Posted on 3/22/126 by Bob Magee
It was a special Slam Dunk Saturday AEW Collision on TNT and
streaming on HBO Max! The madness didn’t stop on the court,
as we saw the best wrestling in the world on display tonight
in Fresno, California!
Our night began with a TNT Title match pitting TNT Champion
“The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher against one of his trainers,
Robbie Eagles. On this night, the student bested the
teacher, as Fletcher came away with his third successful
defense and the win.
The main event was a spectacular example of styles making
matches, with Claudio Castagnoli and Daniel Garcia of the
Death Riders outlasting Máscara Dorada and Komander in a
fantastic tag-team affair!
AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley and PAC addressed the
return and attacks by Will Ospreay, with PAC making it clear
he’d be happy to fight Ospreay again.
Plus, the Brawling Birds remained undefeated with a victory
over Sisters of Sin! And LFI was dominant in Trios action!
All of that and more went down on Slam Dunk Saturday! Here
are your complete Collision results.
AEW Collision Slam Dunk Saturday Recap Tonight for Fresno
TNT Championship: “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher (c) def.
Robbie Eagles
Jon Moxley Addresses Will Ospreay’s Return … and PAC Wants a
Fight!
Trios Match: LFI (RUSH, Dralístico and The Beast Mortos)
def. Alpha Zo, Dom Kubrick & Lucas Riley
AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla on “Timeless” Toni Storm
Attack
Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor) def. Sisters
of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue)
Brody King Continues His Hunt for Gold
Death Riders (Daniel Garcia and Claudio Castagnoli) def.
Komander & Máscara Dorada
TNT Championship: “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher (c) def.
Robbie Eagles
The night got off to a hot start with the TNT Title on the
line! Fletcher toyed with Eagles at the early going, showing
a lack of respect for the man who helped teach him. Eagles
was able to outwrestle Fletcher, so Fletcher went to his
power and slammed Eagles to the mat. Eagles came back with a
flying head-scissors and a spinning heel kick. Eagles
focused on Fletcher's left leg with kicks to the hamstring.
Fletcher came back with a backbreaker and a full nelson
slam!
Eagles kept trying to fight back, but Fletcher would cut him
off over and over again. A dropkick to Fletcher’s leg put
him on his knees, so Eagles nailed a shining wizard and then
charged Fletcher in the corner. Fletcher caught a meteora
and tried to turn it into a powerbomb, but Eagles escaped
and connected with a sliced bread! Fletcher kicked out at
two! Eagles went back to the leg and dropkicked it from the
second rope. He went back up top and rolled through a 450
splash attempt only to turn right into a Michinoku Driver.
Eagles kicked out, and Fletcher was beside himself.
Fletcher took a lot of time composing himself and begged for
Eagles to fight back, which he did with a barrage of blows!
Fletcher stopped him with a half-and-half suplex, but missed
a kick in the corner, allowing Eagles to nail a springboard
dropkick to put Fletcher down. Eagles locked in a reverse
figure four leglock, and Fletcher nearly tapped before
getting to the ropes. Eagles kicked Fletcher to the outside
and followed with a somersault dive through the ropes!
Eagles went to the top, but Fletcher cut him off and tried
an avalanche brainbuster, but Eagles got out of it and
suplexed Fletcher into the turnbuckles.
Eagles nailed a 450 splash on the damaged leg, but Fletcher
rolled him into a near-fall. Eagles connected on a
poisonrana and tried another sliced bread, but Fletcher got
out, so Eagles lit him up with kicks. Fletcher dropped a
charging Eagles with a lariat and followed with a lawn dart
into the top turnbuckle. He smashed Eagles with a corner
rocket kick and a sheer drop brainbuster to get the victory
and successful TNT Title defense!
Jon Moxley Addresses Will Ospreay’s Return … and PAC Wants a
Fight!
Backstage, Moxley said, “The Aerial Assassin is back in the
game, and he’s got some big feelings.” Moxley referenced
Ospreay saying he could break someone’s neck with his bare
hands and took that to mean Ospreay was referring to his
neck. Moxley said nothing like that will be happening. And
they could talk about why Ospreay was “put in timeout,” but
he probably wouldn’t get it. Ospreay is so talented, but
Moxley hopes he can stay out of trouble.
“But if you’re determined to end up in the hospital…”
PAC stepped in and wondered what Ospreay’s beef was with
him. PAC said he wasn’t even around when whatever happened
to Ospreay happened to him. Although the truth is, they’ve
never really gotten on.
“From the moment I shook your hand, I knew you were a
prick.”
PAC continued, saying that if Ospreay wants to trek this
path again, all he has to do is ask, and PAC would be there.
“I can’t wait to get my grubby little mitts around your
neck.”
Trios Match: LFI (RUSH, Dralístico and The Beast Mortos)
def. Alpha Zo, Dom Kubrick & Lucas Riley
Dralístico caught a kick from Riley and put him on the mat
with a flying attack. He tagged Mortos, who chopped Riley
and tagged RUSH. Mortos whipped Riley back into the corner
so Dralístico and RUSH could keep the offense going, and
then all three hit dropkicks to the sitting Riley! LFI
posed, and RUSH pulled Kubrick over the top only to forearm
him right out of the ring. Zo got a headbutt from RUSH to
send him to the floor. Dralístico connected on a dive to Zo
and Kubrick. Back in the ring, RUSH gave Riley the Bull’s
Horns, and Mortos followed with a tornillo splash from the
top! RUSH covered for the 1-2-3 and dominant win for LFI!
AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla on “Timeless” Toni Storm
Attack
Lexy Nair was with Thekla and asked about the attack on
“Timeless” Toni Storm. Thekla feigned sympathy before
breaking out into laughter, prompting Lexy to ask if she had
anything to do with it.
“Lexy, baby. I had everything to do with it. Toni Storm said
she wanted her title back and then she saw what I did to Big
Stat Daddy and she realized she might be ‘Timeless,’ but
she’s not toxic. So she staged the whole thing, and then she
ran home because she knows she can’t handle Thekla. This is
not Toni Storm’s title. It’s nobody’s title, other than
mine, of course. It looks like me, it sounds like me, it
tastes like me. It is everything I am. My advice to the
whole locker room is maybe you should all fake your own
death because the reality is so much worse!”
Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor) def. Sisters
of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue)
Hayter and Hart began this tag match, and Hayter’s power was
too much, as she put Hart down with a backbreaker. Windsor
tagged in and charged across to knock Blue from the apron.
Windsor and Hayter hit an assisted Russian leg sweep,
followed by a sitting lariat from Windsor. Blue came back in
but was quickly knocked down. Hart and Blue were stacked in
the corner, so the Birds unloaded with chops, and Windsor
covered Hart for a two-count. Hart tagged Blue, and she
traded chops and strikes with Windsor for an extended period
until Blue raked Windsor’s eyes. Windsor took her right back
down to the mat, but Hart nailed Windsor with a kick to the
back from the apron. Hart held Windsor on the ropes while
Blue attacked Windsor from behind. Blue knocked Hayter off
the apron, and the Brawling Birds were in trouble!
Hayter found her way into the match and survived a flurry of
offense from Sisters of Sin. Windsor came in to break up a
double team, which knocked Hart out of the mix, but Blue
sent Windsor back to the apron. Hayter fought through a
lariat from Blue to hit a backbreaker on Blue across her
knee! Windsor tagged back in and hit the ropes to finish it,
but Hart cut her off with a dropkick to the outside. Sisters
of Sin nailed a front suplex on Windsor, followed by stereo
kicks and then two more kicks on Hayter to knock her from
the apron once again.
Hart ran off the apron and connected with a cannonball to
Hayter on the floor. Blue nailed a running knee on a
kneeling Windsor, but Windsor kicked out at two! Windsor
stopped Blue with a headbutt and charged into the corner.
She put Blue on the top turnbuckle, so Blue fought her off
and flipped herself into an avalanche sunset flip! Hayter
came in to break up the pin! Hart pushed her to the outside
and tagged back in. Windsor fought off the double team with
a blue thunder bomb on Blue. Hayter tagged in for a lariat
on Hart, and then the Birds sandwiched Hart in the middle
with lariats. They finished Hart off with Two Birds, One
Stone to remain undefeated!
Brody King Continues His Hunt for Gold
Lexy Nair asked Brody King about his loss to Swerve
Strickland at Revolution, but he cut her off, saying that,
because of Kenny Omega, he is standing here today.
“And Kenny, for that, I owe you one. And Swerve, after Kenny
mops the floor with you, this is not over. But for now, the
hunt for championship gold continues.”
Death Riders (Daniel Garcia and Claudio Castagnoli) def.
Komander & Máscara Dorada
Before the main event, we took a look back at the AEW World
Championship Texas Death Match last weekend at Revolution,
which saw AEW World Champion MJF defeat “Hangman” Adam Page.
MJF returns to Dynamite this Wednesday!
Castagnoli entered this match without the CMLL World
Heavyweight Championship after losing it to Hechicero of the
Don Callis Family at Arena México last night!
Garcia and Komander opened up this exciting main event, with
Garcia putting Komander on the mat multiple times,
punctuated by some unnecessary taunting. Garcia went after
Komander’s mask, just as he did during Zero Hour last
weekend, but Komander got away this time. Komander turned
things around with a kick to put Garcia down long enough to
tag Dorada. Komander tripped Garcia to the mat, and Dorada
dropkicked Garcia in the head. Garcia escaped Dorada’s grasp
to tag Castagnoli, who immediately slammed Dorada to the mat
in a sheer force of power! Dorada used his speed to avoid
Castagnoli until a flying head-scissors sent Castagnoli to
the floor. Dorada looked to dive from the ring, but
Castagnoli came right back in to drop him with an uppercut!
Castagnoli fought Dorada near the ropes, but didn’t see
Dorada make a tag to Komander. Castagnoli flipped Dorada to
the apron only to eat a kick to the head from Dorada and
then Komander before they both connected with springboard
dropkicks to send Castagnoli back to the floor!
Garcia stepped in, but Komander decided to dive onto
Castagnoli, who was waiting with an uppercut on the floor!
Dorada dove onto Castagnoli, who caught him in midair and
slammed Dorada onto the announce table. He held Dorada for
Garcia, who nailed a running knee! The Death Riders had all
the momentum, as the boos echoed throughout the arena.
Garcia and Castagnoli kept Komander away from Dorada while
continuing to dish out the punishment for quite some time.
Garcia mounted Komander for nine punches in the corner so
Castagnoli could follow with a running uppercut! Garcia
threw Castagnoli into a kneeling Komander for another
uppercut!
Komander kicked his way free of Castagnoli and escaped a
charge in the corner to get on the top rope, but when he
came down, Castagnoli caught him, only for Komander to
reverse it into a facebuster! Komander DDTed Castagnoli and
finally tagged Dorada, who went right to the top to hit an
armdrag on Garcia, followed by a spinning head-scissors.
Dorada and Komander met each other in the middle of a rope
walk and nailed stereo moonsaults to the Death Riders on the
outside! What a spectacular sight!
Back in the ring, Garcia was down, and Dorada went to the
top, but Garcia moved out of the way, so Dorada landed on
his feet. Dorada put Garcia down with an inverted crucifix
Liger bomb, but Garcia managed to kick out! Komander tagged
back in for some double-team offense that nearly finished
off Garcia with a standing shooting star press, but
Castagnoli broke it up. He tagged back in and executed a
sunset flip/uppercut combo with Garcia, but this time,
Dorada made the save on the pin attempt!
Komander controlled Castagnoli’s arm as he bounced up and
down the ropes, but created space so that Dorada could dive
through to Garcia on the floor! Komander came off the top
with a hurricanrana into a pin attempt, but Castagnoli
kicked out. Castagnoli caught Komander’s moonsault attempt
and turned it into a tilt-o-whirl backbreaker! He quickly
turned that into a giant swing, followed by the Neutralizer
to get the victory in our main event! That will do it for
Slam Dunk Saturday!
Catch a SPECIAL EDITION of AEW Collision on Slam Dunk
Sunday, 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT or immediately following the
NCAA Tournament COAST-TO-COAST on TNT and streaming on HBO
Max, from Fresno, California!
And remember… We are AEW—Where The Best Wrestle!