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3/7 AEW COLLISION REPORT

AEW Collision is live from the Tucson Arena in Tucson, AZ. The commentary team is Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness.

FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) w/Stokely (AEW Tag Team Champions) vs The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz and Dezmond Xavier) w/Myron Reed.

Cash and Zachary start by locking up and Cash forces them into FTR’s corner. Dax tags in and he locks up with Zachary and they run the ropes. Dax gets a shoulder tackle and they trade quick takedowns. They move to fighting in the corner and Zachary gives Dax a big slap. Dax goes to the floor to recover before getting back in the ring.

Dezmond tags in and he locks up with Dax and Dax forces them to the corner where he lays in strikes. Dezmond fights out of the corner, but Dax drops him and rolls him to the floor as the ref is distracted, Stokely chokes Dezmond. Dezmond escapes and throws hands at FTR until Zachary hits a tornado dive. Both teams brawl around the ring on the floor. Dax and Dezmond roll into the ring and Dezmond covers for two.

Dezmond is tagged in and gets a leaping stomp on Dax’s arm, held by Zachary. FTR works over Zachary in the corner, and then when Dax rolls to the floor, Zachary follows and is set up for a blind clothesline from Cash as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Zachary has been the babyface in peril through the break, and gets a pair of small package rollups on Dax. He rolls under a clothesline and tags in Dezmond, who runs wild. FTR tries for a double team, which sets off the tag team siren and all four men are fighting in the ring. After diving on FTR in the ring, Dax is rolled into the ring, and Zachary and then Dezmond come off the top onto Dax for two.

Zachary tags in and goes to the top. Dax shoves him and as Cash dives on Dezmond on the floor, Dax gets a back suplex from the top for two on Zachary. Both men are down and take time to recover. Dax and Zachary fight back and forth to their feet. Zach fires a big series of chops at Dax and tries for a back slide, instead getting a small package for two.

Cash comes in as Dax and Zachary are struggling and takes a back body drop. Dezmond tags in and gets a two-man flip pin for two. Zachary is tagged in and they attempt the Hot Fire Flash but Dax gets his knees up. FTR hits a BTE Trigger on Zachary to mock the Young Bucks. Dezmond interrupts a spike piledriver from FTR and Zachary gets a rollup for two.

Dax runs into Dezmond on the apron and knocks him to the floor. FTR then hits the Shatter Machine for the pin and the win.

Winners and still AEW Tag Team Champions: FTR

Mark Briscoe comes to the ring as FTR is heading up the ramp.

Hook is in the back and says he is still recruiting. Anthony Bowens comes up to Hook and says he has been thinking about it, and he can be a killer. Hook tells him to grab the camera from Shibata and grabs someone in the back and asks if they want to be in the Opps. Hook slaps on Redrum and says “Get out of this.”

He doesn’t and passes out. Hook starts walking and tells Bowens to follow him.

Daniel Garcia vs Tommaso Ciampa

Mark Briscoe joins commentary

They lock up after staring at each other for a brief time and when they break, Garcia goes to the floor to recover. He returns to the ring and locks up before going to arm bars. Ciampa shoots Garcia to the corner and follows with a chop. He does it again and Ciampa gives Garcia 10 in the corner and follows with Garcia’s old dance. Ciampa gets a neck breaker. Garcia goes to the apron and gives Ciampa a dragon screw in the ropes and then wraps Ciampa’s leg around the ring post as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Garcia has been working over Ciampa’s leg through the break. Garcia tries for a drop-kick off the second rope and Ciampa gets a knee strike. They run the ropes and Ciampa gets a leaping clothesline and then clotheslines Garcia to the floor. When Garcia gets on the apron, Ciampa kicks him back to the floor and he then slams Garcia’s head into the announce table.

Ciampa rolls Garcia in the ring and gives Briscoe a high five. Ciampa tries for a pickup, but the knee gives out. Garcia grabs Ciampa’s leg, and Ciampa tries to slap his way free. They trade slaps under Garcia, get a dragon screw and then lock in a single leg crab. Ciampa rolls onto his back to kick free, but Garcia gets an STF and Ciampa bites his way free. Garcia gets a big drop-kick and then gets 10 in the corner, but Ciampa carries him out for a backstabber for two.

Ciampa is holding his knee and Garcia rolls to the floor and starts jacking jaws at Briscoe. After slamming Ciampa’s knee into the apron. Garcia pie faces Briscoe and rolls up Ciampa for two. Garcia whips Ciampa into the ropes where he runs into Briscoe. Garcia gets a rollup for the pin and the win.

Winner: Daniel Garcia

Briscoe gets into the ring to explain himself and goes for a handshake, but Ciampa isn’t interested in a handshake. As Briscoe leaves, FTR comes to the ring. Briscoe gets back in the ring to stand with Ciampa. As Briscoe gets in FTR’s face, Ciampa slowly leaves the ring. Briscoe joins him and Ciampa attacks Briscoe on the stage.

FTR watches and applauds from the ring.

Next is a hype video for Konosuke Takeshita and Claudio Castagnoli later tonight.

Swerve Strickland w/Prince Nana vs The Already In The Ring Gravity

We are reminded that Gravity is Bandido’s brother and this is connected to Swerve’s feud with Brody King. Tentatively.

Swerve beats Gravity from pillar to post and then hits a House Call for the pin and the win.

Winner: Swerve Strickland

We then get a promo from Kris Statlander from after Dynamite. She says she and Thekla have beaten each once, so at Revolution, it will be two out of three falls.

Thekla comes to the ring saying “No” over and over. She asks when it changed and the challenger gets to choose the match and she will not do two out of three falls at Revolution. She then asks what makes Kris think she can beat her twice in one night, and Kris wears sunglasses because she can’t look Thekla in the eye. She wears leather because she wants to be like Thekla. She then says Thunder Rosa should have listened to her because she sent her in a box back to the graveyards in Tijuana. She then tells Kris to stop while she’s still alive because everything she is afraid of is everything she is.

Strong promo from Thekla.

Renee interviews Jon Moxley about his match with Takeshita. Mox says Takeshita can beat him but he won’t beat him at Revolution.

LFI (Rush and Dralistico) vs The Swirl (Blake Christian and Lee Johnson) vs Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) The Outlanders (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) - Winner gets $200,000

Dalton Castle joins commentary and Nigel accidentally calls Floyd “Truth Martini”.

Truth and Lee start the match with a lock-up and running the ropes.

Isiah tags in as does Dralistico. Isiah is tossed to the floor where Rush works him over.

Isiah is rolled into the ring where LFI and The Swirl work together to work him

LFI turns on Swirl and Rush and Lee fight on the top. Brian joins them and Rush fights them both off.

Dralistico gets a hurricanrana on Brian and Rush takes out Lee as we go to picture in picture

When we return to full screen, The Outrunners tag in and run wild and everyone gets body slams

Truth suplexes Brian into everyone on the floor.

The Outrunners double bicep drop is broken up

Private Party and LFI fight in the ring

Dralistico gives Isiah a hurricanrana from the apron to the floor. Dralistico gets a leaping lung blower from the top on Quen

Rush runs into a clothesline from Turbo.

The Swirl breaks up another double bicep from The Outrunners.

We then get The Swirl and Private Party in the ring with high spots

Isiah breaks up a pin on Quen by Swirl

Swirl and Private Party go back to high spots.

Isiah gets a flying cutter on Brian, who is on Quen’s shoulders, for the pin and the win.

Winners of $200,000: Private Party

We get a recap of The Don Callis Family winning the Trio Titles at Dynamite. Lexi is then with Speedball Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight, and Knight says it was the hardest night of his career, but more opportunities will be coming his way. Speedball says they will be teaming with Mystico for the Trio Titles. Speedball then says he has what it takes to take the title from Kyle Fletcher on Wednesday.

Swerve shows and tells Knight he needs to become a killer to compete amongst killers.

And that’s how Jet Set Radio seems to end, I guess.

Renee is with the Babes of Wrath who are immediately attacked and laid out by Megabad.

Megabad (Lena Cross and Megan Bayne) vs Timeless Love Bombs (Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) w/Luther

Mina and Megan start the match and Megan backs her into the ropes. Mina goes for a chop when they break and then run the ropes where Megan gets a running shoulder tackle and then tags in Cross. As they try to couple to team Mina, Storm joins the fight and Megabad gets a double fallaway slam on the Love Bombs. We go back to just Cross and Mina, but Mina is the babyface in peril as Megan and Cross cut the ring in half to work her over.

Mina gets the hot tag to Toni, who runs wild. Toni covers Megan after a drop-kick for two. Toni whips Megan to the floor and ducks an attack from Cross. Mina leaps onto both of Megabad on the floor. Storm misses a hip attack on Megan and as Luther helps her up, Megan dives into both of them as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Toni has been the babyface in peril through the break. Toni is able to get the diving tag and Mina runs wild. Mina ends it with a shotgun drop-kick on Megan and tags in Toni for an assisted tornado on Megan for two. Megan is able to hoist both members of the Love Bombs for a fallaway slam. Megan goes to the top, Mina and Toni join her. Cross shows and slams all three to the mat.

Toni and Megan fight to their feet and keep throwing hands. Toni gets a headbutt. Cross drops Toni, Mina drops Cross and Toni drops Megan with a DDT. Toni gets a hip attack on Megan in the corner, and Mina tags in for a leaping clothesline from the top for two. Mina locks on the figure four and Megan rolls over to reverse the hold and Toni rolls her back. Cross does the same and Toni reverses it again. This time, Cross hits a senton on Mina to break the hold. Marina Shafir pulls Toni off the apron and they brawl on the floor. Cross hits a jackhammer slam on Mina for the pin and the win.

Winners: Megabad

Toni and Marina are fighting under the ring as we go to Briscoe in the back who says since Ciampa came into AEW, something felt off. He then says that when Ciampa jumped him from behind, that’s the Ciampa he remembers. He then says aligning with FTR has made it so he needs to fight all three of them, and Briscoe will be bringing Dem Bucks.

The Dogs (Gabe Kidd, Chris Connors and David Finley) vs The Already In The Ring Cosmo Orion, Giamo Cabanari, and Jaden Monroe

I am not 100% sure on the names of the other team since they weren’t shown on the screen, and they were beaten before I could find their names on Google.

“This isn’t a match, it’s a mugging” - Tony Schiavone

Winners: The Dogs

Toni Storm comes out and challenges Marina Shafir to a one on one match at Revolution.

We then get a video of Persephone beating Mercedes Mone for the CMLL World Title, and she will be fighting Willow Nightingale on Dynamite. They go down the rest of the card for Dynamite.

Claudio Castagnoli (CMLL Champion) vs Konosuke Takeshita (NJPW Television Champion)

Jon Moxley joins commentary

They lock up and move quickly to mat wrestling. They work to their feet with wrist locks and Takeshita breaks the hold and grabs an ankle lock on the mat into more mat wrestling. They work to their feet and go to the corner where they break clean. Claudio fires a forearm once they are out of the corner. Takeshita gets a big boot and then a series of blows in the corner where Claudio drops him on the top rope. Claudio lays in stomps in the corner.

They run the ropes and Takeshita gets a leaping kick on Claudio who rolls to the apron. Claudio snaps Takeshita’s arm on the top rope and then they run the ropes again, shoulder tackles back and forth until Claudio goes to Takeshita’s eyes and then gets a double stomp on Takeshita’s arm. They fight in the corner and Takeshita gets a tejaris out of the corner and then slams Claudio’s head repeatedly into the top turnbuckle.

Claudio slams Takeshita’s arm over the top rope after Takeshita throws shade on Mox. Claudio twists Takeshita arm into the ropes as we go to picture in picture,

When we return to full screen, they are throwing hands in the middle of the ring. Takeshita gets a big boot and Claudio goes back to the arm and gets a cross arm breaker. Takeshita rolls in to make a cover for two. Claudio leaps off the second rope into a forearm from Takeshita. They run the ropes and Takeshita gets a leaping forearm and follows with an exploder suplex. Takeshita tries for a V Trigger, but Claudio blocks it and gets a Giant Swing and goes back to the arm for a submission move.

Takeshita escapes and covers for two. Claudio starts shoulder thrusts in Takeshita’s arm. Takeshita fires back with strikes and Takeshita hits a Blue Thunder Bomb for two since no one wins a match with a Blue Thunder Bomb. Takeshita gets a rolling discus elbow, but Claudio hits a pop-up uppercut for two.

Claudio leaves the ring and throws a chair into the ring, the ref stomps him and tosses the chairs, but Claudio grabs his title belt. Hechicero takes the title belt from Claudio and Takeshita dives onto Claudio and rolls him into the ring. Takeshita gets a V trigger for two. Takeshita runs into an uppercut from Claudio. Claudio escapes out the back when Takeshita tries to lift him and goes back to hitting Takeshita's arm and then moves to uppercuts. Claudio tries for a slam, but Takeshita rolls through and hits Raging Fire for the pinch and the win.

Winner: Konosuke Takeshita

They do not mention any title changing hands, so it must have been a non-title match, right?

After the match, Takeshita and Mox go face to face, but Hechicero attacks Mox. Takeshita says they don’t need it, but Mox attacks them both. Claudio and Shafir join in the fight and they are all brawling at ringside as we are desperately out of time.

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