AEW Collision Review – 09.13.25

The week in AEW has included: Dynamite | ROH

Collision is ON THE AIR LIVE (but recorded 09.11.2025) 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.

Ian Riccaboni is mid-ring and he introduces MJF who tells Riccaboni to stand there and be a “good little mic stand”. MJF runs down the fans and says if they didn’t get his “you’re too poor to even pay attention” joke then they are just as stupid as Mark Briscoe. MJF points out that Briscoe cost him a title at Forbidden Door so he decided to pay Briscoe back by wrecking his match with Konosuke Takeshita in return. MJF promises to beat Hangman Page for the title unless “that schmuck Kyle Fletcher wins”. MJF promises that at All Out “blue collar will bust and white collar will win”.

Mark Briscoe appears on a ‘tron to say that he has to thank MJF for letting him pick the stipulation for the match at All Out. Briscoe talks about seeing Sabu put people through tables in the 2300 Arena so that’s going to be the first piece of the pie. The second piece will be thumbtacks since MJF is such “a prick”. Briscoe says he never gave MJF a wedding present and should turn around right now. Shockingly, the promo was pre-taped and Briscoe smashes MJF with a spear before going to ground and pound. Briscoe brings out a bag of thumbtacks and sets up for the Jay Driller, but MJF immediately escapes and bails to the floor. Briscoe takes MJF’s discarded burberry scarf and wipes his nose with it as MJF glares back from the aisle.

Highlights are shown of Daniel Garcia’s heel turn on Dynamite.

Lexy Nair is with Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong and Hologram as a CLON video interrupts the feed. Strong complains about Hologram being there but O’Reilly says they’re conglomerating before going on to complain about the Garcia turn. O’Reilly says Adam Cole called him this morning and Cole said he’s ashamed he ever called Garcia a friend. (Strong: “He gave you a call?”) Strong says he wants to beat Garcia’s ass in the main event tonight.

AEW Unified Title Eliminator: Konosuke Takeshita vs Anthony Bowens

Don Callis has joined the announce desk and talks about having both Takeshita and Okada in this tournament. Takeshita takes the early advantage and a short flurry from Bowens is broken up by a Takeshita eye rake. They run the ropes and Takeshita waffles Bowens with a flying forearm. Bowens recovers and hits a sling blade to break up Takeshita’s momentum. Bowens hits a double underhook neckbreaker and covers Takeshita for two. Bowens works Takeshita’s knee and hits a Dragon Screw leg whip in a corner. From the apron Takeshita runs Bowens head into a turnbuckle but Bowens shakes it off and yanks Takeshita shoulder-first to a ring post. Bowens ascends and hits Takeshita with a flying cross-body from the top to the floor. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Bowens makes his feet first and runs Takeshita back in to the ring. Bowens drops a snap elbow and covers for one. Bowens stomps away on Takeshita who’s seated in a corner. Bowens foolishly brags to the crowd as Takeshita crawls away. Takeshita blocks a couple suplex attempts and ends up hitting a sit-out jawbreaker on Bowens. They slug it out mid-ring and Takeshita gains the advantage.

Back to full screen with Bowens fighting off Takeshita and walloping him with a superkick. Bowens cover gets two. Bowens hits a couple kicks but misses a leapfrog move. Takeshita goes behind and crushes Bowens with a poison rana which Bowens completely no-sells. Bowens hits Takeshita with a leg scissor bulldog and covers Takeshita for two. Bowens ascends but Takeshita fires up with a right hand. Bowens slips out and kicks Takeshita into a sitting position on the second rope. Bowens hits a swinging neckbreaker and covers Takeshita for two.

There’s another mid-ring slugfest that ends with a Takeshita overhead uranage on Bowens. (Swank move, it looked like a million bucks.) Bowens doesn’t really sell that either and wallops a charging Takeshita with a discus punch that sends him to the floor. Bowens goes out after him, flips Callis the bird, and runs Takeshita back in. Bowens charges out of a corner and into a Takeshita rolling Blue Thunder Bomb. Takeshita hits a running knee and the Raging Fire bomb gets the three count.

I don’t know if anyone ever told Anthony Bowens about selling but popping directly up from a poison rana is not the way to be as a pro. He’s got all the tools, as he consistently points out but this is meant to be a fight and not some weird kaiju battle where it’s just move after move after move. Takeshita worked in second gear tonight but it is what it is. 2.5*

Winner – Konosuke Takeshita (Raging Fire bomb)

Mascara Dorada cuts a short promo on facing The Beast Mortos on Wednesday at Dynamite.

AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm joins the announce desk as we go to commercials.

Here’s a short look at the Riho-Mercedes Mone confrontations. They will meet at All Out.

$500,000 Ten Woman Tag: The Triangle of Madness, Penelope Ford and Megan Bayne vs Anna Jay, Tay Melo, Kris Statlander, Harley Cameron and Jamie Hayter

There’s an inset promo during the face entrances where Hayter and Statlander vaguely threaten each other and Cameron, Jay and Melo make sure to tell Statlander they want nothing to do with the Death Riders.

Once again, Wheeler Yuta comes out to support Statlander, who shoos him away. It’s Hayter and Bayne to start. They exchange pump kicks and Bayne’s sends Hayter to her corner where Cameron tags in. Bayne brushes off Cameron’s shoulder tackle attempts before waffling Cameron with a shoulder of her own. Cameron recovers and sends Bayne flying back to her corner with some swinging leg scissors. Ford and Jay tag in and Jay gains the advantage before tagging in Melo. They hit double team offense on Ford and Melo covers for two. A Pier Six breaks out and the faces all hit ten punches before the heels drop them and start stomping away. In the middle of all that Ford covers Melo for two. Ford hits a drop toe hold that mounts Melo over the second rope. Ford smashes Melo with a running shotgun dropkick. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP the heels work Melo over in their corner and Blue tags in. Blue hits a snap suplex and covers Melo for two. Hart tags in and clubbers away at Melo’s back. Melo slips a Hart charge and hits her with a back elbow before tagging in Statlander. After wiping out all the heels from the apron, Statlander misses a suplex on Hart. Hart clips Statlander’s knee and covers her for two. Hart smashes Statlander’s head on to the mat a few times before Thekla tags in. We go to full commercials.

Hayter drops Blue with a spinebuster but didn’t realize that Bayne had tagged in when we return. Bayne hits a sit-out Michinoku Driver and her cover is broken up at two by Statlander. Ford charges in and her and Bayne hit a double-team stunner on Statlander. It’s time for everyone’s favorite weekly segment: EVERY PERSON IN A MULTI-PERSON TAG RUNS IN AND HITS MOVES BEFORE THEY GET HIT WITH MOVES. Jay and Melo wipe out Ford and Bayne, Hart and Blue deal with Melo and Jay, Cameron deals with Blue, Statlander wallops Hart, and Thekla crushes Cameron. (Exhausting. Not a tag in sight. Every week with this same formula. Anyway.)

Ford rushes in and hits Statlander with a crucifix but when she turns Melo fires off a pump kick that staggers Ford. Blue comes in to deal with Melo and ends up eating a Cameron back-stabber. Hart rushes in and trips Cameron up. Hayter and Bayne tag in as we resume with actual rules apparently. They start throwing forearms and Hayter gets the better of it, but when they come off the ropes they smash each other with simultaneous clotheslines. Jay and Thekla tag in. Thekla hits a spear on Jay and covers for three.

Listen, I try very hard to be non-judgemental but these multi-person tags just suck the life out of me. It’s always the same formula with very little semblance of rules, just a bunch of people running in and hitting moves. Thekla beating Jay just pumps her up a bit more as one of Storm’s antagonists in the four way at All Out. There was zero psychology here, the finish came out of nowhere, and it was just a giant sloppy mess. No offense to the competitors, they do what they’re told to do, but this was not good at all. 1.5*

Winners – The Triangle of Madness, Penelope Ford and Megan Bayne (Thekla spear on Jay)

Post-match sees the fight continue on the floor and for some reason, Queen Aminata and Mina Shirakawa come charging out. Shirakawa has a backyard cooler that she uses as a weapon while Aminata is threatening everyone with grill tools. Toni Storm jumps on a giant pile of fighting women and everyone sprawls to the floor. Storm whoops on Thekla before running her into a barrier while Hayter and Statlander slug it out in the ring. (Y’all were just teammates, can’t we all just get along? Apparently not.) The four competitors for Storm’s title end up in the ring as Hayter and Statlander crash stomach-first into each other. Thekla hits the spider pose but runs right into Storm Zero. We go to commercials.

Here’s Max Caster (Record graphic: 0 wins, 21 losses, 1 draw – so they’re counting the Rush match as a draw! Good to know, and hey, for Max, that’s a good thing.) for the Open Challenge. Out comes Big Bill with Bryan Keith in tow.

Max Caster vs Big Bill

After Caster gets his chant going, Bill crushes him with a running stand-up splash. Bill talks crap about Eddie Kingston before smashing Caster in the back with a fist. Caster slaps Bill in the face as we find out Kingston has tweeted out that he’s ready to fight Bill and he just needs to know where. Bill smashes Caster to a corner and clubbers away. Bill misses a charge but he catches Caster coming off the ropes with a black hole slam and covers Caster for three. Time of the match: 1 minute 53 seconds.

Poor Max. He’s going to get to actually win one of these at some point and I’m going to be happy for him because doing this bit cannot be easy. Nothing to this, really, as most of these squashes usually are. 1.5*

Winner – Big Bill (Black Hole Slam)

Bill grabs a mic post-match as the crowd chants for Kingston. Bill says he called out Kingston and the internet came after him. Bill says the people love Kingston because he looks like them and they hate Bill because he looks like he does. Bill runs down Kingston’s love of Japanese wrestling and says he doesn’t give a damn about any of the crowd. Bill wants Kingston at All Out but he knows Kingston won’t show up because he’s a loudmouth fraud.

Lexy Nair is backstage with Anthony Bowens and Jerry Lynn. Max Caster pushes his way through a curtain behind Bowens and fisticuffs break out. They fight into the aisle and Bowens eventually runs Caster into the ring. Caster hits Bowens with a clothesline to a big pop. Lynn is in the aisle watching this unfold and he’s had enough. Bowens is attacking Caster in a corner so Lynn pulls him off. Lynn grabs a mic and talks about being in “Tony’s office” when he brought in Caster and Bowens as a tag team. Lynn says they both got it in their heads that they could have singles runs but Caster hasn’t won a single match and Bowens is spinning his wheels doing nothing.

Here’s Blake Christian and Lee Johnson to join the proceedings. Christian puts over Lynn’s accomplishments but says he’s trying to become “Daddy Ass Two” by wasting his time trying to put Caster and Bowens back together. Christian says Lynn should be investing his time in a real tag team like Christian and Johnson are. They charge in and Lynn rips off his shirt and goes to work on Johnson with rights. They get the numbers advantage before Johnson takes over on Caster. Bowens is conflicted in the aisle but he decides to fly back into the ring and help out Caster and Lynn. Lynn clotheslines Christian to the floor as Bowens works over Johnson in a corner. Caster and Bowens hit a double-team clothesline on Johnson sending him to the floor. Lynn raises Casters and Bowens hands but they pull away from him and eye each other cautiously.

Lexy Nair tries to get a word with Mistico about his big match with MJF on Friday night. MJF immediately interrupts and tells Mistico he’s going to take his mask on Friday night permanently before flying to Toronto and turning Mark Briscoe into a human pin cushion. (Jesus, that’s a LOT of travel. I’m not the biggest Max fan but good lord, dude. Kudos.) MJF says he’s not only doing it for his country, he’s doing it for pro wrestling and he can’t wait to end Mistico. MJF brought an unnamed person with him who is wearing a stove-pipe hat for some reason. Stove-pipe translates what MJF said for Mistico who slaps him in response. Mistico tells the camera that he’ll see MJF in Arena Mexico.

FTR vs Adam Priest and Tommy Billington

STOKE accompanies FTR as usual, and they have their typical tete-a-tete with the Philly crowd on the way to the ring. This is a rematch from last week‘s Collision and FTR won that one. Let’s see what happens here.

Billington and Harwood start but Harwood doesn’t appreciate Billington’s arm-drag so he tags in Wheeler. They grapple and Wheeler ends up grabbing a side headlock. Billington slips out and runs Wheeler over with a couple of shoulders. Billington hits a lifted dropkick on Wheeler. Wheeler bullies Billington to the FTR corner and tags in Harwood. Billington escapes and resets with Harwood.

Harwood pops an elbow into Billington’s jaw before propping him in a neutral corner for a big chop. Billington fires off a headbutt and some chops of his own. Priest tags in and he and Billington run Harwood over with double thrusts. Priest covers for one and then grabs a wristlock. Harwood punches Priest and chops away knocking Priest to his knees. Priest fires up with some rights of his own. Priest hits some Euro uppercuts and Harwood bails. Priest follows and eats a huge chop from Harwood but Harwood’s second attempt at one misses and he wallops his hand into the ring post.

Priest tags in Billington who comes off the second rope to smash Harwood’s now-damaged arm. Harwood pulls Billington forward and Wheeler punches him in the face from the apron. Harwood poses Billington on the top turnbuckle and goes to the top rope. Harwood hits an avalanche belly-to-back suplex as we go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Wheeler tags in and goes to work on Billington in a neutral corner with chops and uppercuts. Wheeler hits a suplex and covers for two. Wheeler drapes Billington over the second rope and sits on him while Stoke berates Billington from the floor. Harwood tags in and he grabs the staple hold of the commercial break, the rear chinlock. This morphs into the other commercial break hold, the front facelock. Harwood finally releases and trucks Billington with a shoulder. A knife edge chop from Harwood sends Billington to the mat. Billington snaps off a rana and then they meet in the center of the ring with simultaneous clotheslines.

Back to full screen with Priest getting a tag and running Harwood over with clotheslines. Wheeler charges in and Priest hits him with a back body drop. Priest hits a German on Harwood before waffling him with uppercuts. Priest runs the ropes and Wheeler pulls down the top rope spilling Priest to the floor. Wheeler tags in and runs Priest back-first into the apron. Wheeler hits a backbreaker on Priest and re-enters as the ref counts. Priest rolls back in so Wheeler calmly boots him in the ribs and tells him to crawl to Billington. (The crowd: “Oh, Stokley gets no hoes. Oh, Stokley gets no hoes.” South Philly, man. Same as it ever was.)

Harwood tags in and starts blasting Priest with chops and kicks. Wheeler charges over and clotheslines Priest into the ring as the ref is distracted with Billington and Harwood barking at each other. Harwood hits a slingshot suplex (Hey Tully Blanchard. Hey buddy!) and covers Priest for two. Wheeler tags in and hits another backbreaker on Priest. Wheeler stomps on Priest and then wanders over to spit his gum at Billington. Wheeler slaps Priest around while calling him a nobody. Priest slaps Wheeler who loses it and just clobbers Priest into the FTR corner.

Priest fights his way out and drops Wheeler with a Saito suplex. Harwood charges down the apron to tangle with Billington. Billington hits a few headbutts and tries a piledriver but Harwood reverses that into a back body drop on the apron. Priest and Wheeler run the ropes and Priest flips Wheeler over with a sort of low tackle/chop block deal. Priest starts working Wheeler’s damaged leg and hits a Dragon Screw leg whip before turning it into a half-crab. As Wheeler tries to make the ropes Harwood jumps on the apron and pops Priest in the mouth to break the hold.

Harwood tags in and misses a charge. Priest finally tags Billington in and he races to a neutral corner to ascend. Billington hits a top rope shotgun dropkick that sends Harwood shoulder-first into a ring post. Billington hits a big lariat and an elbow drop on Harwood. Billington hits Harwood with a back body drop and then yanks a charging Wheeler over for another Dragon Screw leg whip. Billington hits a snap suplex on Harwood and ascends. Harwood pops up and smacks Billington in the mouth to slow his momentum.

Billington hits Harwood with four headbutts and a bunch of chops. Priest charges in and clotheslines Harwood over the top rope to the floor. Priest takes a charging Wheeler and runs his head into Billington’s knee. Priest hits Wheeler with a springboard spinning DDT on the apron as the crowd loses their minds. Priest hits a tope suicida on Wheeler before Billington leaps off the top rope onto Harwood. They run Harwood back in and hit double flying headbutts on Harwood. (Every time Billington does this move I dearly wish someone would talk some sense into him about it, but nope. Just keeps on doing it.) Billington covers Harwood for two as Wheeler breaks it up.

Priest and Wheeler spill over the top rope to the floor and there’s a scary bit where Wheeler’s wrist got caught between the ropes as they went over. Billington traps Harwood in the crossface while Priest prevents Wheeler from making it back in. Harwood makes the ropes as Wheeler pulls off a bottom turnbuckle cover. Wheeler catches Priest and fires him head-first into one of the black pillars around ringside. Harwood runs Billington into the exposed turnbuckle. Harwood powerbombs Billington but he rolls through and covers Harwood for two. FTR have had enough and hit a double team spike piledriver before Harwood covers Billington for three.

Priest really continues to shine, but I’m not sure Billington is the finished article yet. Nevertheless FTR gave them a bunch of shine here, reminiscent of their recent series with The Outrunners. I liked it a bit more than last week’s tussle, so let’s reflect that. 4*

Winners – FTR (Spike piledriver on Billington)

Post-match Wheeler shows off his damaged wrist while Harwood yells that this will be Cope and Cage’s fate next week in Toronto.

A pre-taped promo aired from a bunch of tag teams about whatever they’ve come up with to name new number one contenders for the Brodido titles. I watched this twice and am still not sure who’s wrestling who or where but everyone promises to win the titles. We go to commercials.

AEW Unified Championship: Kazuchika Okada (C) vs Michael Oku

Oku has a valet named Amira Blair who is also apparently his fiance. Well, good for you my man. Don Callis joins the announcers because we can just never escape him. This is your IDRINQ Match of the Week!

There’s a standoff and both reset. Okada bullies Oku to the ropes but merely pats him on the chest to break. Oku doesn’t like that so he smacks Okada in the mouth. Okada trucks Oku with a shoulder but Oku recovers quickly and snaps off a rana to send Okada to the apron. (Schiavone constantly points out the obvious flaw in Callis’s logic about having Okada and Takeshita potentially in the same match but Callis marches blindly on like a good heel should. If I have to have him all over the show, at least do a good job.) Oku hits a springboard dropkick that sends Okada to the floor. Oku runs the length of the ring and hits a Fosbury Flop on Okada as McGuinness is losing his mind on commentary.

Oku runs Okada back into the ring. Oku ascends but misses his move. Okada eats an elbow when he charges as Oku ascends again. Okada hits a stunning dropkick on Oku sending him from the top rope into the barrier.(Listen, I hear all the Okada slander and a LOT of it is very accurate, but occasionally he busts out shit like this and I’m like…damn, he still has it in there somewhere. Incredible move.) We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Okada gets the word from the ref that Oku is okay so he goes out to continue the assault. Okada drapes Oku over the barrier and DDT’s him on the floor. Okada stops to pat a baby at ringside on the head before running Oku back in. Okada pounds away at Oku with forearms. Okada stalks around and then yanks Oku up for a drop neckbreaker. We go to full commercials.

Okada slams Oku and ascends when we return. Okada drops a top rope elbow before flipping the bird to the crowd. Okada wants the Rainmaker but Oku fights his way out of it and hits a giant enziguri that staggers Okada. Oku hits a back thrust kick and then holds on to fight off a potential Okada dropkick. Oku wants the half crab but Okada fights that off, so Oku runs up and kicks Okada square in the chest. Oku hits a springboard moonsault and covers Okada for two.

Oku hooks in the half crab but Okada makes the ropes pretty easily. Oku misses a charge but catches a surprised Okada with a series of kicks. Oku ascends and when he flies off Okada snaps off a dropkick that wallops Oku. Okada goes for the Rainmaker but Oku rolls him up and gets two. Oku hits a backslide and that gets two. Okada goes for the Rainmaker and Oku tries another roll up but this time Okada yanks Oku up and plants him with a tombstone piledriver. Okada hits the Rainmaker and gets three.

Okada working Collision makes me a happy dude, half-speed or not. He did work decently hard tonight and Oku made a hell of a showing as usual. He’s got IT, and if I was TK I’d have him signed yesterday. We’ll see what happens. For no real storyline other than whatever this tournament is leading to, this was a hell of a deal. I always overrate Okada, though. 3.75*

Winner AND STILL AEW Unified Champion – Kazuchika Okada (Rainmaker)

Post-match sees Konosuke Takeshita come up the aisle and point at Okada. They will be two of the three participants in the Unified title match at All Out along with the winner of Mascara Dorada vs The Beast Mortos, which will be on Dynamite. We go to commercials as the Death Riders make their entrance.

Kyle Fletcher and Hangman Page say things about each other prior to their big title match at All Out.

Daniel Garcia and Jon Moxley vs Paragon

The Death Riders are seconded by Roderick Strong’s wife Marina Shafir. The crowd chants “You sold out!” at Garcia as we learn Matt Menard has joined the commentary team to whine about Garcia as well. It will be Garcia and O’Reilly to start.

They grapple to start and it leads nowhere, so we reset. O’Reilly grabs a wristlock and transitions to a head scissors on the mat. (Schiavone mentions that Kingston-Big Bill is official for All Out as well.) Garcia slides out but misses a clothesline attempt and we reset again. Strong tags in and drops Garcia to the mat to slap him in the ear. Strong works Garcia back to the Paragon corner and O’Reilly tags in. Garcia bails after getting walloped with double team chops and kicks. Paragon follows right out to continue the beating on the floor. Moxley comes charging over but O’Reilly senses it and crushes Moxley with a knee from the apron.

O’Reilly and Strong continue the double team stuff on Garcia and it leads to O’Reilly hoisting Garcia up so Strong can chop him. O’Reilly covers Garcia for two. O’Reilly transitions to an immediate armbar but Moxley has had enough and he charges in to kick O’Reilly off Garcia. Strong flies in and dumps Moxley to the floor but Shafir pulls Moxley out of the way of Strong’s skin the cat dropkick attempt. Moxley wallops Strong with a forearm while O’Reilly is working Garcia over with knees. O’Reilly stops the assault to boot Moxley from the apron but Garcia springs up and clips O’Reilly’s knee. (There’s been a lot of knee clipping tonight. Perhaps someone sent out a “move of the week” memo.)

Moxley yanks O’Reilly to a corner and slams his knee on the ring post three times. Moxley gets into it with the ref so Garcia jumps down to try the Figure Four. A recovered Strong rushes over and starts whaling on Garcia with kicks to break that up. Shafir helps Garcia up as we go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Garcia stands on O’Reilly’s damaged leg as it’s draped over the bottom rope. Moxley tags in as Garcia continues to work over O’Reilly’s knee. Moxley comes off the ropes and blasts O’Reilly with a kick to the chest. Moxley slaps on a Figure Four and berates O’Reilly. O’Reilly rakes the eyes to break the hold. A pissed Moxley drags O’Reilly to the Death Rider corner and tags in Garcia. They take turns kicking O’Reilly’s knee. Garcia wraps O’Reilly’s legs up and stands on the back of them. Garcia drops an elbow on O’Reilly’s knee and then hits a shotgun dropkick on him after flipping off the crowd. Moxley tags in and kicks O’Reilly twice in the knee while Garcia holds it. O’Reilly tries to fire up but Moxley SWEEPS THE LEG and sends O’Reilly to the mat.

Back to full screen with Moxley still working O’Reilly’s knee while barking at the crowd and Strong. Garcia tags in and O’Reilly senses his elbow drop coming. O’Reilly yanks Garcia into an armbar so Moxley pops in to rake O’Reilly’s eyes. (Lots of eye-rakes tonight, too. Hmm.) Garcia knocks Strong off the apron with a forearm. Garcia turns around to a focused O’Reilly and they start exchanging forearms. Garcia kicks O’Reilly’s knee and O’Reilly responds with a kick of his own. Both guys are down.

Moxley and Strong both get tags and Strong hits a lariat and a back thrust kick on Moxley. Strong hits a backbreaker on a charging Garcia. Strong yanks Moxley up for a Saito suplex and then yanks up Garcia to use him as a weapon against Moxley. Strong hits a gutbuster on Garcia and then starts hitting running fists on a prone Moxley. Strong hits a facebuster on Moxley and then pulls him in to a Tiger Driver. Strong’s cover gets two.

Strong mounts Moxley on a top turnbuckle and ascends. Strong hits a superplex and then tries to roll Moxley over. Moxley slaps on a guillotine choke but O’Reilly comes off the top rope with a knee to Moxley’s back to break it up. O’Reilly runs over a charging Garcia only to get waffled by a Moxley lariat. Strong hits a dropkick on Moxley and everyone is down. Moxley and Strong recover first and Moxley twists Strong into a bulldog choke. Garcia slaps a kneebar on O’Reilly so O’Reilly uses his free leg to kick Moxley in the face. Strong rolls Moxley over and gets two.

Strong hits a knee lift on Moxley and then he and O’Reilly connect with some double-team kicks to stagger Moxley. Strong’s cover is broken up at two by Garcia. O’Reilly dumps Garcia to the floor and Strong tags him in. O’Reilly runs the length of the apron and blasts a sitting Moxley with a knee. O’Reilly dumps Moxley back in and then is confronted by Shafir. This gives Moxley enough time to gain his wits and kick O’Reilly in the knee when he returns to the ring. Garcia tags in and again walks into an O’Reilly armbar. O’Reilly rolls it over so Moxley charges in and hits O’Reilly with a curb stomp. Garcia slaps on a Dragon Tamer as Moxley charges around to prevent Strong from re-entering. Garcia torques way back on the knee and O’Reilly taps.

A solid main event with a good tag formula, psychology, and a clean finish. If you know me, you know that’s my wheelhouse no matter who the teams are. Garcia’s work is kind of bland even as a heel but I’m willing to give this a go while they’re running with it. Moxley works hard, man. I don’t necessarily love his work but he’s been going out there since losing to Hangman and bringing more actual real in-ring work and I’m here for that. Strong and O’Reilly are complete pros and a loss doesn’t hurt them at all. Fun main event. 3.5*

Winners – Jon Moxley and Daniel Garcia (Garcia Dragon Tamer on O’Reilly)

Post-match sees an irate Menard try to confront Garcia who ignores him completely. Garcia just turns and leaves with Moxley as Schiavone announces Strong will face Moxley on Dynamite one-on-one. The credits roll and we’re out on time due to college football commitments.

I said to someone in the daily thread yesterday that Collision has been bringing it lately and this second hour really kind of drove that point home with the FTR/Priest-Billington match, the Okada-Oku deal, and the main event all being very good. The women’s ten person tag was fairly dreadful but they weren’t really trying anything with it other than getting a bunch of people on the show to run the Storm angle at the end. Still too much Don Callis for me but it’s Callision, so what can you do. Thumbs in the middle leaning up tonight because the second hour kicked a bunch of ass.

Thanks for reading and commenting and enjoy your Sunday.