AEW Collision 8/23/2025

AEW Collision 8/23/2025

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/aew-collision-8162025.html

Next week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/aew-collision-8302025.html

We are in Glasgow, Scotland.

Don Callis comes out and does the intro for Hechicero.

Hiromu Takahashi & SkyFlight (Dante Martin, Darius Martin & Scorpio Sky) vs. The Don Callis Family (Hechicero, Josh Alexander, Lance Archer & Rocky Romero)

HT - Hiromu Takahashi

HT and Josh trade shots. HT flying headscissors him. HT hits corner lariats on the heels then dropkicks Rocky into Josh. HT basment dropkicks Josh. Sky and Hech fight. Sky boots him out of the corner then slingshot reverse headscissors him. Dante corner lariats Hech in the corner. Hech takes a slingshot swanton. Darius tornado ddt's Josh off of Dante.

Dante jumps off of Darius' back and leg lariats Lance. Darius' tope is caught outside and Lance chokeslams him on the apron. Hech sentons Darius for 2. Dante hits shots on Lance. Lance almost kills Dante on a crackerjack. Lance lariats Dante.

Rocky kicks Dante in the gut then basement dropkicks him. Rocky then poses. Hech slingshot stomps Dante and ear claps him with his feet. Hech ties up Dante's legs. Josh forearms Dante. Josh fireman's carry gutbusters Dante then gutwrench suplexes him. We go to PiP break and return.

Dante enzugiri's Lance from the apron then he hurricanrana's him. Sky hits lariats on Rocky then sky high's him. Sky double stomps Johs's back. He cutters Rocky and does a dragon sleeper. Lance running lariats HT and Darius outside. Lance black hole slams Sky. Hech flips Sky into a Josh ddt. Rocky gets on Lance's shoulders and Rocky is dropped onto Sky for 2.

Rocky hits a shiranui on Sky for 2. Hech step up knees HT in the corner. Dante dropkicks Hech into a Darius german. Lance double lariats Darius and Dante. Lance takes a double suplex from Darius and Dante. Sky dropkicks Rocky.

HT lariats Rocky. Rocky eye rakes him. Sky catches Rocky's shiranui and TKO's him. Sky's team does a triple tope outside. HT death valley bombs Rocky and pins him.

Thoughts: It was an alright random match here and pretty much what you would expect. I didn't like Lance taking a double suplex. I don't know why Kyle Fletcher wasn't in this.

Kyle Fletcher and Don Callis come on the stage after. Kyle and HT have words for each other.

We get a video on Hook. We see figure versions of Hook beating each other up over top an FTW Title plaque. We are told Hook is coming back soon.

We get a video on the TBS Title 4-way tomorrow.

Megan Bayne vs. Isla Dawn

This is Isla Dawn's debut after getting released from WWE.  Penelope Ford is with Meg and has a crown.

Meg waistlock takedowns Dawn. Meg shoulders her over then rams her in the corner. Meg chops her in the corner. Dawn then hits forearms. Dawn knees her in the face and dropkicks her.

Meg fallaway slams Dawn. Meg slams her 3 times. Meg drops Dawn with a chest forearm. Meg lariats her then pump kicks her in the corner. Meg hits a double underhook suplex. 

Meg clubs Dawn. Dawn double throat thrusts her and hits leg kicks and punches. Meg takes a facekick in the corner. Dawn flying knees her twice for 1. Dawn runs at her and is hit with a flying alriat. Meg running powerbombs her and wins.

Thoughts: Dawn lost in her AEW debut which was stupid booking. Why not have her win against someone else? It wasn't that interesting as it went longer than needed and the result was never in doubt. 

Meg and Ford head to the back. Willow Nightingale then comes out for her entrance before they leave.

Queen Aminata & Willow Nightingale vs. Triangle Of Madness (Julia Hart & Skye Blue)

Skye hits forearms on Willow. Willow waistlock takedowns her. Willow shoulders her over then shoulders Hart over. Willow hits corner lariats on Hart for 2.

Queen misses a corner chart. Hart corner lariats her. Hart ropewalks and clubs Queen. Queen lifts Hart by her chest, spins her and drops her. Queen then bangs Hart's face off her butt. Queen is thrown down.

We go to PiP break and return. Willow pounces Skye. Willow spinebusters Hart for 2. Willow takes a double ddt for 2. Quene suplexes Skye twice. Skye knees her in the body. Queen double chops her. Queen lifting high angle reverse ddt's her for 2.

Queen misses a top rope double stomp. Queen twisting fisherman's neckbreakers her. Hart STO's Queen. Skye and Hart hit superkicks. Willow and Queen then lariat them. Skye and Hart do stereo christo's. Hart sweeps Willow on the apron. Queen jack knifes Skye for 2 then headbutts her. Queen then picks up the pin.

Thoughts: It went long and wasn't that great. There were some bad shots as usual and the crowd didn't like it.

Thekla attacks Queen after. Willow foot chokes Thek. Penelope Ford and Megan Bayne come down and help beat the faces up. Harley Cameron then runs down to help out. She step up enzugiri's Meg then hits boots in the corner. Meg bearhug belly to belly suplexes her. Kris Statlander comes down and beats up Ford and Meg. She sends Meg over the top.

Daniel Garcia and Matt Menard are interviewed. DG says he's not happy about losing the match to wrestle for the IWGP Title. He said it should have been a dream come true. He said Nigel showed he was the better wrestler. He says sometimes being the better friend is better than being the better wrestler. He says they expect nothing less than for Nigel to win.

Max Caster comes out. He says Shibata couldn't last 5 minutes with him. He says he knows the crowd wants to chant his name. He then does his chant. He says he can't tell if the crowd is chanting it. He says they can try again the next time they are here...in another 6 years.

5 Minute Open Challenge - Max Caster vs Zack Sabre Jr.

Zack wristlocks him and Max ropebreaks. Zack wristlocks him and takes him down by the arm. Zack escapes a wristlock and throws Max over by the wrist.

Max side headlock takeovers Zack and Zack twists his head with his feet. Zack goes for a cobra twist, grounds Max with it and taps him out.

Thoughts: It wasn't much and was the usual match where Max gets beaten easy.

Zack goes up to Nigel McGuinness on commentary after. Nigel takes his headset off. Nigel offers a handshake and Zack takes it. They trade words and Nigel pulls him in.

Anthony Bowens comes down and beats up Max. Billy Gunn comes out. He stares down Bowens and talks to him. They get in each other's faces. Gunn tells him to back up. Bowens then leaves.

Harley Cameron and Kris Statlander talk in the back. Harley says she has a gift and thanks her for the help. She asks if she saw her $100k from the match she won but she says it keeps coming back as insufficient funds due to The Bucks losing power. Harley goes in the Bucks' locker room and she says they said no until next week. The Death Riders then walk in. Mox goes inside the locker room. Gabe Kidd also comes in. Mox then gives Kris Statlander a green envelope likely with her money inside. Yuta tries to make small talk and they call him away. 

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Konosuke Takeshita

They trade forearms. They then grab each other by the waist and trade forearms. KT forearms Ishii then facekicks him. KT flying back elbows him. Ishii chops him then lariats him over the top. Ishii chops him outside. KT bridging ddt's Ishii on the floor. We go to PiP break and return.

Ishii 2nd rope superplexes him. They trade forearms. KT hits a package tombstone into a wheelbarrow german. KT pumping knees Ishii. Ishii holds him and powerbombs him for 2.

Ishii hits a big lariat then sliding lariats him for 2. KT blue thunders him for 2. Ishii hits a big forearm then lariats him for 2. KT poisonrana's him. Ishii no sells it.

KT flips out of a german then takes an enzugiri. KT pumping knees him and both go down. Ishii battering rams him then takes a pumping knee for 2. KT hits a raging fire and wins.

Thoughts: I didn't like it. They didn't sell that much here and openly no sold multiple moves. 

Big Bill vs Mark Andrews

Mark was in NXT UK and is making his AEW debut.

Bill corner splashes him. Bill clubs his back then facekicks him out. Bill misses a splash and takes a jumping double knee. Mark hits chops. Mark slides out of a lariat and enzugiri's him. Bill black hole slams him and wins.

Thoughts: It was a quick squash as expected here.

Bill chokeslams Mark through 2 chairs after.

Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) vs Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson)

Ricochet is on commentary. Toa and Drake lock up. Toa pulls him down. Drake jumps over him off the 2nd rope. Toa catches his crossbody and fallaway slams him. Drake is lariated and splashed.

Kaun walks on Drake's gut. Kaun takes corner attacks and a spinning heel kick. Kaun back elbows Zack. Zack hits forearms on Kaun. Kaun take a basement dropkick after being hit in the leg.

Ricochet distracts Drake and Kaun facekicks Drake off the apron. Kaun sends Drake into the rails and apron edge. Toa lariats Drake over the rail.

Zack is tagged in. He hits shots on GoA. Zack topes Toa outside then does a suplex on Kaun for 2. Zack holds Toa and Drake coast to coast dropkicks him. Zack 2nd rope diving codebreakers Kaun. Kaun takes a dropkick into a michinoku driver for 2.

Toa pounces Drake out of the ring. Zack takes a corner meteora then a t-gimmick for the loss.

Thoughts: It was a random one. I thought it went a little longer than it needed to especially since there was no build or anything behind it.  

The Bullet Club War Dogs talk in the back. Gabe says he's with The Death Riders as he can't stand the fakes and phonies who take money off their tables. He said he had to call in and bring in some real dogs. Clark says they thought they were having another Forbidden Door without them and they are wrong. Clark says they want the baddest AEW has to offer and they want The Opps. Drilla says if you want to knock on the door, pay attention to the sign that says beware of the dogs. He says they aren't just barking, they are biting.

The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) vs Paragon (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong)

Kyle trips a Buck and is side headlocked. Kyle is shouldered over then does an armbar. Kyle armdrags a Buck. A Buck takes a double suplex. A Buck tries to get in but trips on the ropes then he is double lariated over the top. e then kicks the rail and commentary table and hurts his foot. The other Buck takes a backbreaker + diving knee off the ropes.

Matt ddt's Kyle. Nick hits kicks on Paragon then does a bulldog + lariat combo. RS hits a half-nelson backbreaker then a hiptoss backbreaker. RS dropkicks a Buck then drops him face and chest first on the mat. RS takes a slingshot facebuster then then Buck apron moonsaults his partner outside on accident.

Kyle comes off the apron into a double superkick. RS is bridged on the ropes and takes a top rope swanton. Kyle is superkicked then takes a spike piledriver on the floor. We go to PiP break and return. RS hits an olympic slam. RS takes a finlay roll. RS belly to belly suplexes a Buck into the other in tree of woe. Kyle hits kicks on a Buck. He then dragon screws one Buck, making the other dragon screw his partner. Kyle dropkicks a Buck off the steps. A Buck takes a chop + suplex combo for 2. A Buck is put in an armbar and he ropebreaks.

A Buck avoids a double team. RS takes superkicks and a double superkick. Kyle takes a double superkick then he hits a double lariat. Kyle and a Buck trade punches. A Buck hits northern lights suplexes on Kyle then hits a double. A Buck goes up top and corkscrew dives on RS. Kyle takes a shiranui for 2.

A Buck is half-nelson slammed onto Kyle's knees for 2. Kyle ankle locks a Buck. Don Callis comes out and distracts the ref. Kazuchika Okada then comes out and rainmakers Kyle. RS takes a double superkick. Kyle takes a meltzer driver and is pinned.

Thoughts: It was the same Bucks match as always with them doing every spot they know and none of it meaning anything. Okada coming in to help cheat was random and just made it worse.

The heels beat up on Paragon after. Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana come out. Swerve beats up The Bucks. Okada clips Swerve. Okada rainmakers Swerve. The heels pose to close the show.

Overall thoughts: It was your usual Collision with multiple completely random matches featuring European wrestlers getting beaten. The crowd was quiet most of the night and didn't help things out. The opener was alright. Bayne/Dawn was long and not that interesting. The Aminata tag match wasn't good with the girls having a lot of bad looking shots. Zack Sabre squashed Max Caster. Ishii/Takeshita was them doing forearms and no selling as expected. Big Bill squashed Mark Andrews. The Grizzled Young Vets had random and longer match with the GoA and it was about average. The main was the usual Bucks' match with Okada being friendly with them again after doing his own thing for a while. I would give this one a 4 out of 10 as it had a lot of random stuff on it and there wasn't a lot of effort put into this one. You could completely skip this and not miss anything.