AEW Collision live results: Andrade El Idolo vs. Tomohiro Ishii
AEW Collision tonight is a taped show from the Mission Ballroom in Denver, Colorado.
One night after headlining NJPW The New Beginning USA in Trenton, New Jersey against Yota Tsuji, Andrade El Idolo will be in action against Tomohiro Ishii.
The Sisters of Sin, Julia Hart & Skye Blue, will face Kris Statlander and Thunder Rosa in tag team action.
Kazuchika Okada and Kyle Fletcher, known as ProtoKada, will wrestle Top Flight, Dante and Darius Martin
“Timeless” Toni Storm will be in action against Zayda Steel.
There will be an eight-man tag team match featuring members of the Don Callis Family against members of the Death Riders.
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Jay Lethal is also scheduled for the show.
The Brawling Birds, Alex Windsor and Jamie Hayter, will be in action.
We will also hear from AEW World Champion MJF and AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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– Our show opened with Tony Schiavone introducing himself, Excalibur, and Nigel McGuinness before Maxwell Jacob Friedman interrupted.
MJF Opens Collision
The AEW World Champion angrily stormed down the ring and demanded that the Revolution situation be rectified, because he stated that he was a real wrestler and not an “indy deathmatch” wrestler. MJF wanted Tony Khan to change the match between him and Hangman Page and that Collision would not start until that was changed.
Kevin Knight’s music interrupted, as one-third of the current AEW Trios Champions interrupted Friedman. Knight said that he heard MJF said that he wanted something done, as then put himself over as someone who gets the job done in recent weeks. Knight said that tonight’s job was getting ahead of the whiny “crybaby ass bitch” that is MJF. Knight told Friedman that the people were tired of hearing about how MJF was better than everyone and how much money he has over everyone. Knight said that he had more “swag” than MJF and that the whole world knew that “The Jet” was way more handsome than him. Knight then went for the jugular and stated that maybe he was a better World Champion than Friedman, as he was the here and now.
MJF responded by taking offense at Knight thinking that he wanted to tell “Big Hebrew” how to do his job, as he told Knight to take a jet to El Paso and face him for the World Title at Dynamite. Friedman told Knight that once he was through with him, he was going to be nothing more than “history”.
This was a great opening segment to kick off the show. Kevin Knight hung tough against someone like MJF on the microphone and held his own quite well. Knight seemingly getting an AEW World Title shot against MJF on this coming Wednesday’s Dynamite is a good call and already adds a lot of fire to an intense World Title picture.
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– We got words from Mark Briscoe as he talked about Tommaso Ciampa’s match against Jay Lethal, as we then got remarks from the two competitors.
Eight-Man Tag: The Death Riders (PAC, Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli) (w/ Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir) vs. The Don Callis Family (Josh Alexander, Trent Beretta, Rocky Romero, Lance Archer)
Moxley joined the commentary booth for this one, as the crowd chanted “F*ck Don Callis / F*ck ICE Too” before the match started.
Garcia and Romero started things off for their respective teams. The stalemate between the two was broken by a shoulder block, then a dropkick by Garcia on Romero. PAC was tagged in as he and Garcia showed some strong double-team action against Romero. Alexander and Castagnoli entered the match and sized one another before Alexander went on the attack. Sunset flip by Castagnoli got turned into a show of raw power with a deadlift gutwrench superplex on Alexander. Archer tagged in as he took Castagnoli down with a clothesline. In the corner, Archer repeatedly battered Castagnoli with running forearms. The RPG Vice duo of Romero and Beretta tried to double up on Castagnoli, but to little success.
Yuta tagged in and tried to go for a dive, but he got swept by Alexander, who tried to rip at Yuta’s toque covering his bald head. Things broke down a bit as Romero again tried to go after Yuta’s hat, then it escalated in and out of the ring with the teams brawling. Archer held Yuta in his hand, but his hand was bit, which allowed Yuta to take Archer down with a DDT. Yuta then took off and hit a diving cannonball on the Callis Family members outside the ring.
As things calmed down, Yuta hit a snap suplex on Beretta before he tagged PAC into the match. PAC flattened Beretta with a running dropkick, as he then hit a pump kick in the corner. As PAC tried to go up top, Romero grabbed at his leg, whidch allowed Beretta to hit a suplex on PAC. RPG Vice showed some nice teamwork on PAC as we went to break.
Collision’s opening bout returned as Alexander worked over PAC in the corner before he applied a sleeper on him. PAC tried to battle out of it, but a rolling senton put a stop to that. PAC eventually recovered and hit a release German suplex on Alexander to create an opening. RPG Vice took out the Death Riders members on the apron, as Romero fell victim to a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker from PAC. Finally, PAC was able to tag Castagnoli into the match.
Castagnoli battered Beretta and Alexander with roaring uppercuts a-plenty before he took Alexander for a ride with the Giant Swing. As Beretta leapt from the top rope, he was swatted down by Castagnoli’s European uppercut. Yuta tagged in and hit a variation of the Doomsday Device for a near-fall. Yuta smashed Beretta with the hammer-and-anvil elbows, but RPG Vice again got out of the chaos. Archer tagged in and chokeslammed Yuta, which almost knocked his hat out. The Death Riders tried to intercept, but were warded off. Castagnoli entered the ring with a chair, which allowed Marina Shafir to get into the mix, as she applied a sleeper on him. After Archer tossed Shafir aside, the Death Riders’ quartet hit a series of successive running uppercuts in the corner before Castagnoli slammed Archer. Yuta was thrown for the Fastball Special by Castagnoli on Archer, but the Don Callis Family members interrupted the count.
Back in the ring, Romero hit Sliced Bread on Yuta, but couldn’t get the win. Yuta got his wind back as he hit the Busaiku Knee on Romero to pick up the win in this fun opener.
After the match, Konosuke Takeshita appeared with a microphone and confronted the victorious Death Riders. He entered the ring and started mixing it up with Moxley in the ring. Complete chaos as their respective factions tried to break the two apart, but they were unsuccessful in doing so. Moxley and Takeshita continued to brawl up the ramp until things finally settled down.
The Death Riders def. The Don Callis Family via pinfall
This was a damn good opener, and this Callis Family vs. Death Riders feud has become quite interesting to see, especially as it’s technically a heel vs. heel feud. That hasn’t stopped things from feeling intense and this Moxley vs. Takeshita match with no time limit at Revolution should be a hell of a match.
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“Psycho Killer” Tommaso Ciampa vs. Jay Lethal (w/ The Swirl)
Lethal and Ciampa got into a battle of chain wrestling in the early stages of this match before they stared one another down. After a shove from Ciampa, Lethal responded with a slap to the face. This turned into an exchange of strikes as Ciampa caught Lethal with a back elbow, followed by the back suplex. Ciampa chopped away at the chest of Lethal in the corner, as he held on to the ropes to block a suplex. After Lethal bumped into referee Paul Turner, Blake Christian got involved and hit a sliding German Suplex behind Turner’s back.
Now with the advantage, Lethal did the Ric Flair strut as he threw Ciampa out of the ring. Lee Johnson tried to attack Ciampa, but got punched instead. Ciampa got his pound of flesh on Christian as he hit him with a lariat. Meanwhile, Lethal took advantage of The Swirl’s involvement and hit Ciampa with a suicide dive that sent him over the commentary table as we took a break here.
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