CONTAINS SPOILERS
Tonight’s AEW COLLISION: Christmas Collision was broadcast on TNT from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, NY!
Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness were the broadcast team for tonight’s event.
It’s Saturday night and you know what that means! This is for the Sickos!
Ian Riccaboni was in the ring with “Big Boom” AJ and Big Justice to hype up tonight’s card!
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
“The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay vs. Ricochet!
Fans threw streamers for Ospreay, but then threw rolls of toilet paper at Ricochet.
They grappled to the mat and then Ricochet hit a shoulder tackle. Ospreay popped right back up on his feet. Ospreay went for a hurracanrana, but Ricochet landed on his feet! Ricochet caught Ospreay and tossed him at the top turnbuckle. Ricochet flipped over the top rope and wiped out Ospreay.
Ospreay connected with a springboard forearm for a near fall. Ricochet blocked a Styles Clash attempt. Ricochet missed a moonsault attempt and Will nailed him with a Styles Clash. Ricochet kicked out at the two-count. Ricochet rolled out of the ring as Will was setting up for the Hidden Blade.
They jockeyed for position on the apron until Ricochet drilled Will with a Death Valley Driver. Ricochet followed up with a shooting star press to Will on the arena floor. Ricochet then blasted Will with a 450 splash. Ospreay somehow, someway kicked out.
Ospreay ducked the spirit gun and then countered with a stunner. Ricochet countered an Os Cutter with a stunner. Ricochet went for the spirit gun, but Will hit the hidden blade. The fans erupted with chants for “A-E-W!”
They traded forearms, going toe-to-toe. Ospreay fired up and staggered Ricochet with a forearm shot. Ricochet held the referee and shoved Ospreay into him. Ospreay went for Vertigo, but Ospreay countered with a Tiger Driver. The ref tried to get to his feet. Ospreay was climbing the ropes and Ricochet shoved the ref with his boot, knocking him into the ropes. This caused Ospreay to lose his balance and fall. Ricochet rocked Ospreay with the spirit gun and stole the pin!
“It happened so quickly but I really think that was intentional,” said Schiavone.
Up next: Adam Cole and MJF had their face-to-face ahead of next Saturday’s match at Worlds End, live on pay-per-view!
MJF came to the ring being led in by his own team of private security. Security was stationed on every side of the ring.
MJF: “Cut my music. Cole, I’m a little bit frustrated because for months I’ve had to listen to you say I’m your biggest enemy. But you turned on me, didn’t you? But you have bigger enemies to worry about such as spray tanner, a crack in the floor, or perhaps a cavity because I heard your dentist isn’t seeing you anymore.
“Now, let me shoot straight with you, playboy. When I was the AEW World Champion, you were nothing more than my cute little side kick And that ate you up inside. But the sad truth is, you had plenty of opportunities to win the title before I got anywhere near it. It’s almost as if you blew it.
“That’s why I don’t buy that hogwash that you turned on me because you knew I was going to turn on you first. You turned on me because you’re jealous of me. For crying out loud, you used to be Adam Cole, baybay, but these days you’re looking like a crack baybay.”
Adam Cole: “I feel like you practiced this in front of the mirror for two weeks. I could talk about the fact that you’ve had two surgeries on that fake head of hair and you’re only in your 20s, but I’m not going to do that. Or that every time you enter a room everyone can’t wait for you to leave because you’re annoying. But the truth is, you tell me I’m a failure, but I’ve been the longest reigning champion in so many of the companies I worked in.
“Do I have some regrets? Sure. But I do not regret turning my back on you. It’s what you do. I just did it better than you, and you know it. I think I figured out what’s going on in your head. You are terrified of anyone getting close to you because you feel it’s a weakness. You knew you were going to turn on me…”
MJF: “You’re damn right I was! I had every intention of stabbing you in the back that night. You just got lucky. When Better Than You Baybay started, you were just a pawn to me. But eventually I started to care. However, that is exactly when you became a liability. And since you’re a fragile freak, when you exploded your ankle, you became a distraction. There is no room for that when I’m concerned with keeping my championship. You ain’t the devil, you just beat the devil to it. But this year at Worlds End, the same place you tried to end my world, I end yours!”
Cole: “You’re going to end it at Worlds End? How about with this face to face I end it?”
Cole decked MJF and then wiped out the security detail with super kicks. MJF charged at Cole and kicked him between the legs. MJF had the Dynamite Diamond Ring but retreated before he could use it on Cole as the rest of the Undisputed Kingdom came out to help Cole!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Kris Statlander!
Statlander: “What Willow and I have to discuss is between us. Penelope is looking for a fight tonight so hear I am. When I look back at this past year, I kind of had a downward spiral and it all started when I lost the TBS title. So if I win it back, I can start righting some of my wrongs. Mercedes, you don’t have an opponent for Worlds End. Well here I am!”
Next Lexy Nair interviewed “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy!
Orange: “As we saw this past Wednesday on Dynamite, Jay White and Hangman and myself can’t have a conversation. So I just need them to listen. Between now and Worlds End, Jon Moxley can run and hide. But when that bell rings in seven days, he’ll be in the ring with us with nowhere to hide. We need to remove him from the equation and then the three of us can fight for the AEW World Championship. Just something to think about. See you guys on Dynamite.”
Kris Statlander vs. Penelope Ford!
Statlander displayed her power with a shoulder block that knocked Penelope off her feet. Kris followed up with a delayed vertical suplex, but Penelope slipped out of it and countered with a reverse naked choke. Statlander escaped and hit the suplex this time.
Penelope blasted Stat with a blockbuster from the top rope. Penelope nailed Statlander with a double knee smash. Kris fired back with a shotgun dropkick. Statlander turned things around in a heartbeat, whipping Ford into the guardrail.
Penelope used a fisherman’s suplex for a two-count on Statlander. Penelope went for a handspring into a back elbow, but Statlander saw it coming. Penelope spiked Stat with a poison rana for a near fall!
Ford missed a moonsault, so Kris punished her with a pair of German Suplexes. Statlander finished off Ford with Staturday Night Fever and scored the pin.
After the match, we heard from TBS & NJPW Strong Women’s Champion “The CEO” Mercedes Moné!
Mercedes: “Ho, ho, ho! Kris after the year I had I was planning on taking Worlds End off. But since it’s the holiday season and I feel like being nice, I will show you that Mone changes everything because I am the greatest TBS Champion of all time!”
“Big Boom” AJ and Big Justice came to the ring but were interrupted by “The King of New York” ROH World Champion Chris Jericho, “Bad Apple” Bryan Keith, and “The Redwood” Big Bill!
Jericho: “Excuse me, sir. Do you have a permit to be here tonight? You didn’t run it past me. Do you know why I am? I talk for everyone here saying we don’t want you in our ring, AJ. We don’t even have Costco’s in New York City. We don’t have time for your goofy gimmicks.”
The Acclaimed’s Anthony Bowens, by himself, came down to the ring!
Bowens: “Cut the music! Chris, I don’t know why the Scissor King is catching strays, but you caught my attention. You’re trying to intimidate AJ and Big Justic. Why don’t you shut the hell up? Chris why don’t you walk down to the ring and get it whipped by the scissor king?”
Jericho: “You want me to come down there right now? Not tonight.”
Jericho walked away like a coward. AJ, Big Justice, and Bowens had a scissor party!
Lexy Nair was backstage with The Vendetta!
Toni Storm interrupted and said she wanted to introduce herself. Deonna invited Toni to face Taya on Dynamite. Toni accepted the challenge.
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
The Hurt Syndicate’s Shelton Benjamin vs. TNT Champion Daniel Garcia!
“Daddy Magic” Matt Menard joined the commentary team for this match.
Garcia struck Benjamin with a chop and Benjamin grabbed him and slammed Garcia. Benjamin bounced Garcia off the guardrail and then whipped him into the steel ring steps. Benjamin dropped Danny with a lariat.
Garcia hit a John Woo dropkick. Shelton hurled Garcia with a big release German Suplex. Benjamin caught Garcia in midair and then threw him overhead with a belly to belly suplex on the arena floor.
Daniel Garcia fired back with a John Woo dropkick. Garcia countered a pump kick with a dragon screw leg whip through the ropes. Garcia locked on the Dragon Tamer, but Shelton escaped and transitioned to an STF on Garcia! Benjamin flattened Garcia with a thrust kick.
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
Out of nowhere, Garcia, who was playing possum, rolled up Benjamin and pinned him! After the match the Hurt Syndicate ambushed Garcia. Mark Briscoe sprinted to the ring with a chair, but security held him back. Swerve Strickland jumped off the ropes with a Swerve Stomp and wiped out the Hurt Syndicate!
Swerve: “Bobby Lashley! Didn’t I say I’d get my hands on you by the end of 2024? That’s what I did! Courtesy of the most dangerous man in AEW!”
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
Mark Briscoe vs. The Beast Mortos!
Briscoe and the Beast slugged it out in the center of the ring. Briscoe unleashed his redneck Kungfu. They chain wrestled, reversing one another’s pin attempts. The Beast bulldozed Briscoe with a running shoulder tackle.
The Beast Mortos speared Mark Briscoe! The Beast headbutted Mark. Mark dodged a charge from Mortos and Briscoe dropkicked Mortos through the ropes. Briscoe followed up with a tornillo. Briscoe nailed the Beast Mortos with a release German Suplex on the apron. Briscoe crashed onto Mortos with a sky twister moonsault! Briscoe catapulted off a steal chair with a tope con hiro to Mortos!
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
Briscoe went for the Froggy Bow, but the Beast Mortos raised his knees. The Beast Mortos nailed Mark with a big back breaker and then a power bomb onto his knee! Mortos flattened Mark with a Samoan Drop for a near fall!
Briscoe dodged a discus lariat. Briscoe connected with the Froggy Bow, but Mortos kicked out at the two-count. Briscoe landed another Froggy Bow and then planted Mortos with the Jay Driller to pick up the 1-2-3!
Julia Hart had words for Jamie Hayter: “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. I’m no coward. What you call tricks, I call advantages. So watch your back. Are my tricks too much for you? I guess we’ll find out January 1st at Fight For The Fallen. But remember the house always wins.”
Alex Marvez was backstage was backstage with AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May!
Mariah: “Does Thunder Rosa need a new mommy since her father will be sitting front row at Worlds End to watch our Tijuana Street Fight?”
Thunder Rosa heard enough and attacked Mariah May! Mariah tried to escape but Thunder Rosa chased her to ringside. Security had to separate them. Thunder Rosa held up the World title belt!
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
AEW World Trios Champion Claudio Castagnoli
vs.
Darby Allin!
Darby rocketed out of the ring with a tope suicida as Claudio was making his entrance. Darby shoved Claudio into the lighting rig. Darby launched himself off the lighting rig and crash landed onto Claudio.
Claudio cracked Darby with a pop-up European Uppercut. Claudio hurled Darby by the legs in the giant swing. Darby managed to get to his feet, and he used his body as a projectile battering ram before following up with a Coffin Drop to Claudio.
Darby jumped on Claudio’s back and applied a sleeper. Claudio jumped backwards and smashed Darby through the timekeeper’s table. Claudio squashed Darby with a double stomp. Claudio body slammed Darby onto the ring apron. Claudio rammed Darby spine-first into the steel ring post. Claudio swung Darby by the legs into the steel ring steps.
Claudio knocked Darby for a loop with a running lariat for a near fall. The fans chanted Darby’s name. Darby countered the Ricola Bomb with a Code Red, but Claudio kicked out at the two-count. Ricochet was seen watching the match backstage on a monitor.
Darby went for a Coffin Drop but Claudio raised his knees. Claudio planted Darby with a power bomb for a near fall. Claudio power bombed Darby again and again Darby kicked out! Claudio grabbed a steel chair, and the ref pulled it away. As the ref had his back turned Claudio knocked out Darby with a pair of brass knucks and stole the pin!
“A horrible miscarriage of justice!” said Schiavone.
Will Ospreay jumped into the ring and prevented Claudio from further punishing Darby with steel chairs.
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