‘AEW: Collision’ Revew (Feb 8th 2025)
Welcome to this week’s review of AEW’s, Collision, which brings wrestling back to Saturday nights and is now all alone in AEW’s weekend programming following the end of Rampage. We’ve got the commentary team of Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness calling the action, so let’s get into our review!
Match #1: Undisputed Kingdom (Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, & Kyle O’Reilly) def. Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard, & Angelo Parker and Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor & The Infantry — Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean)
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Strong chopped at Taylor but Taylor jabbed him back. Roddy lured Taylor in with a kick and then Roddy and Kyle double teamed Taylor. Taylor bulldozed his way through Roddy and Kyle. Daddy Magic grabbed a blind tag and he back elbowed Shawn Dean. Angelo Parker came in, but Adam Cole tagged himself into the match. Cole pushed the Infantry into one another. Garcia came in and pounded the Infantry with punches. Garcia tried to suplex Taylor, but Taylor countered with a headbutt and followed up with a leg drop to the TNT Champion. Garcia found the strength to suplex Taylor. Garcia tried to tag to his corner, but the Infantry pulled Menard and Parker off the apron. Garcia made a tag out to the Undisputed Kingdom. Cole pump kicked Bravo and then blasted him with a neck breaker across the knee. All three teams paired off and began to brawl. Garcia hit Kyle with a side suplex. Taylor planted Parker with a package pile driver. The Undisputed Kingdom triple teamed Taylor! Cole lowered the boom and struck Bravo with a running knee strike, scoring the pin!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #2: Bandido def. Bryan Keith
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Keith threw his poncho at Bandido and then kicked him. Bandido answered with a dropkick. Bandido spun off the top rope with a tornillo. Bandido gorilla press slammed Keith with one arm. Bryan Keith stunned Bandido with a rising headbutt strike. Keith flung Bandido with a belly to belly off the top rope. Keith and Bandido charged at one another and knocked each other down with running boots in an old school duel. Bandido blasted the Bad Apple with the 21 Plex and pinned Keith!
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #3: LFI (Dralistico, The Beast Mortos, and Rush) def. Ares Alexander, Jay Alexander, & Brick Savage
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LFI dismantled the opposition with ease, picking apart Ares Alexander. Rush delivered the Bull’s Horns and pinned Ares!
My Score: 0 out of 5
Match #4: Dustin Rhodes def. Izzy James
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Dustin drilled James with the Cross Rhodes and made short work of his match, scoring his 54th AEW win.
My Score: 0 out of 5
Match #5: Thunder Rosa def. Penelope Ford
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Thunder Rosa exhibited a lot of quickness with arm drags and then a sliding lariat to Ford. Penelope Ford fired back with a double knee drop to Thunder Rosa’s midsection. Penelope Ford followed up with a gut buster. Penelope got knocked down with two consecutive clotheslines. Thunder Rosa connected with a running dropkick. Thunder Rosa rocked Ford with a Northern Lights Suplex. Ford scored with a running pump kick. Ford tried for a moonsault, but Thunder Rosa rolled out of the way. Thunder Rosa blasted Penelope with a shotgun dropkick. Penelope stunned Rosa with a cutter for a near fall. Thunder Rosa connected with a back stabber. Thunder Rosa nailed Penelope with a Tijuana Bomb and pinned Penelope!
My Score: 2.5 out of 5
Match #6: Mariah May def. Shay KarMichael
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Mariah quickly hit the May Day and picked up a decisive victory!
My Score: 0 out of 5
Match #7: Kyle Fletcher def. Mark Briscoe
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Fletcher pump kicked Briscoe. Mark Briscoe flew out of the ring and wiped out Fletcher with a diving tackle. Briscoe threw a chair into the ring and set up a table on the arena floor. Briscoe dropkicked Fletcher. Briscoe went for the Cactus elbow, but Kyle caught him and countered by ramming Briscoe into the ring post! Briscoe was busted wide open. Briscoe clobbered Fletcher with redneck Kungfu. Briscoe blasted Fletcher with an exploder suplex. Fletcher back dropped his way out of a Jay Driller. Fletcher spiked Mark with a heat seeker. Fletcher rocked Briscoe with a running knee strike, followed by a power bomb. Mark Briscoe planted Fletcher with a fisherman’s buster. Briscoe climbed to the top, but Kyle kicked him. Briscoe tried for the cutthroat driver, but Kyle escaped and kicked Mark with a low blow as the ref had his back turned. Fletcher walloped Briscoe with a half and half suplex. Briscoe retaliated with a froggy bow, putting Fletcher through a table! Briscoe hit another froggy bow in the ring, but Fletcher kicked out at the two-count! Fletcher picked up the pace and smashed Briscoe with a brain buster on the top turnbuckle, picking up the victory via pin fall!
My Score: 4.5 out of 5
Final Verdict: 3.5/5
Another OK episode of Collision this week, one that YET AGAIN suffered from too many squash matches and a number of average matches early doors. Thankfully we got a good match, two great ones and a fantastic main event that showed why Kyle Fletcher and Mark Briscoe deserve even HIGHER profiles in AEW than they already have – the pair delivered a match that, even this early into 2025, could be up thee as one of the best of the year.