AEW Collision live results: FTR vs. The Rascalz
AEW Collision is live tonight from the Tucson Arena in Tucson, Arizona.
The AEW World Tag Team Championships will be on the line as FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) put their belts on the line against The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz and Dezmond Xavier). The Rascalz earned the title shot by defeating FTR in an eliminator match two weeks ago. FTR is also scheduled to defend the titles against The Young Bucks at Revolution, provided they come out of this show still the champions.
Konosuke Takeshita will wrestle Claudio Castagnoli in singles competition. Castagnoli was the only wrestler to defeat Takeshita in the Blue League of the 2025 Continental Classic round-robin tournament.
Swerve Strickland will face Gravity, who is the brother of Bandido. Swerve will face Bandido’s tag partner, Brody King, at AEW Revolution.
The Outrunners vs. Private Party vs. Rush and Dralistico vs. The WorkHorsemen in a $200,000 four-way tag team match is also scheduled.
Our live coverage kicks off at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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AEW Collision opened with the Rascalz making their entrance, and highlighting their journey to this tag title match against FTR. Excellent video package to start the show.
The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachery Wentz) (w/ Myron Reed) vs. FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) (w/ Stokley Hathaway) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship
The match opened slow, which was to FTR’s advantage, but soon escalated when Harwood slapped Wentz in the corner. Wentz responded with a slap of his own, and Harwood bailed from the ring to regroup. Xavier tagged in and resumed the match with Harwood, and hit some punches to fire up, but Harwood hit a back elbow and sent Xavier to the floor as Stokely Hathaway choked Xavier with a production cable as the referee was distracted by Wentz trying to get to him. Xavier did start throwing punches and moved to the side as Wentz came flying out of the ring with a corkscrew plancha to the floor.
The match turned to the favour of the Rascalz briefly, but Wentz ended up finding himself isolated in FTR’s corner. Harwood baited Wentz into a clothesline from Wheeler on the floor as they went to the ad break. During the break on Triller, FTR continued to get the heat on The Rascalz. Wentz managed to get a backslide as they came back rom break, but Wheeler saved Harwood. Wentz hit an enziguri on Harwood, and dropped Wheeler, but was left on the opposite side of the ring. Wentz dove over Wheeler and rolled through Harwood’s legs to make the tag, and Xavier ran wild, hitting a cutter on Harwood and then a dropkick on Wheeler.
Harwood got up and nailed Xavier with a lariat that turned him inside out. Wentz helped Xavier get sunset flip and he took down Wheeler in the process. The Rascalz then hit stereo tope suicidas to the floor. Xavier hit a frog splash on Harwood, and Wentz followed with a Senton Bomb for for a 2-count. Xavier was driven into the announce table and Harwood hit a super back suplex on Wentz for a 2-count. Wentz hit a series of chops and rolled Harwood up for a very close 2-count. Xavier tagged in and superkicked Harwood into a German suplex from Wentz and Xavier did a jackknife pin on Harwood for a 2-count.
The Rascalz went for the Hot Fire Flame, but Harwood got the knees up. FTR hit a BTE Trigger on Wentz (a very bad one) and went for a Meltzer Driver to mock the Bucks. Xavier pulled Wheeler from the apron, but Wheeler managed to shove him off, and as Wentz hit a handspring to the ropes, he turned around right into a Shatter Machine for the pinfall.
Result: FTR defeated The Rascalz to retain the AEW World Tag Team Championship
This was an awesome match, with The Rascalz basically being given everything but the win, and FTR constantly finding a way out of the trouble.
–As FTR was leaving Mark Briscoe came out and met them on the ramp and he high fived FTR out of mutual respect due to their feud in ROH, but there was definitely tension there. I think Mark Briscoe is going to end up being Tommaso Ciampa’s partner when he faces off against them down the line.
–Hook was backstage with Shibata behind the camera, and he was wandering around backstage looking for recruits. Anthony Bowens walked up and said that he thought about what Hook said and that he was a killer. Hook told Bowens to take the camera and follow him. Hook choked out a random local wrestler backstage and then told Bowens to keep following. We got a show long storyline here, I think.
Daniel Garcia vs. Tommaso Ciampa
Ciampa was aggressive from the very start, with Garcia trying to slow things down. Garcia managed to smash Ciampa’s knee into the ring post, and began working over the knee for the next few minutes. Garcia sent Ciampa into the guardrail and set up his leg on top of the guardrail to dropkick it, but Ciampa stood up and hit some chops. Garica immediately countered it and hit a dropkick to the knee.
Ciampa managed to make a brief comeback with some strikes, including driving Garcia into the announce table multiple times, which had Mark Briscoe stand up and start cheering. Ciampa managed to hit Project Ciampa out of the corner on Garcia, but Garcia kicked out. Garcia rolled to the floor and shoved Briscoe and Briscoe got up to get in his face. This led to him accidentally clashing heads with Ciampa, and Garcia rolled Ciampa up and scored the pinfall victory.
Result: Daniel Garcia defeated Tommaso Ciampa
–Briscoe and Ciampa argued in the ring, and Ciampa slapped the hand of Briscoe away. As Briscoe was leaving, FTR came out, and Briscoe came back to the ring to defend Ciampa. FTR decided not to attack with Briscoe there, and Briscoe and Ciampa seemed to be getting along, so they left the ring together. As they got back to the entrance, Ciampa attacked Briscoe and started beating on him with FTR looking on. Ciampa hit a running knee, spit on Briscoe’s bandana, and left him laying. FTR looked impressed, and Ciampa has turned heel, for now.
–A recap video aired of Konosuke Takeshita and Claudio Castagnoli in the Continental Classic last December, when Castagnoli handed him his only loss. Excellent recap video here.
Josiah has been writing for WON/F4W for several years now, from initially covering Lucha Underground, to TNA Impact, and now filling in where ever needed.