Posted on 8/01/125 by Bob Magee

Jon Moxley Calls Out Darby Allin

As Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuiness attempted to welcome
us to AEW Collision and recap the AEW World Championship
match between Hangman Adam Page and Jon Moxley, there was a
disturbance in the crowd. The chorus of boos was directed at
a very angry Moxley, Marina Shafir, and Wheeler Yuta making
their way to the ring, even going as far as going after
security along the way.

“We ain’t here to talk about me.”

Moxley recapped how the Death Riders chucked Darby Allin
down a flight of stairs eight months ago with the message
being, “Get gone and stay gone.” 

Since Allin survived the summit to Mount Everest and has
been messing with Moxley’s people, Moxley demanded he show
his face.

Ask and you’ll receive, Jon! 

Darby Allin appeared in one of the balconies above the ring
and while Moxley demanded Allin come to the ring to have
another hard conversation, Allin disappeared, leaving the
Death Riders to chase after him.

Shortly after that, we saw a recap of Dynamite’s world title
match. Just one night ago, we were all treated to a
spectacular AEW World Championship rematch between Hangman
Adam Page and Jon Moxley. Despite Mox’s attempts to
piledrive Page all over the ringside area and the banned
presence of the Death Riders, Hangman was able to
successfully defend his title with a little help from the
aforementioned Darby Allin.

AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament Quarterfinal:
Brodido (Brody King and ROH World Champion Bandido) def.
Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona)

Bishop Kaun and the Ring of Honor World Champion picked up
where these two teams left off less than 24 hours ago when
the Gates of Agony found themselves fighting off Brodido
during Ricochet’s match with Mark Briscoe in the main event
of AEW Dynamite.

Kaun made the tag out to Toa Liona, who called for Brody
King to tag in, but Bandido had no intention of leaving the
action and stood up to Liona. After a stalemate between
Bandido and Liona, King tagged in and the meat was served!

The two biggest men in the match traded shots with Liona
shockingly walking right through King’s massive chops across
the chest. 

And then one of the best parts of the week, the newest,
never-seen before tandem offense from Brodido! Even Tony
Schiavone was at a loss as to how to describe the amazing
innovation from King and Bandido.

With more tandem tag team offense on the way from the top
rope, Kaun crashed into Bandido and King, with the ROH World
Champion landing painfully behind the turnbuckles. With
Liona handling a staggered King on the outside, Kaun hit a
devastatingly brutal backbreaker across the turnbuckles
leaving Bandido in a broken heap.

GoA remained in control and showed off some of their own
unique offense, hitting an assisted backcracker in the
corner. Despite taking so much punishment, Bandido somehow
battled through more double teams and finally made the much
needed hot tag to King.

And Chicago barked with Big Bad Brody King! bark along as you read>

A fresh King completely swung the momentum of the match,
hitting a massive cannonball in the corner before stereo
dives with Bandido taking out the GoA on the outside. 

And it was very clear that everyone in attendance knew what
was coming. King hit his patented running cross-body,
squishing Liona against the guardrail while a flying Bandido
took both himself and Kaun into the first row. Bandido
emerged to celebrate and the chants of “A-E-W” filled the
arena.

Bandido took to the air with a ceiling-scraping frog splash
and nearly got the win, but Kaun made the save to break up
the pin and keep his team in the match.

With Kaun sitting on the top turnbuckle, Liona lifted
Bandido up for an avalanche powerbomb and then dove to the
outside to take out King. 

As Liona and King teetered on the ring apron, King snatched
up the big man with a big Death Valley Driver to take Liona
out of the mix.

Back in the ring, a superplex to Kaun by King set up Bandido
for something that can only be described as a leg-launched
450 splash, as King sent a running Bandido in the air. That
was enough for the win and sent Brodido to the AEW World Tag
Team Eliminator Tournament semifinals.

Don Callis Tries to Make Another Deal With Shane Taylor

Backstage, Lexy Nair was backstage with Don Callis and Lance
Archer to get some words about tonight’s TNT Championship
Chicago Street Fight between champion Dustin Rhodes and The
Protostar Kyle Fletcher, but he was interrupted by Shane
Taylor. With Taylor looking for money from Callis after the
$400,000 tag match, instead Don sent STP in the direction of
SkyFlight for a match later tonight.

We see a package recapping what happened between Hangman
Adam Page, MJF, and Mark Briscoe on Wednesday’s Dynamite.

Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong Discuss Conglomerating

While Kyle O’Reilly remained excited about last week’s
birthday celebration for Roderick Strong, 
Conglomeration members Willow Nightengale, Hologram, and
Tomohiro Ishii appeared to provide some further
encouragement about everyone coming together and while
Strong seemed weary of the whole thing, the rest of the
Conglomeration was fired up for Willow’s match.

The Death Riders Search for Darby Allin

With Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Marina Shafir combing the
darkest shadows of the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom for Darby
Allin, a few seconds of separation between the Death Riders
allowed Allin to grab Mox from behind with some kind of rag
and drag him away.

Kris Statlander def. Lena Kross

With plenty of love from the Chicago crowd, Kris Statlander
brought some Staturday Night Fever to Thursday’s special
edition of AEW Collision. Lena Kross posed an interesting
challenge for Statlander, as she had similar size and
strength, although that didn’t faze the former TBS Champion.
She seemed to have no problem lifting Kross high for an
impressive vertical suplex, earning even more adulation from
the fans. 

Statlander switched things up at the end, locking Kross in a
new submission to get the victory. While Statlander
celebrated at the bottom of the ramp, Willow Nightingale’s
music hit, as she made her way to the ring for her upcoming
match with Thekla. While the two former friends passed each
other on the ramp, no words were exchanged.

Thekla def. Willow Nightingale

Nightingale may be Conglomerating, but she had no help on
the outside to counteract The Triangle of Madness, as Julia
Hart and Skye Blue accompanied the terrifying Toxic Spider
Thekla to the ring.

Hart and Blue made their presence felt right away, stepping
up to the apron as the match began, allowing Thekla a chance
to take advantage of a distracted Nightingale.

The power of Nightingale got her right back in the match and
a massive Pounce sent Thekla spiraling to the outside,
shouting into the camera, “Squashing a bug, baby!” 

The bug, or should we say Toxic Spider, turned the tide by
reversing a whip into the stairs, sending Nightingale
shoulder first into the steel. A vicious head scissors
across the neck of Nightingale was a frightening image, as
Thekla took momentary advantage.

Once again, The Babe with the Power lived up to her name by
cutting off Thekla with a big clothesline. Thekla got the
better of traded blows with the bigger Nightingale. Willow
dropped Thekla with a crushing Death Valley Driver, but it
was only good for a two count. As the two jockeyed for
position on the top rope, it was Thekla who won out with a
breathtaking release spider superplex.

As Nightingale tried to recover on the outside, Hart and
Blue backed her right into a flying body press from a
soaring Thekla. After getting Nightingale back in the ring,
Thekla looked to capitalize, but Willow cut her off again
and seemed to be on the verge of victory.

With Willow looking to end it, once again Hart and Blue
stepped up on the apron, and the slight distraction opened
up a path for Thekla to cut through Nightingale with a spear
before a finishing stomp to get the three count.

The victory wasn’t enough for the Triangle of Madness, as
the three continued to beat down Nightingale after the
match. Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford hit the scene and
joined in on the five-on-one attack.

With Bayne primed to powerbomb Nightingale, Queen Aminata,
Tay Melo, and Anna Jay hit the scene with weapons to finally
bail out Willow. It looks like some new alliances and
battlelines have been drawn in the AEW Women’s Division.

Billy Gunn and Anthony Bowens Attempt to Clear the Air…Again

Backstage, Lexy Nair tried to get some clarification from
Billy Gunn on what happened last week after a match between
former teammates Anthony Bowens and Max Caster. Gunn didn’t
have a chance to say much before a heated Bowens crashed the
interview. He began berating Gunn and demanded to know what
was going on with him?

Gunn was dumbfounded. “I don’t know who you are anymore.”

Gunn exited and Bowens called him a coward, accusing him of
walking away.

Swerve Strickland, Kazuchika Okada Make It Official for
Forbidden Door

Swerve called the AEW Unified Championship “appetizing” and
noted that AEW Forbidden Door is coming up before reminding
everyone whose house it is.

Don Callis was with Kazuchika Okada and reminded everyone of
just how impressive Okada is, including his ability to take
it to the next level in big matches. Then, Callis moved to
Swerve and his interest in the AEW Unified Championship.

Okada said, “At Forbidden Door, we don’t have to talk. Let’s
fight, bitch.”

So at Forbidden Door, it will be Kazuchika Okada defending
the AEW Unified Championship against former AEW World
Champion Swerve Strickland!

AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament Semifinal:
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) def. Bang Bang Gang
(Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn)

Former TNT Champion Daniel Garcia joined the commentary desk
for this semifinal match in the AEW Tag Team Title
Eliminator Tournament between former tag champions FTR and
the Bang Bang Gang’s Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn.

The rejuvenated Robinson began the match for his team and
took it right to both Dax and Cash, much to the chagrin of
Big Stoke on the outside. Robinson and Gunn gave Stoke
another up-close moment when they hit tandem dives to FTR,
as the Chicago crowd erupted in delight.

As they’ve done many times before, FTR were able to turn the
tide and isolate Gunn in their corner. Robinson begged for a
tag in the corner and the Chicago crowd willed Gunn to reach
out his hand, but the tag was made behind the referee’s back
thanks to 

Gunn was in dire straits against the guard rail, yet found
new life when he got out of the way of a double axehandle by
Cash, sending the former AEW World Tag Team champion off the
metal.

Finally, Robinson tagged in and was a house of fire, as he
fed off his hometown crowd of Chicago.

Dax was able to roll up Robinson with a lot of leverage and
that should have been enough, but Stoke added a little extra
help with his crutch only for the referee to catch it in
time.

Taking a bit of a page out of FTR’s book, Gunn and Robinson
hit Power and Glory on Dax, but Cash made another save with
a frogsplash of his own.

Robinson looked to pay homage to the injured Jay White with
a Blade Runner, but Dax was able to escape. However,
Robinson was not to be denied, as he hit the Blade Runner
for a nearfall. 

It looked like the Right Hand of God and a Fame-Ass-Er would
put Dax away, but Cash made yet another save.

Gunn found a way to roll up Harwood for what should have
been a three count, yet the referee was tied up by Stoke
faking an injury. In the confusion, Wheeler reversed the pin
just in time for the referee to make the three count,
stealing one for FTR, as they move on to the finals.

Athena Challenges Toni Storm at Forbidden Door!

After Taz gave us a unique breakdown of Athena’s O-Face, we
heard from the Forever ROH Women’s Champion, who laid out
her plans for coming after the AEW Women’s World
Championship.

“No door is forbidden to me, Toni!”
“When I activate, no one is gonna stop me.”

So AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door will bring us Athena
challenging “Timeless” Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s World
Championship in London on August 24!

RUSH “Survives” the Best Wrestler Alive™, Max Caster

Max Caster was out for his latest challenge, but not before
addressing his bad luck in Chicago. Although, Caster noted
that every week things seem to be getting worse for his
former partner, Anthony Bowens.

“I’m not a bland, crybaby bitch like Anthony Bowens.”

And then it was time to figure out who would step to Caster
this evening…none other than RUSH!

Caster began a cardio routine of sorts on the outside to
keep his distance from RUSH and ran more than 90 seconds off
the clock. Unfortunately, Caster took his eye off his
opponent and ran into a huge shot from RUSH. A trip around
the ringside guardrails put Caster in a bad way, and with
three minutes still remaining. However, RUSH acknowledged
the crowd just a little too long, leaving an opening for
Caster to hit a pescado to the outside.

The offense didn’t last long for Max, as RUSH pounded his
way back into control. For some reason, RUSH continued to
take his time and gloat, seemingly unfazed by the seconds
running away. RUSH continued the assault in the corner with
less than 20 seconds to go. As RUSH set up for a dropkick to
the corner, the crowd counted down to zero.

MAX CASTER HAS SURVIVED THE FIVE MINUTES!!!!!

Once RUSH realized what happened, he took his frustrations
out on Caster and called for La Faccion Ingobernable
stablemates The Beast Mortos and Dralistico to joining in on
the beating. Speedball Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight of
JetSpeed along AR Fox came down to even up the numbers game,
fighting off LFI.

Back in the ring, the referees checked on Caster, who found
just enough energy to raise his arm in the air…in victory?

“8 Belts” Mercedes Moné Returns to Dynamite

Over the weekend, TBS Champion Mercedes Mone added more gold
to her resume in Europe, bringing the total to eight
championships across the world. “Eight Belts” Mone returns
to AEW Dynamite next Wednesday!

SkyFlight (Scorpio Sky, Darius Martin and Dante Martin) def.
Shane Taylor Promotions’ The Infantry (Carlie Bravo and
Shawn Dean) & Shane Taylor

After making the deal with Don Callis earlier in the night,
Shane Taylor Promotions was set to take on the trios team of
Scorpio Sky and Top Flight, Dante and Darius Martin.

STP showed their cohesion early, but SkyFlight began to gain
more confidence as the match went along. The leadership of
Christopher Daniels seemed to give a much needed boost to
Dante and Darius. Eventually, it was Scorpio Sky picking up
the win for his team with a TKO. 

Darby Allin Nearly Gets Ultimate Revenge on Jon Moxley

A commotion in the back found Darby Allin dragging Jon
Moxley outside to a fire escape near running trains. A
dangerous situation got even worse when Allin tried to dump
Moxley over the railing, but security separated the two.

As Allin was pulled away, he was heard yelling at Moxley, “I
said I would take everything!”

Chicago Street Fight for the TNT Championship: Kyle Fletcher
def. Dustin Rhodes

A focused Kyle Fletcher made his way to the ring alongside
Don Callis, looking prepared as ever to right the perceived
wrong of not winning the TNT Championship at All In Texas.
Meanwhile, Dustin Rhodes threw it back to his early days
with his “Natural” theme music.

A stoic Fletcher was not fazed in the slightest as Arkady
Aura handled the championship ring introductions.

Rhodes came out throwing big shots, as you might expect from
Rhodes in this street fight. The match spilled to the
outside, where Fletcher spiked Rhodes with a DDT on the
steel steps. And this one could be over early!

Fletcher decided to go for broke by setting up a table
against the guardrail, but Rhodes side-stepped a dive and
the Protostar crashed and burned, shattering the table with
his body.

With new life, Rhodes went under the ring to find a cowbell,
cracking Fletcher in the skull twice, drawing blood across
his forehead. Rhodes took Fletcher to the outside and
attempted to hit a bulldog through a table, but Fletcher
broke free and set Rhodes through the wood.

Fletcher was in control and now found his own use for the
cowbell, repeatedly lashing Rhodes across the back. Rhodes
battled back with a Code Red for a two count and then a
Cross Rhodes, yet Fletcher wouldn’t stay down for three.

Both men wielded chairs, and Rhodes won the duel, knocking
Fletcher’s chair from his hands. However, a little too much
playing to the crowd by Rhdoes gave Fletcher the opening to
hit a superkick into the chair careening off the TNT
Champion’s face.

Fletcher smelled blood (literally) and immediately set up
two chairs to hit a dangerous tombstone on the steel.
Somehow Rhodes was able to kick out!

As another table was set up in the middle of the ring,
Rhodes and Fletcher were perched on the top rope with Rhodes
hitting an Avalanche Canadian Destroyer through the table.
What was that?!?! 

And somehow Fletcher kicked out! This match is awesome!

Rhodes found his own version of The Iron Claw, a glove
covered in thumbtacks. Fletcher battled through the claw,
putting Rhodes down before finding his own thumbtacks which
he scattered all over the ring. Both men traded multiple
suplex reversals and Fletcher grabbed the advantage with
another superkick, but Rhodes immediately answered with a
vicious powerslam into the tacks!!!

With Fletcher tied up in the corner, Rhodes stepped back to
kick Fletcher in his Protostars, but stopped himself. He
took the remaining tacks and poured them down the front of
Fletcher’s trunks! As the kick landed on Fletcher’s lower
regions, his dumbfounded look of pain was felt by everyone
watching.

Rhodes seemingly had the match in hand when Callis slipped
Fletcher a screwdriver. A sickening stab to the head caused
even more damage to Rhodes’ already crimson mask, and
Fletcher wasn’t done. 

In one of the most heinous visuals in AEW Collision history,
Fletcher repeatedly stabbed Rhodes’ left knee with the
screwdriver, eventually leaving the bloody tool in the flesh
as the ringside doctor tried to intervene. 

After a slight hesitation, Fletcher cracked Rhodes with
another big kick. A brainbuster on the tacks finally ended
the match with The Protostar Kyle Fletcher becoming TNT
Champion for the first time.

Fletcher didn’t take long to celebrate, as he went right
back to work on the stabbed knee of Rhodes by cracking him
over and over with a steel chair.

While the Callis Family celebrated Fletcher’s championship
victory on the top of the ramp, medical personnel
stretchered a bloodied and battered Rhodes to the back as
Collision came to an end.
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