AEW: COLLISION DISCUSSION THREAD 07/08/23
AEW: COLLISION DISCUSSION THREAD 07/08/23
SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING!
Tonight's card includes:
– Ricky Starks vs. Powerhouse Hobbs
– FTR vs. Juice Robinson & Jay White
– Action Andretti vs. Scorpio Sky
– CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe
And much more!
NOTE: Willow vs. Athena has been postponed and will happen on Rampage instead as per TK.
Show starts LIVE at 8pm EST and can be seen on: TNT in the US, TSN+ in Canada, ViX in Latin America, ESPN in Australia, and FITETV/DAZN in the UK, EU, and elsewhere.
I love FTR, they have their own feel for their matches
FTR vs Bullet Club Gold might just be the best match on collision so far
Straight into my top 10 of the year so far. No right going as rock hard as it did.
I'm really loving the balance between the chaotic match styles on Dynamite and Collision having a much more old school style overall.
It's been great so far. It's like, between their two main shows, WWE has a brand split and AEW has a style-split.
Julia has low key the best theme in AEW
Not to mention House of Black often have pretty legit great underground metal bands for their intro music. So I love their whole vibe.
Nothing beats metal and wrestling.
Yeah. Her whole transformation from cheerleader to "spooky witch" has been great.
PPV-quality match. Jay White continues to be booked and presented like the GOTDAM star that he is.
I'd love to see him get a belt soon. Maybe be the one to beat OC.
Now that's a match I'd pay to see
I love Nigel on commentary. I've always felt AEW needs more heel commentators.
When he accused Dax of being scared to make the tag I was like what, did he misspeak? Then I remembered he's a heel lol. It's nice, it's a dynamic I've missed on commentary since Taz became too hilarious to heel it up.
JESUS, that spiked pile driver.
House of Black are so good.
Julia has it figured out so young, and Brody is the most wholesome big evil goth dad.
That promo by Malakai was amazing, he's such a good heel because his whole thing is pushing his opponent to dig deep and overcome him.
He's made me care about Andrade like I never have in AEW. Helps that Andrade's promo was great, lots of passion and motivation.
Loving this feud so far.
Im really happy andrade is healthy and wrestling again
What a fucking amazing tag match!
All four of these guys are insane. And we still have Punk vs Joe to come...
Really like the added condition to the eliminator match that if the champs win the losers can't challenge them again. Haven't heard that ever mentioned during an eliminator match before, it gives a legit motivation for the champs to compete in them.
Yeah, last night was the first time I'd heard the stipulation explained. I like it too; really raises the stakes for champ and challenger.
I like this move for Hobbs. He didn't really fit in with QTV.
I liked it as a one off, but Hobbs really doesn't need/deserve henchmen yet especially not mostly comedy ones.
Exactly. I don't mind Hobb's having a mouth piece, but QT didn't seem like the right one. And I like QT.
Loved it. I've been wanting him to defect to BCG for weeks.
Solid show! Like a couple others were saying, I agree that it's really great to have Dynamite and Collision having such distinct styles. It really helps keep you excited for both.
Solid in ring action tonight. Jay White is everything he was advertised to be and more so far.
Step-da said it was PPV quality and match of the week. Hard to argue. BCC vs. FTR
And to think Punk vs. Joe is still on the way lol
One day I'm going to remember that Collision is on at 5 and not 7 lol
I'll try to add some timezones to the next thread. Maybe that'll help lol.
I like the Bang Bang Gang an irrational amount, but Jay and Juice have amazing chemistry together.
I'm a huge BCG mark. I'd love to see EL-P join them at some point.
Jay White needs a Mucinex regimen.
Solid episode tonight. Good times, folks!
There could be a lot of chaos out of Punk vs Ricky if Punk wins.
With FTR and Bullet Club Gold happening, I wonder if they'd do a double turn since BC has always been cool heels anyway.
Could also have Punk win the cup and then have Starks and Punk meet down the line for a title
You might be onto something with the double turn.
As far as Starks goes, I like how whoever he feuds with (Punk, BCG) he'll have someone who will challenge him on the mic. Ricky was great going toe-to-toe against MJF. I want to see how he does against other top-tier promoters.
Is that the pirate shirt from Seinfeld?
Hey Juice, what did the five fingers say to the face?
Happy to see Chairvert Shawn Spears returning. He wishes he knew how to quit them chairs but I'm glad he can't.
I bet his porn folder is basically a La-Z-boy catalogue.
Oh noooo the qt/powerhouse hobbs alliance is broken how will we live now
Omg, I tuned in late and missed something!!!!
Definitely find a recording and watch it, its really good
Hobbs wearing Hart inspired gear makes me think he might beat Ricky...
Gallagher is rocking that Hart jersey in front row.
That kid with the Punk sign might have the skinniest arms I've ever seen.
Kicking out of a superplex frog splash combo come on
That was a late kick out. The crowd still counted three.
Yeah. There's been a lot of late kick outs in this one.
Jay White is the freaking master of selling a 2 count, he made it look like the match was over damn near every time he was covered.
Finally getting to tune in after cooking delays etc.
Starks vs Punk is gonna be amazing (and elevate Starks to super stardom).
Decent show, BCG vs FTR was incredible and moving Hobbs away from QTV is a good thing.
But I'm still none the wiser what on earth they are doing with Punk.
This whole "doing it for Owen" thing suggests he's being position as about as whitemeat baby face as you can possibly get, effectively making Starks the heel for the final. This was then built on more explicitly with Starks not coming down to save Punk after the match with FTR.
If Punk doesn't win, then whoever stops him is like, going against a beloved dead guy or something. Starks doesn't need that distracting from what should be one of his major achievements and elevation towards the top of the card as an extremely over face.
Conversely, Punk doesn't need to win the Owen. It doesn't raise the tournament, and it doesn't raise the guy who has already been world champ (and implies he still is with the title in the bag).
If this is all the build for a Punk turn - and like Chekov's Gun, wrestling tradition dictates that any fancy trophy must get destroyed - again he doesn't need to trash the trophy (after either winning or losing) to turn heel. Fuck, he's been heeling it up for weeks already (on commentary last week, and the "what's in the bag" stuff when he returned). Associating a tournament that is more of a real life, do a nice thing for the foundation of a nice guy who died tragically, than a wrestling storyline, and using it to turn someone feels really wrong. And not good wrong, the kind of "what the fuck are you playing at?" wrong.
Lastly, giving up Punk beating Joe in a non final, non PPV, match with minimal build feels like pure hot shotting.