AEW Collision live results: Forbidden Door go-home show
The final stop before Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door has arrived with tonight’s AEW Collision from Glasgow, Scotland.
The featured bout will see former AEW World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks against Paragon’s Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly in a clash of longtime foes.
Before he challenges TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher on Sunday, Hiromu Takahashi teams with Scorpio Sky and Top Flight against Don Callis Family members Lance Archer, Rocky Romero, Josh Alexander and Hechicero.
NJPW G1 35 winner Konosuke Takeshita will go one-on-one with Tomohiro Ishii while Megan Bayne takes on a mystery opponent.
Willow Nightingale & Queen Aminata will take on Skye Blue & Julia Hart while the Grizzled Young Veterans meet the Gates of Agony in separate tag team matches.
A Max Caster open challenge, and Big Bill vs. the debuting Mark Andrews rounds out the main card.
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Don Callis opened the show to a chorus of boos. Callis speaks terrible Spanish to welcome Hechicero, which is always funny.
The Don Callis Family (Hechicero, Josh Alexander, Rocky Romero, & Lance Archer) (w/ Don Callis) vs. Sky Flight (Scorpio Sky, Darius Martin, & Dante Martin) (w/ Christopher Daniels) & Hiromu Takahashi
Takahashi and Alexander started the match, and that is a singles match I would love to see down the line. Rocky Romero came in and was dropkicked into Alexander, and then Takahashi hit a basement dropkick to Alexander and tagged out to Sky. Sky eventually tagged out to Darius Martin, who got worked over by Hechicero for a little bit, but tagged out to Dante Martin, who unfortunately got tossed across the ring by Lance Archer.
The Don Callis family spent the next few minute working over Martin as they went to commercial break. Dante Martin dodged a corner charge and countered a chokeslam from Archer into a hurricanrana before managing to tag out to Scorpio Sky, who hit a sitout spinebuster on Romero. Sky did a dragon sleeper on Romero, but Hechicero broke it up. Hechicero pulled Sky into his feet allowing Alexander to hit a DDT and Archer to do an electric chair drop on Archer for a 2-count. Takahashi hit a superkick on Alexander and tried to leap frog Hechicero, but he caught the leg and tripped up Takahashi.
The fans really liked Hechicero here, chanting his name, and even booing a little when Top Flight hit a combo dropkick and German suplex on him. Archer was held in a stalling suplex by Top Flight, which was a cool spot. Sky hit a TKO on Romero, who rolled to the floor, and Top Flight and Sky then hit stereo dives onto the rest of the Don Callis Family while Takahashi hit Romero with a Time Bomb for the win.
Result: Sky Flight & Hiromu Takahashi
–Kyle Fletcher came out and posed on the ramp, as Hiromu Takehashi looked on.
–Renee Paquette recapped the stories of all the participants challenging Mercedes Mone for the TBS Championship.
Megan Bayne (w/ Penelope Ford) vs. Isla Dawn
The crowd loved Dawn, as she made her AEW debut, but sadly, I do not think this will go well for her. She had some brief offence against Bayne, but Bayne overpowered Dawn, hitting several bodyslams. Bayne hit a butterfly suplex and started mocking Dawn, but Dawn blocked a powerbomb attempt and hit a throat thrust and several forearms. Bayne missed a corner splash, and Dawn hit a kick in the corner and a running knee, followed by a second running knee for a 1-count. Bayne quickly powered back up and hit a running Liger bomb for the pinfall.
Result: Megan Bayne
–As Bayne and Ford were leaving, Willow Nightingale’s theme hit, to the delight of the fans and anger of Bayne and Ford.
Willow Nightingale & Queen Aminata vs. Triangle of Madness (Skye Blue & Julia Hart)
Nightingale started the match with Hart, hitting several lariats in the corner before pulling Hart out of the corner and hitting another for a 2-count. Triangle of Madness got the advantage after isolating Aminata with illegal tactics, as they went to an ad break. When the came back, Willow Nightingale was hitting a spinebuster on Hart for a 2-count.
Nightingale hit a clothesline that dropped both Hart and Blue and taggged out to Aminata who hit a series of suplexes on Blue, but Blue countered one with some forearms. Aminata picked Blue up in an inverted suplex, ran across the ring, and hit an inverted Air Raid Crash for a 2-count. Aminata hit a twist and shout on Blue, and it broke down to all four women hitting big moves and crashing to the mat.
Hart and Blue did stereo octopus stretches, but Aminata and Nightingale backed into each other, driving Blue and Hart into each other before Aminata hit Off With Her Head and pinned Blue for the win.
Result: Willow Nightingale & Queen Aminata
–Thekla ran down and attacked Aminata, and Nightingale made the save. Soon, Penelope Ford and Megan Bayne came down and the 5 on two beat down started, but Harley Cameron returned and ran down to the ring to make the save. Unfortunately, the numbers were still too high, and Bayne threw Cameron across the ring, but Kris Statlander made the save.
–Daniel Garcia cut a promo about Nigel McGuinness’ match with Zack Sabre Jr.
Max Caster vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Sabre immediately started tearing Caster apart to the delight of the fans, getting an incredible reaction from the audience. The fans did start to chant for Max Caster, as he looked at Nigel McGuinness and asked “What do I do?!” There are worst people to ask, especially as McGuiness will face Caster this weekend. Caster went for a hip toss, but Sabre locked on a Cobra Twist for the submission win.
Result: Zack Sabre Jr.
–Nigel McGuinness and Sabre faced off at the commentary desk, as the battle of the two best British technical wrestlers of the last 20 years face off.
–Anthony Bowens ran down to the ring, attacking Max Caster from behind, solidifying a heel turn for Bowens, and Billy Gunn ran down to try and break the fight apart. Bowens and Gunn clearly had tension as they walked away.
–Harley Cameron and Kris Statlander were talking backstage about how Statlander had not gotten the $100,000 promised to her for winning the 4-way, but it kept coming back as “insufficient funds” as it was supposed to come out of the Young Bucks salary. Cameron went into the Male Extras locker room, came back out a few seconds later, and the Bucks promised to pay her next week. Statlander said that was what happened last week.
The Death Riders walked up and silently surrounded Cameron and Statlander and Moxley entered the locker room and walked out with a purse full of money for Statlander. It seems Moxley is trying to recruit her very hard and openly now.
Konosuke Takeshita (w/ Don Callis) vs. Tomohiro Ishii
Takeshita got a massive superstar reaction, and the fans already loved Ishii, so they were very into this match. Both men started exchanging forearms right away to the delight of the crowd. They went to break after Takeshtia hit a dive on Ishii. When they came back Ishii hit a gigantic superplex on Takeshita, and soon enough both men were hitting forearms again. Takeshita hit an inverted piledriver into a wheelbarrow suplex and a running knee, but Ishii blocked the knee, picked Takeshita up, and hit a massive powerbomb for a 2-count.
Takeshita countered a lariat with a blue thunder bomb for two, and Ishii again refused to give in, getting up and hitting a lariat that turned Takeshita inside out. Takeshita recovered and hit a poisonrana, which Ishii no sold, and Ishii hit a German Suplex, but Takeshita landed on his feet, and both men hit knees and enziguris before Takeshita hit one last knee and both men went down.
Ishii hit a massive headbutt and collapsed, and Takeshita hit a running knee for a 2-count. Takeshita got up and hit the falcon arrow for the pinfall victory. This match was awesome.
Result: Konosuke Takeshita
Big Bill (w/ Bryan Keith) vs. Mark Andrews
Poor Mark Andrews got murdered by Big Bill, and even if he had Flash Morgan Webster to help him, it would not have worked based on this match. The crowd loved Bill and everything he did here, so insult to injury for Andrews. Andrews had some brief offence but was killed with a black hole slam from Bill for the win.
Result: Big Bill
–Bryan Keith brought two chairs in the ring and set them up and Big Bill chokeslammed Andrews through them to the delight of the fans.
The Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) (w/ Ricochet) vs. The Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson)
GYV is a team AEW needs to do more with, because they are great. That day was not today. The Gates of Agony did give GYV a lot in the early portion of the match, but was distracted by Ricochet who said blatantly from the announce desk that he was going to cheat, allowing Kaun to beat Drake up on the floor.
Gibson dodged a corner charge from Liona, leading to James Drake going coast to coast and hitting a dropkick on Liona while Gibson hit a lung blower on Kaun. Liona was a difference maker after hitting a pounce on Drake and sending him to the floor before hitting Open the Gates on Gibson for the win.
Result: Gates of Agony
GYV made the most of their time in this match, with Gates of Agony giving them tons to help them get over. This was a good match.
–Gabe Kidd was backstage with Bullet Club War Dogs, saying that he brought them in to make the most money because everyone else was taking food of their tables. Clark Connors challenged The Opps for the AEW Trios championship at Forbidden Door. Looks like we’ll be having Bullet Club present, trying to take over in AEW for this PPV.
The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) vs. The Paragon (Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong)
Seeing the Bucks in the ring with Strong and O’Reilly again brings so much joy to my ROH fan heart. Nick Jackson tried to break up a double team from Strong and O’Reilly, but tripped on the middle rope, face planted, sold his face, rolled to the floor, kicked the announce desk, hurting his foot, and kicking the guard rail with his other foot in frustration, only to hurt that one too. I was laughing so hard at this point that this match could do anything, including just randomly stop and go off the air, and I’d be happy.
Strong threw Matt Jackson around the ring, and Nick Jackson cut him off, but accidentally moonsaulted onto his brother. Nick Jackson hit a kick on Roddy on the floor and a double team senton on Strong in the ring before catching O’Reilly on his rebound lariat and hitting an indytaker on the floor.
Kyle O’Reilly hit a dragon screw on one Buck while the other was holding his brother’s leg, and ended up hitting them both. O’Reilly locked a guillotine on Matt Jackson, who lifted him and hit a series of rolling Northern Lights suplexes, and hit one on Strong and O’Reilly both. Nick Jackson hit a corkscrew moonsault to the floor on Strong, seeming to knee him directly in the back of the head. Hopefully Strong isn’t hurt.
The Bucks went for the TK Driver on O’Reilly, but Strong caught Nick Jackson with a flying knee and hit a high-low on Matt Jackson before Strong hit End of Heartache on Nick Jackson and O’Reilly locked an ankle lock on Matt Jackson. Don Callis ran down to the ring to distract the referee, allowing Kazuchika Okada to run in and hit a rainmaker on O’Reilly. The Bucks superkicked Strong and hit the TK Driver on O’Reilly for the win.
Result: The Young Bucks
–The Bucks & Okada beat on Paragon, but Swerve Strickland made his way down to the ring with a dancing Prince Nana. Swerve took out the Bucks and was about to hit the House Call on Nick Jackson, but Okada took out the knee of Swerve and began hitting tearing him apart as Don Callis called for a sugar hold, which popped me. Okada nailed Swerve with a rainmaker and the Bucks posed with Okada as the show went off the air.
Final Thoughts
This was a good episode of Collision with an even better crowd, and it closed with a great angle featuring one of the main event matches of the Forbidden Door PPV with Swerve and Okada. It seems like the injury Swerve is working through is going to play a role in the match with Okada attacking the knee. I hope Swerve doesn’t need to take time off the same time Ospreay needs to, but whatever it takes to get them both healthy.