AEW Collision and Rampage 5-18-24

 Crazy day at work - so we'll see how much PBP we get to here. Ospreay vs. Shane Taylor is up with Roddy on commentary. The International Title belt appears to have the blue globe revamped a bit - it's a brighter blue. Ospreay dives on him, but Taylor trucks him down. Taylor chops him and does the OSPREAY OSPREAY bit! Hidden Blade is met with a knee and a uranage from Taylor. SPANISH FLY BY OSPREAY GETS 2! Oscutter tuned into the Rikishi Driver for 2.5! STORMBREAKER, called the Storm Driver by Nigel, wins it!

Mox and Claudio cut a killer promo about the Elite siccing folks on them, but they'll be flattered to take everyone out. The Learning Tree chats about Hook splitting Jericho open and he's a fan of the injury because it shows Hook is learning - BUT THIS SMARTS! Hook vs. Johnny TV is up and this should be a great learning tool match for Hook. Lariat, judo throw and a capture suplex off a roundhouse kick attempt! Disaster kick and STARSHIP PAIN, but it misses and the redrum ends it!

SHIBATA is here and he's facing Rocky Romero! Lots of matwork until a figure four from Shibata gives him a big edge. CORNER HESITATION DROPKICK BY SHIBATA! Flash cradle by Romero got 2 alongside a backslide. Rebound heel kick and then a deep schoolboy gets 2. PK AND THE FIGURE FOUR ARE LOCKED ON AND SHIBATA WINS IT! I love the figure four being a finish for him! Shibata came out after HOOK and now Bryan Keith comes out after Shibata! Boulder gets 2 off a powerslam. Keith avoids Titty City and gets a win. 

Pac chats with a generic interview robot and he says the Bang Bang Gang is naughty. MAKE ME CARE and as for you, leave me alone. BBG is out and THEIR INTRO SHOWS A FALLEN PAC! OC and Brother Zay go at it and OC gets a wonky bow and arrow turned into a cradle by Zay for 2. Trent comes down and Zay attacks OC and a back suplex on the LED barricade! Tilt a whirl backbreaker by Zay! Stundog and the tornado DDT land but he struggles for the nip up. BACK AND FORTH APRON TEEP KICKS! LOGICAL REF USAGE INTO THE SILLY STRING FOR ZAY! SWANTON TO THE BACK GETS 2! BEACH BREAK WINS IT! This was outstanding!

Trent talks shit about OC and gets a ton of heat and calls him a sociopath! RULES MATTER! He should be the President of the AWF. Deeb vs. Anna Jay is up! Deeb ties her up into a paradise lock and dropkicks her ass. Anna avoids a cradle with a neckbreaker and a back elbow. Deeb avoids  tackle and clips the knee before getting locked in the queen slayer, but it gets 2! Deeb hits the rehab faceplant and the serenity lock ends it! Lutha does not approve and steals the flag! Toni strips behind it and uses is as a bathrobe before getting chased away!

Nick Wayne versus JACK CARTWHEEL here on TNT! Cartwheel tiger moonsault misses but the Wayne's World doesn't! HOUSE CALL ENDS IT! FTR and Danielson against Archer and the Righteous is up! Power plex to Vincent and a splash misses. Archer is in and wants a blackout, but eats the busaiku knee! Cash hits a tornado DDT before Vincent got 2 off a cradle! SHATTER MACHINE TO VINCENT ENDS IT! Heel beatdown AND GARCIA SAVES!

KOR is up against Lee Moriarty with Lee fighting hard for a Kimura on the back. Front choke is locked in and then a few headbutts hits before a triangle ends it and KOR vs. Malakai is set for Dynamite. Acclaimed and Daddy Ass chat with Lexy about their music video and they say that Bowens will face the Machine Brian Cage tonight and Cage doesn't have AI in him! RUSH is out to massacre a jobber and does so quickly with the basement shotgun dropkick and a post-match beating - including cable choking!

Lex chats with Danielson and FTR is out for Dynamite, but they failed BECAUSE HE WILL BE! Deonna works an entirely too long match with a Renegade that she wins with a double Fujiwara before Rosa saves. Dutt hypes up Danielson vs. Singh on Dynamite! Swerve vs. Nick Wayne is set up for Dynamite too.  Cage vs. Bowens is up and Caster mocks Cage. Cage dominates with power before slugging away off the mat. Trent vs. OC is announced by Tony via VO for the PPV. DRAPING SUPERPLEX BY CAGE GETS 2!  Cage does the Terminator beat  Bowens hits the discus forearm, superkick and PK for 2.9! Kick to the balls, Drillclaw wins it!

AEW Dynamite 5-15-24

 

Dynamite is live from the near-hometown of Bryan Alvarez - EVERETT, WASHINGTON! It's also new WWE 2K24 DLC day and it has been a blast playing as Terry Funk and adjusting Punk's moveset  bit too. Fittingly with Funk, MOXLEY STARTS THE SHOW OFF! Mox and Danielson face off Cobb and Fletcher - which should be fantastic. I may have to delete Ahmed Johnson in the PS5 2K24 and then put him on PS4 to put Cobb on PS5. Mox gets jumped and Danielson runs down to save in his home state! We get a mini Anarchy in the Arena brawl before a countdown clock for Swerve vs. Cage to start off hour 2.

Cobb eats the corner kicks from Danielson and then a figure four on Cobb opens the door for a tag and a Mox elbow for 2. Danielson runs wild with a shotgun dropkick and a corner dropkick before landing the kneeling kicks but the buzzsaw kick is met with a shove and a low-bridge to Cobb. SUICIDE DIVE TO FLETCHER! Danielson leapt right into a sidewinder suplex! CORNER UPPERCUT BY COBB into a rotating tombstone by Fletcher for 2.9! Now Mox vs. Fletcher would be a fun WGP Title match. Roundhouse kick by Danielson, Mox gets the Death Rider on Fletcher and it's over! THAT RULED!

Takeshita jumps Mox with a German and a kneeling giant elbow! Claudio ran down for a save just a wee bit too late - but it would logically take more time to get a giant crowbar. Swerve's media rounds are shown and make him feel like a bigger deal. Cope comes out and gets jumped by King and Buddy! Malakai gets a shut the fuck up chant and he tells Buddy to take his wedding ring after a chokeout. We see Kingston get hurt and the Bucks say that Eddie mighta got bit by the injury bug! Okada tells Dax that he'll take him out, BITCH!

Bucks Reebok ad airs with Okada being wacky before the Bucks are out for their match and Jack Perry is on commentary and demands some goddamn respect! Daniels talks shit and Sydal lands a corkscrew senton! NICK HITS A DOUBLE SLEDGE ON SYDAL! Iron Claw ad. The Bucks win and Matthew says that they're here to clean up the office from all this toxic behavior and now their hand has been forced - DANIELS HAS BEEN FIRED! But they're not heartless - they're gonna pay him for 30 days and they're even paying for an immediate security escort! I bet that immediate security escort was pricey - hopefully they don't take that expense out of Daniels' last check.

Harley's goons are banned from ringside AND TONI HAS WORDS OF WISDOM. "Thank you for knocking me out so I didn't have to listen to another second of your sob story!" "You can bet your bottom dollar ON THIS WHORE THAT YOU ADORE that everything is coming up Chin. Tits. SHOE!" "You'll be in Vegas flat on your back with an ass in your face, wondering where your dignity went!"

Malakai chats about the wedding ring and now he's excited that evil still lurks in his heart and if he beats Copeland, then Cope bends the knee to the HOB. HOOK is here to massacre Sebastian Wolfe. High crotch lift exploder before crossfaces and Redrum! HOOK says he's not here for this, he's here for his title and Jericho! They jump Hook and SHIBATA MAKES THE SAVE! Swerve walks backstage for a single shot and welcomes Brian Cage to WHOSE HOUSE! 

It starts off quick with Swerve going for fast-break offense and getting the rolling thunder flatiner, but eating chinlocks and the draping superplex by Cage! TEEP BY SWERVE, but Cage responds with a missed right and a left-arm lariat! Apron-draping SWERVE STOMP TO THE FLOOR! Cage eats a few forearms and Swerve wanted a stomp, but got a powerbomb. ARM SNAPPER TO CAGE! HOUSE CALL HITS AND ENDS IT! Nick Wayne jumps Swerve with a lowblow when Christian and Shayna distract. Nick smashes a photo of Swerve's family over his face and then Christian comes down. Christian rubs the photo in Swerve's blood and in two weeks, he takes the title.

Backstage, Hook and Shibata chat with Renee and Hook says he'll beat anyone to get his title back. Shibata's Google Translate gimmick asks if he'll even beat him if he needs to. Shibata's Google Translate gimmick is a better promo than Hook. YES CASUAL MALE SAMOA JOE IS HERE! Shibata's Google gimmick says that Joe's too large to be wearing a floral pattern. TIMELESS TONI STORM vs. Harley Cameron is up - it's the queen of the talkies versus the queen of the titties!

Toni gets a fisherman suplex for 2. Eat Defeat by Cameron! Sky high by Toni gets 2. Storm Zero ends it! Ospreay talks to the Undisputed Kingdom and says they're all Bellends and calls Wardlow the Big Veiny Bellend and Will says that he's never been respected by Strong. Strong says that yeah, he's an idiot out of the ring. He's still an idiot, a child and a fraud! This was outstanding.

Mercedes and Willow meet mid-ring and Mone says that money changes everything. In 2015 in Brooklyn, she changed the game forever! SHE KICKED DOWN DOORS AND BROKE GLASS CEILINGS - there would be no Willow without her!  Willow says hey, the last time they wrestled, she walked out a champion and Mercedes didn't walk out at all! Willow lays her out with the doctor bomb! Dax vs. Okada is the main event! 

Draping DDT to the floor from the barricade to Dax! Dax wants the Ultimo slingshot Ligerbomb, but Okada ranas into a cradle for 2 after a Dax counter. DAX COUNTERS A TOMBSTONE WITH A TOMBSTONE! Rainmaker countered into a sharpshooter by Dax! Low blow and the rainmaker end it before the Elite jump everyone AND DARBY MAKES THE SAVE! NO ONE LET HIM DO ANYTHING UNTIL THE PPV!

AEW Collision and Rampage 5-11-24 Copeland vs. KOR!

 

Copeland's Cope Open will be met by Kyle O'Reilly and Tommy Billington faces Dax Harwood, in a match that should get the Bulldogs a job. Claudio and Danielson face off with Top Flight to start things off! Danielson works to start things off and Nigel talks about Danielson faking his neck injury while Darius evades shots. Suplex>tope atomico combo to Claudio gives Top Flight a brief edge. DRAPING KNEE BY BRYAN! Dante hits a suicide dive! DOUBLE JUMP MOONSAULT TO CLAUDIO GETS 2! Dante misses off the top AND THE BUSAIKU KNEE HITS! Running Claudio uppercut ends it! This was a riot!

Danielson's chest is all lit up here and he wants a cheer for Top Flight and he gets an AEW chant going after thanking the fans for starting one before. The first Anarchy match almost ended his career - but he's willing to do it again for AEW! Cage and the Gates of Agony wrestle tonight and the main event is seemingly the TNT Title match. Lee faces WILL OSPREAY with Roddy on commentary! Ospreay's out to get five stars out of Lee Moriarty here. However, the match is hurt on TV by Roddy's commentary. 

Ospreay hits the handspring gamenguri and then a pump kick! Lee lands a finger snap and an Andrade spiral butterfly suplex for 2! Ospreay hits AJ's torture rack bomb for 2! HOOK KICK AND THE OSCUTTER, but the BC stretch is on instead! HIDDEN BLADE OUT OF THE CORNER! STORMBREAKER ENDS IT! The former Mogul Embassy destroys a set of jobbers and Cage says that Swerve and Nana were selfish. SWERVE CHOKES OUT THE GOONS WITH A CHAIN! Drill Claw turned into a German by Swerve! HOUSE CALL!

Swerve uses a cinder block on a charging Leone! CONCHAIRTO WITH THE STEPS! Swerve cuts a promo on Cage and challenges him for Everett on Wednesday! DANIEL GARCIA TIME against KM in a quick match with KM dancing and falling to a dragon sleeper. The hour one main event is Dax "THE AXE" Harwood against "Dynamite Kid" Tommy Billington! He's out in classic Stampede gear with a stripe and star on the back and Cage vs. Swerve is official!

Billington worked him over to start with some matwork before Dax landed a big lariat for 2. SHOTGUN DROPKICK BY BILLINGTON and an over the top rope landing crossbody on the rope! Dax sets him up for a superplex and eventually gets it. Surprisingly, no cradle ala Dynamite/Savage there. ROLLING GERMANS ALA BENOIT FROM DAX THE AXE! NOW DYNAMITE HITS THEM! CHOP BY DAX AND THEN A RELEASE DRAGON SUPLEX BY DAX! Dynamite cradle gets 2! Owen-Bret victory roll cradle attempt leads to the Dax Liger bomb off the ropes ala Ultimo and ends it! This was an outstanding match overall.

Fletcher and Cobb face off with Danielson and Claudio on Dynamite! The Elite cut a promo with Jack saying a year ago, he was a pillar and he was goddamn tired - now he's a keystone of this shit. Daniels talks to Matt and they knock him down and berate him. He says he'll never forget where he's come from - even if the Bucks have. He shows his staff badge and the company's five years old and they want to make it about themselves. He picks Sydal to team with him to face the Bucks.

Rosa faces Robyn Renegade in a squash. BUT FIRST Dax hypes up FTR as workhorses before announcing an Okada match on Dynamite. Rosa stiffs Robyn and lands a codebreaker. Rosa gets a grounded cobra clutch after a moonsault misses to win. This took FOR-EVER! Johnny and Taya cut a promo on the VANLOSERS and they came to be winners! He wants to face THE BASTARD and he'll win unlike everyone in Vancouver! 

Hook cuts a promo on Jericho saying that none of what he did shocked him because he said he knew who he was from the start. Cope is locked into a front choke, but a rope gordbuster ends that one! Cope is locked on a kneebar, but HE GETS THE ROPE! Spear into the ropes misses INTO AN O'CONNOR ROLL AND THEN COPE WANTS AN RNC! SPEAR INTO THE FRONT CHOKE BY KOR! The spear wins it for Cope!

To start off Rampage, Cope wants a handshake and gets a hug. Cope wouldn't let go and it pisses KOR off. Backstage, Claudio says that he understands Bryan wanting to fight for AEW - but he can't support EDDIE KINGSTON and that leading to Danielson being taken out injury-wise before and he can't support that. I like that logically, he's being a good friend. TRENT is out to face Dalton with THE BOYS! Trent gets outworked to start, but smacks Dalton's head and neck against the ring connector. 

DALTON CHUCKS HIM AROUND FOR A BIT! God, it's incredible how much he can still do well. BLIND SWITCH GERMAN SUPLEX BY DALTON! Trent pokes the eye to stop a countout and then slams the head into the connector with an arm pop and the running knee and gogoplata ends it! 

Deonna cuts a promo on Rosa and says she'll take out Lady Frost and follow advice a great man - likely her husband, gave her - keep your enemy at the front so you know your fate. THE GREATNESS OF RUSH IS RECAPPED with  his ROH World Title win and now he's going to take over AEW. Fantastic stuff there. Bryan Keith's out to face JD Drake - and Keith gets an intro! I went to get my pizza out of the oven and the match ended. Cope challenges Malakai to a BARB WIRE STEEL CAGE MATCH AT THE PPV!  

Deonna avoids some of Lady Frost's gynmastics on the apron and smacks her face on the apron off a cartwheel. Toni Storm faces Harley Cameron on Dynamite! Frost gets a hestitation dropkick for 1 when Deonna grabs the rope to save energy. Fujiwara out of a roll, but Frost escapes. Corner tree of woe spear from Deonna ends it. Rosa runs her off with a chair. MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER NORMAL PERSON SCORPIO SKY is back! We'll see how this pans out. Pac vs. Johnny TV is up! Johnny does the towel floss bit with a Canucks jersey! 

Pac eats the basement knee on the floor, but after a break, responds with THREE FLYING FOREARMS! Starship pain misses, but the black arrow won't...BUT TAYA GETS INVOLVED! STANDING BRUTALIZER ENDS IT! The Gunns and Jay White talk shit about Pac and they say he listened to Jay to win it tonight! Guns up!

AEW Dynamite 5-8-24 BRODY KING VS. ADAM COPELAND

The TNT Title is on the line in the Cope Open as Brody King aims to take Copeland's crown. Copeland says that TONIGHT IT'S KING VS. COPE IN A NO DQ MATCH! A fan flashes his girlfriend's boobs before OC is out to face Trent. Orange and Trent brawl and OC hits a superkick in the crowd! Orange punch is met with a backdrop over the barricade. BUSAIKU KNEE but OC absorbs it and hits the Orange Punch! Callis comes out to a sea of boos for an ad break and sadly TBS has disabled rewinding! OC goes for a stundog, but gets countered. Corner to center attack by OC is met with a half and half suplex and a giant piledriver! ANOTHER BUSAIKU and Trent pulls a turnbuckle pad down. OC DOES IT TOO AND BONKS HIM FOR A SCHOOLBOY WIN! PILEDRIVER ON THE STEPS BY TRENT! Trent goes for a tool box and Orange uses a chair before DON CALLIS CALMS THEM DOWN! Trent cusses Stat out and Cassidy leaves with Callis! 

The Elite arrive and steal TK's parking spot before an Okada-Omega recap. Jack Perry cuts an ECW-style promo about Omega not being the hero the company needed and all have to sacrifice, and that was Kenny's! Kenny is in a hospital gown and says they were like family, but now he's at the ER and he's not taking this personally. He challenges the Elite to Anarchy in the Arena against Team AEW - FTR and two people that will be revealed later tonight. Deeb is out and says her 15 months out were the hardest of her life and she says that last year, she had three seizures and had to step away. Toni says she's a charity case and Deeb tells her to give a shit about this now. Toni doesn't give a single, solitary SHIT about what she's been through and Serena knocks her cold before Luther carries her off. 

Rocky Romero chats with OC and if he beats Jay, he and OC and a partner of their choice get a trios title shot! Mariah May is out in some Toni throwback gear before facing Harley Cameron in leather. We get random stage shots before a big corner charge by May. Apron throat smash, high kick and axe kick by Harley! Double flying hair mare! BALDO BOMB BY MARIAH GETS 2! FLATBACK MISSILE DROPKICK BY MARIAH! Saraya prevents the hip attack! MAYDAY ENDS IT! This was pretty solid given how little Harley has wrestled. MINA SHIRAKAWA SAVES MARIAH! 

Jay White interrupts Pac with is giant belt holder and says he needs MORE GOLD FROM OKADA and we get a Malakai video on Copeland going from a boy to the man who changed the landscape of wrestling. Swerve comes out and is interrupted by Christian, who says that Swerve isn't in his league and he's the face of TNT, TBS and will stand atop the mountain as WORLD CHAMPION. THE MOGUL EMBASSY BEATS DOWN SWERVE! Gates of Agony hit a two-man Razor's Edge off the steps through a table.

Willow chats to the WWE robot and cuts a killer promo on Mercedes before Jay White comes out to face Rocky Romero with the gold bat as a belt holder. Back and forth before the uranage spikes him and the bladerunner ends it! Pac makes a save for Rocky! Joe does a workout video about the fear of a warrior of never being good enough and facing a foe you cannot beat. THE LEARNING TREE beat up jobbers and God we need them recreating the Bruise Brothers' funeral skit with the Fabs parody. 

Copeland vs. King is a violent bloodbath with a DDT on the apron ON A CHAIR by Copesland slicing up Brody. Cope destroys the chair to get a crossbar, but eats a lariat! CROSSFACE WITH THE CHAIR'S CROSSBAR DURING THE BREAK! Draping RNC BY BRODY. DEATH VALLEY DRIVER BY COPELAND ON THE APRON! SUICIDE SPEAR THROUGH A TABLE BY COPELAND! CENTER RING SPEAR WINS IT! THIS RULED! 

King attacks, but KOR saves Copeland! Backstage, the interview robot chats with Mercedes and she says this is where THE BEST WRESTLE and she thrives under pressure and she's only getting started. Backstage, Cope and KOR are backstage and KOR wants a shot on Saturday at the Cope Open. The Elite are out and THE BEST BOUT MACHINE SAYS GET WELL SOON! The Elite talk shit and FTR is out with KINGSTON JOINING FTR FOR ANARCHY IN THE ARENA! AND DANIELSON! So it looks like we're getting Perry vs. Danielson at some point! Danielson will wrestle on Collision! BRAWL TIME WITH THE FACES WINNING!