NXT Stand and Deliver 4-4-26

 

HBK starts the show coming out in this shitty looking building and three people chant HBK while Sexxy Red comes out to no reaction and Booker T annoys the shit out of the world. After 200 years, Lola vs. Kendal vs. Jacy begins - only a minor exaggeration there as it's 7:18 before it starts. Nice PK from Jayne to Kendal. Lola double assalanches everyone twice. Jacy pump knee to Grey gets 2 thanks to Lola saving. Grey gets an ankle lock on Jacy before her tits fall out a ton with the screen blackout. DIVING FLATLINER BY GREY! Lola backfist to Jacy wins it!

HORRIFYING visuals air for the ad break before we get a Zaruca video to set up...the Americanos going for the tag titles. Dunne eats a slingshot spear for 2. Bate DOUBLE NORTHERN LIGHTS THEM AT ONCE! Dunne gets 2 off a Michinoku driver/dropkick combo. Grande gives Dunne a plate and the Project gets a powerslam/suplex for 2. Avalanche rana and double splashes hit for 2.9. Bitter End hits for 2.9. Grande hits a running headbutt to Drake and a double stomp/deathdrop wins it before a fan loses his goddamn mind.

ZARUCA POWERS EXPLODE NEXT! They both come off as heelish in the video package. Zaria has SUCH A GREAT FACE FOR WRESTLING. Lordy.  Sol jumps her and gets a back elbow to the neck as she kneels down. Brogue kick by Zaria on the floor before she slams her into the announce table. Zaria chokes her in the corner and is the character heel here. Sol eats a spear, but gets a standing shotgun dropkick. Back and forth Germans. SOL SNATCHER ON THE RAMP! A SECOND ONE IN THE RING GETS 2.9! Springboard 450 nothing gets the spear and the F5! FOR A 2.9! They bond on the mat before A SERIES OF HEADBUTTS AND ZARIA WANTS AN AVALANCHE F5! X Factor and the SOL SNATCHER WINS IT!? Okay so then she's the heel against Lola. 

Lola chats with Stone and they have some horrible dialogue and Lola shakes her ass with Red. Gargano vs. Bourne is up. Bourne gets 2 off a fisherman buster but Johnny gets the Escape! JOHNNY TAKEOVER IS BACK and BOURNE AGAIN hits twice and wins it. Blake vs. Tater is up and Blake gets a draping German and a crossface resulting in Booker saying RAGTAGGIN! a bunch. TATER GETS A SUPERKICK! They sit and boot each other in the tits for a while before TATER GETS A SUPERPLEX AND A REVOLVING DOOR SUPLEX but Blake gets the hard headbutt. Tater eats the glamour shot and hits her finish to win. Darkstate bickers.

NXT Title time and it feels like Page wins it. Everyone just avoids and hits finishers for a while. Tony gets a sea of German suplexes before eating a floating DDT from Hendry. Spear by Tony during an Ovation to Starks. Starks tornado DDT to Henry on a chair for 2. Page powerslams Starks through the announce table hood bridge on the apron. Double spear by Tony through them off the steps through the announce table. Tony spears Joe and HITS THE STANDING OVATION TO WIN!? Okay well sure okay. 

AEW Collision 4-2-26 - Mox vs. Bowens

 

We start off with Mox vs Bowens and Renee hypes this up as a test for Bowens in the Opps. Back and forth corner punches before a crowd brawl before Mox hammerlock throws him into the steps. Mox eats a draping twisting DDT for 2. RNC by Mox into a cross armbar. Mox goads him with a chair and Mox avoids a few shots but the DEATH RIDER WINS IT. This overdelivered and OSPREAY HIDDEN BLADES HIM AND MOUNTED ELBOWS HIM and he's coming for the Continental. 

DCF backstage with Okada hyping up MARK and he doesn't care about Takeshita like he cares about KYLE! Divine Dominion is here to kill jobbers. Overhead belly to belly by Bayne before a pump kick by Kross. Busaiku/German combo before high times wins it. Mox accepts and says the Continental title is up for 20 mintes - but he doesn't have to beat Ospreay. THE HURT SYNDICATE IS BACK and Lashley has a green jacket on and MVP wants to add to the ranks.

Shida accepts the TBS Title challenge and Willow pounces her and cannonballs her after that! Willow eats knees to the jaw on the floor and mid-ring before WILLOW MISSES A MOONSAULT and WILLOW WINS WITH THE BACKSLIDE! I love that being a finish for her. FTR is out with goons to beat up goobers. FTR wins the battle but C/C destroy them! BIG STOKE PREVENTS THE CONCHAIRTO on Cash, but a goon eats it. Mina and the Birds are here and they're out for any KIND OF BRAWL! Hayter calls out Thekla for the World title at Dynasty! Juice vs. Ciampa is up! 

Ciampa works heel spitting water at him and kneeing him in the gut. Juice avoids the killshot with the knee and Juice lays into him with slaps and a big boot before THE LEFT HAND OF GOD! Bicycle knee and the KILLSHOT KNEE WINS IT! Brother Zay talks about hearing about change and yeah it's time to change - he adapted after Mox tried to take him out and now he's a single going for the gold. Darby cuts a promo on Andrade after Dynamite and he'll face either MJF or Omega and Jack and Brody arrive and Jack reminds him THAT YOU SET ME ON FIRE several times. Davis and Andrade are out with Andrae bitching to Callis about wanting the World title and Wentz and Dez are out and Don says he has a MEDICAL DEGREE when he's releasing Kenny's info while Kyle has HANDSOMITIS! 

WINDSAH face Shafir at the Dynasty Zero Hour. Mark dominates with a Boston crab and Andrade wants the shotgun knees BUT EATS A THRUST KICK FROM DEZ! Davis hits a German on Wentz and wants the pendulum piledriver BUT EATS A RANA FOR 2! DOUBLE ROPE LARIAT GETS 2! DM WINS IT! Okada, Rocky and Trent are out to kick ass. Death Riders and Dogs are up against VALIANT BABYFACES IN A TORNADO MATCH! Knight, Mistico, OC, and Roddy! The king of sloth styles escapes the Death Riders' corner charges BUT CAN'T AVOID THE DOGS' HIGH/LOW! Roddy Irish curses Finlay! Yuta sunset flips Knight into a Claudio uppercut for 2! Yuta and Claudio hit the swing/dropkick combo for 2! UFO TO YUTES WINS IT!

AEW Dynamite 4-1-26 - Pac vs. Ospreay

 

Tony Schiavone starts us off from WINNIPEG! AND WE ARE BACK WITH JERICHO AND JUDAS! He gets a great reaction and 5 minutes in says I'M HOME! Will jumps Danny says he'll fucking kill Jon. MJF is out for the contract signing, which was the original thing set to open. Omega calls him out for the hair plugs and MJF talks about Omega meeting the doc and the stomach is a ticking time bomb and he's in a race against time to cement his legacy. 

MJF insults Omega to get him to fight and Speedball nixes that and thanks Omega for creating AEW and giving MJF his platform and Speedball cut a decent promo and Omega and he says he spoke to MJF's doctor and yeah his intestines are rough but MJF is missing his balls if he doesn't face Speedball. The Demand face Omega and Brody King! And also Jack Perry who gets no intro. We get Omega vs. Ricochet a bit and yeah those boys are good. Brody cannonballs the pile for an Omega 2! Springboard 450 to Omega by Ricochet gets 2.5! Jack goes for a flip dive and gets caught by GOA before Brody suicide dives on them! FOSBURY FLOP BY RICOCHET TO BRODY! V TRIGGER BY KENNY! ONE WINGED ANGEL WINS IT!

Willow chats about defending the TBS Title tomorrow for AN OPEN CHALLENGE! Renee chats with Cope and Cage and taking out everyone who gets in their way and Cope has to stop Cage from taking out Renee. Pac vs. Ospreay is up next and Renee casually chatting about Mox is funny. Pac jumps Will and stomps the neck and brainusters him on the stage! The doc tells Will not to wrestle and Pac just jumps the neck the second he hops in. During the break, Pac works the neck and gets 2. Pac avoids a corner-wedge superkick and eats a brainbuster out of the corner! Pac nails a tornado DDT to the floor and a brutalizer but Ospreay gets the rope right away. Nigel is great on commentary hyping up the damage to Will and Pac tosses him with an overhead belly to belly off the top for 2. 

Shotgun missile dropkick hits for 2 for Pac! Double roperun lariat for Pac and a tombstone! Black Arrow to the back and then THE BRUTALIZER! Now this is a great way to tease a win because Pac did beat Omega out of nowhere in AEW's early days. Will goes out but fires up and cradles him for a flash win! Pac crossfaces him ala Taz before A HIDDEN BLADE! They kick Will's ass and prep a Pillmanizing stomp and Mox stops Claudio and he tells Will to use his head or he'll lose it permanently.

Mina and the birds face the Triangle of Madness and Bailey vs. MJF is an eliminator match. Triangle is out first before the face team. Thekla mocks Mina's titty jiggle during the break. Draping neckbreaker by Windsor to Julia for 2. Knucks being stolen from Jamie give them the win over Julia Hart. Ciampa vs. Juice tomorrow night! Darby comes out and the DCF comes out to beat up Darby and they attack except for Andrade to save him for later. 

MJF is out in full American douchebag mode while Bailey is in Canada gear.  MJF kicks ass while reciting the Pledge - okay, that's a new one. MJF catches a rana and hits a powerbomb shoulderbreaker for 2. 8-man tornado tag announced for Collision and Bailey hits a moonsault on the floor for an ad break before Omega fires up a bit during the break. Basement superkick on the floor by Bailey! Tombstone on the apron!  GOD BLESS AMERICA heat seeker wins it! Omega and Speedball hold each other's arms up to close the show. Weird ending.

AEW Collision 3-28-26

 

Well, I was going to play a lot of Life is Strange: Reunion, but I needed to get a lot of stuff ready for Darian's move-in on Monday so I'm glad I did that since I need to get a fair amount of things shipped. Luckily, I had a mattress and box spring already and ordered him a small TV and a full bedding set for like $100 total so yeah - good value there. Got some FunGuys and Simpsons Road Rage done gaming-wise too. Bayne and Willow murk each other with forearms and Bayne sits around forever waiting for a shining wizard from Harley. 

Kross electric chair facebusters Willow on the apron! Bayne dominates during the break on Willow. DRIVE BY KICK BY BAYNE! Aussie Open faces The Rascalz! La Mistica by Harley into a half crab on Kross! SUPPER COLLIDER FRONT SLAMS into fallaway slams BY the champs! DOUBLE SHOTGUN DROPKICK BY WILLOW! DropBear gets 2 for the Babes!  POUNCE TO KROSS and she and Harley take down Bayne for 2. DOUBLE SINGLE CRAB GETS A HOT CROWD! Divine Intervention/High Times wins it - THIS was a lot of fun!

Mina and the Brawling Birds are backstage and it looks like we've got a trios tag later. Myron is out to face Johnny TV, who is...boy so far down the ladder that he's like a MAYBE he'll win this. Myron hits a cutter and wins it after a no-cap 450 splash. Well okay, if I'm Johnny TV I'm like...yeah maybe not re-signing. Death Riders promo about Private Party working hard and they'll forge them in fire tonight and they may have won $250,000 but they'll make them earn this win. Private Party says they'll turn chaos into opportunity. Okay then cool. Garcia and Mox are out and Claudio carrying the Continental belt...that looks good on him.

Zay shines with DG with a run-up wheelbarrow armdrag before Danny dominates Quen on the floor. Zay lands an apron superkick and an Asai moonsault! SWANTON FOR 2.9! Zay hits a 450 for 2.9 again. Zay has TV time and he's here to shine. CLAUDIO MURKS QUEN WITH A CHARGING UPPERCUT! Teep kick and a tornado kick by Zay but Mox hits a cutter! PILEDRIVER GETS 2 FOR DANNY! Dragon Tamer is almost on, but it's just the shitty sharpshooter but that wins it. Okay then.

MLP/ROH Global Wars is recapped and we get Ricochet talking about The Demand vs. Kenny, Jack, and Brody King on Dynamite. Mina and the Birds win a squash. Two Birds hit on Nixi XS and the Mina figure four wins it. The Birds ramble for a century before Thekla thankfully interrupts and says they can't handle her or the Sisters or THE TRIANGLE OF MAADDNESSS! Mina wants a trios tag to beat the piss out of them. DCF promo and Fletcher wants the World title. MY SHADOW KNOWS MY STORYYYYY!

Ciampa vs. Ace Austin is up and Ace gets a rolling droptoehold and tornado kick on the ground! APRON PK BY AUSTIN! Collision is on Thursday this week. LONG SIDE HEADLOCK isn't exactly helping this show out. Springboard gamenguri by Austin! Gutwrench powerbomb gets 2.9! Project Ciampa hits for 2.9! Fosbury flop by Austin! Avalanche air raid hits for 2.9! Kneeling chop by Ciampa before Austin gets some kneeling overhands! Discus lariat misses for Ciampa and Austin nails a shortarm lariat! BLACK MASS BY AUSTIN! DEADLIFT DVD INTO THE CORNER BY AUSTIN! APRON BELLY TO BELLY BY CIAMPA! DRIVING BARE KNEE HITS AND WINS IT! Okay this got really good. Ciampa went to knee Juice but JUICE CAUGHT HIM so that's a future match.

Lexy is with the Rascalz and their match is next. The Babes of Wrath BREAKUP BACKSTAGE!? As buddies. Well that was weird. Davis with a fireman's carry toss of Wentz into a nasty kick by Kyle! Buncha kicks and stunners and a codebreaker for Fletcher. DUNKZILLA DRIVER wins it. Okada vs. Knight is the main event! Knight promo before THE DEATH RIDERS are back and Mox says he has no sympathy for anyone - let alone Ospreay because he won't stand between someone and the consequences of their actions. 

Knight fakes out an Irish Whip RESULTING IN OKADA JUMPING FOR A LEAPFROG. YOU MADE OKADA JUMP! BITCH! UFO splash gets 2 during the break. Nigel - I told my mother I was in Cedar Rapids today. She asked what state it was in and I said terrible. Double bird by Okada! THAT GODDAMN DROPKICK BY OKADA! POP-UP RANA BY KNIGHT! COAST TO COAST HITS OKADA ON THE ARM for 2.9! UFO SPLASH HITS but Okada gets the knees up! Rainmaker MEETS A FLASH CRADLE FOR 2.9! Okada drops down on a victory roll and uses the rope to win. Well they've got another one in there with Knight having his shoulder up.

AEW Dynamite 3-25-26

 

It's funny how things can change quickly for the better. Started the weekend with no job, now I have one set up to start next week alongside an interview with HSN tomorrow for another job remote - which would be the better short-term job in a way because it's a big money-saver but hey, it's good to get that far already in this job market. Plus, my late housemate's grandson is coming back to now stay in the basement apartment-ish thing and that should go well with county help involved now so yeah, good stuff! We've got a big Dynamite with Swerve vs. Omega II on tap and we should see Omega winning to then face and maybe beat MJF at the PPV. AND IT'S THE OPENER!?

This match gets limited commercial breaks, so it should be epic. Nana distracts for a quick lead and a big running boot by Swerve. SEATED V TRIGGER BY KENNY ON THE FLOOR! Kenny gets a flighty lariat before a fameasser for 2. Avalanche Angle slam by Swerve for an ad break...but no on MyAEW where you see the full match. Back and forth knee strikes and boots!  Swerve mule kick and an apron PK hits hard and Ex points out a low blow cost Kenny against Andrade. Big Pressure met with a victory roll by Omega for 2. GUARDRAIL PILEDRIVER!  BASEMENT SWERVE STOMP GETS 2.9! Kenny shoves him back and elbows him before Swerve preps a V TRIGGER BUT EATS ONE!

OWA avoided and a vertebreaker is avoided a V TRIGGER TO THE NECK BY KENNY but the OWA meets an eye rake. VERTEBREAKER HITS FOR 2.9! V TRIGGERS AND THE ONE WINGED ANGEL HIT AND WIN IT! This match ruled! Rush vs. Darby is the main event and set up with a Darby history package. Ospreay tells Mox that he appreciates the time he got to spend with his son, but he'll take him out at Dynasty YOU MOTHERFUCKER! Mox, Garcia and Marina are here for a mixed trios match against Top Flight and Zayda Steel! Zayda eats some chops, but gets a second-rope rana! The Martins take out Mox! TRIPLE TOPES FROM THE FACES!

Ad break has Marina grab Dante's foot and a superplex gets 2. Marina beats up Dante too before Mox gets a camel clutch! Mox unloads some big chops with Zayda on the apron. Zayda gets a tornado DDT off of DG for 2! YUTA HITS A BUSAIKU ON CD AND ZAYDA TOPES HIM! Darius is locked inito the dragon tamer! Mox stomps him and that's the win. This was fun! Mox says it's not nice for Will to say mean things on TV and whatever problem he thinks he has, it's not a personal thing. It's business at the PPV - but not for the title right now.  

Bucks video package on their rebuilding and they want the belts no matter who holds them. SPEEDBALL is out to face Rocky Romero. OKAY EVERYONE BET THE FARM ON ROCKY! Rocky gets cocky and eats a spinkick and that's it. MJF-Hanger recap before MJF is out and he's an annoying shit about the Hangman stip and then does some Rock-style delivery on the Level of the Devil line before KENNY IS HERE! Kenny is disgusted by MJF's arrogance and his body told him he needed to heal, he waited until it was too late. MJF beat him before at 60%, but Swerve beat him in match one too - and he beat him in match two and he'll do it again and at Dynasty, it's The Wrestling God vs. THE DEVIL! 

Renee chats with Cope and Cage about FTR hurting Cope and Cope's "assholes" are muted despite ASSHOLE being on Cage's tron. BIG STOKE IS WALKING DOWN and Dax says if he'll take out Beth, imagine what he'll do to you. OC and Roddy vs. Connors and Finlay here. Clark shoulder pounces him on the apron, but Trash Panda is met with a stundog! STRONG KNEE! THE DOGS HIGH/LOW RODDY WITH A CLIP AND SPEAR! Tornado DDT to Finlay and the PK HITS CONNORS! Full clip suplex/mid-air spear wins it!

Fletcher tells MN to SAY HIS FULL NAME and he wants to branch out and he wants the world title and doesn't like the deal Don made with MJF and HE WANTS THE TITLE. Mina vs. Thekla is up with Mina bringing flowers out again - so they've retconned that being Marina. Slingshot tornillo gets 2 for Mina. DRAPING DDT TO THE FLOOR BY MINA! Round kicks on the floor by Mina against the guardrail! SLINGBLADE BY MINA! SHOTGUN MISSILE DROPKICK GETS 2 FOR MINA! 

Mina backfist misses and Thekla hits a big boot after a forearm and the spear! Thekla uses the belt to distract the ref and KOs Mina with knucks during a German! Lovely match! Kenny chats with Renee and Bailey is a bit heelish with him during a too-long handshake. The Demand is here and Ricochet issues an in-canon apology bitching about the battle royal and HE LOST THE TITLE WITHOUT BEING BEATEN! Rush is out looking like a megastar!

Darby eats a beating on the floor, and against the steps, and against the barricade. Darby misses a dangerous low-pe! Rush kicks ass to a FUCK ICE chant! Rush steals Taz's water and puts it on himself and fishhooks Darby's eye. Rush attacks in the corner as Darby is all sliced up and he pulls up short on the horns and kicks him. DRAPING COFFIN DROP TO RUSH! COFFIN DROP TO A CHAIR ON RUSH! DA HURNS MISSES and a jackknife cradle wins it!

DAVIS JUMPS HIM AND GUTWRENCH PILEDRIVES HIM ON THE RAMP!

AEW Collision 3-22-26 - Slam Dunk Sunday

 

The event is starting soon graphic and droning music airs for seemingly 70 years. After starting at 11 for the feed, by 11:35PM, we get the show actually starting! OC and Roddy face off with Old Man Jay Lethal and Lee Johnson. Lethal takes a Demolition Decapitation by stepping off the second, then the bottom and then just drops an elbow. Trillion backbreakers by Roddy! Lee gets a brainbuster and Lethal hits the King's Elbow for 2.5. End of Heartache to Lee and OC covers for the win. Twas fun by lordy what an odd choice for an opener. We get RODDY LORE lamenting the loss of the Paragon and he realized he needed to change AND HE IS A MEMBER OF THE CONGLOMORATION! 

Connors and Finlay call them out again. Divine Dominion are out and the tag belt looks perfect on Bayne and Bayne wins with a powerbomb after Kross massacres one person. Ciampa vs. THE MOTH LIO RUSH and this presentation is weird, but memorable and he really does all of his same moves - but very different setups. He just looks much older bald and a bit chunky, but it fits this act. Rana on the corner but Ciampa hits a draping knee on the floor.

Rush gets a Nakamura-style multi-forearm and elbow combo before a schoolboy into a tornado kick. KNEE TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD! LOWPE STUNNER GETS 2! BACK TO BACK STUNNERS BY RUSH! Forearms aplenty AND OVERHAND CHOPS APLENTY! Kneeling BLACK MASS BY RUSH! Project Ciampa hits for 2.9! KNEELING BARE KNEE SHOT WINS IT! This ruled - an absolute must-watch match.

Trios tag title is the main event BUT FIRST we get a Swerve-Omega hype video. Josh, Clon, and Takeshita are out to face Mistico and JetSpeed! Josh hits a slam on Clon's knees for 2 before Clon works with Mistico. All the heels set up Mistico to shine brightly which really makes this a perfect match for the live crowd too. Blue thunder by Takeshita gets 2 and Knight avoids the knee! Knight spikes him on a DDT. DOUBLE JUMP RANA BY MISTICO TO CLON!? Lordy!

AND IT'S ONLY 2 - which given that Josh was taken out with his bad knee, I'd just have that as the finish. Clon taps to la Mistica, which is good for the live crowd. Fantastic show overall.