AEW Grand Slam Australia live results: MJF vs. Brody King
Tonight’s episode of AEW Collision will be Grand Slam Australia, taped earlier in the day from Sydney, Australia.
Jon Moxley will defend the AEW Continental Championship against Konosuke Takeshita.
The AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships will also be on the line, as the Babes of Wrath, Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale, defend against MegaBad’s Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford.
Hangman Adam Page will face Andrade El Idolo, with the winner earning an AEW World Championship match at Revolution.
In a mixed tornado tag team match, Orange Cassidy and Toni Storm will team up against Wheeler Yuta and Marina Shafir of the Death Riders. The stipulation states that whoever takes the fall for their team will be shaved bald.
Kyle Fletcher will defend the TNT Championship against Mark Briscoe in a ladder match.
In the main event, AEW World Champion MJF will defend the title against Brody King.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Not quite live, but taped earlier today in Sydney, Australia.
Tony Schiavone & Excalibur were on commentary.
Jon Moxley vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the AEW Continental Championship
The participants in the match soaked up dueling “Let’s Go Moxley/Takeshita” chants for the first 30 seconds of the match. Moxley went to an armbar, but Takeshita took Moxley’s legs out from under him and locked in a side headlock. Moxley escaped and went back to the arm. Takeshita countered a wrist lock with one of his own.
Moxley escaped and hit Takeshita with a chop, and that set off an exchange of chops between them. Moxley ended that with a kick to the gut and went for a piledriver, but Takeshita escaped. Takeshita went for a flying clothesline which Moxley ducked, and Takeshita tumbled to the floor. Moxley followed Takeshita out with a tope, almost overshooting Takeshita but still taking him down.
They brawled on the floor, where Moxley whipped Takeshita into the barricades. Takeshita whipped Moxley into the barricade and charged into him with a big boot.
Back in the ring, Moxley caught Takeshita with a boot and drove him down to the mat with a piledriver. Takeshita battled back, so Moxley thumbed him in the eye and dropkicked him to the floor.
After a commercial, Takeshita hit Moxley with a a boot and the flying lariat. Blue Thunder Bomb got Takeshita a near fall. Takeshita raked Moxley’s back while the battled on the top turnbuckle. Takeshita went for a powerbomb out of the corner, but Moxley blocked it. Moxley let up though, and the Takeshita walked him out of the corner with a Last Ride style powerbomb for a near fall.
Moxley caught Takeshita with a cutter out of nowhere. Moxley curb stomped Takeshita on the apron dn waited for the ref to count Takeshita out. Takeshita barley beat the count, sliding into the ring and into a another curb stomp. Moxley locked in the bulldog choke with five minutes remaining.
Takeshita started to fade, and Moxley added a body scissors. Moxley transitioned to an cross-arm breaker, but Takeshita got to the ropes. Excalibur clarified on commentary that a Continental title match has a 20 minute time limit on TV, but a 60 minute time limit on ppv.
Takeshita hit an exploder suplex and a knee strike for a near fall. Takeshita hit a another exploder suplex for another near fall. Takeshita missed a knee and both guys exchanged sleeper attempts until Moxley spiked Takeshita down with a Death Rider for a near fall.
Takeshita escaped a second Death Rider DDT and exchanged headbutts with Moxley with one minute remaining. Moxley was bleeding from the nose, and they were both staggered by the headbutts momentarily. Moxley hit a lariat for a near fall. Takeshita hit a forearm for a near fall, then followed up with a knee strike to the back of the head for another near fall just as the time limit expired.
Match Result: Moxley DREW with Takeshita, 20:00 minute time limit (17:05 aired on HBO Max).
So that was tremendous.
After the match, Moxley and Takeshita went nose to nose and started brawling again. Takeshita gave Moxley the raging fire, and I suspect this will continue at Revolution. Probably why Excalibur dropped the nugget on commentary that a Continental title match can be 60 minutes on pay-per-view.
— Thekla and Kris Statlander cut promos on each other covered in blood from Wednesday’s strap match.
The Babes of Wrath (Harley Cameron & Willow Nightingale) vs. Megabad (Penelope Ford & Megan Bayne) for the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship
The was a not great looking spot early on where Ford was supposed to get her knees up when Harley splashed her, but it looked really bad. Nonetheless, Cameron got trapped in the heel corner and worked over by Bayne while Ford taunted the crowd. Cameron dodged a charge from Bayne and tagged in Nightingale. Nightingale suplexed Ford and Bayne. They dropped to the floor, and Nightingale followed them out with a cannonball.
Back in the ring, Nightingale came off the middle rope with a dropkick on both her opponents.
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