Posted on 7/31/126 by Bob Magee
AEW Collision was back in the raucous Masonic Temple Theatre
in Detroit on TBS and HBO Max for the second of two live
nights of action! AEW All In: London has everyone’s
attention, but there are still important stops along the
way, including this one in the Motor City.
And wouldn’t you know it, the night began with the shocking
debut of Motor City Machine Guns, Chris Sabin and Alex
Shelley! They were happy to be home and announced they were
All Elite! Later, Sabin and Shelley helped Bang Bang Gang
deal with The Dogs and Death Riders after Juice Robinson
pinned Wheeler Yuta in a wild eight-man tag.
In the main event, it was the former Death Rider, Will
Ospreay, against the loyal Death Rider, Daniel Garcia, with
AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley taking it all in from
the commentary desk. Ospreay overcame Garcia’s relentless
submission attempts to beat him with a Hidden Blade.
However, Mark Davis showed up and brawled with Ospreay into
the crowd with the help of RPG Vice. Ospreay wound up
breaking free of a chair attack and said he wanted Davis
next week in a Mexico City Street Fight at Grand Slam:
Mexico!
Plus, we learned that the AEW Continental Cup will begin
next week on Collision with a 16-man, single-elimination
tournament that already includes Moxley, Orange Cassidy,
Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong and Nigel McGuinness!
What a great way to end two memorable nights in Detroit!
Here are your complete Collision results...
Collision barely had a chance to begin when The Motor City
Machine Guns, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, showed up in
Detroit! Before either man could speak, the crowd expressed
their elation with an extended “MOTOR CITY” chant!
Sabin began, “Did you really think we wouldn’t be here?
There’s no place we’d rather be in than the greatest city in
civilization. The place we represented for 20 years. Because
this is where the best wrestle!”
The crowd responded with an “AEW” chant!
Shelly said hello to the crowd and continued, “Detroit, in
more ways than one, we are home!”
“WELCOME HOME!” “WELCOME HOME!” “WELCOME HOME!”
“And it is our immense pleasure to say the Motor City
Machine Guns are ALL ELITE!”
AEW World Trios Championship Match: The Demand (Ricochet,
Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun) (c) def. The Rascalz (Zachary
Wentz, Myron Reed and Dezmond Xavier)
Ricochet and Wentz started this opening contest, and Wentz
took Ricochet down in the first exchange. Ricochet decided
to clear out The Rascalz’ corner and sent Wentz to the
Demand corner. He tagged Liona and sprinted back across the
ring to dive over the corner post onto Reed and Xavier on
the floor! Back in the ring, Kaun whipped Liona into Wentz
for a big corner splash. Kaun slammed Wentz and then slammed
Liona on top of Wentz! Kaun covered and Wentz kicked out at
two, but what a statement start for The Demand!
Kaun chopped Wentz in the corner and tagged Ricochet. Kaun
and Ricochet whipped Wentz to the ropes, but instead of
completing the double-team with Kaun, Ricochet posed for the
camera and the crowd instead! Kaun still dropped Wentz, but
had to tell Ricochet to go for the pin. Wentz kicked out.
Wentz avoided Ricochet in the corner and took him down with
a tornillo! Xavier tagged in and lit Ricochet up with a
quick combo followed by a cutter! Xavier slid into the
Demand corner to trip GOA off the apron. Reed tagged in and
got Ricochet with a lungblower so Xavier could stomp him in
the back. Wentz came back in with a handspring kick to knock
Liona off the apron. Wentz and Xavier double-teamed Kaun
with an array of strikes to bring him to his knees, which
allowed Reed to stomp Kaun in the back! Wentz took out Kaun
with a tornillo to the floor. Xavier flipped to the floor
onto Ricochet! Reed hit a huge dive over the ropes that took
down Liona!
Ricochet turned things around with a knee to the back that
sent Xavier to the floor. Kaun took care of the rest,
whipping Xavier back and forth off the barricade before
throwing him back into the ring. The Demand isolated Xavier
for an extended period, but couldn’t keep him down for a
three-count. Xavier escaped another pin attempt and ducked
Ricochet’s Spirit Gun to finally tag Reed! Ricochet charged
Reed at the ropes, so Reed moved and hit an axe kick! He
somehow avoided a charging Liona who tried to send him over
the top and then avoided a double-team to kick Kaun down to
the mat. He picked up Ricochet on his shoulders and rotated
him to the ropes for a draping DDT!
Liona ran through Reed to stop his offense, but Reed came
back with a cutter! Reed avoided a double clothesline from
GOA and took them both down with dual cutters! The Rascalz
dropped Ricochet with a triple superkick and used their
rotation trios dropkicks to send Ricochet down to the mat.
Ricochet kicked out at two! Liona cleared all three of The
Rascalz out of the corner, and Kaun followed with a huge
crossbody over the top to Wentz. He pulled Xavier off the
apron and carried him for a running brainbuster on the
floor! Back in the ring, Ricochet hit a kick combo to Wentz
that knocked him out of the corner, but he wound up right
back in the same corner with force thanks to a shotgun
dropkick from Kaun. Liona ran all of his hip into Wentz and
tossed him up to Kaun for a diving cutter! Ricochet hit a
crossover on a springboard splash, but Wentz kicked out to
keep the match alive! Ricochet was shocked and Detroit came
alive for Wentz’ effort!
GOA put Wentz on their shoulders and Ricochet was about to
springboard in, but he was pulled down by Xavier and Reed to
bounce him off the apron! Wentz took Kaun out with a DDT and
hit a jumping knee to Liona! Xavier used a somersault kick
to send Liona through the ropes to the apron. Reed jumped
over the top and pulled Liona down onto Ricochet and Kaun
with an innovative cutter! The crowd came unglued for that
one!
Back in the ring, Wentz hit Ricochet with a senton from the
top. Reed followed with a No Cap Splash, but when Xavier
tried a Spiral Tap, Ricochet got his knees up! GOA pulled
Reed and Wentz to the floor and sent them both face-first
into the corner of the ring. Back inside, Ricochet tried for
a Spirit Gun on Xavier, so he ducked and hooked Ricochet
into a 2.999 count! Ricochet was sent to the corner, so he
flipped over Xavier and grabbed him for a Benadriller.
Xavier kicked free and Ricochet tagged Kaun, but stayed in
the ring for the running knee to Xavier’s temple! Kaun and
Liona squashed Xavier in the middle of the ring and finished
him off with a Double Crucifix Powerbomb to get the pinfall
victory!
The Conglomeration Are Regrouping in the Continental Cup?
Backstage, Lexy Nair was with the former AEW World Trios
Champions, Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick
Strong, and asked how they get back on track. Cassidy said
he felt really bad about it and entered the Continental Cup.
Strong and O’Reilly said they did the same, and Cassidy said
they may have to face each other. O’Reilly dismissed that
idea for the time being and said that because they were
nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, they’ll be doing
it live tonight on Collision!
The Continental Cup Begins Next Week on Collision!
The winner of the Continental Cup will be the AEW
Continental Champion and win the AEW Continental Challenge
Cup! Jon Moxley will defend as champion in a 16-man, single-
elimination tournament beginning next week on Collision, and
all matches are drawn at random in every round! Nigel
McGuinness immediately announced he would be entering the
Continental Cup with the hope of fighting for the AEW
Continental Challenge Cup in Wembley Stadium!
Tommaso Ciampa def. Nick Comoroto
Ciampa looked to be in a surly mood after losing to the
Painmaker at Redemption last weekend. Comoroto immediately
ripped at Ciampa’s drill wound at the bell, so Ciampa bailed
to the floor. Comoroto chased after, but Ciampa dove back in
and stomped Comoroto into the mat repeatedly until backing
up and finishing Comoroto with a bicycle knee for the sudden
victory!
“Hangman” Adam Page Wants to Team with Brodido in Mexico
City
Page said he was looking for something else to do, but last
night wasn’t what he expected. Brody King walked up to Page
and thanked him for having his back last night. ROH World
Champion Bandido came over and offered his own thanks. Page
has been trying to figure out what to do, but next week, AEW
is in Mexico City, and he can’t think of anything better to
do than to challenge for the AEW World Trios Titles with
Brodido! Bandido named the team “The Good, The Bad and The
Ugly.” King asked which one was the ugly one, so Page and
Bandido walked off without answering.
HAZUKI & The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and NJPW Strong
Women's Champion Alex Windsor) def. ROH Women's World
Champion Athena, Billie Starkz & Diamanté
Athena opened things with Hayter, and Athena quickly worked
her into the MIT corner for Diamanté to tag in and work
Hayter’s arm. Hayter overpowered Diamanté into the corner
and tagged in Windsor, who unloaded on Diamanté and tagged
Hayter back in to do the same. Hayter followed suit once
again, and Windsor took Diamanté over for a double-team
combo with Hayter nailing Diamanté with a PK. Hayter tried a
suplex, so Diamanté floated over and smashed Hayter in the
back. HAZUKI and Starkz tagged in at the same time, with
HAZUKI quickly taking Starkz down and following with a
senton splash. She facewashed Starkz with her boot and
bounced off the ropes for a running boot to the face! Hayter
tagged in, just as Athena pulled HAZUKI away from the
corner. Everything broke down into fist fights until Hayter
was in the ring alone. She dove low through the ropes, but
Athena was waiting with a knee lift!
Athena tried to pull Hayter out, but Hayter kicked her into
the barricade. Meanwhile, Windsor headbutted Starkz off the
ramp to the floor, and HAZUKI and Diamanté took each other
out with clotheslines on the stage. Back near the ring,
Athena suplexed Hayter off the steel steps! After keeping
Hayter away from a tag, HAZUKI finally got back into the
match! She jumped off Diamanté to knock Athena and Starkz
off the apron and immediately got to the top rope for a
shotgun dropkick!
HAZUKI sent Starkz into Diamanté in the corner with a
hurricanrana and hit a double Codebreaker on both! Athena
broke up the pin attempt with a release German suplex on
HAZUKI! That set off a chain reaction of German suplexes
with Windsor taking down Starkz, followed by Diamanté
dropping Windsor with Chaos Theory! HAZUKI jackknifed
Diamanté for a near-fall. Windsor tagged in and stacked up
Diamanté and Starkz in the corner, so Hayter threw Athena to
the front of the stack. Windsor clotheslined Athena, Hayter
got Starkz, and the Birds picked up HAZUKI for an assisted
shotgun dropkick on Diamanté! HAZUKI dove off the apron onto
Starkz while the Birds double-teamed Diamanté and nearly got
the win until Athena broke up the pin!
Athena took down Hayter and Windsor with a double-leg trip
combo. Athena flipped Diamanté over Windsor for an assisted
Sliced Bread #2 to get a near-fall. HAZUKI and Athena traded
big reversals until they exchanged running forearms on the
ropes. HAZUKI dropped Athena with a pump kick, so Athena
came back with a thrust kick. HAZUKI came back with a
release German suplex! Diamanté threw HAZUKI out, so Windsor
ran Diamanté into Starkz. Hayter and Windsor finished
Diamanté with 2 Birds, 1 Stone for the pinfall victory!
Divine Dominion marched to ringside and yanked the Brawling
Birds from the ring. They threw both Hayer and Windsor into
the steel steps while Athena picked apart HAZUKI in the
ring. Lena Kross and Megan Bayne showed their immense power
by bodyslamming Windsor and Hayter on top of the stage, as
Athena taunted HAZUKI in the ring!
AEW World Trios Champions The Demand Accept the Challenge
from Brodido and Hangman
Ricochet addressed the AEW World Trios Championship from
Hangman and Brodido and wondered how they could demand
anything from them. Ricochet said they have no other option
but to accept the challenge and put them down! Jay Lethal
said he’s going to crush Komander’s dreams of wrestling in
Arena México next week when he crushes him in their match
tonight!
The Conglomeration Completes the Ice Bucket Challenge with
Rhino and Insane Clown Posse!
With Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong
sitting in a kiddie pool, Michigan’s own Rhino was joined by
Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J of Insane Clown Posse! With
plenty of crowd participation, the challenge was completed,
and the crowd closed it out with a “REBEL” chant!
Bang Bang Gang (Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn, Ace Austin and
Juice Robinson) def. Death Riders (AEW Continental Champion
Jon Moxley, PAC, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta)
While the Death Riders certainly got a big reaction coming
through the crowd, nothing compared to the entire crowd
putting their “Gunns Up” while chanting with Bang Bang Gang!
Yuta and Austin Gunn started things, with Yuta eating a
series of punches that sent him to the mat. Robinson took
advantage of a Gunns double team with a senton on Yuta. The
crowd erupted in a “JUICE” chant and PAC tagged in. Robinson
worked over PAC’s arm and tagged Ace Austin, who took PAC
down with a big dropkick. PAC got separation on the top
rope, so Ace followed with a gamengiri and turned around to
catch Yuta and put him on his shoulders. He added PAC to the
pile and dropped both with a Mega Samoan Drop! And that’s
what tree trunk quads can do for you!
PAC got Ace to the corner, and the Death Riders cleared the
Bang Bang Gang corner before the Riders attacked Ace
repeatedly in the corner! Ace struggled to get away from the
Death Riders, as Castagnoli and PAC double-teamed Ace with a
stomp off the apron! They threw him back for Yuta, who only
got a two! Moxley tagged in and put Ace in a straitjacket
choke. Ace kicked free and tagged Colten! Colten unloaded on
all the Death Riders and cleared the ring until he nearly
put Yuta away! Colten called for the Fame-asser, but Moxley
grabbed his foot, and Yuta rolled Colten up for a near-fall!
Robinson tagged in and came off the top with a crossbody,
hooking for a two-count! Castagnoli fought off both Gunns
and tried to suplex them both, but they fought him off and
took him out with 3:10 to Yuma!
PAC threw Austin with a German suplex, so Colten hit PAC
with a Fame-asser! Mox knocked Colten to the floor and dove
after him into the barricade! Ace avoided Mox on the apron
with a handstand and kicked him in the chest. Ace got back
in the ring and came over the top with a spaceman twist to
Moxley! Back in the ring, Yuta missed a Busaiku Knee on
Robinson, so Juice lit him up with jabs to set up the Left
Hand of God. Yuta bit Robinson and tried to roll him up, but
Robinson reversed the pin and scored the three-count for the
Bang Bang Gang!
PAC and Yuta attacked Robinson after the bell, so the Gunns
came in to run them off, but they didn’t see The Dogs coming
down the ramp! Clark Connors and David Finlay started
picking apart Bang Bang Gang until the Motor City Machine
Guns ran down with chairs! The Death Riders got on the
apron, but Mox called them off. With the Machine Guns turned
away, Finlay tried to attack them from behind, but the Gunns
stopped him with 3:10 to Yuma! Bang Bang Gang and the
Machine Guns showed appreciation to each other in the ring!
At Grand Slam: Mexico, It’s Ciampa vs. Andrade for the #1
Spot in the Casino Gauntlet
Ciampa said he went through hell with the Painmaker and
survived. Tonight should be everyone’s 90-second warning
shot because the Psycho Killer is very much alive. Now, his
focus is on All In: London and the Casino Gauntlet. He knows
AEW National Champion Andrade El Ídolo is in the match for
the #1 spot next week at Grand Slam: Mexico! Ciampa will
take Andrade for that #1 spot in Mexico City!
Kris Statlander def. Aurora Teves
Before the match, Statlander challenged CMLL World Women’s
Champion Persephone to face her at Grand Slam: Mexico!
Statlander worked Teves to the corner, but wound up eating a
pair of kicks from Teves. Stat took Teves down with a leg
sweep and followed with a splash in the corner. Statlander
held Teves for an extended vertical suplex, called for more
applause from the crowd, got it, and dropped Teves!
Stataldner hit a running uppercut in the corner and followed
with a running boot to the face. Statlander crushed Teves
with Staturday Night Fever and earned the pinfall victory in
a dominant performance!
AEW International Champion Kyle Fletcher and “Speedball”
Mike Bailey Brawl
Lexy Nair was with Fletcher and Bailey ahead of their AEW
International Championship match next week at Grand Slam:
Mexico. She asked Fletcher if he was worried about Bailey’s
momentum after winning last night’s trios match! Fletcher
said he didn’t need momentum because he’s the best wrestler
in the world today and has nothing to prove. He asked Bailey
what he had to prove. Bailey said Fletcher isn’t at his best
and won’t be until he’s free of the Don Callis Family, so
next week, he wants Fletcher on his own. Fletcher agreed and
kicked Bailey in the face and through a doorway. The two
spilled into the arena onto the top of the ramp, where
Fletcher booted Speedball down the ramp. Fletcher held up
his title and threw Speedball in the ring. He tried to hit
Bailey with it, but Bailey avoided it and cracked Fletcher
with a thrust kick. As Speedball loaded up a Time Adventure,
Fletcher kicked him in the jaw first! Fletcher tried to
powerbomb Bailey, but he rolled through and kicked Fletcher
in the chest. Bailey followed with the moonsault knee drop
across Fletcher’s chest! Speedball tried a Time Adventure
kick, so Fletcher rolled out of the ring. Speedball picked
up the AEW International Title and held it up while Fletcher
stewed on the ramp!
TNT Champion “The Jet” Kevin Knight Makes a World Champion
Trios Challenge
Knight said the Don Callis Family is a Family of world
champions: past, present, and future, as he pointed to
himself. So on behalf of himself, Okada and Hechicero, he’s
issuing a challenge to any former world champions that want
to step to them next week at Grand Slam: Mexico!
Komander def. Jay Lethal
Komander was coming off a great challenge for Jon Moxley’s
AEW Continental Championship last night on Dynamite, so
Detroit was behind him from the jump. Lethal tried to slow
down Komander early, but Komander turned a figure-four
attempt into a near-fall. Lethal ran into a pair of boots
from Komander, who spun off the top to send Lethal to the
outside with an arm drag. Komander had to abandon his
tightrope walk when Lethal got back in the ring and took
Lethal to the floor with a head scissors instead! Komander
followed with a beautiful moonsault to the floor, and the
crowd was loving every second of it!
Lethal quickly turned things around by running Komander into
the ring post. However, Komander fought back with a combo of
kicks and a pendulum kick around the ropes, followed by a
crossbody splash for a near-fall! Komander flipped out of
the corner, but ate a pair of big kicks from Lethal,
followed by the Lethal Combination! Lethal went up top and
dropped the King’s Elbow, but Komander kicked out at two!
Lethal chopped Komander and threw him to the opposite side,
where Komander slid under the bottom rope and then back
inside, where he ran up the ropes and came back with a 450
splash on Lethal, who was diving in the ring! Lethal kicked
out just in time!
Lethal dropped Komander over the top rope, so Komander came
back with a pair of strikes to knock Lethal onto the second
rope. Komander got a head of steam to come up the ropes for
a hurricanrana! Komander went up top and finished Lethal
with Cielito Lindo for the pinfall win!
Will Ospreay def. Death Riders' Daniel Garcia
AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley joined commentary for
the main event. Ospreay barely acknowledged Moxley and
Marina Shafir at the desk on the stage, as he chose to soak
in the massive ovation from the crowd! Garcia got fired up
by the other Death Riders and made his way to the ring by
himself. Garcia got in Ospreay’s face before the bell and
continued to taunt, so Ospreay ran right at him at the bell,
and Garcia bailed to the outside to stall. Ospreay followed
after him, and Garcia tried to catch him at the apron, but
Ospreay avoided him. The chase was on again, but now Garcia
was back in the ring. Ospreay faked getting back in, so
Garcia started to come out, but Ospreay was just baiting him
into a big chop on the floor!
Ospreay continued with more chops around the barricades and
brought Garcia back into the ring for a running boot. Garcia
hit a strike into Ospreay’s neck, but he shook it off and
sent Garcia to the floor with a hurricanrana! Ospreay
followed up with a big dive and continued the attack on the
floor. Garcia tried to throw Ospreay onto the barricade, so
Ospreay jumped over it and tried to springboard back to
Garcia. Garcia tripped him and DDT'd Ospreay on the floor!
Garcia kept the attack centered on Ospreay’s neck on the
floor and back in the ring. Ospreay got back into it with a
corkscrew kick out of nowhere! Ospreay knocked Garcia to the
mat and hit a standing twist press for a near-fall. Ospreay
kicked Garcia in the face and chopped him to the corner.
Ospreay got sent to the apron and came back with a
springboard forearm for another two-count. Ospreay and
Garcia trade kicks and strikes until Garcia reversed a Storm
Breaker attempt into a guillotine choke. Ospreay tried to
reverse it, but Garcia went to a rear choke and transitioned
into a piledriver! Ospreay kicked out, but stayed down as
Garcia taunted him. That was a mistake, as Ospreay asked for
a shot to the face. Garcia delivered, but Ospreay got right
up and decked Garcia with an elbow!
Ospreay looked for a Hidden Blade, but Garcia somehow turned
it into a Dragon Tamer! Ospreay was about to escape, so
Garcia switched to a bulldog choke, just like the one Moxley
uses to finish matches. Ospreay broke the hold in the corner
and tried a Storm Breaker, so Garcia floated out into a
sleeper. Ospreay got out of it and caught Garcia with a hook
kick. He tried an OsCutter, but Garcia was waiting for it
and got a rear naked choke! Ospreay refused to go down and
put his arm up to pull off his elbow pad. Ospreay rolled
back over Garcia to break the hold and nearly beheaded
Garcia with a Hidden Blade! Ospreay pinned Garcia for the
win!
Ospreay smiled at Garcia, who rolled out of the ring. On
commentary, Moxley called Ospreay the most dangerous version
of himself. Ospreay started to leave the ringside area, but
was pulled into the crowd by Mark Davis! Davis tried to
powerbomb Ospreay in the crowd, but Ospreay got on a balcony
and hit Davis with a diving forearm! Davis got some backup
from the Don Callis Family, including Rocky Romero and Trent
Beretta, which allowed him to piledrive Ospreay on the
floor! RPG Vice held Ospreay for Davis, as he attacked
Ospreay with chair shots to the gut. Davis got on the mic
and taunted Ospreay about not having the Death Riders to
save him. Davis went to swing the chair, but Ospreay kicked
it away and took out Romero and Beretta. Ospreay took a wild
swing at Davis with the chair, but he was pulled out of the
ring in time by RPG Vice.
Ospreay said if Davis wanted to introduce weapons, he should
have just asked. Maybe he needs to show everyone there’s no
hesitation left. Next week, the Don Callis Family might be
banned from ringside, but he wants the match against Davis
to be a Mexico City Street Fight!
And that brings a great pair of nights in Detroit to a
close!
Catch AEW Grand Slam: Mexico LIVE next Wednesday, from Arena
México in Mexico City, Mexico on TBS and HBO Max at 8/7c!
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