Collision – 11.11.26

SK covered Dynamite!

Last Saturday on Collision: We were on a BOAT! Tommaso Ciampa captured the National Title from Andrade! No one fell overboard!

Collision is LIVE on TNT from the Maverik Center in Salt Lake City, UT for the third hour of tonight’s super-show heading into this weekends big Full Gear extravaganza. The announcers for tonight’s show are Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, Walker Stewart, and Nigel McGuinness on match calls and analysis, Justin Roberts on ring introductions, and Renee Paquette and Lexy Nair on news and interviews. Let’s see where things ended with Dynamite while we watch some wrestling!

Collision opens with aftermath of the mixed tag main event of Dynamite still occurring as The Cut and AEW Women’s World Champion Mercedes Mone are vanquished to the floor while The Conglomeration, AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley, Marina Shafir, and Gabe Kidd stand tall in the ring.

Here’s The Triangle of Madness and Thekla has thoughts about Blood & Guts. Thekla says payback is coming, and Skye Blue warns Hyan and AEW TBS Champion Queen Aminata that she is coming for the title tonight and will unleash hell.

AEW World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Jack Perry vs Kevin Knight, Brian Cage, and El Clon

McGuinness attributes Clon’s recent absence to a “software upgrade”. “Blind” Rick Knox (tm: CRZ) is your referee. Cage starts with Nick and Nick fights off Cage and Clon before tagging in Matt for a double team slam on Cage. They work over Knight next and then Matt armdrags a charging Clon. Knight comes back in and the Bucks hit their lofted dropkick to send Knight to the floor. Perry comes in for a triple team on Clon and Perry follows with some chops. Clon stomps on Perry’s foot and goes for a cover, but Perry ignores that and yanks Clon over with an armdrag. Knight tries to interfere and Clon uses that as a chance to blast Perry with a Pele kick. Clon and Knight drive the Young Bucks to the floor and go to work on Perry. Perry manages to send Cage and Knight to the floor and then drives Cage into the barricade before yanking Knight around. Perry disappears under the ring and Knight goes after him only to emerge to a pair of Young Bucks superkicks. Schiavone: “This is tremendous, guys!”. Oh Tony, you do go on. Perry nails Clon with a poison rana on the floor. The faces all hit topes and we go to commercials.

The Callis group is in control when the show returns as they smash Perry around. Knight hits a doomsday dropkick and covers Perry for two. Perry fires up with some rights and crushes Knight with a lariat. Nick gets a tag and runs wild for a bit before tagging in Matt. The Bucks double team goes awry briefly before they retake control on Clon with a leaping rana from the top rope. The Bucks nail Knight with a rolling German before crushing Cage and Clon with a tope con giro. The Bucks run Cage around the ring and Perry joins them to mount Cage on the barricade. Perry runs the barricade to nail Cage with a leaping boot to the back. The Bucks hit double bulldogs on Knight and Clon before ascending as Perry joins them. There are triple elbow drops and the Bucks cover gets two. Nick tags in and he and Matt miss a BTE Trigger on Knight who then fires off a double rana. Knight gets caught by a Perry flying DDT. Perry runs into a Cage facebuster and Clon drops Perry with a twisting brainbuster. Knight hits the UFO Splash on Perry and the Bucks break the cover up at two. Cage pounds away on Matt but Nick flies in for a superkick which sets off a party with Perry joining in. Everyone eats superkicks and Nick ascends for a double spike piledriver/senton combo. Perry hits a launched knee on Cage and the BTE Trigger finishes Clon.

When you stop caring about things like psychology, rules, and selling, these matches are kind of fun occasionally. Poor Clon had to play the Rocky Romero role tonight as the designated Don Callis Family Jobber Of The Week, but at least he’s back. If you like Bucks party matches, this was your jam.  3.25*

Winners – The Young Bucks/Jack Perry (BTE Trigger on Clon)

Here’s Lexy Nair with Divine Dominion and they are not happy about losing Blood & Guts. Megan Bayne points out neither her or Lena Kross gave it up during the festivities despite the tremendous blood loss they suffered. They promise to leave destruction in their path. It’s time for commercials.

Here’s Lexy Nair with the Young Bucks and Jack Perry who seem happy about winning tonight. Perry calls out Samoa Joe and says Joe still owes him a rematch. The Bucks admit that the previous defeat to Davis and Doyle was the worst of their career, but now they remember who they are. There is nobody in THIS BUSINESS who can outperform them when titles are on the line, says Matt, and they will remain champions once the curtain falls at Full Gear.

Wardlow vs Nick Comoroto

Mark Davis and Jake Doyle are out with Wardlow, while Griff Garrison and Aaron Solo are with Comoroto. Bryce Remsburg is in charge of this one. There’s a kaiju standoff to start and Wardlow waffles Comoroto with a headbutt. Wardlow follows with a lariat and a powerbomb that ends things.

Comoroto couldn’t even take the powerbomb correctly. Sigh.  .25*

Winner – Wardlow (powerbomb)

Post-match sees some escalating Callis Family violence because beating up jobbers is COOL.

Here’s Lexy Nair with Hyan who’s in the Collision main event tonight. Maya World is with Hyan and wants the TBS title back at some point but tonight is about Hyan’s moment. Hyan begs Aminata and Skye Blue to not underestimate her. World secures the first shot at Hyan once she wins tonight, and well….

Ring Of Honor World Tag Team Championship: Sky Team (Mistico and Mascara Dorada) (C) vs The Swirl (Blake Christian and Lee Johnson)

Mistico’s entrance theme is so ridiculously great, as I may have mentioned before. Stephon Smith is your referee in charge. Code of Honor is not observed as Christian shows Dorada the MIDDLE FINGER OF DOOM. There’s some acrobatics to start and Johnson and Mistico take tags. Mistico wants Code of Honor and Johnson kicks it away. WHAT A PAIR OF DICKS. Johnson trucks Mistico but runs right into a Mistico rana. Mistico nails Johnson with a tope suicida and rolls him back in. Dorada comes in and there’s a quick conveyor belt of lariats. Christian walks into a pair of superkicks and back elbows. Mistico drops Christian face-first onto Dorada’s knees and we go to commercials.

Mistico gets a hot tag when the show returns. Mistico runs wild on Johnson for a bit before hitting a rope walk armdrag and a superkick. Mistico ascends for a swanton and covers Johnson for two as Christian breaks it up. Christian dumps Mistico to the apron and Christian nails Mistico with a destroyer. The Swirl hit combo moonsaults and line Mistico up for a big knee that gets two. Christian ascends as Johnson yanks Mistico up. Mistico escapes and eats double superkicks. Dorada flies in with an enziguri and a cross-body on Christian. Dorada fires off a rana and a tornillo onto Christian. Mistico nails Johnson with a rolling rana and then rolls him over in a crucifix to get three.

Sky Team are so MUCH fun to watch, and so smooth. Dorada had his full working boots on tonight and Mistico hit all his greatest hits. I enjoyed this a bunch, and I will tell you that the Swirl deserve to be higher up in the pecking order for tag teams in AEW AND SOON.  3.5*

Winners AND STILL ROH World Tag Team Champions – Sky Team (Mistico rolls up Johnson)

Post-match sees Nick Wayne cut off Mistico’s theme and emerge with a mic. Wayne now has a videographer following him around, and he tells the crowd he’s mogging all of Utah at the moment. Wayne is just back from the Jericho cruise and reminds the crowd that he beat Chris Jericho….TWICE. We go to commercials as a baffled Mistico and Dorada look on.

AEW TBS Championship: Queen Aminata (C) vs Artist of Stardom Trios Champion Skye Blue vs Hyan

Paul Turner is the referee for this one. Blue gets knocked around by Hyan and Aminata at the bell and Hyan grabs a roll up on Aminata for two. Blue yanks Hyan to the floor and then comes in to square up with Aminata for some pushing. A hockey fight breaks out and Hyan returns to nail them both with a cross-body. Hyan blasts Aminata with a running knee. Hyan goes back and forth between Blue and Aminata with running knees. Hyan yanks Blue up to drop her on top of Aminata and we go to commercials.

Blue nails Hyan with a rolling forearm and covers her for two as Aminata breaks it up when we return. Aminata wallops Blue and Hyan with atomic drops and then crushes Blue with a headbutt. Aminata snaps off a neckbreaker on Hyan and covers her for two. Aminata yanks Blue up only to get driven into a corner. Blue nails Aminata with a knee before getting yanked into a Hyan Falcon Arrow that gets two. Aminata goes to the floor for a chair and sets it up next to the ring steps. Hyan gets dropped onto the seat of the chair and Aminata runs the length of the apron for a missile dropkick. Blue crushes Aminata with a chairshot and sends her back in. Blue hits a knee strike and covers Aminata for two. Blue gets pulled into a backslide that gets two and Hyan flies in for a double spear. Hyan pulls Blue up but Blue rolls through and gets two. Hyan shakes that off and hoists Blue up. Blue fights out of that with a thrust kick and hits Code Blue but Aminata breaks up the cover at two with a double stomp. Aminata waffles Blue with a German before crushing Blue with Off With Her Head to retain.

Aminata gets through her first defense and I thought it went pretty well, for the most part. Hyan looked very energetic and I think they should maybe consider giving her some more stuff to do, much like they did with Maya World. Blue is Blue, she has her stuff and usually tries to get it in, but no one really buys her as a threat outside of the Triangle. This was functionally fine, but I think I would have put Mistico on last.  2.5*

Winner AND STILL AEW TBS Champion – Queen Aminata (Off With Her Head on Blue)

Post-match sees Dr. Britt Baker DMD emerge to taunt Aminata while CMLL Women’s World Champion Persephone sneaks in from behind. Persephone destroys Aminata and screams at her about the TBS title being hers. Maya World runs out to help save Aminata and Tony Khan has made a three way match for the Tailgate Brawl where Aminata will defend against World and Persephone. The announcers run down the Full Gear card and this long night of wrestling finally comes to an end.

They did a good job of building things for Full Gear tonight, for the most part, but WOW this was an excessively long night of wrestling. These double shows pack so much in and the crowd is visibly exiting at times during the Collision portion of things that I wonder if it’s worth it. They have contracts to fulfill obviously, so these aren’t going away, but TK sure loves to pack everything he can into these things and go as long as possible. So we’ll move on to Full Gear and see where we are next week.

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