AEW Collision: Tornado watch in Winnipeg

AEW Collision action from Winnipeg with an eight-man tornado tag team match

Tommy "Milagro" Martinez

AEW Collision: Tornado watch in Winnipeg

It’s Thursday night, and AEW Collision is all right for Fighting. So, you know what that means?

Yes, their Saturday slot is pre-empted since nobody wants the smoke of dealing with the Final Four this weekend. Also, RIP your March Madness Bracket (you know who you are, and face it…you weren’t going to win your office pool).

All Elite Wrestling is continuing its tour of Winnipeg, and the Main event will have an eight-man tornado match with the Death Riders and The Dogs aligning against a mismatched team of Mistico and Kevin Knight alongside Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong.

We come to you from the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Nigel McGuinness and Tony Schiavone have the call, and your First Match of the Night is an…

AEW Continental Title Eliminator Match: Jon Moxley vs. Anthony Bowens

So the premise is that Hook wants Bowen to find the grit to be part of The OPPS, and Mox is the one who gets the job done. Also, if he beats him, he gets a shot at the Continental title down the road.

For those of you asking how that makes sense, I suggest you direct that to TK and The Booker Monkeys™.

Meanwhile, Mox pie face Bowens disrespects him, and he comes out firing with both barrels. The Pride of Pro Wrestling looks strong early on and sends the Death Rider outside opf the ring where they fight in the crowd.

Back in the squared circle, Bowens mounts the ropes with punches to his head. Once again, the action spills out of the ring, and now Mox is in his element, sending him over the barricade, where they brawl outside. During Picture in Picture, Bowens adds pressure until he is thrown onto the steel steps. From there, Mox is in control, but there are moments when Bowen shows he is no pushover in a very physical match that pushes the Pride to his limits. He locks in the bulldog choke as Bowens fights through, but a Death Rider spells the end for this match.

Your Winner via Pinfall: Jon Moxley

After the match, Will Ospreay comes out and lays out Mox with a Hidden Blade, then grabs a chair, clearly upset by the events of this past AEW Dynamite.

He grabs the mic, and he is done hearing what he has to say. Ospreay suggests that at the AEW Dynasty PPV, no one be at ringside as he’ll do a lot of damage in 20 minutes, and he wants it for the Continental title.

Backstage, Okada pumps up Mark Davis and Andrade, suggesting this is revenge for Josh Alexander and Kyle Fletcher. And again…Okada has a weird fixation on Takeshita’s involvement with the Don Callis Family

Now for a match that could’ve been an email, here is…

The Divine Dominion (Lena Kross and Megan Bayne) vs. Ava Lawless and Kristara

All due respect to these fine Canadian wrestlers, but I think we can all see where this match is going, so allow me a Squared Circle Clerihew™:

*Ahem*

Bayne and Kross surpass
Their penchant for pain in these poor lasses.
I must say, in my humble opinion,
That the tag champs show utter Dominion.

Your Winners via Pinfall: The Divine Dominion

Mox is backstage, and he accepts Ospreay’s challenge and warns him to expect the unexpected, even though he predicts he’ll beat himself.

The Revolution is being televised, as The Hurt Syndicate is back, and MVP ponders adding to the ranks. Either way, since business is back, they want to remind folks that their product is… they hurt people.

Hey, as long as it’s not MJF, I’m down.

Now back to ringside for the upcoming…

AEW TBS Title Open Challenge Match: Willow Nightingale (c) vs. Hikaru Shida

The three-time AEW Women’s champion returns to competition after a year off. The longest reigning champion has a chance to add a feather to her cap by adding the TBS belt to her credentials.

There is a handshake of respect, and then both women lock up and test each other out. The Babe with the Power is in control, but Shida shows no ring rust as her educated feet knock the champ down. She hits the ropes, and Nightingale is back with The Pounce that knocks Shida outside, and she follows with a cannonball from the apron to the floor.

During Picture in Picture, Shida is at this Babe’s mercy and then…

Ads (again, I ask the Monkeys in the Truck™, why bother doing Picture in Picture when you pull this IN THE MIDDLE OF A MATCH?!)

*sigh*

We come back, and Shida and Nightingale battle on the apron, and she nails a kick that topples the champ. She grabs a chair and its a running knee to the face.

Back in the ring, and a Meteora to Nightingale gets her a count of two. She goes for a moonsault that misses, and Shida hits a couple of knees but can’t keep her down. She attempts her Katana finisher, but it gets blocked, and Nightingale gets a backslide to keep the title.

Your Winner, and Still AEW TBS Champion: Willow Nightingale

Shida was frustrated and grabs her kendo stick to strike her back, but thinks twice.

After a break, we’re set for tag team action with…

FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, with Stokely) vs. London Lightning and Mo Jabari

Jabari is a Dungeon member last seen on NWA Powerrr tapings, and Lightning is an Ontario native of some renown.

Again, this is less of a match and more of a squash, but the hometown boys get their licks in. At one point, Lightning tags in, and FTR play possum as they deliver the Shatter Machine to a hapless jobber.

Your Winners via Pinfall: FTR

That brings out Christian Cage and Adam Copeland, and they make good on their promise from AEW Dynamite to lay out anyone in the way of them facing Dax and Csh. Cage goes for a Con-chair to on Cash, but they escape at the last minute. Some poor schmuck of a “security guy” is not so lucky as Cage uses him to send a message.

Lexy Nair is backstage with The Brawling Birds and Mina Shirikawa. Hayter notes that she once held the AEW Women’s title and challenges Thekla for it at Dynasty. Shirikawa tells her not to just beat her, but to “beat the piss out of her.”

Up next is…

Juice Robinson vs. Tommaso Ciampa

This came about after the Psycho Killer decimated Ace Austin last week on Collision.

At the start, Robinson is Rock Hard against Ciampa, but they brawl outside the ring, and he sends him into the commentary desk.

During Picture in Picture, this match is all Psycho Killer, no filler. They slug it out, and Juice is Loose, landing a spinebuster. He tries to put away Ciampa, and they go back outside, where Robinson lands a cannonball on the barricades. He goes for a crossbody that misses the mark, and Ciampa attempts with a running knee, but he eats a leg lariat. They jockey for position, but he nails Robinson with a mule kick, and the Widow’s Bell gets a two-count. He sets him up top for the Psychi Driller, but he reverses to a sunset powerbomb for a near fall. It’s chops ahoy until Ciampa unloads and delivers two running knees to down Rock Hard once and for all.

Your Winner via Pinfall: Tommaso Ciampa

Isiah Kassidy is backstage, and he has words for Jon Moxley. He is aware that he’s swimming with the sharks and wants an opportunity to face him for the Continental title.

Darby Allin had an exchange after yesterday’s AEW Dynamite, and he wants MJF. Out comes Brody King and “Jungle” Jack Perry. King has a lot of issues with him, and even Perry didn’t forget that Allin set him on fire. But they’ll set aside their differences to go after the Don Callis family next week.

Well, maybe not Perry, since he was set on fire.

But that is another show, as this next match is…

The Don Callis Family (Andrade El Idolo and Mark Davis) vs. The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz, with Myron Reed)

As the Rascalz pose, Andrade and Davis blindside Wentz and Xavier, and they brawl outside the ring. After they are satisfied with the damage they caused, they throw Wentz and Xavier in the ring, and then the match officially starts.

They manage to get back at the Don Callis Family, and things look good for the Rascalz until Xavier dives outside and gets hit by an elbow by El Idolo, and Andrade takes time to pose with a fan at ringside.

Xavier is a Rascal in Peril during Picture in Picture, and then he gets a desperation kick to create some space. A hot tag to Wentz, and he is en Fuego and Smoking. A few kicks to Davis, and he is on roller skates, followed by a tornillo. Callis steps away from commentary long enough to rally the troops, but the Rascalz take it to Andrade and Davis. Before they can land their Hot Fire Flame finisher, El Idolo and Davis put a stop to that, and Dunkzilla gives a piledriver to Wentz, and Andrade adds the punctuation with a DM, and that spells the end.

Your Winners via Pinfall: Mark Davis and Andrade El Idolo

After the match, Okada and the rest of The Family beat down the Rascalz to show that he is a better family member than Takeshita.

Geez, Okada. Jealous much? In any case, Reed comes in to take out the Family to help his fellow Rascalz

Now for your min Event: an eight-man tornado Match between…

Kevin Knight, Mistico and The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong) vs. The Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) and The Dogs (Clark Connors and David Finlay)

As for this match, let me explain…

No, there is too much. So allow me to sum it up with a Lucid Luchador Limerick in Review™:

* Ahem*

The Dogs and Death Riders are vicious
And prove they are pernicious.
Yet the Conglomeration and trios champs can fly,
And that makes their offense quite spry
As The Riders and Dogs’ loss seems quite unambitious.

Your Winners: Kevin Knight, Mistico, Orange Cassidy, and Roderick Strong

The fans are happy as the show comes to a close.

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