Posted on 8/22/126 by Bob Magee
AEW Women's World Championship Match: Willow Nightingale (c)
vs. TBS Champion Maya World
AEW Women's World Champion Willow Nightingale is putting her
title on the line against TBS Champion Maya World tonight,
making good on a promise she made when before she won the
title from “The Toxic Spider,” Thekla: World would get the
first shot. Nightingale wanted to be a woman of her word, so
she’s giving World the chance of a lifetime tonight in
Reading.
That’s quite a match to grant just eight days before
Nightingale is scheduled to defend her AEW Women’s World
Title against Mercedes Moné at All In: London. In fact,
after accepting the match, World wasted no time in reminding
Nightingale that World could be the one defending against
Moné in Wembley Stadium. There’s no doubt World has more
than earned this shot, surviving a brutal TBS Championship
4-Way against Kris Statlander, CMLL World Women's Champion
Persephone and Hikaru Shida on Dynamite to retain the TBS
Title. Is Nightingale making a mistake giving the red-hot
World a chance at world championship immortality just eight
days before the biggest match of her life in London?
AEW Continental Challenge Cup Quarterfinal Match: The
Conglomeration's Orange Cassidy vs. The Conglomeration’s
Kyle O'Reilly
A Conglomeration collision continues Continental Challenge
Cup Quarterfinal action! Orange Cassidy and Kyle O'Reilly
are close friends and fellow Conglomerators, but only one
can take his spot in next Wednesday's C3 Semifinals in
Glasgow. Cassidy advanced with a win over Matt Sydal in the
first round, while O'Reilly already dealt with the mixed
feelings of battling a longtime partner when he outlasted
Roderick Strong to reach the Quarterfinals. How will The
Conglomeration handle this potentially rocky road to All In:
London? Find out tonight on a very special Collision
Quarterfinal test of skill and friendship!
AEW Continental Challenge Cup Quarterfinal Match: Death
Riders’ Claudio Castagnoli vs. Death Riders’ Daniel Garcia
Initially, the blind draw had Castagnoli facing one of his
fiercest rivals in Eddie Kingston. Unfortunately, Kingston
was ruled out of action due to a medical issue, so Tony Khan
announced a play-in between Adam Priest and Castagnoli’s
fellow Death Rider, Daniel Garcia, last night at ROH Death
Before Dishonor. Garcia came away victorious, and all of a
sudden, we have another faction going to battle against each
other, on less than 24 hours notice, with high stakes.
There’s no doubt Castagnoli and Garcia have faced off plenty
of times in their intense training, but to date, Castagnoli
owns the victory in their only singles encounter, which came
in the 2023 Continental Classic. To get to the C3
Quarterfinals, Castagnoli took almost all he could handle
from Bang Bang Gang’s Ace Austin and came out with the win.
The Death Riders know they’ll have a pair of their best in
the C3 Semifinals, no matter how this one goes, but will it
be Garcia or Castagnoli who joins AEW Continental Champion
Jon Moxley in the penultimate round of the Cup?