A rematch is set for next week’s episode of AEW Collision.
Next Saturday’s show in Las Vegas will see FTR take on Undisputed Kingdom. This will be a rematch from the March 1 edition of Collision that saw Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong defeat Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler. Controversy arose after the match as the Undisputed Kingdom extended their hands, but FTR instead chose to bail out of the ring, with Dax Harwood particularly upset by their loss.
On this week’s show, FTR and Daniel Garcia met with the Undisputed Kingdom. Cash Wheeler said that they didn’t present themselves well after their loss. Harwood, however, didn’t apologize and said that his only mistake was not stooging off the referee. O’Reilly and Strong then issued the challenge for next week, with FTR accepting.
In the same promo, Adam Cole told Garcia that he wanted a rematch, but wanted to see how Garcia fared in the main event against Lee Moriarty. Garcia ended up successfully retaining the TNT title in the main event.
FTR, Daniel Garcia and Undisputed Kingdom have a lot to clear up after last week's chaotic events on Collision!
A trios of tag team matches are part of Saturday’s full AEW Collision lineup — the go-home show for Sunday’s Revolution pay-per-view.
The Opps (Samoa Joe, Hook & Katsuyori Shibata) will look to go 3-0 as a team as they face Starboy Charlie, Jack Banning & Titus Alexander.
Ahead of their challenge of AEW Tag Team Champions The Hurt Syndicate on Sunday, The Outrunners will take on Tony Nese & Ari Daivari of the Premier Athletes.
After picking up a big win last Saturday over FTR, Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly of The Undisputed Kingdom will battle The Infantry.
For the first time in nearly two years, Adam Cole will square off with Daniel Garcia one-on-one but this time, gold will be on the line.
After the events of Wednesday, Garcia will put his TNT title on the line against Cole who is still looking for his first taste of AEW gold. The two wrestled in March 2022 with Cole picking up the win.
Cole pinned Garcia as part of a trios match on Dynamite and both the Undisputed Kingdom and FTR/Garcia got into a shoving match afterward. Cole, Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly have been eyeing up Garcia for a month as part of various trios bouts.
In another bout coming out of the post-match encounter, former AEW Tag Team Champions FTR will take on Strong and O’Reilly.
Former AEW World Champion Kenny Omega will be live in attendance to share some thoughts after his AEW International title match against Konosuke Takeshita at next month’s Revolution was confirmed.
Here’s the current lineup for Saturday’s live show from Oakland, California:
TNT Champion Daniel Garcia defends against Adam Cole
MJF has the ring, but Adam Cole gets the last laugh.
The former AEW World Champion defeated Cole to keeep the Dynamite Diamond Ring at Worlds End on Saturday, seemingly ending their year-long feud that started at the end of the 2023 event last December. The finish had Cole looking to use the ring as Matt Taven & Mike Bennett distracted the referee at ringside as they were being ejected. However, MJF responded with a low blow and pinned Cole after using the heatseeker to retain control of the ring for another year.
After the match, MJF attempted to injure Cole further by wrapping a chair around his injured ankle. However, Roderick Strong came out for the save. MJF attempted to leave, but was stopped by Kyle O’Reilly on the entrance stage, who proceeded to throw MJF back into the ring. They, along with Cole, Taven, & Bennett laid out MJF as they celebrated in the ring, officially reuniting in full.
Post-match chaos sees Kyle O'Reilly coming to Adam Cole’s rescue!
Despite Cole having turned on MJF last year, Cole returned as a babyface going after MJF, who had turned back heel during Cole’s recovery. Cole and O’Reilly were the final two participants in the Dynamite Diamond Ring battle royal to determine who would face MJF next. The two faced off in the finals at Dynamite Winter is Coming earlier this month, with Cole emerging victorious.
Even though this Saturday’s edition of AEW Collision has yet to air, a tag team title match for the following Saturday has already been signed.
That match will see Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions Sammy Guevara & Dustin Rhodes defend against former champions Matt Taven & Mike Bennett of The Undisputed Kingdom in a Bunkhouse brawl match.
The challenge was issued during Friday’s Rampage when Taven and Bennett verbally ran down the champions backstage, calling them out for a Fight Without Honor. Things then got heated with Rhodes upping the stakes for one of the his family’s signature matches instead.
The rivalry between the Undisputed Kingdom & the ROH Tag Team Champions Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara is getting personal, and a Bunkhouse Brawl might need to settle it NEXT WEEK!
Rhodes and Guevara have held the titles for just under a month after defeating Bennett and Taven on a mid-August edition of Collision. A Bennett and Taven win would give them their fourth title reign.
Rhodes also holds the ROH Six-Man Tag Team titles with Marshall & Ross Von Erich.
The match is the first announced for the Saturday, September 21st show from Springfield, Massachusetts’ MassMutual Center.
A three-way trios match was announced for Saturday’s AEW All Out Zero Hour pre-show.
During Friday’s AEW Collision, it was revealed in a backstage segment that Top Flight & Action Andretti will face both Shane Taylor Promotions & The Beast Mortos and The Undisputed Kingdom in the match.
Lee Moriarty and Shane Taylor will represent STP while Roderick Strong, Matt Taven and Mike Bennett will represent the Undisputed Kingdom.
To this point, it’s the only match announced for the 90-minute pre-show with the Bang Bang Gang vs. Cage of Agony in another trios clash a possibility given their backstage confrontation on Collision.
AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson defends against Jack Perry
Unsanctioned lights out steel cage match: Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Page
Chicago street fight: Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander
AEW International Champion Will Ospreay defends against PAC
AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) defend against Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta)
MJF vs. Daniel Garcia
TBS Champion Mercedes Mone defends against Hikaru Shida with Kamille banned from ringside
AEW Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada defends against Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy and The Beast Mortos
Zero Hour pre-show: Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) and Action Andretti vs. Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty & The Beast Mortos vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven, Mike Bennett & Roderick Strong)
The feud between The Undisputed Kingdom, Orange Cassidy and Kyle O’Reilly will continue on this Saturday’s AEW Collision.
Cassidy will team with O’Reilly to take on reigning Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions Matt Taven & Mike Bennett in non-title action from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. O’Reilly has been at odds with former pals Taven, Bennett and Roderick Strong since returning to action while Strong and Cassidy battled over the International title earlier this year.
Speaking of Strong, he will be in one-on-one action against former Ring of Honor World Champion Dalton Castle.
As announced last week, Konosuke Takeshita of the Don Callis Family will take on the new “Dynamite Kid” Tommy Billington in Billington’s second-ever AEW match.
Three members of the AEW Trios Champions The Bang Bang Gang — Juice Robinson and The Gunns — will be in action against opponents to be named.
After their trios bout on Friday’s AEW Rampage, Top Flight’s Darius & Dante Martin will continue their conflict with Shane Taylor Promotions’ Anthony Ogogo & Lee Moriarty.
Skye Blue will look to snap a three-match AEW losing streak as she takes on Harley Cameron who has lost two straight.
Former AEW Women’s Champion Nyla Rose will be in action against an opponent to be named.
Here’s the full lineup taped Wednesday after Dynamite:
Orange Cassidy & Kyle O’Reilly vs. The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Tommy Billington
Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson & The Gunns) vs. TBA
Roderick Strong vs. Dalton Castle
Skye Blue vs. Harley Cameron
Nyla Rose vs. TBA
Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Lee Moriarty & Anthony Ogogo)
Another Tag Team title tournament quarterfinals match has been added to the lineup for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite.
Tony Khan announced on social media Tuesday that Orange Cassidy & Trent Beretta of Best Friends will face Undisputed Kingdom’s Matt Taven & Mike Bennett on Wednesday’s Dynamite.
Another Tag Team title tournament quarterfinals match is already set for Wednesday’s show, with The Young Bucks facing Private Party.
The finals of the Tag title tournament are set for AEW Dynasty on Sunday, April 21.
In addition to the Tag tournament matches, a TBS title number one contender’s four-way is set for the show, with Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Anna Jay vs. Skye Blue. Mercedes Mone will be on commentary for the bout, and the winner will challenge Julia Hart for the TBS Championship at Dynasty.
Swerve Strickland vs. Konosuke Takeshita in a number one contender’s match is also set for Wednesday’s episode.
Will Ospreay vs. Katsuyori Shibata rounds out Wednesday’s lineup.
The updated Dynamite card for the Wednesday, Match 27 episode in Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
TBS Championship number one contender’s match (w/Mercedes Mone on commentary): Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Skye Blue vs. Anna Jay
AEW World Championship number one contender’s match: Swerve Strickland vs. Konosuke Takeshita
Will Ospreay vs. Katsuyori Shibata
AEW Tag Team title tournament quarterfinals: The Young Bucks vs. Private Party
AEW Tag Team title tournament quarterfinals: Best Friends vs. Undisputed Kingdom
However, O’Reilly didn’t seem to be aligned with his former Undisputed Era mate, first appearing to stalk him before embracing Strong and eventually walking away from he, Matt Taven and Mike Bennett after the trio offered him a t-shirt.
O’Reilly, visibly emotional from the reaction of the fans in the Greensboro (NC) Coliseum, stared at the group walking up the ramp after saying something privately to Strong before leaving. Taven and Bennett were confused with Strong motioning to them that everything would be ok.
O’Reilly has been out of action since June 2022 and underwent neck fusion surgery in September of that year — a surgery he had been putting off for some time due to pain and issues with his right arm. He later suffered a rare post-surgical complication that saw him unable to move that arm, eventually regaining motion by using a special device.
Fightful reported the 37-year-old O’Reilly had been backstage at shows at the end of 2023 and in December, the Canadian native took to Instagram to say he “might be a wrestler again” by this March’s return to his initial home country.
Lexy Nair attempted to get a word with O’Reilly afterward, but was rebuffed in her efforts:
The Undisputed Kingdom square off with Best Friends in a trios match on tonight’s AEW Rampage.
Undisputed Kingdom’s Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett & Matt Taven will face the Best Friends trio of Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero in the featured contest on this week’s episode. Strong is set to challenge Cassidy for the International Championship at AEW Revolution next month.
The Young Bucks will return to the ring for the first time since November on tonight’s show as well, facing a pair of enhancement talents in tag team action. The Bucks are on the march towards a match with new Tag Team Champions Sting & Darby Allin at Revolution after they attacked the new champs at the conclusion of this week’s Dynamite.
CMLL’s Mistico will go one-on-one with Matt Sydal on the show as the CMLL invasion angle of sorts continues.
Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale will team against Saraya & Ruby Soho of The Outcasts on tonight’s show as well.
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Matt Menard were on the call for tonight’s action from Phoenix.
Undisputed Kingdom (Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) (w/ Adam Cole and Wardlow) defeated Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero)
This was a good opener with a somewhat abrupt finish.
If you’ve been following along, this is the latest chapter in the build to Cassidy defending his International title against Strong at next month’s Revolution. There’s also been some tension between Beretta and Cassidy as of late, so that bears watching tonight.
Strong wanted no part of Cassidy when given the opportunity early as they are keeping them apart.
This was as good as you might expect going in, featuring a fun offensive sequence from all six men before the first ad break. The end was Strong hitting a running knee and his End of Heartache on Romero as he was hitting his forever clotheslines in the corner on Taven and Bennett, giving Taven the pin. It was an out of nowhere end that didn’t involve Cassidy at all.
After the match, Strong hit another End of Heartache on Romero onto two chairs before the heels scampered away.
Cassidy will defend the aforementioned title against Tomohiro Ishii on Saturday’s Collision.
The Young Bucks defeated Mondo Rox & Robbie Lit
I am among those surprised by AEW putting the Bucks’ first match since November’s Full Gear on Rampage — a match not even mentioned on Dynamite for some reason.
The Jackson brothers, with new generic music, were wearing (and wrestled in) their blood-soaked white three-piece suits worn at Dynamite when they obliterated Sting and Darby Allin. Nicholas even wrestled with his Kangol hat on.
This was a squash that featured the Bucks heeling it up, hitting a low blow on one of their opponents behind referee Rick Knox’s back. They won with the EVP trigger and then took to the mic to deliver a “show us some respect” and “call us by our God-given names” promo.
They congratulated Sting and Allin for winning the AEW Tag Team titles and said it was their objective to get their titles back. They said they won’t politick to get the shot and will compete in “competitive matches” like they did tonight. They announced they will be in action this Wednesday as well which will be against Top Flight.
I’m sure there are some who love this Bucks character. I’m not among them, but am on record to saying they need a great 2024 after a weird 2023. Perhaps they think this is the road there.
Mistico (w/ Star Jr. & Esfinge) defeated Matt Sydal
Mistico came out to perhaps some of the worst entrance music I have heard in a long time. While he was flanked by two CMLL mates, Sydal was sadly alone despite backing up the Blackpool Combat Club over the past week. Christopher Daniels was apparently busy too.
These two have some history as they battled once before in WWE as part of a no count out bout on a June 2011 edition of Raw when they were wrestling as Sin Cara and Evan Bourne, respectively.
Despite being a heel in the ongoing feud between CMLL and the Blackpool Combat Club, Mistico was playing up to the fans early on and throughout the bout as well. In the end, he hit a sweet-looking Spanish fly off the top rope to end a perfectly fine TV match. This CMLL run has been really entertaining.
– Renee Paquette caught up with Brian Cage and Prince Nana who took issue with FTW Champion Hook hitting him with a chair recently. Cage then challenged “any two sloppy joes” in the back to face him in a handicap match on Collision.
Hathaway sat in on commentary, replacing Menard who disappeared to Schiavone’s surprise.
Soho was reading a note in her jacket pocket that had her looking very suspect on her way down to the ring, so there’s that. I feel like I’ve seen this match 10 times already, but this is actually the first. Must be all the backstage segments and run-ins?
I haven’t taken too much to this feud to be that invested. I know there’s too many titles in AEW (thanks ROH!), but a Women’s Tag Team Championship could be justified with matches like this both servicing the rivalry and meaning something in the…standings. (Yeah, I don’t like them either.)
The big story here was Soho leaving The Outcasts, leaping off the ring apron when Saraya reached for a tag which was followed by Soho knocking Cameron out on her way out. Apparently that note Soho read was important…and more important than just watching past AEW shows to see what Saraya was up to.
Nightingale then took out Saraya with her Babe With The Power Bomb finish to get the win. Hathaway shook Statlander and then Nightingale’s hand, even getting a big hug. Then, Skye Blue appeared (sporting a big new tattoo on her right arm, I believe) and glared at the two until TBS Champion July Hart appeared next to her after a blackout. Then, they both glared until they eventually left, setting up a future match between them.
It appears the romance between Soho and Angelo Parker has a chance after all. That’s fitting given Valentine’s Day is next week which means we’re getting a follow up next week.
Note for next week: Rampage starts at 7 PM Eastern.
The Undisputed Kingdom and Best Friends will be on opposite sides of a six-man tag on the Friday, February 9 AEW Rampage.
In a match agreed to during a backstage promo segment on this week’s Rampage. Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett & Matt Taven of The Undisputed Kingdom will face Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero of Best Friends on next week’s episode.
Cassidy laid out the challenge to Strong in an interview on Friday’s show, with Adam Cole of The Undisputed Kingdom suggesting the match participants.
Cassidy is set to defend the International Championship against Strong at AEW Revolution on Sunday, March 3.
The February 9 Rampage will be taped Wednesday, February 7 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona following a live airing of AEW Dynamite.
The announced card for the February 7 Dynamite:
Tony Khan has “a big announcement”
Winner gets an AEW World title shot at Revolution: Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Page
AEW World Tag Team Champions Big Bill & Ricky Starks defend against Sting & Darby Allin
Chris Jericho vs. Konosuke Takeshita
Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Mistico, Volador Jr. & Hechicero
Women’s World title eliminator: Toni Storm vs. Red Velvet w/Deonna Purrazzo on commentary
The announced card for the February 9 Rampage:
The Undisputed Kingdom (Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) vs. Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero)
Adam Cole officially unveiled the Undisputed Kingdom on Wednesday’s Dynamite.
The new group appeared on the opening segment on Wednesday’s Dynamite. Cole said that now that they have gotten rid of MJF, they were focused on winning gold. He said The Kingdom have already claimed the ROH Tag Team titles, Roderick Strong is going after the International title, and after Wardlow climbs the ranks, he will take the AEW World Championship from Samoa Joe. Cole says that when he is fully recovered, Wardlow will forfeit the title to him.
Cole explained that the reason he turned on MJF was because he knew that MJF would eventually turn on him anyway, as MJF was the one that made the most enemies out of anyone in AEW. He said that MJF was gone, and he’s never coming back.
At the end of AEW’s Worlds End pay-per-view on Saturday, Samoa Joe defeated MJF to win the AEW Championship. The devil’s henchmen came out and surrounded MJF and Adam Cole, who was at ringside, but it was eventually revealed that it was Cole that had been behind the attacks for the last several months. He, The Kingdom, Wardlow, and Roderick Strong then attacked MJF to end the show.
