Back-to-back nights of action, Thursday is a good night for fighting with AEW Collision. With plenty to follow up on from last night\u2019s Dynamite, plus other storyline developments predominantly occurring on Collision, expect another banger-filled night.<\/p>\n
A rematch between Speedball Mike Bailey and Dralistico could be a gateway for Rush\u2019s first big storyline of 2025. After assaulting Kevin Knight, before his match with Kazuchika Okada last night, Bailey came to the rescue of his friend and tag partner. We may be getting an LFI and Knight and Bailey tag match shortly. Also, potentially a vicious set of singles outings with the el Toro Blanco.<\/p>\n
Antony Bowens will take on The Vanilla Baby\u2019s partner, Lee Johnson. Johnson last competed on AEW TV programming over a year ago. Let\u2019s see what \u201cBig Shotty\u201d can do in this exhibition.<\/p>\n
After being squashed by Nick Wayne, Rhino was advertised for Collision. Some fans have fantasy booked another Max Caster Open Challenge ending with a gore, gore, GORE!<\/p>\n
The two most weighty and long-term storyline matches we\u2019ll discuss separately. More will be added, plus other nice surprises. Maybe another \u201cTimeless\u201d Toni Storm promo where she\u2019s madder than a barrel full of monkeys<\/p>\n
FTR and Stokely Hathaway confronted Tony Schiavone at the commentary desk on this week\u2019s Dynamite. The Living Legends reminded everyone who turned their backs on whom. It was the fans and Daniel Garcia who betrayed them. They\u2019re still the good guys.<\/p>\n
Tonight, one member of FTR will take on Daniel Garcia. However, to say it\u2019s going to hurt FTR more than Garcia. Garcia\u2019s neck is still a pain.<\/p>\n
Last week, when Garcia survived The Best Wrestler Alive in his open challenge, the neck was still an issue for the former TNT Champion. That series of vicious spike piledrivers has done its damage. FTR has the advantage.<\/p>\n
The first match in a potential feud\/storyline that could go to Double or Nothing or beyond, expect table setting and a taste of what\u2019s to come. Garcia and FTR had great chemistry. Let\u2019s see what they can do as opponents.<\/p>\n
Also, given FTR\u2019s warning to Nigel McGuinness, part of me wonders if we are building a six-man with FTR and Hathaway with Garcia, McGuinness, and Schiavone!<\/p>\n
Like a female version of Hangman Adam Page and Swerve Strickland, every time we have seen momentary interactions between Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale, fans want to see more. We want storyline and character development, and to see whether these former besties turned enemies can be friends again.<\/p>\n
Since turning face, we have seen Statlander try to offer Nightingale the olive branch when they have crossed paths. Nightingale, however, has been resistant. The Babe with the Power might still smile, but she also wants to slap the crap out of all the members of the Death Riders.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s criminal that Nightingale has only had four AEW matches this year. Yet, travelling the globe to Japan and Mexico, winning tournaments, and waiting for another opportunity. Issuing the challenge to Statlander, this will be the first time these two have clashed one-on-one since their epic All Out match last year.<\/p>\n
Expectations are high, but without the aid of weapons, will the pair’s chemistry reach that ceiling? As in earlier singles encounters, the steak did not always sizzle.<\/p>\n
The larger story for this match is whether they will or won\u2019t reconnect. Does this end clean? Or pre- or post-match, does another obstacle get in their way?<\/p>\n
More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n Header photo \u2013 AEW \u2013 Stay tun<\/em>ed to the\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on AEW Collision and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite on Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TBS. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night. AEW Collision airs Saturday at 8pm Eastern on TNT. More AEW content available on their YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back-to-back nights of action, Thursday is a good night for fighting with AEW Collision. With plenty to follow up on from last night\u2019s Dynamite, plus other storyline developments predominantly occurring on Collision, expect another banger-filled night. A rematch between Speedball Mike Bailey and Dralistico could be a gateway for Rush\u2019s first big storyline of 2025. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4960,"featured_media":134979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,6,2192],"tags":[4133,8598,3657,6455,4634,296,3625],"class_list":["post-134971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-aew","tag-aew-collision","tag-daniel-garcia","tag-ftr","tag-kris-statlander","tag-stokely-hathaway","tag-willow-nightingale"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134978,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134971\/revisions\/134978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}