then runs him into the ring steps. Garcia manages to roll back in but he walks directly into a Moxley piledriver. Moxley’s cover gets two. Garcia holds off an armbar for awhile but Moxley’s strength wins out eventually.

Back to full screen with Garcia making the ropes. Moxley hoists Garcia up on the apron but Garcia fights back with elbows. A fired-up Garcia snatches up Moxley and piledrives him on the apron. Garcia doesn’t capitalize on the floor and a recovered Moxley slides back in. Moxley walks into an Angle Slam from Garcia but Garcia doesn’t cover. Garcia drives Moxley to a corner with right hands before driving Moxley down to a seated position with kicks. Garcia runs the length of the ring to kick Moxley in the head a couple of times. Garcia runs his boot over Moxley’s face. Moxley charges out of the corner and tries to wrap up Garcia but Garcia rolls him over and gets a two count.

Garcia hits a swinging neckbreaker and then mounts Moxley on a turnbuckle. Garcia hits a superplex and covers for two. Garcia puts Moxley in the bulldog choke but Moxley wiggles out of it and drops Garcia with a Death Rider. Moxley’s cover gets two. Moxley hits a knee to Garcia’s face and covers for two. Moxley goes to the bulldog choke but Garcia crawls out of it and locks Moxley into a Liontamer. Moxley makes the ropes to break it up. Moxley has a word with Garcia and invites Garcia to hit him, so he does. Garcia fires up with kicks and puts his boot on Moxley’s jaw.

Moxley tries for another Death Rider but Garcia holds it off and they both tumble over the top rope to the floor. Moxley fires up with anger and they slide back in to slug it out. They exchange roll ups and Moxley’s gets the three count.

A fantastic opener, quite frankly. Moxley worked his ass off for once and really gave Garcia a ton of offense. They’re clearly building to something with Garcia here which is good for him, but they hardly need more heels in this company so we’ll see what materializes here. The Death Riders could use some fresh faces anyway, since it appears PAC is just…in England. 4*

Winner – Jon Moxley (roll up)

Post-match sees Schiavone ask Garcia for a comment. Garcia says he’s put on a lot of impressive performances over five years but has nothing to show for it. Garcia fires up the crowd but then says sometimes good isn’t good enough. Garcia and Menard leave.

Highlights are shown of the aftermath of the Dynamite main event and Schiavone announces Josh Alexander facing Hangman Page in a grudge match for this upcoming Dynamite. We go to commercials.

Big Bill and Bryan Keith are in frame and backstage when we return. Bill mentions this is the city and the building where his life hit rock bottom. Bill runs down Philly and mentions the spitting incident in the Eagles-Cowboys game and Philly Karen stealing a kid’s home run ball. Bill says he can go to the lots at the Linc and kick everyone’s asses because he comes from a place where they build tough guys, New York City. Bill says there’s another guy from New York who can’t stop running his mouth and Bill calls out Eddie Kingston.

Good fired up promo from Bill here and if it leads to Eddie coming back, I’m good with it. I miss the big lug.

FTR vs Adam Priest and Tommy Billington

BIG STOKE seconds FTR. This is your IDRINQ Match of the Night. Wheeler starts with Priest.

They tumble around to start with no one gaining an advantage. Wheeler grabs a headlock and then trucks Priest when he pushes him off. Priest recovers to grab a side headlock. Wheeler fights his way out and wallops Priest with an elbow after they run the ropes. After a skirmish Priest ducks a punch and grabs a wristlock so Billington can tag in. Wheeler goes to his corner and invites Billington in for a slap to the face. Harwood tags in and he and Billington have a side-headlock/head scissors sequence that leads to a stand-off.

Harwood hits Billington with a shoulder tackle but Billington is able to recover and send Harwood flying with a monkey flip. Priest tags in and he and Billington truck Harwood. Priest covers for one. Harwood bullies Priest to the FTR corner where Wheeler tags in. They smash Priest with rights and Wheeler taunts the crowd. STOKE berates Priest as Wheeler chops away at him. Priest fires up and dropkicks Wheeler and a charging Harwood. Billington charges in and they hit stereo headbutts and snap suplexes to send FTR to the floor. Harwood tags in and slaps Priest in the face. Priest fires up and chases Harwood around. Harwood tags in Wheeler and they drop a charging Priest with a double lariat. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Wheeler hoists Priest up vertically before snapping him over the top rope. Wheeler distracts the ref so Harwood can bully Priest along the ropes. Harwood tags in and chops Priest down in a neutral corner. Harwood rubs his boot on Priest’s face. We go to full commercials.

Back live with Harwood murdering Priest with a chop along the barrier. They start slugging it out with forearms and Priest wins that battle. Wheeler flies down the apron and Priest runs him into a pillar. Billington comes off the top turnbuckle to splash FTR to the floor. Billington tags in and hits a shotgun dropkick on Harwood. Priest knocks a charging Wheeler over the top rope and then Priest hammers Wheeler with a tope suicida. Billington puts Harwood in a crossface but Harwood manages to roll out of it.

Billington kicks out of a Harwood sharpshooter attempt but then runs into a Harwood elbow when he charges. Harwood ascends but a recovered Billington slugs him. Billington hits a top rope gutwrench suplex and covers Harwood for two. A pissed off Wheeler drops Priest over the barrier while Billington misses a diving headbutt. (Okay, a cross face and a diving headbutt? Maybe let’s talk to this kid about his moveset, shall we?) Harwood covers Billington for two.

Priest climbs up in the FTR corner to knock Wheeler to the floor while Harwood’s power-plex attempt is blocked by Billington. Billington slaps Harwood repeatedly in the chest before slugging him to the mat. Billington signals to Priest who’s mounted on the top turnbuckle in the FTR corner and they hit stereo diving headbutts on Harwood. As Billington covers Wheeler drives Priest backwards into the pile to break it up at two.

Priest tags in and starts with forearms but when he runs the ropes Harwood catches him with a back elbow. Harwood wins a skirmish and rifles Priest to the mat with a Hansen lariat. FTR hit stereo German suplexes and Harwood’s cover gets two. FTR hit simultaneous lariats and taunt the crowd. Priest hits a sneaky roll-up on Harwood for two. Wheeler dumps Billington to the floor and FTR hits Power and Glory on Priest. Harwood’s academic cover gets three.

While the outcome was not really in doubt this was a fine usage of an underdog ad hoc team. Priest is a solid hand and Billlington can bring it as well. FTR once again gave a lot of offense here before proving who was dominant. Nothing to complain about with this one and the crowd liked it as well. 3.5*

Winners – FTR (Power and Glory)

Post-match sees Harwood put Priest in a cross-face before Billington breaks it up. STOKE grabs a mic and blames the violence on COPE and Cage. STOKE says they have two weeks before we see the end of C and C.

The Outrunners are still trying to connect with Brother Nature but all they manage to find is Dalton Castle and The Boys. Castle daps it up with the Outrunners and says they should go break some hearts. (I love Dalton Castle and the Outrunners so let’s get stupid with it. Cannot wait.)

Jon Moxley is in a parking lot and talks about Daniel Garcia telling him to give him everything he had prior to tonight’s bout. Moxley mentions Darby Allin wanting to take everything Moxley has. Moxley wonders what they think he has because it’s not “God-given immense talent”. Moxley says it’s not his agility, he has none. It’s not his social skills, he’s just an asshole. Moxley says Allin has cost them belts but they’ll just get them back. Moxley says belts are a small measurement of something much bigger, though. Moxley says he thought Allin taking time to climb Mt Everest would give him time to realize what Moxley is trying to do. Moxley points out that he wanted Allin to stand next to him but Allin couldn’t get it through his thick head and everything came crashing down. Moxley threatens to put Allin in the ground at All Out.

Hell of a promo from Mox here. I’m glad there’s less chaos and more focus on All Out on this show, quite frankly.

The Triangle of Madness and Megan Bayne vs AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm, Mina Shirakawa, Kris Statlander and Harley Cameron

No one is allowed at ringside for this one. Julia Hart’s nose appears to be intact after last week’s bloodletting. Wheeler Yuta comes out of the crowd to have a word with Statlander who eventually tells him to get out.

The bell rings and Thekla charges over to attack Storm. Thekla clubbers away but Storm fires off the ropes with a big boot. Storm puts the boots to Thekla in a neutral corner. Storm drops Thekla with a backbreaker and tags in Shirakawa. Shirakawa rolls over Storm’s back and lands on a prone Thekla. Shirakawa covers and gets two. They run the ropes and both hit their signature poses before waffling each other with forearms. Hart and Cameron tag in. Cameron hits an enziguri and then splashes Hart in the babyface corner. Statlander tags in and she lands a senton on Hart after Cameron hit a side Russian legsweep.

Statlander tosses a charging Cameron directly on Hart and Statlander’s subsequent cover gets two. Statlander whips Hart to a neutral corner and waffles her with an elbow. Statlander hits a chop and runs Hart to the face corner to tag in Shirakawa. They hit simultaneous kicks on Hart and then Shirakawa runs Hart over with a sling blade. Shirakawa’s lazy cover gets two. The heels all charge around to drop the faces off the apron as Hart gets an advantage on Shirakawa. Hart whips Shirakawa to a corner and waffles her with a running lariat. Bayne tags in as Hart runs the length of the ring to hit another elbow on Shirakawa. Bayne flies off the second rope and crushes Shirakawa with a clothesline. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Bayne works Shirakawa over in the heel corner before Blue tags in. Blue hits a snap suplex and covers Shirakawa for two. Blue runs Shirakawa back to the heel corner and Thekla tags in. Thekla snaps Shirakawa over and hits a back kick to Shirakawa’s head. Thekla’s tries three covers and all get two counts. Blue tags in and snapmares Shirakawa over so she can kick her in the back. Blue covers for two. Blue grabs a front headlock and Shirakawa tries to fight out of it with elbows. Blue cuts that off with a right hand and tags in Bayne. Bayne whips Shirakawa to a neutral corner and then flies in to splash her. Bayne hits an overhead suplex and stands defiantly on Shirakawa as the ref counts two. Bayne drags Shirakawa to the heel corner and Blue tags in.

Back to full screen with Blue and Shirakawa exchanging forearms. Hart tags in and she and Blue hit double team offense on Shirakawa that includes a huge Blue knee lift. Hart whips Shirakawa to the mat and hits a standing moonsault that gets two. Hart starts pounding away at Shirakawa’s head with rights and another cover gets two. Blue tags in and Shirakawa fires up. Shirakawa hits a simultaneous DDT and Figure Four on Hart and Blue. Storm finally gets the tag and she hammers Blue with dropkicks before wiping out Bayne and Thekla on the apron.

Storm crushes Blue with a German suplex and then hits one on a charging Hart. Thekla flies in and Storm snatches her up for a snap suplex. Storm hits a hip attack on a prone Blue and Statlander tags in. Statlander hoists Blue up and as Storm runs the ropes Bayne grabs her and yanks Storm to the floor. Bayne runs Storm into the barrier as Blue slides off and wallops Statlander with a kick. Shirakawa hits Blue with a knee and then gets Statlander to help her run the ropes so she can splash Bayne from the top.

Statlander wallops a charging Blue with a right and tags in Cameron. Cameron and Statlander hit a double team facebuster on Blue and Cameron’s cover is broken up by Hart at two. Hart dumps Cameron to the floor but a returning Storm hits an Angle Slam on Hart to stop that momentum. It’s time for the ever popular “everyone hits a move and then someone charges in and hits a move on them until we’re all down and everyone claps” segment. Thekla wipes out Storm, Shirakawa blasts Thekla, Bayne hits a crucifix driver on Shirakawa, and Statlander crushes Bayne with a clothesline. (Every. Damn. Multi-person. Tag. Match. The same formula. EVERY TIME.)

Bayne fires up and wallops Statlander with a flying clothesline. Statlander ducks a Bayne clothesline and then hits one of her own sending her and Bayne over the top rope to the floor. Cameron and Blue are alone in the ring and slugging it out and after they run the ropes Cameron hits a sling blade. Hart and Statlander tag in and start throwing bombs at each other in the center of the ring. Statlander hits a roundhouse kick but Hart manages to grab an octopus hold after running the ropes. Bayne runs Cameron into the ring steps but Cameron recovers to slip off Bayne’s back after being hoisted and runs Bayne into the ring post. Cameron jumps on Bayne’s back so Bayne calmly backs Cameron into one of the black pillars around the ring. They apparently fight to the back.

Statlander finally escapes the octopus but Hart rolls her up for two. Statlander fires up and hoists Hart onto her shoulders before slamming Hart face first to the mat. Statlander hooks Harts arms in the seatbelt position and gets three. (That’s Yuta’s move, for the record, as McGuinness points out on commentary.)

Decent but I wouldn’t call it great or anything and you won’t remember much of it tomorrow. Shirakawa took a major asskicking for a lot of the match but it didn’t matter in the end. Everyone mostly got their stuff in and the crowd was pretty into it. 2.75*

Winners – AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm, Mina Shirakawa, Kris Statlander and Harley Cameron (Statlander seatbelt roll-up on Hart)

Post-match sees Blue and Hart attack Statlander so Storm comes to the rescue. Thekla comes in and the numbers game overwhelms Storm before Shirakawa comes in to help. The Triangle get the numbers on Shirakawa and it ends with a Thekla spear. As they go back to Storm Jamie Hayter charges out and wipes out Blue and Hart in the aisle. Hayter hits a backbreaker on Thekla and the Triangle decide to pull Thekla from the ring to prevent further damage. Hayter offers a hand to Storm who doesn’t take it. Statlander charges in to mediate as the crowd urges Storm and Hayter to hug it out. (Considering what the chants are going to be when Don Callis appears, this is actually pleasant.) Storm grabs a mic and challenges the Triangle for All Out with Statlander and Hayter as her partners. Hayter claps slowly as a disheveled Storm holds her belt for the crowd to cheer.

Here’s a pre-taped promo from Ace Austin. Highlights are shown from his New Japan Bullet Club run. He’s always got an ace up his sleeve. That’s good to know!

Here’s Lexy Nair with Austin Gunn and Juice Robinson. Gunn is depressed at the state of the group and Robinson says it’s time for the standees of Jay White and Colton Gunn to be gone. Robinson says they were dealt a bad hand but they have to figure out what’s next. They leave and we go to commercials.

Here’s a pre-taped promo from AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Mone. She’s called Emi Sakura to deal with Riho as Sakura brought Riho along in wrestling. There’s a tag match booked for Dynamite with Mone and Sakura facing Alex Windsor and Riho. Also Riho will take on Mone for the TBS title at All Out, while Jon Moxley’s challenge for a Coffin Match with Darby Allin has been accepted.

Tony Schiavone is mid-ring and he brings out Don Callis and AEW TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher. Josh Alexander tags along and Fletcher is resplendent in a three-piece suit. Schiavone cuts through the “Eff Don Callis” chants to ask about Mark Briscoe and his match with Konosuke Takeshita later. Callis takes the mic away before Schiavone can finish his question and praises Fletcher for being everything he wanted Kenny Omega to be. Callis claims Fletcher has put Omega out for good. Callis then praises Alexander’s efforts in the eight man on Dynamite and asks Alexander how it feels. Alexander says it feels good and then gets the crowd to cheer for Hangman Page. Alexander says he has one thing Page doesn’t have and that’s Don Callis. Alexander lost to Page on his debut but he claims to have learned from those mistakes and says he will run through Page’s “bitch ass” for himself and for his family.

Fletcher takes the mic and says Wednesday night was step one of bringing the men’s world championship to the DCF. (Thank you, Kyle Fletcher, for saying “men’s world title”. I appreciate that very much.) Step two is the Grudge Match on Wednesday night but that begs the question what happens next. Fletcher says he’s going to be TBS champion for a long time and Briscoe won’t get by Takeshita tonight. Fletcher says he’s going to fill the void that Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, and Swerve Strickland’s absences will bring. Fletcher wants to be a double champion and hold the world title as well. Fletcher calls out Page for All Out and knows Page will accept because of what Fletcher did to Omega.

Decent promo here but I’m wondering if Briscoe-Fletcher and Alexander-Page would be better choices for the PPV. Ah, what do I know.

There’s a new CLON video that says he’s coming soon.

Lexy Nair is with The Paragon and The Conglomeration. Kyle O’Reilly is excited that we can clone luchadores now but Roderick Strong cuts him off by bellowing his name. Strong calls Tomohiro Ishii “Mr. Potato Head” and says he should have been in whatever tag match he’s referencing (They’ve honestly been in so many lately and I think he’s referencing one with Alexander and Fletcher but I don’t actually care all that much.) to help avenge his best friend. O’Reilly chastises Strong who leaves in a huff. O’Reilly tells everyone that they need to chill out and everything is great in “Conglomalamaland”. We go to commercials.

Lexy Nair is with Anthony Bowens who was at The Conjuring premiere last night and will be in a celebrity home run derby next week. Bowens is happy because neither Max Caster or Billy Gunn are there tonight and here’s Jerry Lynn to interrupt. Lynn puts over Bowens abilities and record but says Bowens should take a look in the mirror and figure out what’s missing. Bowens leaves without another word.

Konosuke Takeshita vs Mark Briscoe

Takeshita sends Josh Alexander to the back as Callis has joined the commentary desk. There’s some chain wrestling to start and Briscoe trips Takeshita up. They exchange roll ups for two counts. They reset and Takeshita rakes Briscoes eyes while bullying him to a corner. Briscoe fires up and they start slugging it out but Takeshita gets the advantage with some elbows. Briscoe recovers to wallop Takeshita with a suplex as Callis talks about the open tension between Takeshita and Kazuchika Okada. Briscoe covers and gets one. We go to picture-in-picture commercials as Callis is mid-sentence.

During PIP Briscoe puts the boots to Takeshita and then chops him in a corner. Briscoe double fish-hooks Takeshita before the ref’s count reaches five. Briscoe goes to the second rope and drops ten right hands on Takeshita’s head. Briscoe stands on Takeshita and again waits until four and a half to break as Aubrey Edwards chastises him. (I’ll be honest, I don’t know the other AEW refs by name/look and don’t really care to, sorry. I like Aubrey well enough so I’m happy to say her name.) Briscoe hits a side Russian leg sweep and covers Takeshita for two. Takeshita starts firing up and they have a strong style face-off as we go to full commercials.

Takeshita forearms a charging Briscoe in the knee as we come back live. Takeshita hits a draping DDT on Briscoe that sends both of them to the floor. Takeshita tosses Briscoe back in and grabs a rear chinlock. Briscoe breaks out and starts firing up REDNECK KUNG FU. Briscoe wallops Takeshita with chops and hits a flying forearm when Takeshita staggers off the ropes. Briscoe hits a lariat and then yanks Takeshita up for a Fisherman’s Buster that gets two. Briscoe walks into a Blue Thunder Bomb as Takeshita then covers and gets two. (Briscoe landed very hard on his left shoulder here. It looked legit painful.)

There’s a weird reversal and Takeshita dumps Briscoe to the floor. Takeshita hits a tope con hilo on Briscoe right in front of the announcer’s desk as Callis stands and applauds. Takeshita dumps Briscoe back in and hits a big boot that staggers Briscoe. Briscoe snaps off a big boot of his own when Takeshita charges. Briscoe yanks down the top rope sending a charging Takeshita back to the floor. Briscoe flies over and hits a dropkick on Takeshita from between the second and third ropes. Briscoe hits a rolling blockbuster on Takeshita and then celebrates on the barrier. Briscoe dumps Takeshita back in and hits a running clothesline on him before covering for two. Takeshita recovers to run the ropes and he and Briscoe just crush each other with simultaneous clotheslines. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP both guys slowly recover and when they do, they decide to once again crush each other with simultaneous clotheslines. They make it back to their feet and start another strong style slugfest. Takeshita waffles Briscoe with a lariat and both guys are down. They make it back to their feet and start slugging it out again.

Back to full screen with another mid-ring slugfest that ends with Briscoe hitting a Pele kick on Takeshita. Briscoe hits his rolling Death Valley Driver and ascends. Takeshita recovers before Briscoe can go for the Froggy Bow and wallops him with a right. They slug it out while on the top turnbuckle and Briscoe comes off with a sunset flip powerbomb before re-ascending. Briscoe’s Froggy Bow attempt is met by Takeshita’s raised knees. They take turns hitting each other with running lariats but Takeshita follows that up with a Helluva Kick. Takeshita dumps Briscoe into a German suplex but Briscoe shakes it off and wallops a charging Takeshita with a lariat. Briscoe covers for a LONG two.

Takeshita lifts a knee but Briscoe shakes it off to try for the Jay Driller. Takeshita rolls Briscoe into a package piledriver and then yanks Briscoe into a wheelbarrow German for two. (The crowd is going apeshit at this, for the record.) Takeshita dumps Briscoe to the apron but eats a big right hand in response. Briscoe ascends but Takeshita is able to knock him to a seated position on the top turnbuckle. Briscoe prevents a superplex and then BITES Takeshita’s forehead. Briscoe headbutts Takeshita to the mat as Callis comes to the apron to complain.

Briscoe stands on the top turnbuckle and here’s MJF to push him off. MJF hides next to the ring as Takeshita wallops Briscoe with a knee. Takeshita hits the Falcon Arrow and covers Briscoe for three.

Another terrific match for tonight’s show as the crowd was fully into it and wanted Briscoe to win very badly. They needed to get to All Out with Briscoe and MJF and the post-match angle set that up. I like that Takeshita had a lot of trouble figuring out how to put Briscoe down and it ultimately came to Callis probably setting this finish up to get him there. I will assume the slow fractures of the Family will continue. Heck of a match, though. 4*

Post-match sees MJF rumble in to attack Briscoe but a pissed Takeshita pulls him off. They go eye to eye as Callis pleads for Takeshita to calm down. Takeshita and Callis make their exit as a recovered Briscoe dumps MJF and starts throwing rights and lefts. Security flies out to break it up. MJF grabs a mic and calls Briscoe a “white trash piece of shit” and challenges Briscoe to any match with any stipulation he wants. Briscoe says they’ll do it at All Out and that Max has signed his own death warrant. The stipulation will be named later. The credits roll and we’re out.

That was a hell of a show, I’m not going to lie. Almost all the in-ring stuff was good to excellent, and the women’s eight person tag wasn’t a disaster or anything. Things were tight and they only ran over by like two minutes, so I’m a happy guy. Really solid episode of wrestling that apparently no one will see or talk about all that much. I guess we’ll see but they did a good job of building to All Out tonight.

Thanks for reading and commenting, and enjoy the rest of your weekends.