AEW Collision notes: Next week’s show moved, Babes of Wrath

Notes from AEW Collision.

During Saturday’s show in Cedar Rapids, Iowa it was noted that next week’s Collision would air on a different day this coming week: Thursday at 8 pm ET, as NCAA basketball coverage is scheduled to take place during its normal timeslot. A replay of Thursday’s show, however, is scheduled to air on TNT at 11:30 ET that night.

In the opening match, the Babes of Wrath failed to win back the AEW Women’s Tag Team titles, losing to Divine Dominion after Harley Cameron took a double chokeslam. Later backstage, Cameron apologized for letting everyone down while Nightingale rejected the idea, choosing instead to reflect on all of their big moments as a team. When Cameron asked what they do now, Nightingale suggested focusing on other things. Cameron pushed Nightingale to focus on the TBS Championship and told her tag team partner she’d always be in her corner. 

The two were the first-ever Women’s Tag Team Champions, having won them in a tournament final back in December. Although Nightingale successfully defended the TBS title against Lena Kross during Revolution’s Zero Hour pre-show, the Babes of Wrath lost the titles to Kross and Megan Bayne during the main card.

Continental & Women’s Tag Team title defenses added to AEW Grand Slam Australia

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AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley will defend against former IWGP World Champion and former AEW International Champion Konosuke Takeshita at this month’s Grand Slam Australia — one of two new title matches announced Wednesday.

The Moxley vs. Takeshita match was announced during AEW Dynamite shortly after both men were on opposite ends of a trios match as part of the ongoing feud between the Death Riders and the Don Callis Family.

It will be Moxley’s first defense of the title he won at last December’s Worlds End in the Continental Classic.

This will be their fourth-ever singles meeting dating back to July 2022 when Moxley beat Takeshita in a then-interim World title eliminator match. The two rematched five months later on Rampage with Moxley again winning.

Moxley defeated Takeshita in an then-IWGP World title eliminator at 2024’s Forbidden Door with Takeshita finally defeating Moxley in last year’s Continental Classic in Blue league action.

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Another title match added for Sydney will see AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions Babes of Wrath defending against Megan Bayne & Penelope Ford.

The match came about during Wednesday’s Dynamite when Bayne and Ford picked up a rare title eliminator victory, defeating the champions to earn the title shot. It will the third defense for Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron

The two teams have been feuding in various forms since last fall.

Current AEW Grand Slam Australia card | February 14 | Sydney, Australia

  • Hangman Page vs. Andrade El Idolo World title eliminator
  • Toni Storm & Orange Cassidy vs. Wheeler Yuta & Marina Shafir in a hair vs. hair tornado tag match
  • AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley defends against Konosuke Takeshita
  • AEW Women’s Tag Team Champions Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron) defend against MegaBad (Penelope Ford & Megan Bayne)

Harley Cameron performs ‘Babes of Wrath’ song at AEW Worlds End post-event scrum

Harley Cameron found an interesting way to address the media at the AEW Worlds End post-event media scrum.

Cameron brought out a guitar while the Conglomeration were being interviewed, dedicating a song she just wrote to her Babes of Wrath tag team partner, Willow Nightingale.

She titled the song “Babes of Wrath” and some of the lyrics include:

“I wasn’t looking but now that I’ve found her, if I let you go I’d be crazy. You’re so damn strong, I love your power bomb. Everything you do is amazing.

I wrote this song hoping you’d sing along, little bit of something I’m confessing.

And it feels so right, it feels like I’ve tagged with you my entire life.
And I’ve just done that, we’re your AEW Tag Team Champions and we’re the Babes of Wrath!

Babes of Wrath!
Babes of Wrath!
Babes of Wrath!”

Following Cameron’s musical performance, she and Nightingale were asked about their win over Athena and Mercedes Mone on the pay-per-view.

“We knew we were up for a challenge but I am proud to say that we brought it, and we delivered and we are still your AEW Women’s Tag Team Champions tonight,” Cameron continued.

Tony Khan then noted that Nightingale got the pin over the TBS Champion at Worlds End and is now scheduled to challenge Mone for her title on Dynamite this Wednesday.

Cameron’s song begins at the 13:20 mark of the interview. The video below is cued.

First two matches announced for next AEW Dynamite

The AEW Continental Classic will continue on next Wednesday’s Dynamite with a key match in the Blue League between Death Riders teammates.

Announced at the conclusion of Wednesday’s tournament kickoff, Jon Moxley will take on Claudio Castagnoli. Both men picked up victories and their first three points in the tournament Wednesday by virtue of their wins over Mascara Dorada and Orange Cassidy, respectively.

It will be their first singles match since 2017 when they were both in WWE.

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The show will also feature a semifinal bout in the inaugural AEW Women’s World Tag Team title tournament as Toni Storm & Mina Shirakawa battle Marina Shafir & Megan Bayne in a hardcore holiday death match.

The reason for the stipulation was Storm and Shirakawa earned the right to select one after winning a four-way at last Saturday’s Full Gear.

The winners will move on to face Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron in the finals at a date/location yet to be announced.

Current AEW Dynamite lineup | Wednesday, December 3 | Fishers, Indiana

  • AEW Women’s World Tag Team title tournament semifinals: Toni Storm & Mina Shirakawa vs. Marina Shafir & Megan Bayne in a hardcore holiday death match
  • Continental Classic (Blue League): Jon Moxley vs. Claudio Castagnoli