AEW Collision Results – August 10, 2024
It was AEW Collision featuring Swerve Strickland in singles action along with House of Black facing the Bang Bang Gang in the main event match with Christian Cage as the special guest referee.
The show was live at the Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, TX. The announcers for Collision were Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness.
Match #1: Darby Allin & Hologram defeated Premier Athletes—Tony Nese & Josh Woods (with “Smart” Mark Sterling & Ariya Daivari) by pinfall. Hologram won with a crucifix pin on Woods.
Dustin Rhodes narrated a video leading into the Texas Bullrope Match.
Match #2: Thunder Rosa defeated Deonna Purrazzo by pinfall in a Texas Bullrope Match. Both women bled in the match. Rosa won with a Thunder Driver.
A video aired about The Outrunners that showed off their personalities as if they were like a 1980s tag team.
Match #3: FTR – Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler defeated The Outrunners -Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum by pinfall. FTR won with the Shatter Machine.
Nick Wayne confronted Kip Sabian during a backstage interview. They will have a match on Rampage next Friday.
There were comments from MJF as well as Will Ospreay with Kyle Fletcher after the MJF-Fletcher match on AEW Dynamite this past Wednesday. MJF said he’ll hit Ospreay with a Tiger Driver 91 at All In.
Match #4: Rush defeated Preston Vance by pinfall. Rush won with the Bull’s Horns running knees for the win in about four minutes. After the match, Rush hit Vance with Bull’s Horn’s again. The referees put a stop to it before Rush could do more damage.
A video aired featuring TNT Jack Perry, who used an ax to smash TV screens that were showing clips of former TNT Champions.
Swerve Strickland did a promo before his Open Challenge AEW World Title Eliminator saying at All In, he’s going to own Bryan Danielson’s legacy.
Match #5: Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana) defeated Tomohiro by pinfall in an Open Challenge AEW World Title Eliminator Match. Swerve won with a House Call kick. It took Swerve 12 minutes to win the match.
Rob Van Dam, a WWE Hall of Famer who has wrestled in AEW, wasn’t impressed with a part of this match.
Claudio Castagnoli spoke about how he earned a shot at the AEW Continental Championship held by Kazuchika Okada, so Claudio challenged Okada to the title match on the August 21st Dynamite in Cardiff, Wales. It’s the first Dynamite in Europe. Claudio and Okada will go face-to-face on Dynamite this coming Wednesday.
Kris Statlander & Stokely Hathaway were interviewed in the ring by Lexy Nair. They mentioned a match challenge was issued for All In Zero Hour: Willow Nightingale & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kris Statlander & Stokely Hathaway. Statlander accepted the match while Hathaway wasn’t thrilled about it.
There was an interview with Top Flight’s Dante & Darius Martin along with Leila Grey, and Action Andretti. A match was set up for next week’s Collision with Top Flight facing MxM Collection.
Match #6: Hikaru Shida defeated Aleah James by pinfall. Shida won with a Falcon Arrow in less than two minutes.
Bryan Danielson was interviewed by the legendary Jim Ross in a sitdown interview. During the interview, Bryan admitted he’ll need neck surgery before the end of the year. Here’s part of what Bryan said with thanks to AEW’s website for the transcript:
“When you signed me 24 years ago, I was like, whoa. And here we are 24 years later and I’m ending my career and it’s just an honor to be here with you. I look back at all this stuff and it feels like there’s all these moments that I’ll just never understand. I watched you as a kid and here I am with you now.”
“As far as my body breaking down or things I worry about, I think of my neck and concussions. Honestly, I also think of all the ways my body has served me well. When I look back at what I had to do to get noticed…and the odds are I’ll have to get neck surgery before the end of this year. That’s the reality of it.”
“I’ve had four opportunities to win the AEW World Championship before and if you asked me before each time, I would have said ‘I’m ready.’ And then each time I failed. But the interesting thing is, each time I failed, I learned something about myself. And this’ll be 25 years in wrestling, and I think mentally I’m the best I’ve ever been. I think I’m the most mentally strong I’ve ever been in my career, and I think that’s what’s going to pull me through.”
Hikaru Shida was interviewed backstage. Shida challenged Mercedes Mone to a TBS Title match on Dynamite this coming Wednesday. AEW made the match official.
Who Won The AEW Collision Main Event?
The main event was a #1 Contenders Match for the AEW World Trios Championship at All In: London.
Match #7: The House of Black – Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews, & Brody King vs. Bang Bang Gang – Juice Robinson & The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) ended in controversy. Christian Cage was the referee. It was controversial because Christian claimed that neither team answered the ten count even though Buddy was back on his feet and Christian hit him with a Spear. Christian called for the bell.
The Patriarchy’s Christian Cage, Killswitch & Nick Wayne attacked the six wrestlers with chairs. They hit them with chairs to the back and used the chairs to choke the wrestlers. The Patriarchy continued the attack with Killswitch delivering a Chokeslam on Colten onto a chair. Christian hit his Killswitch move on Black on a steel chair. The Patriarchy’s Christian Cage, Killswitch, Nick Wayne & Mother Wayne celebrated with the AEW Trios Tag Team Titles. That was the end of the show.
That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading.