Live on an unusual Friday night this week, AEW Collision brings us a huge card ahead of a hotly anticipated All Out in Chicago.
This show will likely build in some angles for final touches to a host of stories heading for climax this weekend but a match still to be decided is Kazuchika Okada’s challengers for this Saturday as a 4-Way match for the Rainmaker’s Continental Title was announced for All Out on this week’s AEW Dynamite. This will be decided in 3 matches on Collision in a Continental Contenders Challenge.
This makes up half of the announced lineup with 6 total matches scheduled for the evening’s proceedings, including final showdowns between The Elite and BCC, Hikaru Shida in action before her championship bout on Saturday and much more.
Here’s the card so far:
AEW Collision Card Announced Thus Far:
- Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoil & PAC) vs The Elite (Jack Perry, Kazuchika Okada, Nicholas Jackson & Matthew Jackson)
- Continental Contenders Challenge: Orange Cassidy vs Bryan Keith
- Continental Contenders Challenge: Lance Archer vs Mark Briscoe
- Continental Contenders Challenge: Konosuke Takeshita vs The Beast Mortos
- Deonna Purazzo vs Hikaru Shida
- MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) vs House of Black (Brody King & Buddy Matthews)
Jack Perry to Make Heated Chicago Return for Final Faceoff With Bryan Danielson
The self-titled Scapegoat makes his return to Chicago for the first in-ring time since his return to AEW from excursion in New Japan. Since then we have seen a much-changed Perry, now a cold-hearted killer at the centre of The Elite, the TNT champion and now gunning for Bryan Danielson’s freshly won World Title.
On Friday, they step in the ring across from each other for the first time since Perry pinned Danielson to win Anarchy in the Arena back at Double or Nothing in May but much has changed since then.
Danielson has been on a stellar run culminating at All In less than two weeks ago but now, as World Champion, he has become the target of the Elite and Perry answered the American Dragon’s open challenge last week on Dynamite, a fair shot after he is the last man to pin him after all.
But for this preview clash the night before All Out, both men recruit their allies for 8-man all-star action which will see Danielson’s Blackpool Combat Club stablemates and Trios Champions in Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta and PAC join him to take on The Elite team featuring Jack Perry, Kazuchika Okada & Matthew and Nicholas Jackson.
We can expect to see tensions run even higher in this match after it was also confirmed this past week on Dynamite that Yuta and Castagnoli will get a shot at the Young Bucks Tag Titles at All Out too.
Continental Contenders Challenge Makes for Intriguing All Out Match
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After Kyle Fletcher failed to dethrone Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada this past week on Dynamite, a ‘Continental Contenders Challenge’ was set up to put together a 4-Way match for the title at All Out.
The Conglomeration’s Orange Cassidy continues his feud with The Learning Tree through the challenge in his qualifying match where he takes on the ‘Bad Apple’ Bryan Keith. Expect to see some Learning Tree shenanigans in this one that could cost OC the match…
Lance Archer will return to AEW in-ring action after we saw him backstage last week on Collision destroying humans like a high school bully. He even went about beating up some poor production hand with a shovel and choke slamming someone else on a case. He will face the ever-energetic Mark Briscoe which should make for a very…interesting matchup but one that will be lots of fun no doubt.
But personally, my most anticipated match of this Challenge will be the returning Konosuke Takeshita, wrestling just his second match since making the quarter-finals of the gruelling G1 Climax over in Japan, facing the fastest rising star in AEW at the moment in The Beast Mortos.
This could really go either way and you can guarantee both men will go out there and batter the living daylights out of each other. I would love if somehow both could go through here!
Purrazzo Looks for Redemption but Will Face Tough Challenge in Motivated Shida
Deonna Purrazzo has had a very up-and-down year, to say the least. After a 2 month undefeated streak at the start of the year and challenging for the Women’s World Title she has struggled to keep up the same momentum.
She failed to beat Toni Storm in her Women’s Title shot and hasn’t been able to quite reach those heights again, and her feud with Thunder Rosa has brought out these complicated feelings, bad traits like selfishness and arrogance but also hints of self-doubt.
But after some impressive wins against Rosa, in the big payoff Texas Bullrope match, she failed to win and it has plunged her into a new low. However, on Dynamite this week there was a video package where Purrazzo commented on her frustration and now wants redemption, but she faces a very challenging proposition in the new Ace of AEW, Hikaru Shida.
Shida may have her head elsewhere however as the day after she will face Mercedes Mone for the TBS Championship after winning a 4-way match in the main event last week on Collision.
This could be the match to keep an eye on as Kamille and Mone will no doubt be keeping a close watch on the action after Shida managed to get Kamille banned from ringside for her match with the CEO on Saturday at All Out and could hand the win to the Virtuosa in desperate need of some restored momentum.
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