AEW Collision: September 28, 2024 (& Rampage Sept. 27)
September 29, 2024 10:24 AM - Season 2, Episode 16 - Subscribe
Collision arrives pre-recorded, having been taped at Arthur Ashe Stadium immediately following Wednesday's Grand Slam. Sammy Guevara chooses to test himself against Okada, Saraya and Harley stooge it up for a returning Jamie Hayter, Jack Perry defends his title against unexpected murder grandpa, the BCC perfectly exhibit teeth-clenched teamwork, plus Hangman and Jeff Jarrett strap it on for the main event.
RAMPAGE - September 27
Malakai Black and Buddy Matthews(w/ Brody King) defeated Lio Rush and Action Andretti (w/ Top Flight & Leila Grey)
Konosuke Takeshita defeated Angelico
The Acclaimed (w/ Billy Gunn) defeated “Fancy” Clancy and TJ Crawford
Willow Nightingale defeated Taya Valkyrie
COLLISION - September 28
"Saraya’s Rules" Match – Jamie Hayter defeated Saraya (w/ Harley Cameron)
RAMPAGE - September 27
Malakai Black and Buddy Matthews(w/ Brody King) defeated Lio Rush and Action Andretti (w/ Top Flight & Leila Grey)
"At least Top Flight weren’t dressed like airline pilots. [...] After a split-screen break, Black nearly choked out Andretti with a chinlock. Andretti fought out of it, and both guys crashed into each other going for crossbody blocks. Rush and Matthews got the tags, and Rush caught Matthews with a poison rana and a springboard cutter. Black got the tag and floored Rush with an elbow. Rush came back and set up Black for a splash off the top, but Andretti got the blind tag. Rush and Andretti argued, but that gave Black the opening to hit Andretti with the Black Mass kick and got the pinfall. The arguing between Rush and Andretti was over the top. After the match, Andretti threw a water bottle at Brody King, who mauled him with a clothesline."Anna Jay defeated Robyn Renegade
Booooo, bring back the airline pilot outfits! I guess Top Flight as a faction isn't big enough for FOUR flippy boys (plus whatever Leila Grey does) so between this and what happens on Collision, it seems Action is walking his own path.
"This is Jay’s first match back from a tour of Stardom."Renee Paquette moderated a face-to-face between Ricochet and WIll Ospreay.
Konosuke Takeshita defeated Angelico
The Acclaimed (w/ Billy Gunn) defeated “Fancy” Clancy and TJ Crawford
Willow Nightingale defeated Taya Valkyrie
COLLISION - September 28
"Saraya’s Rules" Match – Jamie Hayter defeated Saraya (w/ Harley Cameron)
"Before the bell rang, Cameron announced the addition of one more rule: the match only starts when Saraya slaps Hayter in the face. Saraya got her shot in, but Hayter brought her to the corner and laid the boots in to her and Cameron. Cameron grabbed Hayter’s boot, allowing Saraya to drill Hayter with a VCR. Yes folks, a Video Cassette Recorder. Someone had to have brought that from home. Saraya choked Hayter out with the cord from a keyboard, then sent her to the floor where Cameron laid in her shots. Cameron held Hayter up for several cookie sheet shots straight to the head, but Hayter ducked one and took Saraya down with a German suplex.Tornado Trios Match – The Learning Tree (Big Bill, Bryan Keith & Chris Jericho) defeated The Conglomeration (Kyle O’Reilly, Mark Briscoe & Orange Cassidy)
Hayter ran Cameron into the barricade, but Saraya popped her in the back with a baseball bat. Saraya dumped a bunch of toy cars onto tables set up at ringside before Hayter made her comeback. Cameron tried for another distraction, but Hayter caught a diving Saraya off the apron with a powerslam. Hayter lifted Saraya to the top rope, but Cameron cut Hayter off. Saraya sent both of them off the top rope through the tables with a chair shot. Hayter kicked out of a cover on the floor, then beat the ten count back into the ring before kicking out of a cradle DDT. It used to be the Rampaige, but she’s not Paige anymore. Saraya went for a piledriver, but Hayter picked her up and sent her through a table with a DVD. Saraya tried to send Hayter into a chair, but Hayter threw her into the chair and hit a Tombstone. Hayter hit the Hayterade lariat for the win."
"Big Bill has gotten some spotlight in these matches since the big reaction he got in Cardiff, and he was the pivotal part of this match for his team. [...] Former ROH World Champion Jericho made the international sign for “I want a title match” after pinning the current ROH World Champion before Rocky Romero came out to make sure there were no post-match shenanigans. Jericho signaling for an ROH World Title match afterward is a point of interest, especially with the conversation surrounding the AEW/WBD television negotiations."Brody King defeated Action Andretti
"I’m digging this little undercard story of Andretti not being content with his lot in life. Fine fare for the weekend shows. [...] Andretti charged King to start and hit a pair of chop blocks to cut King down. Andretti hit the standing shooting star press, but only got a one count. King cut him down, but Andretti squirmed away and kept moving until a forearm knocked him out of the air. King hit a splash and a cannonball for the win."AEW TNT Championship Match – Jack Perry (c) defeated Minoru Suzuki by countout
"This was as strong of a countout finish as you’ll see. Perry essentially hit his finishing sequence before sliding back into the ring for the win. It’s a Suzuki match in America, I could probably call these at this point. Suzuki no-sold some forearms before he laid Perry out with one, then stretched him with some arm holds as we went to a commercial. After the commercial, Perry hit a neckbreaker for a nearfall after taking advantage during the break.AEW World Trios Championship Match – Claudio Castagnoli, PAC, & Wheeler Yuta (c) defeated Komander & Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen)
Suzuki caught a knee before hitting the ropes and snatching on a sleeper hold. Perry fought out of the Gotch-Style Piledriver, but Suzuki caught him with an armbar over the ropes. Suzuki fought with the referee over a chair and snuck a shot in, but Perry knocked Suzuki off the apron with a knee. As the referee counted, Perry hit a DDT off the apron and the Glass Jaw knee into the steel stairs before rolling into the ring and scoring the win via count out. Perry went to do more damage before Katsuyori Shibata ran him off. Shibata and Suzuki shook hands to end the segment."
"Wheeler Yuta’s interest in being a part of this revamped Blackpool Combat Club was the focus here, and it feels like it will be leading to an elevation down the line. I liked the story over the past few weeks with Private Party & Komander having some guts and stepping to these guys. Didn’t work out for them, but I like their gumption. Quen clubbered on PAC to start before Castagnoli knocked him down from the apron. Yuta refused to tag as PAC and Castagnoli stomped on Quen. Quen eventually fought his way to the corner and tagged in Kassidy, who ran wild and caught PAC with a pop-up DDT. Castagnoli broke the pin by stomping on Kassidy’s hand. Castagnoli tagged Yuta and put on the Giant Swing, but Yuta refused to hit the dropkick.Lucha Libre Three Way – Hologram defeated The Beast Mortos & Dralistico
Komander came in and ran past Yuta to hit a double jump dive to Castagnoli. Kassidy caught Yuta with a roll-up, but Yuta kicked out and hit a Right Angle Slam. Yuta wrenched at Kassidy’s bad hand before laying in the hammer & anvil shots. Yuta locked on the Cattle Mutilation to win and retain the titles. PAC held the referee back as Yuta held onto the hold after the bell before refusing to allow his partners to raise his hands."
"This was a fine, if sloppier than usual, lucha showcase. Rush getting together with Mortos and his brother Dralistico can make a good heel unit to challenge the still-undefeated Hologram."MxM Collection’s Fashion Show
"MxM Collection came out. They mocked Max Caster for calling himself the Best Wrestler Alive – a fair criticism – before kicking off the Grand Slam Fashion Walk. They had several extras come out with wacky clothes and masks with their own faces over them. This is death. They eventually had someone named Hans under a curtain model Caster’s jacket, which they cut a heart into and re-wrote to say Best Dressed Alive. They had Hans take off the jacket and show off his muscular physique. Hans unmasked to reveal himself to be Billy Gunn, who laid out MxM. The extras helped to lay him out before The Acclaimed made the save and ran them off."Lumberjack Strap Match – Hangman Page defeated Jeff Jarrett
"The lumberjacks are The Dark Order, The Bang Bang Gang, Jay Lethal, & Satnam Singh. They teased going to the floor a couple of times before fighting out of each other’s finishers. Page sent Jarrett to the floor, but it was on the side of his friends Lethal and Singh. Page sent Jarrett to the other side, where the Dark Order and the Bang Bang Gang laid into him with the straps.AEW Continental Title Eliminator Match – Kazuchika Okada defeated Sammy Guevara
Jarrett went for the ten punches, but Page dumped him to the floor where the Gunns whipped him. Page hit a Death Valley Driver for a nearfall. We had a technical difficulty where a commercial wasn’t inserted until they were supposed to come back from the break. Jarrett sent Page to the floor, where he got whipped by the Gunns. Page laid out the lumberjacks then went for the Buckshot on Jarrett before Juice Robinson whipped him. Page and the lumberjacks got into it until Jarrett hit a dive onto the pile.
Page swiped a strap from one of the lumberjacks and whipped Jarrett with it to escape a Stroke attempt. Karen Jarrett had seen enough and went in the ring to save her husband before Page almost whipped her in a rage. The other lumberjacks had seen enough and went to stop Page before he whipped all of them. Jarrett got his hands on a strap and whipped Page before sending him to the floor to get whipped by everyone, including Satnam Singh and his extra-large whip. It looked like he was hitting Page with a bungee cord. Jarrett held Page in place for Karen to get her shots in, and in the melee, Page snuck in a low blow. Page hit the Deadeye to score the win. After the match, Page singled out Robinson and choked him with the strap before the Gunns ran him off."
When this was recorded on Wednesday, I too was confused. Usually I picture strap matches to mean the two competitors are strapped TO EACH OTHER. But this gave us a good opportunity for the Dark Order (and everyone else) to demonstrate how tired they are with Hangman's bullshit, registering their complaints across his back. Hangman vs. Juice Robinson is next week, where does he go from there?
"I was very interested in seeing how this match would play out on paper, and it worked out nicely. AEW fans are tired of Guevara, and this particular crowd was tired in general, but Guevara’s work was never the issue with him. A fine main event for this show."
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