It’s Thursday, not Saturday, and we are treated again to back-to-back nights of AEW action with a potential title change on this week’s AEW Collision. It’s AEW’s final night at the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois. Will this residency end on a bigger bang after this week’s explosive Dynamite?
Expect events from Wednesday to bleed into Collision. Perhaps a statement from our AEW Women’s World Champion after taking the fall to Athena on Dynamite. “Timeless” Toni Storm will have plenty of material after taking the O-face.
Two women’s matches might provide a chance for further seeds to be sown for an AEW Women’s Tag Team Championship division. Kris Statlander is in action, allowing Statlander and Willow Nightingale to cross paths again. Yesterday, we heard for the first time from Thekla, who welcomes her opponent, Nightingale, into her web.
Where will Thekla’s Triangle of Madness sisters be? Something is bubbling. Well, they’re packed pretty tight in here tonight.
AEW Collision Matches Announced
- Kris Statlander in action
- AEW World Tag Team Eliminator Tournament Semifinals: FTR vs. The Bang Bang Gang
- AEW World Tag Team Eliminator Tournament quarterfinals: Brodino (Brody King and Bandido) vs. The Gates of Agony
- Thekla vs. Willow Nightingale
- TNT Championship, Chicago Street Fight: Dustin Rhodes vs. Kyle Fletcher
AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament Matches
Yesterday, Dynamite teased a FTR and The Young Bucks final. However, in that same segment, Big Stoke said Cope was banned from Dynamite but not Collision. Could that be foreshadowing a subversion of AEW’s usual tendency to show you the tournament winner in advance?
FTR is taking on The Bang Bang Gang, with Juice Robinson filling in for Colten Gunn. The change in partners won’t bother either man. Both are tag specialists with a history against FTR. The Bang Bang Gang is a few wins away from breaking out.
The final quarterfinal bracket gives us another AEW quirk. Pair two fan-favourite baby faces and blend their names for their tag moniker. Brodino is an awesome name. Their mixture of strength and athleticism already gelled well in multi-man matches.
We got a preview on Dynamite of what will be a bruising, physical counterpart to tonight’s match against The Gates of Agony. Ricochet’s partners are receiving a push given their $200,000 four-way victory. The outcome might not be as predictable as it seems.
Street Fight: Is Rhodes’ Reign Over?
It feels inevitable because of the story told before Dustin Rhodes captured his first AEW singles championship. Even before All In Texas, before the announcement that Adam Cole would vacate his championship, Kyle Fletcher seemed to be the next face of TNT in waiting.
In Texas, Rhodes’ win was the right call to lift the crowd. Rhodes, in his role over the past two Collisions on the microphone and in the ring, proved he deserves this run. It feels like it’s about to end because there’s no better veteran wrestler to pass the torch.
A Chicago Street Fight offers legalised insanity. Rhodes is going to bleed like a stuffed pig.
Fletcher is going to dismantle The Last of His Kind. However, Rhodes, like a gunslinger, is going to keep shooting until the barrel’s empty and there’s no life left in him.
The lack of rules allows for The Don Callis Family to run wild, along with Dustin’s tag partners in The Von Erichs and Sammy Guevara. Could there be a betrayal by Guevara? Or does Dustin Rhodes’ story somehow find a way to continue, against the odds?
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