AEW Collision live results: Forbidden Door go-home show
The final stop before Sunday’s Forbidden Door has arrived with tonight’s AEW Collision from Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
The main event is a preview of the women’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament finals as Mercedes Mone teams with Athena to take on Maya World and Hyan. Mone will square off with World on Sunday after she upset Athena to advance.
TNT Champion Kevin Knight will defend the title against Dezmond Xavier of The Rascalz while Persephone puts her CMLL Women’s gold up against Billie Starkz.
Chris Jericho will prepare for his July Beach Break match against Tommaso Ciampa with a tune-up bout against JD Drake.
Ahead of Sunday’s 12-man cage match, Jake Doyle goes one-on-one with Adam Priest.
The show is rounded out by Mistico & “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. The Premier Athletes and a trios contest featuring The Conglomeration against The Opps.
Our live coverage begins at 8 pm Eastern.
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The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, & Roderick Strong) vs. The Opps (Hook, Anthony Bowens, & Katsuyori Shibata) for the AEW World Trios Championship
Shibata and Strong started the match, and the lock up alone was a thing of beauty that old school wrestlers would love. After making no progress, Hook and O’Reilly tagged in. Hook and O’Reilly kept exchanging submission attempts before O’Reilly hit a kick that dropped Hook. This allowed Strong and O’Reilly to double team Hook before tagging in Orange Cassidy, who did a low flying elbow for 1-count. He covered again, and it was another 1-count. Cassidy informed the referee that this added to two. Hook suplexed Cassidy in response and tagged in Bowens.
Bowens ripped Orange Cassidy’s hands from out of his pockets, which caused the crowd to boo. Cassidy allowed Bowens to clap Cassidy’s hands before putting his hands back in his pockets and dropkicking Bowens. Shibata came in and asked Cassidy to chop him. Cassidy did his lazy chops. Shibata did not. Shibata suplex Cassidy on the apron and then rolled to the floor with him and hit a second suplex on the floor before they went to an ad break.
As they returned from break Shibata was choking out Orange Cassidy, but it was broken up by Strong. Shibata hit a snapmare on Cassidy to setup his PK but instead hit a running boot that sent Strong crashing to the floor. Cassidy then hit the stundog millionaire on Shibata and tagged out to O’Reilly. O’Reilly locked an ankle lock on Bowens, which was broken up by Hook, and then O’Reilly hit the rebounding lariat on both Hook and Bowens before tagging out to Strong.
Strong blocked a pump kick and started exchanging chops with Shibata. This was fun. Cassidy tripped Shibata and Strong lived up to his nickname hitting back breakers on Shibata and Hook. Shibata countered Strong using Cassidy as a battering ram with an Orange Punch. Shibata hit an STO on Strong and then got into a forearm exchanging with O’Reilly that was awesome. O’Reilly hit a knee strike to the stomach of Shibata that dropped him. Cassidy hit a tornado DDT on Hook, but Bowens hit an ushigoroshi on Cassidy. Bowens hit a running kick on Cassidy, then a twisting DDT from the corner on Cassidy for a 2-count. Bowens accidentally hit a superkick on Shibata, which led to Hook screaming at him, and the Conglomeration were all able to hit a series of moves on Bowens before Strong threw Cassidy on Bowens for the pinfall.
Result: The Conglomeration defeated The Opps
Excellent match to open the show.
–Hook and Shibata were not pleased with Bowens as they left.
–The Demand said that they were tired of waiting in their quest for gold. The Lethal Twist were walking through the promo shot, and Lethal and Ricochet complimented each other on their haircut before deciding that they should talk.
–The Death Riders were backstage noting that Swerve Strickland has hit the first blow in taking out Garcia, but Moxley noted that Ospreay was going to take the kill shot when he got a chance (Lucha Underground pun intended). Opsreay said that AEW wasn’t his house anymore, and he was just as squatter, and that he was going to make sure Strickland was just a step on his way to Wembley. Garcia then asked for a handshake from Ospreay.
Dezmond Xavier vs. Kevin Knight for the TNT Championship
Knight and Xavier opened with some very fast grappling exchanges, with Xavier getting the best of Knight twice, leading to Knight rolling up Xavier and getting his feet on the ropes to try and score the pin, but Xavier kicked out at 2. Xavier hit a hurricanrana on Knight and then was going to go for a dive, but Knight saw it coming and walked away. Xavier and Knight exchanged strikes ending with a cutter from Xavier once they came back from break. Xavier hit a tornado DDT on Knight for a 2-count.
Knight managed to hit a tilt-a-whirl back breaker on Xavier as a counter and got a 2-count out of it. Knight necked Xavier on the top rope, and after an exchanging, hit a dropkick. Xavier hit a hurricanrana that spiked Knight on his head, and both men were down. Xavier hit a forearm that dropped Knight and then a meteora for a 2-count. Knight fled to the floor, but Xavier hit a low-pe. Xavier rolled Knight into the ring and went for a sky twister press, but Knight got the knees up and hit a dropkick to the back of Xavier’s head before hitting the Crash Landing for the pinfall.
Result: Kevin Knight defeated Dezmond Xavier
Fantastic match for the TNT Championship here, with Knight and Xavier showing excellent chemistry.
–A hype video aired for the 12-man Steel Cage match, showing how the cage was built.
–The Death Triangle came out, and Thekla said that she was someone who does whatever she wants to, even going to Japan and spitting on Stardom. Skye Blue was announced to face Maika at the AEW Forbidden Door Buy In. Thekla said that AEW, NJPW, Stardom, and CMLL built the Forbidden Door, but she was going to burn it all down.
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.