We are eight days out from DYNASTY 2025 and that Philadelphia pay-per-view event just keeps getting bigger! Not only do we have AEW World Champion Jon Moxley versus Swerve Strickland, AEW Women's World Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm taking on Megan Bayne, and AEW International Champion Kenny Omega fighting both Ricochet and Speedball Mike Bailey, but we now we've got Rated FTR facing The Death Riders for the AEW World Trios Championship AND ROH World Champion Chris Jericho has challenged Bandido to face him in a Lucha de Apuestas match with Title-versus-Mask!
Tonight we take the next step towards that pay-per-view extravaganza when AEW returns to Milwaukee, WI and the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena for a live COLLISION! It's already looking like a loaded night of action as AEW World Trios Champion Wheeler Yuta fights FTR's Dax Harwood, The Learning Tree's Big Bill & Bryan Keith take on Top Flight, and “Switchblade” Jay White returns to COLLISION to face Kevin Knight! Plus, former AEW Women's World Champion Jamie Hayter comes back to All Elite Wrestling to take on Queen Aminata, and after overcoming Billie Starkz one week ago, TBS Champion Mercedes Moné makes her COLLISION in-ring debut!
AEW present COLLISION live on TBS and streaming on MAX beginning at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT, and around the world via AEW PLUS! Make a point to visit AEW's official YouTube channel before showtime to catch-up on highlights from Wednesday night's DYNAMITE, previous editions of COLLISION, HEY! (EW) with Willie Mack, and so much more! Then join us on Wednesday night in Peoria, IL at the Peoria Civic Center for a live DYNAMITE featuring the return of “The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay and a Mixed Tornado Tag pitting AEW World Champion Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir against Swerve Strickland & Willow Nightingale! Fans in attendance that night will also get to experience the final COLLISION before DYNASTY 2025 before anyone else!
Singles Match...
FTR's Dax Harwood vs. AEW World Trios Champion Wheeler Yuta
Rated FTR (Cope, Cash Wheeler, & Dax Harwood) are set to challenge Claudio Castagnoli, “The Bastard” PAC, and Wheeler Yuta for the World Trios Championship at DYNASTY 2025 on April 6th. It's the culmination of months of issues between the two sides. Rated FTR even holds a trios victory over the Jon Moxley, Claudio, Yuta combination of The Death Riders from DYNAMITE: FIGHT FOR THE FALLEN 2025 at the beginning of the year and FTR has that Mid-South Street Fight tag team win over Moxley and Yuta from the February 1st COLLISION.
But that was before Cope lost his shots at Jon Moxley and the World Title, that was before Dax Harwood walked away from “The Rated R Superstar” and Cash Wheeler in the aftermath of the World Championship Street Fight on March 19th, and before the rather...awkward...sit-down interview Tony Schiavone conducted with Rated FTR on Wednesday night. It certainly didn't feel like the three men were on the same page when the interview started, but by the end they at least agreed they wanted a shot at dethroning the Death Riders as World Trios Champions.
As a preamble to that battle going down in eight days, Dax Harwood steps into the ring with Wheeler Yuta for their very first singles match! Which unit will start DYNASTY 2025 week with an advantage? Tune into COLLISION tonight on TNT to watch it unfold!
Tag Team Bout...
Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) vs. The Learning Tree (Big Bill & Bryan Keith)
As can be seen in the video above, after MVP and the AEW World Tag Team Champions Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin all voiced their opinion on the MJF situation, they were called out by The Learning Tree's Big Bill & Bryan Keith. It all stemmed from ROH World Champion Chris Jericho again putting his “branches” on alert that they needed to start performing at a higher level given all the advice Jericho believes he's dolled out over their time spent at his side. Whether or not “The Nueve” has actually taught them anything other than how to save his skin is a matter of perspective, but Big Bill and Bryan Keith clearly took Jericho's words to heart as evidenced by challenging The Hurt Syndicate.
MVP wasn't wrong when he told them they needed to get their wins up if they wanted to even be considered for a title opportunity. After all they are 1-3 in overall tag team competition and just 1-1 in 2025. There's no denying Big Bill and Bryan Keith are a talented duo with plenty of athletic gifts that could take them far in the tag division, but there's also no denying that by challenging Bobby and Shelton they're writing checks their account can't support.
That didn't stop MVP from presenting The Learning Tree with the same opportunity he did Murder Machines prior to REVOLUTION 2025: get your wins up and earn a shot. Unfortunately for Brian Cage and Lance Archer it was The Outrunners who stepped up and got the victory, and they who got the PPV shot at the World Tag Titles. They might not have parlayed their opportunity into gold around their waist, but at least they earned their way to the match. Now the ball is in the court of Bryan Keith and Big Bill to do the same, but they've got a tough task on their hands in facing Top Flight.
It's been two years, almost to the day, since the one and only World Tag Team Title opportunity that the Martin brothers ever received and that night some outside interference played a huge part in their inability to earn the titles. However, coming off a win on DYNAMITE, Top Flight is looking to work their way back into title contention after so much strife in recent months. Whether it be tension between Dante and Darius, or the issues with Action Andretti and Lio Rush that recently escalated from a seeming friendly rivalry to full-blown assault, Top Flight hasn't been focused on becoming champions so much as just survival. Perhaps, if they can defeat The Learning Tree, they can earn their own shot at The Hurt Syndicate the same way The Outrunners did before them!
Singles Match...
Jamie Hayter vs. Queen Aminata
The last time we saw Jamie Hayter in an AEW ring the victorious former Women's World Champion told former TBS Champion Julia Hart she had a lot of respect for her despite everything the Hound of Hell had done to her, and that whenever Hart wanted to go for round three, Hayter was game as well.
That was two months ago, and during those months Hayter had some issues to sort out to insure she'd be back in the mix as soon as possible and get that round three on the books. Thankfully all is good, and tonight Jamie Hayter steps back inside the squared circle for a rematch with the hard-hitting Queen Aminata! On November 27th, as part of the WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 International Women's Cup Qualifiers, Hayter scored a victory over Aminata only for the mind games of Julia Hart to overshadow the victory in the aftermath. Coincidentally enough, Hart is also a thread that binds Hayter and Aminata together as, in Jamie's absence, the Queen and Julia developed a rivalry of their own. Their series over the last month produced some hard-hitting fights that left both women battered and bruised, but it was Hart who scored the rubber match victory just last week during COLLISON: SLAM DUNK SATURDAY.
Tonight, the paths of Julia Hart's two biggest rivals of 2025 converge once more as Queen Aminata looks to even things up with Jamie Hayter for that November loss! Will Hayter pick right back up where she left off in January, or will tonight be Queen Aminata's night to pick up another statement victory in the Women's Division?
Singles Match
“Switchblade” Jay White vs. Kevin Knight
Though we haven't seen him compete in All Elite Wrestling since the FORBIDDEN DOOR 2022: BUY-IN, Kevin Knight has been plenty busy elsewhere in his wrestling career. Since we last saw him, “The Jet” has twice captured the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Titles with partner KUSHIDA, competed in the Super Jr. Tag League from 2022-2024, Best of the Super Junior 30 & 31, as well as the one-night All Star Junior USA Tournament in 2023 where he fell to Speedball Mike Bailey in the Finals. In addition to New Japan events, he traveled to Mexico for CMLL competition in September 2023, and he's criss-crossed the United States independent scene to compete against the best competition available. Bryan Keith, Zack Sabre Jr., and Shelton Benjamin are among those he's stepped into the ring with, and of course there's recent Ring of Honor competition against Serpentico and AR Fox. Suffice to say Kevin Knight is a well-traveled competitor with a great deal of experience packed into his four years as a pro wrestler, but with all that experience, he's never stepped into the ring with “Switchblade” Jay White one-on-one!
On the July 30, 2022 edition of NJPW STRONG the two men stood on opposite sides of a trios match won by White's team when Kevin Knight got pinned, but that is the only time the two competitors ever shared a ring before tonight in Milwaukee! For both Jay White and Kevin Knight this match is an opportunity to make a statement. In Jay's case, as an OG COLLISION Cowboy it's heralding his return to the program he helped build for the first time since October 26th, but it's also sending a message to the AEW landscape after declaring himself for the 2025 Owen Hart Foundation Men's Tournament.
As for Kevin Knight, if he wants to make an impact upon his return to All Elite Wrestling there are few better ways than by defeating a former AEW World Trios Champion, former ROH World Six-Man Champion, and the first Grand Slam Champion in New Japan Pro Wrestling history in Kevin's first AEW match in nearly 3 years, not to mention his first singles match as well. It took a lot of guts to answer Switchblade's Open Challenge in the first place, now it's time for “The Jet” Kevin Knight to take that next step and put a win on his resume!
A TIMELESS APPEARANCE..
After being laid low and pinned by Megan Bayne this past Wednesday night on DYNAMITE in their tag team match, “Timeless” Toni Storm has a definitive awareness of the kind of fight she's got awaiting her at DYNASTY 2025 on April 6th. Tonight, live on COLLISION, we will hear from the AEW Women's World Champion right at the top of the hour! What will she have to share with the AEW faithful right there in Milwaukee and those watching around the world? Do not miss out as “Timeless” Toni Storm kicks off the show tonight on TNT!
Also Featuring:
TBS Champion Mercedes Moné in action!
“The CEO” Mercedes Moné has been a dominant force since arriving in All Elite Wrestling back at DYNAMITE: BIG BUSINESS in Boston just over a year ago. Not only did she defeat Willow Nightingale for the TBS Championship in her very first match at DOUBLE OR NOTHING 2024 two months later, she's also gone on an 17-match win streak including 16 successful defenses of the TBS Title! Among others, Mercedes has topped former TBS Champion Kris Statlander, Skye Blue, and three former AEW Women's World Champions, as well as added the NJPW STRONG Women's Title and RevPro Undisputed British Women's Title to her trophy case along the way. Most recently she put down the challenge of former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz, but what was perhaps most fascinating about the weeks leading up to that title fight was the engagement between “The CEO” and ROH Women's World Champion “The Fallen Goddess” Athena. Suffice to say their war of words has been quite juicy and left fans clamoring for a clash between the two top-tier competitors!
Maybe that will come in time, who knows what the future holds. What we do know is that the TBS Champion will be in action tonight on COLLISION for the very first time in her AEW career! She's fought on DYNAMITE, battled on pay-per-views, and competed at GRAND SLAM: AUSTRALIA, but this will be her first taste of in-ring competition during AEW's Saturday night fights! The question is who will step up to the challenge and try to make themselves famous at The CEO's expense?
COLLISION comes to you from Milwaukee's UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena beginning at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT live on TBS and streaming on MAX, as well as around the world with AEW PLUS! Tonight we will see FTR's Dax Harwood take on The Death Riders' Wheeler Yuta, TBS Champion Mercedes Moné make her COLLISION in-ring debut, “Switchblade” Jay White facing Kevin Knight, Top Flight versus The Learning Tree, and more!
Before the show begins, make sure to check out the official AEW YouTube channel to watch highlights from previous DYNAMITEs, COLLISIONs, the latest HEY! (EW) with Willie Mack, and much, much more! Next week, as we prepare for DYNASTY 2025, follow All Elite Wrestling to Peoria, IL and the Peoria Civic Center for a live DYNAMITE where AEW World Champion Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir take on Swerve Strickland & Willow Nightingale! In addition, the fans in Peoria that night will get to experience the final COLLISION before DYNASTY 2025 prior to it airing on Saturday night April 5th!