Cage defeated Luchasaurus and Darby Allin in a three-way match in the open of Saturday’s Collision to win the title for the first time. During the match, dissension was teased between Cage and Luchasaurus when Luchasaurus held onto the title, something Cage didn’t like. The finish had Allin hit the coffin drop on Luchasaurus but before he could go for the pin, Cage posted Allin sending him to the outside. Cage then pinned Luchasaurus to win the title for the first time.
After the match, Cage consoled Luchasaurus and the two settled their differences, with Luchasaurus lifting Cage in the air as he held the championship. Cage then cut a backstage promo saying he was done with Allin. However, Tony Schiavone informed him that he would defend the title against Darby Allin in a 2/3 falls match at WrestleDream next Sunday.
Since Luchasaurus won the title back on June 17, Cage had mostly retained possession of the title, saying that “they” were the champion. Cage issued the triple threat challenge to Allin on Friday’s Rampage Grand Slam, saying that if Allin wanted the match he would have to do it with Sting barred from ringside.
Christian Cage looks to have inked a new deal with AEW.
While speaking at the post-All Out press conference on Sunday night, Christian stated that Tony Khan has re-signed him to a “big, fat contract.” Christian originally debuted for AEW at Revolution 2021.
Christian spoke in-character at Sunday’s press conference and addressed critics who thought that the announcement of his signing at Revolution 2021 was underwhelming:
It might have even been some of you people who said that I wasn’t worth the hype. I think I’ve proved you all wrong now, didn’t I? I know I proved Tony Khan right because he just re-signed me to a big, fat contract. He opened the vault for me and I deserve every single penny that I got.
Christian is currently the self-proclaimed TNT Champion in AEW. Though Luchasaurus is the actual title holder, Christian has carried around the TNT Championship and had the belt in front of him as he fielded questions from the media after All Out.
With Christian’s help, Luchasaurus retained the TNT Championship against Darby Allin on Sunday night. Luchasaurus won after Allin was distracted by Christian threatening to give Nick Wayne a con-chair-to.
There have recently been rumors that Christian’s friend and former tag team partner Edge could be heading to AEW. Christian was asked about those rumors at the post-All Out press conference, but Christian remained in character and said he was only there to talk about himself and Luchasaurus. Christian said he has no friends other than Luchasaurus.
In the first Impact Wrestling on AXS TV since last Sunday’s Emergence, a new no. 1 contender for the Knockouts title will be crowned.
Ten women will compete in a battle royal with the winner moving on to challenge current champion Trinity at next month’s Victory Road. Participants include Alisha Edwards, Masha Slamovich, Killer Kelly, Gisele Shaw, Jessicka, KiLynn King, Jody Threat, Savannah Evans, Vanna Black and Courtney Rush.
IWGP World Champion SANADA will return to Impact TV for the first time in years as he teams with Jake Something and Frankie Kazarian to take on Moose, Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards.
After defeating Deaner in a no DQ match Sunday, Eric Young will now face The Design’s Kon.
After nearly attacking Tom Hannifan due to a breakdown during a sit-down interview last Thursday, Crazzy Steve will be in action.
As he awaits his X-Division title match against Lio Rush, KUSHIDA will face Drilla Moloney on the BTI pre-show.
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BTI pre-show: KUSHIDA defeated Drilla Moloney
KUSHIDA came out with what looked like a new hairdo. This was a 6-minute match, but as about a good a 6-minute match you can have. We also were told by Gia Miller that Moloney was experiencing an extended period of teen angst into his adulthood. One guy yelled “boo” a lot and the fans laughed.
Main Card:
–The recap video from Emergence aired as Impact went on the air, and it made Emergence look like an all time exciting PPV while driving forward the main stories. This was very well done. Impact has some of the best recap videos in the business.
Alisha Edwards won a battle royal to earn a Knockouts title shot at Victory Road
Participants included Gisele Shaw, Savannah Evans, Edwards, Vanna Black, Jody Threat, Killer Kelly, Masha Slamovich, Jessicka, Courtney Rush and KiLynn King.
Black was the first elimination, being thrown out by Slamovich and Kelly. Kelly was dumped out of the ring by Evans while Slamovich was thrown out by Shaw, meaning that we are likely seeing a tag match between those two teams soon. Rush rushed (pun intended) Shaw and hit a lariat that sent Shaw to the floor.
I missed when Edwards got thrown out, but noticed she was gone as King eliminated Jessicka. King and Threat showed shockingly good teamwork as they eliminated Evans with a flying knee and a dropkick. King hit a big kick and a neutralizer that Claudio Castagnoli would applaud. Threat came back with a pump kick and double knees and a German suplex on King. Edwards ran back in and threw out King and Threat while they were tangled in the ropes to win the match. Apparently she wasn’t eliminated and I didn’t miss it.
– Josh Alexander met with the Motor City Machine Guns after causing them the match at Sunday’s Emergence. Shelley told him that if he wanted a shot at him, he should take care of what he needs to with Maclin. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz) walked in and mocked Sabin and Shelley, and Sabin said that he was going to put him in his place later tonight. Good segment.
– Eddie Edwards celebrated with Alisha Edwards because she won the battle royal. She said that everyone thought she was just a champion’s wife, but now they were the real power couple in Impact and she was coming for the title. This may have been the best promo she has ever done.
– Crazzy Steve came out wearing a very creepy mask, and looked almost zombie like with his makeup. Gimmick change achieved. I loved his segments with Tom Hannifan, so we shall see if this translates to the ring well. The announcers really sold this well with Hannifan looking shaken up.
Mike Bailey defeated Crazzy Steve via DQ
Steve started the match by gouging the eyes of Bailey and then taking out the referee. He pulled a fork out and screamed that he was going to take Bailey’s eyes.
Black Taurus came out and tried to talk some sense into Steve, but Steve dropped him and gouged the mask of Taurus. Oops. Not that I wanted to see him actually gouge the eyes of Taurus. He did a better job with the security that tried to pull him off.
– Brian Myers, Moose and Eddie Edwards were backstage, and it seemed like Moose was trying to bring him into their tag team partnership. Edwards insisted he was different from Bully Ray because he was on a roll right now. Bully Ray walked up and said they had a PCO problem. Myers said Bully Ray had a problem with PCO, and Moose reminded Ray of his long list of burned bridges, and they were no longer The Scumbags anymore. Short lived stable right there. You could hear PCO yelling somewhere in the background for Bully Ray.
PCO then chased Bully Ray around the backstage area and stuck his arm through a door to try and get to him like out of a horror movie. Though, unlike a horror movie, PCO responded to Ray screaming “Carl! Stop!” PCO said “You tried to kill me!” Ray insisted that he didn’t, but was trying to kill the monster so the man could come back. He said he set him on fire because he cared about him. That sounds like an abusive friendship right there, but then again, I’ve never been friends with a French Canadian Frankenstein. PCO appeared to listen to this. Weird.
Eric Young defeated Kon
This was a fairly dull match, but Young continued to be a great worker while Kon was aggressively average.
The announcers noted Deaner couldn’t be there due to the injuries suffered in his match with Young. This makes me think he will be running in before the end of it, but I do hope he’d be selling the barbed wire boards for a little longer.. The crowd got into last half of the match when Young hit a Death Valley Driver and Kon kicked out.
Young went to the top rope to hit an elbow, but Kon cut him off but Young bit Kon and hit the elbow drop for another two that the fans expected to be the finish. Young went for a piledriver, but Kon blocked it and hit a Full Nelson slam for a 2-count. Young responded by hitting a piledriver on the floor. Kon barely made it back in and screamed for Young to finish it, so Young hit a second piledriver for the win.
– Lio Rush was backstage and said that he heard that Chris Sabin wanted to get back in the ring with him for the X-Division title. Rush then wondered out loud why he was wrestling Wentz later, showing he wasn’t taking their potential rematch seriously. KUSHIDA walked up and said he wanted Rush at Victory Road and was cashing in his X for the shot.
– Deonna Purrazzo was with Gia Miller and talked about how she experienced opposition before and that she was upset about Jordynne Grace stealing her spotlight at Emergence. Purrazzo then challenged Grace to a match at Victory Road, saying Grace has never been able to beat her. Purrazzo took on a more heelish tone in this promo, which explains why she was on the heel team for the announced matches at Impact 1000.
Chris Sabin (w/ Alex Shelley) defeated Zachary Wentz (w/ Trey Miguel)
Very good match between these two, with Sabin looking awesome as usual, and Wentz showing he can hang with one of the best in the world.
Sabin spent the early part of the match grounding Wentz and working over his shoulder. Wentz was able to recover once he pulled Sabin through the middle ropes and hit a plancha over the top rope. Wentz took this opportunity to try and pay Sabin back for working the shoulder and arm, forcing Sabin to get to the ropes while Wentz taunted Shelley on the floor.
Sabin hit a heel kick to drop Wentz and followed with a Manhattan Drop and a straight jacket release suplex. Sabin hit a tornado DDT for a 2-count. Wentz ended firing back with a superkick and a half nelson slam for a two count. Sabin did a rolling half crab out of Lance Storm’s playbook, and transitioned into an STF. Shelley dropped Miguel on the floor, letting Sabin hit a dive onto both Miguel and Wentz, and hit a cradle shock on Wentz for the win.
Trey Miguel attacked Sabin after the match, but Alex Shelley quickly got to the ring and The Rascalz bailed. It looks like we’re heading toward a MCMG vs. Rascalz match soon.
– ABC was backstage and Austin and Bey congratulated The Rascalz on becoming the Impact Tag Team Champions, noting that they had to cheat to win, although they didn’t begrudge them for it. They are gunning for the tag titles in the near future. ABC accused The Rascalz of paying off The Good Hands to attack them, but the Rascalz said that they did it because it was personal and they would fight them soon.
-Santino was backstage and Subculture walked up asking for their Tag Team title rematch. Sami Callihan and Rich Swann walked up and asked for a title match too because they were screwed by The Rascalz as well. Santino said the MCMG would be facing The Rascalz at Victory Road, so Callihan and Swann could face Subculture and the winner would get The Rascalz. JOYA (Joe Hendry & Yuya Uemura) walked up and scared Santino and made it clear they wanted a title match when Uemura said, “CHAMPION!” but Santino said they needed to climb the ranks.
Kenny King/Tommy Dreamer segment
King said that he wasn’t surprised Toronto hated him, as he was the best athlete the city has seen since Kawhi Leonard. Dreamer came down and talked about how King beat Johnny Swinger as Swinger gave all he could. Swinger apparently learned just before the match that his father-in-law died and had to leave the show early after the match. Swinger and Dreamer texted throughout the night, noting that the women killed it in the ring in the main event.
Dreamer learned that King didn’t watch the match, and didn’t care about anyone else in the company, and with Impact 1000 coming up, he couldn’t accept that. King said he was only Dreamer said if King wanted a top spot, why didn’t he do something about it and try to take out the old guard, putting over Chris Jericho, Sting, and PCO. Dreamer then offered to put his career on the line against King for the Digital Media Championship.
– An incredible video for Awesome Kong aired, highlighting her career, and it ended with Gail Kim announcing she was coming back too, for the all star ten Knockouts tag team match.
– Steve Maclin was in a pre-taped promo, talking about how time makes him dangerous, because he is willing to wait to strike at the right time. Maclin said that it was finally time for him to hit his high value target in Josh Alexander at Victory Road. Good stuff here.
– Will Ospreay will be part of Impact’s UK tour in October as he was announced for Turning Point in Newcastle, England. The show will air on Impact Plus in early-November.
Frankie Kazarian, Jake Something & SANADA defeated Moose, Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards
The mission to establish Something as… something continues. This was a good main event. Rarely is a six-man tag with guys like this bad, and this proves the old rule that Bryan & Vinny had for Raw – end the show with a six-man tag and you will get a great match that the crowd gets into.
When SANADA came out and the voice of Taka Michinoku said, “Just 5 Guys” a fan yelled loudly “I love Five Guys!” and I laughed. Kazarian and Myers started the match, but it wasn’t long before Jake Something was beating on Myers. Poor Myers, he just keeps getting beat up by everyone. He called for a timeout and rolled to the floor while Edwards and Moose comforted him in his distress. Something hit a dive over the ropes onto everyone as the camera cut to Dango & Bravo backstage taking in the match.
Myers was able to start getting the heat on SANADA when Moose hit him with a knee behind the back of the referee. SANADA had a brief comeback by putting the paradise lock on Edwards and drop toeing Myers into Edwards. Moose cut him off though, and soon Myers was back to working over Myers. This heat segment continued for several minutes, and made me realize I want to see Eddie Edwards in the G1 as he chopped SANADA.
SANADA made a tag to Kazarian and he finally got his hands on Edwards. Something came on and dropped Edwards, and Something hit an incredible pop up powerbomb on Moose. This got a massive reaction from the crowd, and I think as long as he keeps doing stuff like that he’ll do fine in this Impact run. Everyone continued to hit moves everywhere until it came down to Edwards and Kazarian, and both men went over the top rope with a suplex attempt. Something dodged a roster cut and got sent Into the Void with Something hit a black hole slam. Honestly, I’d use the pop up powerbomb as a finish instead of that.
Final Thoughts:
Solid episode of Impact tonight that actually setup all the matches at Victory Road quite well, despite the short time to build it. Like AEW, I’m not sure if running nearly back to back Impact Plus events is a good idea, as it is easy to burn out an audience with 3 big shows in 5 weeks, but Victory Road is shaping up to be a great card as well.
Next Thursday:
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Dani Luna
Subculture vs. Sami Callihan & Rich Swann
Lio Rush vs. Kevin Knight
Josh Alexander & PCO vs. Bully Ray & Steve Maclin
Next Friday’s Victory Road:
Digital Media Champion Kenny King defends against Tommy Dreamer in a title vs. career match
Knockouts Champion Trinity defends against Alisha Edwards
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Jordynne Grace
X-Division Champion Lio Rush defends against KUSHIDA
Impact Tag Team Champions The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) defend against Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley)
AEW shot an angle on Wednesday’s Dynamite to add Christian Cage to Sunday’s All In coffin match, replacing AR Fox.
Fox & Swerve Strickland were defeated in tag team action by Nick Wayne & Darby Allin on Dynamite when Wayne pinned Fox.
After the match, Strickland said that the tag bout had been a test for Fox and that Fox had failed. Strickland turned on Fox and had Prince Nana fire him from the Mogul Embassy stable, leaving Strickland without a partner for the announced Fox & Strickland vs. Allin & Sting coffin match at Sunday’s All In pay-per-view.
Allin & Fox then reestablished their friendship after Fox had turned against Allin & Wayne to join Strickland & Mogul Embassy weeks ago.
Christian Cage then entered with Luchasaurus and cut a promo on Wayne’s late father, aligning with Strickland. The coffin match was then re-announced later in the program as Cage & Strickland vs. Allin & Sting.
The updated All In card:
AEW All In, Sunday, August 27, 1 p.m. Eastern time on pay-per-view —
AEW World Championship: MJF defends against Adam Cole
AEW Women’s World Championship: Hikaru Shida defends against Toni Storm, Britt Baker & Saraya
AEW World Tag Team Championship: FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) defend against The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)
Real World Championship: CM Punk defends against Samoa Joe
AEW World Trios Championship: The House of Black (Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews & Brody King) vs. The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) & Billy Gunn
Stadium Stampede match: Eddie Kingston, Penta El Zero Miedo, Orange Cassidy & Best Friends (Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta), Santana & Ortiz
Coffin match: Sting & Darby Allin vs. Swerve Strickland & Christian Cage
Chris Jericho vs. Will Ospreay
The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi & Hangman Page) vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White & Juice Robinson) & Konosuke Takeshita
Zero Hour pre-show, 12 p.m. Eastern time on AEW’s YouTube & social media channels —
ROH World Tag Team Championship: Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) defend against Better Than You Bay Bay (MJF & Adam Cole)
Tonight’s Fight for the Fallen edition of AEW Collision from Lexington, Kentucky, will be the next step toward next Sunday’s All In from London’s Wembley Stadium.
AEW Tag Team Champions FTR will appear ahead of their title defense against the Young Bucks. It’s unknown if this will be a live promo or taped and will be their first on-screen appearance since Cash Wheeler was arrested on Friday.
Ahead of his challenge of TNT Champion Luchasaurus at All Out, former champion Darby Allin will take on Christian Cage, the man who has been parading as titleholder after Luchasaurus won it.
Willow Nightingale’s recent feud with Diamante will continue as they go one-on-one.
Bullet Club Gold’s Jay White will return to singles action for the night as he faces Dalton Castle.
Powerhouse Hobbs will be in action while the man who he attacked last week following a challenge — Miro — will be on hand as well.
Both Samoa Joe and Ricky Starks will be in the house for promos.
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After our cold open promos from Darby Allin, Bullet Club Gold, Dalton Castle, & Samoa Joe, Kevin Kelly welcomed us to Collision. Kelly and Nigel McGuinness were on the call.
Samoa Joe vs. The Golden Vampire never started
Joe’s opponent, named by Kevin Kelly as the Golden Vampire, attacked Joe before the bell. He fought Joe around ringside before shoving the referee down. He got in the ring and hit a rising knee before laying out Joe with a Go To Sleep. The Golden Vampire then unmasked to reveal CM Punk. Punk took the microphone and officially accepted Joe’s challenge for All In, with saltier language.
We got a video package hyping the history of the All In event, with Kevin Kelly noting that more tickets have been sold for that show than any other event in history.
Jay White (w/ Bullet Club Gold) defeated Dalton Castle (w/ The Boys)
Castle took White down with a single leg, forcing White to the ropes. White tried to send Castle to the floor, but the Boys sent Castle back into the ring, where he hit a pair of waistlock takedowns on White. White chopped Castle in the corner and stuffed a couple of suplex attempts. Castle went for a running knee into the corner, but White ducked and Castle flew to the floor. Bullet Club Gold chased the Boys around ringside as we went to commercial.
Castle fought out of White’s control as we came back from commercial. White walked into a Castle suplex, then ate a back elbow. Castle hit his running knee into the corner before sending White overhead with a pair of suplexes. White tried fighting out of a third suplex, but Castle hit a stalling German suplex with a bridge for a nearfall.
Castle pulled White up for Bangarang, but White grabbed the ropes and low-bridged him out of the ring. White chopped Castle on the announce table, but when he tried to send Castle into the ring, Castle rebounded off of the apron to hit a hurricanrana. Bullet Club Gold tried to interfere, but the Boys took them out with a dive. White recovered with a uranage for a nearfall. White hit the Blade Buster before scoring the win with the Blade Runner.
After the commercial break, Tony Schiavone was in the ring with Bullet Club Gold. White said that if Omega knew what was good for him, he’d stay in the hospital bed they put him in. He said that the Elite lied to everyone when they said that they were the best part of Bullet Club, and at Wembley, Bullet Club Gold will set the record straight. Robinson said that it only took 2 minutes to take out Kenny Omega, and they would handle them all at All In. The Gunns said that they would deal with the Bucks and Omega on Wednesday, but they wanted a warmup match right now.
Bullet Club Gold (Juice Robinson & The Gunns) defeated Iron Savages (Bronson, Boulder, Jacked Jameson)
The Savages took the fight to Austin Gunn to start, but Robinson cut off Bronson on the apron for the Gold team to take advantage. After a Robinson cannonball, the Gold team mocked the Elite with their pose. Robinson hit a V-Trigger on Bronson before Colton Gunn sent him to the floor as we went to break.
Boulder tagged in as we came back from commercial. Boulder ran wild, dropping both Gunns with a double End of Days. He caught Robinson on a crossbody and dumped him onto the Gunns. The match devolved into a Pier Six brawl. The Gunns couldn’t hit Boulder with a 3:10 to Yuma, but Austin Gunn hit a Fameasser instead. Robinson scored the win on Jameson with his facebuster.
The announcers recapped The Acclaimed’s recent actions, starting with the apparent retirement of Billy Gunn. They then recapped the House of Black’s attack on the Acclaimed from Wednesday, where they left Caster bloody and stole Gunn’s boots. We cut to a video package of the House of Black throwing Gunn’s boots away, with Malachi Black telling Gunn he was a shadow of himself.
We got a video of Jose The Assistant taking a call from Rush, who was not happy about La Faccion Ingobernable’s recent losing streak. Rush wanted Jose to bring them to Mexico, and they obliged. Preston Vance & Dralistico partied before being pulled into a van by several masked men. Was Rush the man that kidnapped Samoa Joe all those years ago? One can only wonder.
Tony Schiavone was backstage with Ricky Starks. He clarified that Starks’ suspension wasn’t 30 days long, rather it was 28 days, that being 4 full weeks. With Starks having served two of those 4 weeks, that means his suspension ends the night before All Out in Chicago. Starks said he would be bringing chaos tonight, with Big Bill entering the frame. After that, we got a stylized video package of Starks, saying that he had been distracted lately. Now, he’s focused, and now he’s dangerous.
Big Bill (w/ Ricky Starks) defeated Derek Neal
Bill came out to Starks’ music. Bill ran through Neal, chokeslamming him for the win within two minutes. After the match, Bill held Neal down so Starks could whip him with the belt.
We got a video package of Sting & Darby Allin attacking AR Fox at his wrestling academy. Allin said that he wanted a scrap of Fox left for Wembley to put in a coffin. We then turned to Wednesday’s Dynamite, where Nick Wayne said he wanted revenge on Mogul Affiliates for attacking him at his home. It will be Allin & Wayne vs. Fox & Swerve Strickland on Dynamite.
Willow Nightingale defeated Diamante
Diamante tried to keep Nightingale held down, but Nightingale stuffed a headscissors attempt and hit a backbreaker. Nightingale dropped Diamante on the apron, leading Mercedes Martinez to make her way to ringside. Nightingale went for an Oklahoma Stampede, but Diamante dropped Nightingale with a chop block.
Nightingale dropped Diamante with a set of clotheslines as we came back from commercial. Nightingale ran wild on Diamante, hitting a main event spinebuster for a nearfall. Diamante yanked Nightingale off the top rope, then hit a set of running knees into the corner. Diamante hit an Asai DDT for a nearfall. Nightingale brought Diamante to the top rope, and after fighting off a powerbomb attempt, Nightingale hit a dropkick.
Martinez pulled Diamante out of the ring, bringing Kris Statlander to ringside to suplex Martinez on the ramp. Nightingale hit a pounce on Diamante on the floor before bringing her back into the ring and getting the win with the Babe With The Powerbomb.
We got a video package hyping FTR vs. The Young Bucks at All In. Both members of FTR spoke about how the Bucks have their accolades, but FTR will be the ones to win the rubber match.
Backstage, Lexy Nair was with Toni Storm. Nair announced that next week on Rampage, we will see the four women in the AEW Title match at All In in a tag match, with Britt Baker & Hikaru Shida taking on Storm & Saraya. Storm said not to question the bond between the Outcasts, and that she would take her place in history as the first three-time AEW Women’s Champion.
Powerhouse Hobbs defeated Kevin Ku
Ku went for a standing crossbody, but Hobbs stood tall and sent Ku flying. Hobbs hit a splash in the corner before taking Ku up and down with a back superplex. Hobbs clubbered Ku with lariats before hitting the main event spinebuster for the win. He was calling out Miro at points in this match, and he sent a message by locking on the Accolade after the match.
Miro popped up on the video screen. He said that he used to follow a book, but now he walks alone. He said that redemption would come for Hobbs at All Out and that he would piss on his cold, dead body. Jesus.
We got a rundown of the Dynamite card. We also got the Collision card, with an All-Star Eight Man Tag with no names announced. We will hear from the stars of the show in London the night before All In as well.
Darby Allin defeated Christian Cage (w/Luchasaurus)
This match ramped up to a fever pitch by the end, with Allin scoring an important win in one of his two concurrent feuds.
The two started the match off slowly, with Allin working on Cage’s arm. Cage dropped Allin on his hammerlocked arm before he whipped Allin into the buckles hard as we went to commercial.
Back from commercial with Allin trying a series of pinfalls on Cage. Cage rung up Allin’s neck on the ropes before sending him into the barricade. Cage taunted Allin with the TNT Title before popping him with a punch, then dropping him with a hammerlock slam. Cage modified his reverse DDT, dropping Allin with his arm hammerlocked. Cage set up for a spear, but Allin kicked him and hit a Code Red for a nearfall. Allin blinded Cage with his turtleneck, leading to the two knocking heads as we went to another commercial.
Allin fired up with Coffin Splashes as we came back. Allin sent Cage into the turnbuckles with a shotgun dropkick. Allin went to the top rope, but instead of going after Cage, he dove onto Luchasaurus. Luchasaurus caught him and led him into a Cage lariat on the floor. Allin hit a drop toe hold onto Christian into a chair, before sitting Christian in the chair and hitting a missile dropkick off the top rope to the floor.
Allin set up the Coffin Drop in the ring, but Cage rolled to the apron. Allin went for the Coffin Drop anyway, but Luchasaurus pulled Cage out of the way, forcing Allin to land on the apron with a nasty thud. The referee sent Luchasaurus to the back, but that allowed Cage to hit Allin with the TNT Title. Allin fell to the floor, and when Cage pulled him back into the ring, he only got a nearfall.
Allin sidestepped a spear and dropkicked Cage into the corner. Allin brought Cage to the top rope, but Cage hit a sunset flip powerbomb and a spear for a nearfall. Cage cut off a surging Allin with a lariat and went for an Unprettier, but Allin caught him in a jackknife cover for the win.
After the match, Tony Schiavone went to speak to Allin, but Luchasaurus came back out. Cage dropped Allin from behind with the TNT Title, with Luchasaurus dropping Allin with a chokeslam. Cage covered Allin, with Luchasaurus forcing him to count to three and announce him as the winner and still TNT Champion. Cage and Luchasaurus stood tall to end the show.
Darby Allin will be in action on next week’s Collision.
On Saturday’s show, Allin did a run-in and attacked Luchasaurus after Luchasaurus successfully defended the TNT title against Brock Anderson. After Luchasaurus and Christian Cage retreated, Allin challenged Cage to a match for next week. Cage accepted.
The segment had started with Cage and Luchasaurus coming out out for a promo and ran down Allin, who had earned a TNT Championship match at All Out several weeks ago after winning the Royal Rampage battle royal. This brought out Arn and Brock Anderson. Cage ended up challenging Arn, but Arn instead send out his son, who was eventually pinned by Luchasaurus. After Luchasaurus had successfully defended the title against Anderson, it was confirmed Allin would be facing Luchasaurus at All Out.
Diamante will also take on Willow Nightingale next Saturday. Diamante teamed with Mercedes Martinez on Saturday’s show to take on Nightingale and TBS Champion Kris Statlander. Martinez picked up the victory after Diamante helped Martinez pin Nightingale.
Here is the card so far for next week’s Collision:
A ‘Final Burial’ match between Jungle Boy Jack Perry and Christian Cage has been made official for Revolution.
Friday’s Rampage had Jungle Boy, who appeared in a cemetery, issue a response to Christian Cage’s promo on Dynamite, where he ran down both Jungle Boy and his father. Perry told Cage that since he was such a big fan of his dad, he’ll give Cage the chance to say hi to him when he puts Cage in the ground. The match was then confirmed for this Saturday.
Earlier on Friday, AEW announced on social media that the match was to be a no holds barred match. That stipulation has since been changed to a ‘Final Burial’ match, with no explanation as to what the stipulation is.
Last month, Christian Cage made his return to the company after being out of action due to a triceps injury, attacking Perry. On the February 25 edition of Dynamite, Cage assaulted Perry yet again, getting the better of him and beating Perry’s head with a steel chair.
Here is the updated lineup for Sunday’s Revolution event in San Francisco:
AEW Revolution, Sunday, March 5, 8 p.m. Eastern time on pay-per-view —
60-minute iron man match for the AEW World Championship: MJF (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
AEW Women’s World Championship: Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Ruby Soho vs. Saraya
TNT Championship: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Wardlow
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (c) vs. The Acclaimed vs. Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal vs. Orange Cassidy & Danhausen
AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite (c) vs. The House of Black
Chris Jericho vs. Ricky Starks — JAS banned from ringside
Texas Death match: Jon Moxley vs. Hangman Page
Final Burial match: Christian Cage vs. Jungle Boy
AEW Revolution: Zero Hour, Sunday, March 5, 7 p.m. Eastern time on AEW’s YouTube channel & social media channels —
Mark Briscoe & The Lucha Bros (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) vs. Ari Daivari & Varsity Athletes (Josh Woods & Tony Nese)
On Dynamite this Wednesday, Christian Cage challenged Jungle Boy to a no-holds barred match for Sunday’s pay-per-view. During an in-ring promo, Cage said that Jungle Boy’s dream of winning a singles title in AEW will happen over his “dead body.” This was followed by a video from Jungle Boy that featured him digging a grave with Cage’s name on the headstone while images of their rivalry were interspersed within.
AEW has since made the match official in an Instagram post published on Thursday.
This will be the second time Jungle Boy and Cage have faced each other in singles competition. Cage defeated Jungle Boy in just 24 seconds in their first match at All Out 2022.
Sunday will be Jungle Boy’s fourth singles match on an AEW pay-per-view. He lost to MJF at Double or Nothing 2020, was defeated by Cage at All Out 2022, and picked up a victory over Luchasaurus in a cage match at Full Gear in November.
Revolution will be Christian Cage’s third singles match on an AEW pay-per-view. He was defeated by Kenny Omega in an AEW World Championship match at All Out 2021 and picked up a quick win over Jungle Boy at All Out 2022.
AEW Revolution takes place Sunday, March 5, 2023 from the Chase Center in San Francisco, California. The official card is below.
60-minute iron man match for the AEW World Championship: MJF (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
AEW Women’s World Championship: Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Ruby Soho vs. Saraya
TNT Championship: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Wardlow
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (c) vs. The Acclaimed vs. Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal vs. Orange Cassidy & Danhausen
AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite (c) vs. The House of Black
Chris Jericho vs. Ricky Starks — JAS banned from ringside
Texas Death match: Jon Moxley vs. Hangman Page
Christian Cage vs. Jungle Boy in a no-holds barred match
Christian Cage has challenged “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry to a fight at Sunday’s AEW Revolution pay-per-view.
During an in-ring promo on Wednesday’s Dynamite, Christian stated that Jungle Boy’s stated goal to win a singles title in AEW this year will happen over Christian’s dead body, and that Christian wants to win a title this year. He then issued the challenge for Sunday, and said that Jungle Boy is a “no-talent hack, just like his father” if he doesn’t accept.
After Christian’s promo, a video played with Perry digging a grave, then showing a headstone with Christian’s name on it, seemingly accepting the challenge.
AEW has yet to officially announce the match for Sunday, but that appears to be just a formality.
The updated lineup for Revolution:
AEW Revolution, Sunday, March 5 —
60-minute iron man match for the AEW World Championship: MJF (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
AEW Women’s World Championship: Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Ruby Soho vs. Saraya
TNT Championship: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Wardlow
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (c) vs. The Acclaimed vs. Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal vs. Orange Cassidy & Danhausen
AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite (c) vs. The House of Black
Chris Jericho vs. Ricky Starks — JAS banned from ringside
Christian Cage returned from injury on Wednesday’s Dynamite, reigniting his feud with Jungle Boy.
Christian attacked “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry after Perry defeated Brian Cage on Wednesday’s show. Christian came out with his right arm in a sling, but removed the sling after the attack, revealing that it was a ruse.
Christian has been out of action since September after reportedly suffering a torn triceps and undergoing surgery. Christian defeated Jungle Boy at All Out on September 4, 2022 in a match that went less than a minute due to Christian’s injury. Luchasaurus turned on Jungle Boy to allow Christian to score the victory in that bout.
Christian had served as a manager for Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus throughout their AEW World Tag Team Championship run, but turned on Jungle Boy in June 2022 at Dynamite Road Rager after Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy lost the Tag titles.
Christian, 49, made his AEW debut at Revolution in March 2021, weeks after returning to the ring in WWE at the Royal Rumble after a nearly seven-year layoff.
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An injury to Christian Cage led to his match against Jungle Boy being kept short at All Out on Sunday.
Our own Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer addressed Christian’s status on Sunday’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio.
“I don’t know what Christian Cage’s injury is but Christian Cage is hurt,” Alvarez said. “He couldn’t do the match and I was told it’s serious.”
“The reason there was no match was because Christian couldn’t wrestle,” Meltzer added.
Christian came out for the match with his arm in a brace. In storyline, his arm was injured when Jungle Boy slammed it into the steel steps on the August 17 edition of Dynamite.
At All Out on Sunday, Christian defeated Jungle Boy in a match that went 33 seconds. During his ring entrance, Jungle Boy was attacked by Luchasaurus and choke slammed on the stage area. Luchasaurus would then powerbomb Jungle Boy through a table. Once Jungle Boy was able to get to his feet and the match began, Christian speared him and gave him the Killswitch for the win.
After Christian Cage and Luchasaurus defeated the Varsity Blonds, the two continued to attack their opponents until Jungle Boy arrived, carrying a steel chair. Luchasaurus exited the ring and stared down Jungle Boy until he relented, joining Jungle Boy by his side. Surprised, Cage quickly exited the ring and escaped through the crowd as Jungle Boy chased after him.
Jungle Boy was attacked by Cage after he and Luchasaurus lost the AEW World Tag Team titles to The Young Bucks in a ladder match at Road Rager back on June 15. Cage laid out Jungle Boy then gave him the con-chair-to, then insulted his family after the attack. Jungle Boy had been out of actions since then, dealing with a shoulder injury.
In the weeks since Road Rager, Cage convinced Luchasaurus that his issue was with Jungle Boy, and not him. Luchasaurus then aligned himself with Christian, defeating Serptenico and Griff Garrison in the last two weeks.
A promo by Christian Cage, plus two new bouts have been added to AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest week one.
Announced on this week’s Rampage episode, Christian will speak again on night one of Fyter Fest on Wednesday, July 13. A Luchasaurus match against an unnamed opponent was announced in conjunction with the promo segment.
Also set for Fyter Fest, Anna Jay will face Serena Deeb. Deeb attacked her tag partner, ROH Women’s World Champion Mercedes Martinez on Rampage this week.
Already announced for Dynamite are a triple threat Tag Team title match with The Young bucks defending, plus new signee Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jake Hager.
Here is the updated Fyter Fest lineup for Dynamite:
AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest week one, Wednesday, July 13 —
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs. Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. Powerhouse Hobbs & Ricky Starks
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