AEW Collision: January 18, 2025: Maximum Carnage
January 18, 2025 5:16 PM - Season 2, Episode 29 - Subscribe

Powerhouse Hobbs may have lost his shot at the AEW World Championship on Dynamite this week, but now he's got a posse together to vent their frustrations on the Death Riders and Jericho's Learning Tree. The consequences of Harley Cameron getting evil-misted by Julia Hart will (probably) start unfolding, and Okada defends his International belt against his former CHAOS teammate in Tomohiro Ishii.

The announced card for Collision tonight:

AEW Continental Championship Match: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tomohiro Ishi
Texas Death Match: “Hangman” Adam Page vs. Christopher Daniels
"The Murder Machines" Lance Archer and Bryan Cage vs. Top Flight
Trios Match: Adam Cole, Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly vs. Shane Taylor Promotions
Julia Hart vs Harley Cameron
Dustin Rhodes in action
12-man Tag Team Match: The Death Riders and The Learning Tree vs. Rated FTR, Powerhouse Hobbs and The Outrunners
posted by The Pluto Gangsta (5 comments total)
 
Christopher Daniels -- who I must stress is 54 years old -- gets cut open in a big way in the opening match, and the blood barely stops before he's taking a double stomp onto a table. His comeback involves him delivering the Angels Wings and two Best Moonsaults Ever, but even such heroic actions can't keep rage monster Hangman down for 10 seconds.

If my theory is correct, that Hangman is becoming AEW's Stone Cold Steve Austin, the question is what era Steve Austin are we getting?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:34 PM on January 18


Did the Infantry just lose a trios match just to set up Danny Garcia implying he'll give matches for his TNT Championship with Undisputed Kingdom? Surely there could have been a more efficient way to do this?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:46 PM on January 18


Jericho thinks he and Moxley have enough history that he can be trusted not to turn on him during the 12-man tag. But us smart marks remember the time when Moxley "joined" Jericho's Inner Circle five years ago.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:59 PM on January 18


The Okada/Ishii match suffers from the same problem as the Hobbs/Moxley match from Dynamite -- no one believes the title will change hands on some random episode. (Which is why it should TOTALLY HAPPEN one day.) So both men put on a very NJPW-style tough guy match, until Okada remembers he's an American heel now and cheats in a smart way.

Harley Cameron continues to improve in the ring. I don't know if taking the mist in the eyes has turned her "evil" yet, but it has given her a great new look. She evades Julia Hart's submission & finishing move twice, but gets caught the third time.

Interesting idea from my watching group: "I guess Harley Cameron srs-mode could be like Orange Cassidy try-mode if they wanted"
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:50 PM on January 18


Randomly, tonight is the night the Acclaimed break-up, almost as a footnote to everything else going on. Max Caster has apparently trademarked "The Best Wrestler Alive", and Bowens argues that he is "The 5-Tool Player" ::snort:: Bowens gets Billy Gunn in the divorce, unless Billy randomly goes back to his actual sons, which might be less trouble at this point.

The 12-man tag came to not much, except that it seems Hobbs will now transfer his aggression onto the Learning Tree for their backstage assault. And since Cope got hit by PAC interfering in the match -- the one Death Rider who didn't come out when the rest did -- now he fights him at Homecoming next week? C'mon man, you were once a dirty cheat yourself, what are you going to do to stop the rest of the Riders from interfering again?

Just do another Stadium Stampede in Jacksonville!
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:09 PM on January 18


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