AEW Collision live results: FTR vs. MXM Collection
FTR begin their road to Wembley on Collision.
Last week, the team declared they were going after The Young Bucks and their AEW World Tag Team titles, and were eyeing Wembley Stadium. Dax Harwood said they would keep winning matches until they got the shot. At Friday’s ROH Death Before Dishonor, Mansoor and Mason Madden won in their ROH debut by defeating Serpentico & Angelico. Backstage, they challenged FTR to a match.
Hologram will also be in action, taking on The Beast Mortos. After a few weeks of vignettes, AEW’s newest star made his debut on Collision last week, defeating Gringo Loco. Mortos picked up a win in the opening match of Death Before Dishonor, defeating Komander.
Other matches will see Orange Cassidy facing Johnny TV, Thunder Rosa facing Maya World, Lio Rush taking on PAC, and The Conglomeration taking on Premier Athletes.
Join us for live coverage starting at 8 pm PT. Collision will be part of a three-hour block that also includes Battle of the Belts XI.
Collision once again emanated from the ESports Arena in Arlington, TX. Tony Schiavone & Nigel McGuinness were on the call.
Orange Cassidy defeated Johnny TV (w/ Taya Valkyrie)
Johnny isn’t moving around so well. The age might be catching up to him.
We got clips of this past week’s Adult Swim Battle of the Booty event, where Cassidy, Johnny, Willow Nightingale, & Taya Valkyrie wrestled human versions of Adult Swim characters. I’m not high enough for the sentence I just wrote to make sense.
Johnny did some breakdancing to cut off some arm work. After some shenanigans with Johnny’s glasses, Cassidy sent Johnny to the floor – with his hands in his pockets – before hitting a dive to the floor. Johnny cut Cassidy off and worked him over, with Cassidy rolling out of the way of some standing moonsaults before Taya rolled him into the way of a standing Shooting Star Press.
After Johnny kicked Cassidy’s arm against the barricade, he worked on the arm for some time. Cassidy came back and hit a Stundog Millionaire. Johnny cut him off with a neckbreaker, but the Starship Pain missed its connection. Johnny cut off a diving DDT with another neckbreaker, then hit the Starship Pain for a nearfall. Cassidy snatched Johnny up with the Beach Break, then hit the Orange Punch for the win.
After the match, Valkyrie distracted Cassidy, allowing Johnny to chop block Cassidy. They laid the boots to Cassidy until Willow Nightingale made the save.
We got a recap of The Patriarchy beating Bullet Club Gold to win the vacant Trios Titles last week. Bullet Club Gold was in the interview area, where Juice Robinson noted that they don’t cry over spilled milk. Robinson said that Mother Wayne made a mistake spraying him in the eyes with that “aerosol chemical bullcrap,” and that they were not done with the Patriarchy. Austin Gunn said that the Patriarchy would have to answer to the Bang Bang Gang. Colton Gunn said that Arlington was their town and that Collision was their show.
This was a total babyface promo.
Blackpool Combat Club (Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli) defeated Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) (w/ Action Andretti), Brian Cage & Lee Moriarty (w/ Shane Taylor)
This was a fun three-way tag, with several undercard feuds merging.
Moriarty won the ROH Pure Championship from Yuta last night at Death Before Dishonor. Cage is teaming with Moriarty because Shane Taylor picked up an injury later in that show.
Yuta and Moriarty started, with Yuta outwrestling Moriarty and forcing him to tag Dante Martin. Dante picked up the pace, scoring a nearfall with a high cross. Top Flight ran wild as The Infantry watched from the back. The BCC cut off Martin with a double shoulder block, but Cage blind-tagged Castagnoli to take control of the match for his team.
After a commercial break, Moriarty cut off a tag and scored a nearfall with a Shining Wizard. Dante rolled out of a back suplex and tagged Castagnoli, who ran wild with European uppercuts. Arlington went crazy for Castagnoli’s hot tag, including the Giant Swing. Darius Martin blind tagged Castagnoli to Castagnoli’s annoyance.
A pinning predicament led to a move train, which led to a face-off between Cage and Castagnoli. Top Flight sent them to the floor and hit stereo dives to the floor, leading to another move train on the floor. Yuta blind-tagged Moriarty and hit Darius with the Right Angle Slam, then pinned him with the Seatbelt pin.
The Conglomeration was backstage with Lexy Nair. Willow Nightingale & Orange Cassidy entered the frame, with Willow hyping everybody’s matches tonight. When asked how he was doing physically after Blood & Guts & Death Before Dishonor, Mark Briscoe said that the word of the day was tenacity. He asked Kyle O’Reilly to hold his baby – the ROH World Title – before introducing the newest member of the Conglomeration, his actual baby named Jay. Briscoe cut his wildman promo with a baby in his arm, while O’Reilly was tossing the ROH World Title in the air like it was an infant. This is a must-see promo.
Hologram defeated The Beast Mortos
The rollout of Hologram has been TREMENDOUS. His first two matches couldn’t have gone any better, as he’s already a star in Arlington.
Hologram got chants on his entrance after his exciting debut last week. We got highlights of Mortos’ win last night at Death Before Dishonor against Komander. We got a fast-paced lucha start to this match, with plenty of headscissors and arm drags. Mortos caught Hologram with a powerslam for a nearfall. Mortos sent Hologram flying out of the ring with a Pounce as we went to a commercial.
Hologram evaded Mortos in the corner before hitting a triple-rotation around-the-world headscissors to a massive reaction. Mortos cut off Hologram on the top rope and hit a Hammerlock Driver off the top for a nearfall. Hologram got Mortos to the apron and hit a rising Canadian Destroyer on the apron, then followed up with a ropewalk dive to the Mortos on the floor. Hologram hit a rocket ship suicida as the crowd lost their minds for all of this.
Back in the ring, Mortos caught a top rope hurricanrana, but Hologram stood on Mortos’ shoulders to hit another Destroyer for a nearfall. Mortos came back with a Bane-esque backbreaker, a powerbomb over the knee, and a lariat for a nearfall. Mortos brought Hologram to the top rope, but Hologram reversed a top rope Gorilla Press with a headscissors. Hologram hit a Crucifix Bomb for the impressive win.
Thunder Rosa defeated Maya World
Oh, like My World. I get it. The announcers noted that World was trained by ROH Women’s Champion Athena and was highly rated in the PWI Rookie of the Year race last year. Rosa got a quick win with a seated Camel Clutch. Rosa threatened Deonna Purrazzo to the camera after the match.
We got highlights of Lance Archer vs. Will Ospreay from New Japan Dominion 2023 before it was announced that they would have a rematch this Wednesday on Dynamite. We cut to a pile of dead bodies strewn about the backstage area before Lance Archer came out destroying another poor guy. He cut a promo warning Ospreay about Wednesday while beating these poor dead guys up some more.
The Conglomeration (Kyle O’Reilly, Mark Briscoe & Tomohiro Ishii) defeated The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari, Josh Woods & Tony Nese) (w/Mark Sterling)
It’s so odd to me that AEW has kick-ass trios matches on a pretty regular basis but doesn’t ever have them for the actual Trios Titles. Bounce those things around and have some fun with it. Not every title needs to have long, definitive reigns. But as I said earlier, this kicked ass.
The Conglomeration were in firm control for the opening minutes until Daivari and Woods pulled O’Reilly to the floor and laid the boots to him. Briscoe cut them off with a chair-assist dive to the floor. After a commercial, Ishii made the hot tag and ran wild. Briscoe tagged and ran wild on Nese but got distracted by Sterling on the apron. The Athletes hit a triple-team on Briscoe, forcing Ishii to break up the pin.
We got a move train that led to a dive train. Woods ran wild with suplexes but ended up in a triple-team attack by the Conglomeration. Ishii laid out Sterling with a lariat, and O’Reilly got the submission on Woods with a cross armbreaker.
We got a recap of Katsuyori Shibata saving Minoru Suzuki from a beatdown from The Learning Tree. Jericho was with Renee Paquette in video from after Dynamite. Suzuki broke Jericho’s finger in their match and said that he would get Suzuki back at some point. Jericho said that The Learning Tree was going to go after Shibata, and since all of Shibata’s friends are gone, no one would save him.
Lance Archer defeated A Nameless Victim
A guy ran out onto the ramp before Archer chased him to the ring. A ref appeared as Archer chokeslammed this poor guy onto the apron. Archer hit the Blackout for the mercy kill, then shouted to the camera about Will Ospreay.
FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) defeated MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden)
MxM Collection were very charismatic in their debut. Madden was a little clunky, but both men did just fine for their role here.
This is the AEW debut of the MxM Collection, after they wrestled on the ROH Zero Hour last night. The announcers noted that Madden was the first athlete to work with Tony Khan in both AEW and the NFL, as he was scouted by Khan before the 2013 NFL Draft. He also was on the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad in 2015. Mansoor dropped Harwood and posed, but Harwood lit him up with a chop. Mansoor almost got caught by the Shatter Machine, but Madden pulled him to the floor as we went to a commercial.
MxM worked over Harwood, with Madden hitting a hip attack into a pose before getting a nearfall. They hit a Hart Attack, with Madden hitting a leg lariat instead of a clothesline, for a nearfall. Wheeler got the hot tag and ran wild. Wheeler ducked a corner charge from Mansoor and set up the spike piledriver, but Madden booted Harwood off the ropes. Madden missed another leg lariat and got hung up on the ropes. Harwood got a blind tag in and caught Mansoor with the Shatter Machine for the win.
The Acclaimed were backstage after Blood and Guts on Wednesday. Anthony Bowens cut a fired-up promo about defending AEW and told everyone to never underestimate the Acclaimed. Max Caster talked about FTR, saying that they would’ve been in the cage with them if they loved AEW as much as they claimed. Bowens told the Young Bucks to rest up because the Acclaimed had their tag team title match coming down the pike.
A serious Acclaimed promo, and a good one to boot.
PAC defeated Lio Rush
This wasn’t the fireworks show you would expect when you see these two names, but this was still a solid Collision main event. PAC gets another win before his eventual International/American Title match.
PAC caught Rush with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, then caught Rush on a wheelbarrow attempt. Rush turned it into a flash pin, but PAC cut him off with a back elbow. PAC held control through the commercial break, then hit a nasty Liger Bomb for a nearfall. Rush held onto the ropes on a snap German suplex attempt, then hit a hurricane kick to reset.
We got a note that next week’s Collision will have a special start time of 5:00 Eastern/4:00 Central. Rush sent PAC into the ring post on the floor, then followed up with a tope. Rush brought PAC down hard with a Falcon Arrow for a nearfall. PAC sent Rush into the buckles hard and brought him to the top rope, but Rush headbutted him down. Rush went for the Rush Hour, but PAC caught him and hit a delayed German suplex for a nearfall.
PAC set Rush up for the Black Arrow, but Rush rolled out of the way. Rush baited him into a poisonrana, then hit the Rush Hour for a nearfall. Rush went for the Frog Splash, but PAC got his knees up. Rush reversed another German attempt into a flash pin for a nearfall, but PAC ripped his head off with a lariat. PAC quickly snatched Rush into the Brutalizer for the quick tapout.