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AEW COLLISION Discussion Thread 01/06/23

Tonight, Collision is LIVE from Charlotte, Noooorth Car-o-lina!! The card includes:

AEW CONTINENTAL CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: © Eddie Kingston vs. Trent Beretta
FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. The House of Black (Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black)
Darby Allin & Sting vs. The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake)
Adam Copeland responds to Christian Cage!

And more!

Show starts at 8pm EST | 5pm PST | 7pm CST | 1am BST

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😂😂😂 Respect to Darby for still getting his ass kicked in a squash match
- lol all Sting did was tag in, hit a scorpion death drop, took some pics and bounced 😂
  
  Lol yeah, easy paycheck but I don't think Takeshita and Hobbs are going to let him off that easy
make trent? a mega star cowards
- At least tag champs when Chuck comes back damnit
  
  correct
  
  A man can dream
  
  I want Chuck back.
  I want a tag title run.
  I want the titles won with a fucking Awful Waffle.
  I want at least three successful defences against non-jobbers.
  Give me these four things and as a Best Friend fan I will be con-fucking-tent.
No Tony you're delusional
Theory : Copeland will help FTR vs HoB
- I like it. The whole "FTR has to abandon their families if they lose" angle seems a bit extreme.
  
  That's a strange way to spell metal as fuck.
adam cole did nothing wrong and neither did roderick
Bryan Keith has to basically be signed right?
- I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe he has one of those tiered contracts like Skye was on?
  
  I would assume something similar to what Skye had
- Long as he keeps showing up on occasion at least, I'll be happy. I'm holding out hope for that eventual Hangman/Keith/Despy/Whoever-else-I'm-forgetting Cowboy Shit Match™
  
  Bandidoooo
in this house we support jd drake
- Ditto. Love seeing a big man who can move, enhancement talent or not.
- God damn right
Statlander has a Beardie!!!!! I fucking love bearded dragons! I miss mine every day 😭
- It was so still. Took me a solid thirty seconds to tell if it was real or not lol.
  
  They're like me. They ain't going to move much if there isn't any food
JUNGLE BOY'S BACK!
- That's not Jungle Boy! That's fucking Griff Garrison!
  
  Who the fuck is Griff Garrison?
😂😂😂 Darby watching his two crazy drunk uncles go off
- More like grandpa's 😂
I wonder if Crying Bryan is back from Japan
Trent is a tier under Omega and Bryan but he has really good sympathy spots
- True. The blood gets him even more sympathy from me lol
Poor Trent. Gets Sue front row tickets just to watch Eddie break his nose 😂
- Probably not the first time that's happened
  
  She even had tissues ready!
Booooooo! Kidnap his daughter while they're celebrating in the ring
Damn Taz did manage Joe so Hook might know him better than anyone else on the roster
- Makes sense. I thought he was gonna call out Yuta for his Pure title. Didn't see Joe coming at all.
  
  Joe gonna unbarb that hook
Trent's gonna need a real Beretta if he wants to win this match.
The Acclaimed Bang Bang Gang
Idk if it's smart to team up with Jay White though
- Is he a cop?
  
  Lets just say there is a reason ego maniac Adam Cole and Jay White were best of friends
Looks like HoB hotboxed the place.
- Hot of Box
No Danny!
I can get behind a team of Garcia/FTR.
Ten bell salute from Julia lol
I don't think it's Hardwoods temper you have to worry about on FTR
- Guns up (at other drivers)!
Just realized how weird it's gonna be to see Darby without Sting.
- He's appeared without him enough but he won't have his ultimate trump card anymore
  It feels like he needs at least one friend but like Sting he doesn't seem to be good at picking loyal ones
  
  Maybe Sammy? They seemed pretty close on his vlogs.
They rebooted the walking dead!
- lol nice
Is there any reason why Maria isn't managing the Kingdom anymore?
- She couldn't stomach turning on poor MJF
- I'd assume nothing more than 'better resource management' really.
  Maria is great on the mic and has enough range to cover face-to-heel easily...but if you have a group with Adam Cole in it, the only 'promo-man' the group needs is him. She'll basically just be eye candy during some Kingdom matches and maybe causing interference, but they have stablemates to do that like Strong.
  Meanwhile on ROH she's been managing and involved in building storylines with/between Griff, Karter, Leyla Hirsch,
  Rachael Ellering and 1-2 others for a month or two now.
  
  She'll basically just be eye candy [...] but they have stablemates to do that like Strong.
  Damn right! Love me some Hot Rod. (it's the neckbrace and glasses, meow)
- shes gonna get kyle o'reilly in the custody battle
Griff has made a terrible choice
- The second Griff's feet walked out we all knew he made a terrible choice.
  That being said nice to see Griff and...whats-his-cunt with a TV appearance, they've been doing well on ROH with a weird ass milf storyline so they earned a tv bonus in my eyes.
  
  Definitely glad to see them on TV!
  
  Go on....
Nigel is definitely going to keep calling Eddie King of the Bums to rub Danieslons loss in even more
who the fuck was griff garrison (rip)
- Alexa play Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
austin gunn definitely not a cop
- True, but John Wayne was both a massive racist and homophobe, sooooo, maybe?
I hope Ricky wins. I hate to say it but Sammy's never really clicked for me.
- Hes in a very unenviable spot.
  He looks like a heel but all of his natural promos are babyface.
  
  Definitely. I thought him being in the Callis Family actually made sense based on his look and all. I just can't buy him as a face.
- I'm in the same boat
  He really needs to get away from Jericho
  
  I think everyone does lol
- He doesn't really have a character, so when he does his 🤪 face it breaks the 4th wall as it's Sammy the person, not Sammy the character, doing it.
  Out of kayfabe, if you compare how Sammy does his big spots compared to Darby, Darby just does them, he doesn't call attention to it. Pointing it out makes it look like he's just doing it because he has the athletic ability to do so, and it turns his matches in to spot fests. A crazy person doesn't say they are crazy. A crazy person does what Darby does, cos Darby is crazy.
  In kayfabe, you could have it that Sammy struggles to beat people without taking big risks, and when he takes those risks it doesn't always work out, and that he knows this, and talks about it in promos. Some times he takes the risk and wins, some times he takes it and loses because he misses the move, and some times he decides against it. That would at least justify the "I'm crazy 🤪" face he pulls, cos he'd be admitting in that moment he knows he's lost so he's going for broke.
  But instead we just have Sammy telling us every now and again that he's crazy, but not really doing anything particularly crazy outside of the big spot.
Claudio vs. Hangman is gonna be spicy
- It should be a good one!
😬 Mid Life Crisis Goth FTR sounds hella fun though
- lmao just Dax and Cash in black lipstick writing poetry in a room full of candles 😂
- LMAO I wish I could boost this twice. I love Noel/the IT Crowd.
Lol Tony patched the womens time in the new season of AEW
i hope sting and ric flair ends with ric turning on string - continuing the tradition - and learning from harley race and giving sting a retirement gift box
- There's something to be said about tradition
- Just as long as it doesn't lead to Ric Flair's Last, Last, Last, Last Match™.
  
  I'm 100% against another Ric Flair match.
  UNLESS
  Sting literally kills him in his retirement match.
  I mean, if Flair really wants to die in the ring, I can't think of a better way.
BoTB next week?! I could be wrong but I think that's the second time in a row AEW runs Collision & BoTB against an Impact/TNA PPV.
- Well idk what the timings work down to but BoTB can easily be skipped at least given belts don't fucking change hands during those shows tyvm Tony 'predictable' Khan lol.
  
  I'm not going to complain about extra wrestling for free, but it would be nice if championships changed hands at these more than once
An OK show, which was a bit of a let down after how strong dynamite was.
Real shame we didn't get HoFTR, I reckon Cash would look great with a mid 00s emo side parting.
I'm not sure how I feel about Stokely and Stat, but I'm hoping it doesn't stay as him reading out thirst tweets.
I'm also getting a bit ahead of myself, but given all the recent signings, and the 2 - two! - women's matches on Rampage, I'm hoping Stat/Willow tagging turns in to a women's tag division.
Edit: just realised that bit was on Rampage. Watching them back to back can get confusing!
- Watching back to back makes it feel like one long show lol

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