‘AEW: Collision’ Review (Mar 15th 2025)
Welcome to this week’s review of AEW’s, Collision, which brings wrestling back to Saturday nights. We’ve got the commentary team of Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuiness calling the action, so let’s get into our review!
Match #1: Ricochet def. Katsuyori Shibata
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Ricochet chopped at Shibata, but Shibata didn’t budge. Shibata served up a strike of his own and wiped out Ricochet with a PK. Ricochet rocked Shibata with a springboard forearm. Ricochet sat on the mat, mocking Shibata. Shibata positioned himself in front of the very vocal Ricochet. Ricochet smacked Shibata with open palm strikes. Shibata locked on the claw and then booted Ricochet in the head. Shibata slapped the top of Ricochet’s head. Ricochet blasted Shibata with a brain buster, but Shibata came back with a German suplex. Shibata blocked a kick and applied an STF. Ricochet managed to reach the ropes to force the ref to break the hold. Ricochet connected with a lionsault and then a standing shooting star press for a near fall. Shibata flattened Ricochet with a back breaker. Ricochet put his foot on the rope and pinned Shibata out of nowhere, stealing the victory!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #2: Powerhouse Hobbs def. Griff Garrison
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Griff tried to take down Hobbs with lariats. Hobbs nailed Griff with a clothesline of his own. Hobbs hurled Preston Vance and Jacked Jameson out of the ring. Hobbs spiked Griff with a spinebuster and then pinned him.
My Score: 0 out of 5
Match #3: Mark Davis def. Mark Briscoe
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Mark Davis sent Briscoe into orbit with a big back body drop. Davis pancaked Briscoe with a standing senton. Briscoe crashed onto Davis with a tope con hiro. Briscoe propped a chair on the apron and used it as a catapult, knocking Davis down on the arena floor. Briscoe served up some redneck Kungfu. Dunkzilla smirked at Briscoe, despite being staggered. Davis threw Briscoe with a release German suplex. Briscoe nailed Davis with a running blockbuster from the apron of the ring. Briscoe dropped an elbow from the barricade. Briscoe hit Davis with a fisherman’s suplex for near fall. Davis blocked a Jay Driller and then countered with a short snap piledriver. Davis covered Briscoe but Briscoe kicked out at the two-count. Briscoe planted Davis with a Death Valley Driver. Briscoe climbed to the top rope, but the Murder Machines came down to the ring. They distracted the ref long enough to knock Briscoe off the turnbuckle. Davis hit the Coriolis force and pinned Briscoe!
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #4: The Murder Machines (Lance Archer & Brian Cage) def. Four Opponents
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The Murder Machines quickly dismantled their opponents, decimating them in less than two minutes!
My Score: 0 out of 5
Match #5: Hologram and Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) def. Shane Taylor Promotions’ Lee Moriarty and The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean)
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Before the match began, The Cru—Lio Rush and Action Andretti—walked onto the ramp with folding chairs, wanting to scout the match. Hologram and Moriarty chain wrestled. Harleygram was watching the match on a monitor backstage. Carlie Bravo booted Dante in the face. The Infantry worked over Dante in their corner of the ring. Bravo blasted Dante with a DDT for a near fall. The Beast Mortos approached Harleygram backstage and stared at her. Darius grabbed a tag and cleaned house on STP! Darius nailed Dean with a flatliner. The Infantry double teamed Darius until Hologram came in to make the save. Hologram rocketed into Lee with a tope suicida! Dante scored the pin on Carlie out of nowhere after explosive Top Flight tandem offense. After the match Top Flight stared at the Cru!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #6: Megan Bayne def. Thunder Rosa
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Thunder Rosa hammered away at Bayne. Bayne threw Thunder Rosa overhead with a belly to belly suplex. Bayne pump kicked Rosa in the head. Thunder Rosa fired back with forearms and a vicious kick. Thunder Rosa rocked Bayne with a shotgun dropkick from the top rope. Thunder Rosa shoved Bayne into the steel ring post. Rosa bashed Bayne’s head against the steel ring steps. Megan Bayne grabbed Thunder Rosa and planted her with an F5 on the rampway! Bayne finished off Thunder Rosa with Fate’s Descent in the ring and pinned Thunder Rosa! After the match Bayne put Thunder Rosa in a back breaker! “Timeless” Toni Storm came down to the ring and she and Bayne slugged it out! Bayne planted Toni Storm with Fate’s Descent. Kris Statlander came down to help Thunder Rosa to her feet while Luther the Butler carried out Toni Storm!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #7: FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) def. Undisputed Kingdom (Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong)
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Cash used an arm drag on Kyle, but Kyle got to his feet and clobbered Cash with a kick. Kyle and Strong used tandem offense on Cash, with quick tags in and out of the ring. Cash rallied back against Roddy. Dax tagged in and held Roddy down with a chin lock. Roddy and Dax traded chops. Dax went for a piledriver, but Roddy countered with a back drop. FTR hit the Hart Attack on Roddy for a near fall. The Undisputed Kingdom applied stereo ankle locks on FTR. Dax escaped and nailed Kyle with a flying headbutt. FTR took down Kyle with a bulldog. They went for the Shatter Machine, but Roddy neutralized it. Roddy and Kyle punished Dax with double team offense. Undisputed Kingdom connected with the High Low, but the subsequent pin attempt was broken up. Both teams slugged it out as things broke down in the center of the ring. FTR blasted Roddy with the Shatter Machine. Dax went for the cover, but Kyle pulled Dax out of the ring by the ankles. Fifteen minutes had passed, and there were five minutes remaining at this point. FTR went for the power plex, but Roddy got his knees up to counter it. FTR came back with the Shatter Machine on Roddy and pinned Roddy.
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Final Verdict: 3/5
I always love it when wrestling shows do tournaments, it always improves the quality of the matches and USUALLY the show… Though god knows why AEW chose to pad out this show with two squash matches instead of giving the other, better, matches a chance to breathe. Interesting to see Megan Bayne take on Thunder Rosa after the weird interaction they had the other week! Mark Briscoe delivered another cracking match (the man is pretty much guaranteed to deliver each and every match TBH); whilst it looked – after the match – that FTR may be turning heel, given that Adam Cole and Daniel Garcia, who were ringside for the main event, shook each others hands as if to congratulate each others “teams,” whilst FTR refused to shake anyone’s hand and left the ring. We’ll have to see if that is the case… To be fair, them turning heel is probably the best thing for their presentation right now as there’s nothing left for them to do as faces IMHO. Ultimately this was great matches spoilt by too many squashes, dragging the overall quality of the show down a notch, unfortunately.