AEW Collision Results: August 15, 2026 – Hangman & Brodido Retain Trios Titles, McGuinness, O’Reilly & Hechicero Advance in C3, More
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AEW was back in fabulous Las Vegas for Collision on TNT and HBO Max, now just 15 days away from AEW All In: London at Wembley Stadium! Tonight, we saw the final three matches in the first round of the Continental Challenge Cup, including a pair of intra-faction battles!
But before the factions collided, “Hangman” Adam Page, ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King beat The Lethal Twist to open the night in their first defense of the AEW World Trios Titles, only to be attacked by The Demand!
Nigel McGuinness managed to turn away Katsuyori Shibata in their first meeting to move to the C3 Quarterfinals! He’ll be joined in the second round by CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Hechicero, who won the battle of Don Callis Family members over Brian Cage. The blind draw also put The Conglomeration against each other in the main event, as Kyle O’Reilly defeated longtime partner Roderick Strong to punch his ticket to the round of eight, which begins this Wednesday on Dynamite!
Plus, Mercedes Moné didn’t get enough out of beating Zayda Steel, so Moné attacked Steel and Christopher Daniels after the match until AEW Women’s World Champion Willow Nightingale arrived to run Moné off!
It was an eventful week in Vegas with everyone looking ahead to the biggest stakes of the year at All In: London in just 15 days. Here are your complete Collision results!
AEW Collision Results Tonight for Las Vegas
AEW World Trios Championship Match: "Hangman" Adam Page & Brodido (ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King) (c) def. The Lethal Twist (Jay Lethal, Blake Christian and Lee Johnson)
The opening contest saw the AEW World Trios Champions, “Hangman” Adam Page, ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King, defend their titles against The Lethal Twist, Jay Lethal, Blake Christian and Lee Johnson!
The Lethal Twist made their entrance first, with Blake Christian mocking the Motor City Machine Guns by pointing to his hand, which read "The Swirl > MCMG." The AEW World Trios Champions entered together, united despite this alliance existing only for a short time.
Page began things with Christian, but quickly took him down to the mat with a shoulder block. Christian came back with a headscissors, and the two exchanged reversals until Page caught Christian in midair and slammed him down. Christian pushed Page to the corner so Lethal could tag in, and they went to work on him, with Johnson tagging in to get a double team with Lethal, but Page broke it up by dropping Johnson to the mat, kicking off Lethal, and landing on Johnson for an impressive moonsault. The crowd loved it and chanted "Cowboy Shit!" after Page got a two-count.
Page body-slammed Johnson again and came over the top with a senton atomico. He tagged in Bandido, who also went over the top with a senton atomico. Then, King was about to hit one of his own, so Johnson made the smart move of rolling away. King entered the ring and flattened him with a senton splash! He covered Johnson, but Lethal pulled King off after a one -ount. King chopped Johnson into the corner, where Bandido tagged in. Johnson reversed things on a whip and sent Bandido into the Lethal Twist corner, where he knocked Lethal off the apron.
Johnson tagged in Christian, and they stomped away at Bandido in the corner. Christian mounted him and went after Bandido's mask, but he got free using a handspring off the ropes to escape and avert Christian, before pointing his fingers at Christian's forehead. Christian pushed it away, so Bandido came off the ropes with a flying headscissors. Johnson came in, and Bandido tried to put him down with a gorilla press slam, but Johnson escaped. Bandido got hung up in the tree of woe, so Page came in to try to save him, but Johnson sent Page over the top rope onto the apron. Christian then sprang to the top rope, where he grabbed Page between his legs so Johnson could hit a dropkick that knocked Page down to the floor. With Bandido still in the tree of woe, Christian swung around the ropes to kick him in the back while Johnson hit a hesitation dropkick. Christian immediately went to the second turnbuckle and came down on Page with a moonsault to the floor. The champions were in big trouble!
After Bandido was isolated for an extended period of time, he turned things around by avoiding Lethal in the corner with a boot, then sprang to the top rope to come back with a twisting crossbody. King finally tagged in and unloaded on all three members of the Lethal Twist. With all of them stacked up in the corner, he splashed them down to the mat and followed up with a cannonball on Johnson and Christian! He pulled Johnson to the middle of the ring and covered him for a two-count!
King then tagged in Hangman and held Johnson for him, and as Hangman came off the top rope, Johnson pushed King away, but ran right into a flurry of rights from Page. Page then hit a springboard rebound clothesline from the second rope to knock Johnson off the apron, gave the crowd a signal to get their energy up, and connected with a springboard crossbody over the top rope to the floor onto Johnson. Lethal tried to attack Page from behind, but Page turned things around and sent Lethal into the barricade. Bandido took advantage of Lethal's misfortune and splashed him against the barricade, while on the opposite side, King sent Christian into the other barricade. Page and King then threw Johnson into the barricade next to Christian, and King got the crowd barking before smashing both Christian and Johnson against the barricade with a massive crossbody. King picked up Christian and Johnson, and Page went to the barricade, coming down on both of them with a moonsault that sent the crowd in Las Vegas into a frenzy. Page threw Johnson back into the ring, went to the top rope, and hit another moonsault. He covered Johnson, but only got a two-count.
Page seemed frustrated, so he tagged in Bandido, who tagged in King. Bandido and Page started to cradle Johnson for King, but Christian quickly broke it up and knocked King out of the ring. Page hit a discus forearm to knock Christian down, but was immediately taken down himself by Lethal. King tried to rush at Lethal and Christian, so they dropped him over the top rope with a low bridge. Christian sprang to the apron and came off the second turnbuckle with a moonsault, but King caught him. Lethal dove through the ropes to change the momentum, so King was now stuck in Christian's grasp on the floor, which allowed Johnson to come off the apron with a frog splash onto King! They threw King back into the ring, where Johnson hit a frog splash, followed by Christian following up with a 450. Johnson and Christian both covered, but still only got a two-count on King!
Johnson and Christian hit a kick combo to put King back in the corner, but when Johnson tried to monkey flip Christian into King, Hangman cut it off with a Buckshot Lariat out of nowhere! Bandido got back in the ring and caught a rushing Johnson with an X Knee as Page stopped Lethal from making the save. Page and Bandido picked up Johnson and swung him to King, who caught him in position for a Gonzo Bomb, but not before Page and Bandido dove to the outside to take out Christian and Lethal! King finished off Johnson with the Gonzo Bomb for the three count! The champions successfully defended the AEW World Trios Championship for the first time!
They didn't have a chance to celebrate for long, though, because Ricochet appeared at the top of the ramp and told everyone to quiet down. He said he loves to rain on their parade, and if the right hand doesn't get you, the left hand will, and with that, Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona attacked the AEW World Trios Champions from behind! Bandido was sent into the barricade while Liona took out King on the outside. Page tried to fight them both off as Lethal and Christian returned to swing the numbers advantage against the champions. King crawled back into the ring and put his body over Hangman just to protect his partner, but Page was picked up by Kaun and Liona and dropped with a Fall from Heaven!
With Page, King, and Bandido down at their feet, Ricochet reminded them that when you're in the Demand, you can make demands. Kaun followed by saying, "And if you don’t follow demands," and Liona closed it out by telling them, "You get put down!" The Demand picked up the AEW World Trios Titles and dropped them over the champions before exiting the ring with The Lethal Twist!
Don Callis Family Wins With Brian Cage or Hechicero
Before they met in C3 first-round action, Lexy Nair spoke with Cage and Hechicero, who were with Don Callis and Lance Archer. Nair asked Callis if he was worried this would break up the family, and Callis said, "What a mighty big word for an interviewer, dissension. Well, one man's dissension is another man's competition. And I know, mathematically speaking, that there's a one hundred percent chance, Lexy, of the Don Callis Family advancing. So in the spirit of competition..." Callis then asked Hechicero and Cage to shake hands. Hechicero promised to give the Family gold. Callis did some poor translating of Cage’s respectful wishes to Hechicero and then warned Archer that tonight, nobody dies.
The Conglomeration Speak Before Facing Off in the C3
Lexy Nair was with The Conglomeration’s Roderick Strong, Orange Cassidy and Kyle O’Reilly ahead of Strong facing O’Reilly in the first round of the C3 later tonight. She asked Cassidy, who already advanced, if they were feeling the pressure. He said he was because he could face whoever wins tonight in the next round … or not.
O’Reilly spoke of his long, storied history with Strong that ranged from partners to enemies to the closest friend he’s ever had in the business, but no matter what happens tonight, it won’t change. Strong said he appreciated it and reminded O’Reilly that he never treated him differently along the way. That won’t change tonight, and he expected the same from O’Reilly. May the best man win. O’Reilly left to warm up and asked Cassidy to help him. Nair wished Strong good luck.
Strong responded, “He’s gonna need it.”
AEW Continental Challenge Cup First Round Match: Don Callis Family's CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Hechicero def. Don Callis Family's Brian Cage
As Renee Paquette reported before the match, this was a home game of sorts for Cage, who only had a 20-minute drive from home. This was also where he won the Mr. Nevada bodybuilding tournament. Both men entered alone, per Continental rules. The crowd chanted for Hechicero at the bell!
Both men tried to use their advantages in the early going, with Hechicero trying to grind Cage down to the mat and slow him. In contrast, Cage used his power to escape and eventually work Hechicero into the corner, where he unloaded with chops. Hechicero found himself on the opposite corner but avoided a charge and tried a shoulder block on Cage, but Cage didn't go down. Cage asked for more, so Hechicero tried a clothesline, and Cage stayed up again. A kick to the gut gave Hechicero a chance to get a brief advantage on Cage, so he kicked him in the knee and hit a DDT for the first near-fall of the match.
Hechicero hammered Cage in the chest and then put his focus on Cage's left arm, snapping it backwards across his knee. Hechicero chopped Cage in the corner and tried a running knee strike, but Cage caught him and put Hechicero down with a Death Valley Driver. Cage rushed Hechicero in the corner, but Hechicero was ready with a boot. However, Cage shook it off, hit a clothesline and a strike, then a running face wash kick. With Hechicero on the apron, Cage pulled him up over the top rope for a deadlift superplex! What a move by The Machine!
Hechicero turned things around by trapping Cage in the corner with a dragon screw through the ropes. Hechicero went to the top and came off with a flying elbow drop across the chest of the standing Cage, but Cage kicked out at two! Hechicero kicked at Cage, telling him to get up. Cage came back with a flurry of strikes, but Hechicero met him in the ropes and choked him over the top rope with a full bodyscissors until the referee broke it up. Hechicero choked Cage again from behind, but Cage managed to turn his body around and spike Hechicero with a draping DDT from the top rope! Cage covered Hechicero, but Hechicero kicked out at two! Cage came right back with a sit-out powerbomb, but Hechicero once again kicked out to keep the match alive!
Hechicero escaped Cage's pump handle slam attempt and turned it into a leg grapevine, but Cage made it to the ropes to break the submission in the corner. Hechicero hit a running knee, but Cage came back with a discus clothesline, and both men were down in the middle of the ring as the referee began his ten count. They fought up from their knees, and Cage cut off Hechicero with a thrust kick. He went for the Drill Claw, but Hechicero floated out the back and hit a big boot before a flying guillotine put Cage down, although Cage was able to kick out at two!
Hechicero trapped Cage's arms and cradled him on his shoulders for the three count! While the Don Callis Family comes away victorious, it's only Hechicero who moves on to the Quarterfinals. After the match, Hechicero and Cage exchanged some heated words.
Darby Allin Asks Kevin Knight What Family Means
Allin had his face almost fully covered by his hood as he spoke. “My biggest fear in life is when this 15-minute ride is over, that I’m gonna look at myself and not know who I’m looking back at. It’s scary. It’s really scary. There was a time in AEW when I thought I had to change in order to make it to the top. I had to sacrifice everything I stood for. But it wasn’t until I met Sting that he taught me that you don’t have to change one thing. And I look at you, Kevin. Man, have you changed. I hope you like it at the top because the foundation you’re building your house on isn’t going to last. When you hear the word family, Kevin, what do you think of? Because the Don Callis Family isn’t family. When I hear family, I think of Sting. I think of Sting’s sons, Steve and James Borden, and like all those years ago when I saw potential in you, Kevin, I see that in Steven. You’ve got my word. From now until Wembley, I’m not gonna sneak attack you. I’m not gonna have any explosives. Cause I wanna beat the very best Kevin Knight at Wembley. You’re already one of the greatest TNT Champions that’s ever lived. But after All In, when you look at yourself in the mirror, you’re not gonna recognize who you’re looking back at. Because, Kevin, I am going to beat you within an inch of your life. It’s so scary…”
Lio Rush Will Team with The Rascalz Tonight!
Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz were fired up about their win last week and said The Rascalz were riding high, but Myron Reed reminded them he lost. They tried to pick him up, and he was appreciative of them setting up tonight’s tag match because he needs the win. Xavier thought Reed set up the match, but when all three realized that none of them were responsible, they heard a voice.
“HE DID!”
“Blackheart” Lio Rush appeared and said, “Yes, he did. He needs friends.”
Xavier said everyone needs friends, but Rush said they need to listen for the rain.
Wentz said, “No, we’re The Rascalz. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em?”
Rush responded, “He has them all!”
The Rascalz all left as Rush said, “IT’S FINE!”
AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions Divine Dominion ("Colossal" Lena Kross and "Megasus" Megan Bayne) def. Rachelle Riveter & Mazzerati
Kross and Riveter began things, with Riveter oddly trying to get a waistlock on Kross, only for Kross to kick her leg. She missed a stomp, so Riveter went off the ropes and attempted a flying headscissors, which Kross caught and put her down the hard way with a sidewalk slam.
Bayne tagged in, so Divine Dominion hit a combo of kicks and strikes in the corner, followed by Bayne throwing Riveter back across the ring with a German suplex. Mazzerati came in, and Bayne quickly blocked one of her right hands and clotheslined her down to the mat. She tagged in Kross, and they picked Mazzerati up for Divine Intervention, but Riveter broke it up. Both Kross and Bayne connected on big right hands to Mazzerati and Riveter, then held both up for stereo vertical suplexes, ending with Kross throwing Mazzerati on top of Riveter.
Riveter was thrown out of the ring, and Divine Dominion absolutely crushed Mazzerati with Divine Intervention as Kross covered for the dominant pinfall victory.
The champions didn't have much of a chance to bask in their dominance, though, because their challengers at All In: London, the Brawling Birds, hit the ring to brawl. Kross and Bayne tried to fight them off, but Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor clotheslined Bayne over the top rope and then hit a pair of headbutts to knock Kross down to the mat. The Birds dragged the steel steps over to the timekeeper's area and brought Bayne to the top of the steps, where they set her up for what appeared to be a double chokeslam, but Kross pulled Bayne away and back into the ring. The Birds chased after, so the champions bailed up the ramp. These two teams will meet in fifteen days for the AEW Women's World Tag Team Championships at All In: London at Wembley Stadium!
Zayda Steel Confronted by Mercedes Moné after Dynamite!
We went back to Wednesday night, where after Dynamite, Renee Paquette asked Zayda Steel about her huge opportunity to face Mercedes Moné on Collision. “I'm excited for Saturday. I mean, I've been studying, I've been training, I've been looking forward to this match for over 10 years."
Mercedes Moné walked in to interrupt. "You're another fan, nice to meet you, but who are you again?" Steel replied, "Mercedes, you know my name, but if you want me to remind you, I'm ‘The Real Deal’ Zayda Steel. And yeah, I did look up to you, I did admire you, but after what you did to Willow, attacking her from behind, I've lost all respect for you." Moné shot back, "You lost respect for me?"
Moné blasted Steel with a cheap shot, knocking her to the ground. Moné crouched over Steel and said, “Let me teach you some respect this Saturday on Collision. Nice to meet you... bitch."
AEW Continental Challenge Cup First Round Match: Nigel McGuinness def. The Opps' Katsuyori Shibata
The fans chanted "HOLY SHIT!" at the bell, and after Shibata offered a handshake, McGuinness accepted it, and we were underway!
Shibata quickly worked things to the mat, where he grabbed hold of McGuinness's left ankle. McGuinness tried to escape, only for Shibata to grab him in a headscissors. Nigel went to a handstand to escape, but Shibata was ready for him once again, controlling McGuinness until going into guard and grabbing a pin attempt for a one-count. They worked back to their feet, where McGuinness tried to get hold of Shibata's head and neck, but Shibata reversed things, taking McGuinness down to the mat. Without anywhere to go, there was a mutual break, and both men returned to their feet.
McGuinness worked Shibata to the ropes and let him go for what appeared to be a clean break, but instead, McGuinness kicked the top rope into Shibata. McGuinness tried to apologize and offered a hand, so Shibata feigned taking it and instead kicked him in the gut. With McGuinness down, Shibata kicked him in the back twice. McGuinness asked for a third, but when Shibata came off the ropes, McGuinness fell backwards to avoid it and pointed to his head as if to say he was smarter than Shibata, but he didn't expect Shibata to come off the ropes with a giant chop to the back of his neck. Shibata mocked McGuinness by pointing to his head, but McGuinness snapmared Shibata into the bottom rope on two different sides of the ring, which seemed to injure Shibata's right leg.
Both men ended up back on their feet fighting in the middle of the ring, but it was McGuinness taking a cheap shortcut by stomping on Shibata's bad right leg. Shibata came back with a strike, but McGuinness escaped with a headbutt to Shibata's gut. However, when he tried it again, Shibata caught McGuinness in a guillotine. McGuinness started fading, so Shibata changed his grip into a cravat, but McGuinness escaped by stomping on Shibata's foot multiple times before flipping him over for a suplex.
McGuinness tried to shake himself awake and grabbed Shibata in a headlock. He stopped what he was doing and landed an uppercut on Shibata. When he tried it again, Shibata slipped behind with a rear naked choke and brought him down to the mat in the middle of the ring. Shibata had the legs locked around McGuinness, but McGuinness trapped Shibata's bad ankle to turn the submission around completely. Shibata had to get to the ropes to break it up, and McGuinness gave himself a round of applause.
He started to work over Shibata with uppercuts in the corner, but Shibata stormed right out after him, so McGuinness came back with a back elbow. He followed with a throat thrust, then put Shibata on the top turnbuckle with another throat thrust. He seemed to be looking for a Tower of London, but Shibata escaped. McGuinness ran into a boot, and Shibata grabbed him in a choke once again. McGuinness went down to a seated position, which usually meant Shibata was going to go for a PK to finish the match, but when he kicked McGuinness, he did so with his bad leg and immediately grimaced in pain. He tried it again from the front side but ended up kicking McGuinness in the boot, in a stroke of genius by McGuinness, who had thrown up his foot for the block. Shibata crumbled to the mat in pain, and the crowd chanted "Fight Forever!”
McGuinness grabbed Shibata and locked in a very deep ankle lock, but Shibata was able to roll out of it. McGuinness tried to change submissions, but Shibata got away, bounced him off the ropes, and looked for the discus clothesline, but Shibata was ready for it and rolled him up for a near-fall. When McGuinness kicked out, Shibata hit him with a PK to the chest and covered him, but McGuinness kicked out once again at two. Shibata immediately grabbed McGuinness's arm to try to lock on a cross armbreaker, but McGuinness was able to roll on top of Shibata to get a near-fall. He mounted Shibata and rained down strikes. Shibata tried to cover up and eventually rolled McGuinness over near the ropes to rain down strikes of his own. He once again grabbed a choke on McGuinness and jumped on his back to grapevine his legs. McGuinness fell to the mat with Shibata behind him, but then rolled over Shibata to trap his shoulders on the mat for the shocking pinfall victory!
McGuinness wins and moves on to the round of eight in the C3, keeping his Wembley Stadium dreams alive!
Will Ospreay Needs Two Partners to Face the Don Callis Family on Dynamite
Renee Paquette was backstage with Ospreay and asked about him finding two partners to face the Don Callis Family this Wednesday on Dynamite – and considering the Death Riders are out of the picture, he’s pretty thin on friends right now.
Ospreay responded, “It’s the year 2026, and Don Callis is still taking credit for Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega. Laughable, really, but he's right; there's history there, one that I'm not really proud of. But now I need to deal with it, and this is going to be a difficult phone call that I've got to make." Ospreay revealed he plans to call his boys in Japan. "I know Henare’s going to be okay with me, and Akira's going to be okay with me. It's my little brother, Callum, that I'm a little bit worried about. It's a conversation we need to have." He paused before adding, "I'm sure it'll be all right... hopefully."
Before the next match, we took a look at the legacies on the line when Christian Cage and Adam Copeland defend the AEW World Tag Team Titles against the Young Bucks at All In: London!
ROH World Television Champion "Blackheart" Lio Rush & The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz, Dezmond Xavier and Myron Reed) def. Jeaux Braxton, Frescomatic, Watson & Ice Williams
Lio Rush initially entered by himself but was joined by The Rascalz and seemed to enjoy taking part in their usual antics and poses around the ring. While Rush seemed to want to start the match for his side, the opposition was taunting him from the floor, so he galloped around the ring and took all of them out with a dive!
Williams entered the ring, but Rush took him down with a clothesline. Williams tagged out to Braxton, who went for a clothesline, but Rush ducked it and hit a stunner. Rush tagged in Wentz, who ran into Braxton in the corner. Xavier came in with a running uppercut, followed by Reed, who went over the top and came back in with a lungblower, which he held onto so Xavier could come back over the top with knees to the back.
Watson decided to enter the ring, but Wentz and Xavier quickly kicked him down to the mat, and then Braxton tagged in Frescomatic, but Rush jumped off Braxton to tackle Frescomatic and bite him on the head! Meanwhile, Reed and Wentz flipped Xavier over for a triple dropkick on Williams! Frescomatic found himself in the middle of the Rascalz and Rush and tried to chop Rush, who grabbed his hand and bit it, allowing the Rascalz to hit a triple superkick. All three Rascalz then hit springboard dives to the floor!
Back in the ring, Rush grabbed Frescomatic and rolled him to the Rascalz' corner. Wentz came off the top with a senton bomb, Reed, who had just tagged in, hit a 450 splash, and then Xavier came off the top with a spiral tap before tagging in Rush. The crowd chanted "Lio" as Rush scaled the top rope, then came back down and trapped Frescomatic in a front cravat to get the tap-out victory! The Rascalz cautiously celebrated with Rush up the ramp until The Hurt Syndicate came out for their match. Rush and The Rascalz made their way to the back without incident as Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin and MVP continued to the ring.
The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) & Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor and ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty) def. Sonico, Juli Montaña, Ro Montaña and Jake Redondo
All of Shane Taylor Promotions came out to support Taylor and Moriarty. This marked the first time Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, Shane Taylor, and ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty teamed up together, following Shane Taylor Promotions' business proposal to the Hurt Syndicate last week on Collision.
It was Benjamin and Lashley who attacked at the bell, knocking their opponents off the apron, with Lashley running through Juli Montaña with a hit stick spear on the floor! Sonico charged at Benjamin but was thrown backwards with a release German suplex. Ro Montaña came in after Benjamin, got sent to the corner, and ate a nasty step-up knee before Benjamin threw him backwards with another massive release German suplex. At the same time, Taylor and Moriarty simply watched it unfold. Lashley then speared Ro to join his partner on the floor, and MVP walked up the ramp to conduct the crowd as they sang, "We hurt people." Lashley and Benjamin left the ring together as MVP held up the envelope Taylor had given them the week before and made his way up the ramp, indicating that destruction was what their money had gotten them, before returning to the back.
Redondo came at Moriarty, who took him out with a flying kick, then followed with a massive dive onto Sonico on the floor. Fired up, Moriarty got back in the ring as Redondo stood and stared down Taylor, missed a pair of right hands, and ate a headbutt that crumpled him to his knees. Taylor called for the end, hooked up Redondo, and finished him with the Marcus Garvey Driver for the three count. Shane Taylor Promotions celebrated after clearing the ring, though the Hurt Syndicate did not return to join them.
Tommaso Ciampa Speaks on the Casino Gauntlet
We heard from Ciampa, who explained that all roads lead to Wembley and called this year's Casino Gauntlet the biggest in AEW history. He said the stakes couldn't be higher, with one man leaving London guaranteed a shot at the AEW World Championship, "the big belt," the reason he came to AEW in the first place, and the title that tells the world you're the very best professional wrestler in the industry. Ciampa then addressed Andrade and MJF directly, acknowledging they were the first two entrants announced for the gauntlet, and warned that if they believed in a god, they'd better pray he wasn't drawn as the third. He closed by promising he'd see them at Wembley.
Mercedes Moné def. SkyFlight's Zayda Steel
Zayda Steel entered to a big ovation alongside Christopher Daniels, representing SkyFlight in the matchup. Mercedes Moné pushed Steel as she raised her Owen Hart Cup Championship in her face before the bell. Moné worked Steel into the corner and pie-faced her, but Steel pushed her right back. Moné charged the corner and missed, and Steel caught her with a right hand. Moné came out of the corner, and Steel cradled her for a one-count.
Moné, unhappy with that, hit an angry shot on Steel, but Steel ran up the ropes and took her down with an arm drag before rolling through a bulldog attempt for a one-count of her own. Mercedes chucked Steel back down to the mat, and Steel rolled to the apron. Moné charged at her there, but Steel got back into the ring as Moné climbed to the apron. Steel brought Moné back in with a lungblower for a two-count. Moné elbowed her way free and stopped a headscissors attempt, turning it into a nasty lungblower of her own. She paused for the crowd, mounted Steel with punches, and went for a sloppy cover that Steel easily kicked out of. Moné snapped Steel to the mat and locked on a rear chinlock. Steel elbowed free and nearly rolled Moné up for a pinfall, but an angry Moné broke free and dropkicked her into the corner.
Moné kept the heat on, locking Steel up in the middle of the ring with another chinlock as the crowd chanted for both women. Steel dropped down to escape and tackled Moné with a Lou Thesz Press, following up with a flurry of punches, but Moné sent her to the ropes. Steel came back with an STO, in homage to Daniels, and hit a running crossbody on Moné in the corner. Steel went to the top for a flying crossbody, but Moné kicked out just in time. On commentary, Paul Wight noted that Steel had Moné on her heels!
Steel turned Moné around for an underhook piledriver attempt, which Moné reversed into a backstabber! Moné then hit the Moné Maker and rolled it straight into the Statement Maker, accentuating the hold by pulling Steel's lifeless body into a forced smile, to earn the submission victory. Moné held onto the hold well past the bell until the referee pulled her off. When Daniels came in to check on Steel, Moné attacked him from behind with her championship belt, then turned her attention back to Steel with more belt shots before AEW Women's World Champion Willow Nightingale ran out for the save!
As Moné bailed to the floor, Nightingale got on the mic and said, "You want me so bad, you're gonna come attack me? You want to fight? I'm right here. You're going crazy because you look at me and you know I could beat you. I'm right here." Moné faked like she was going to the ring, then instead grabbed her title and headed into the crowd, but not before Nightingale got the last word in: "Hey Mercedes, I'm still smiling, bitch."
A Bloody “Jungle” Jack Perry Speaks After Dynamite and Meets Swerve Strickland
After Dynamite, cameras caught up with Perry, who said he was supposed to see the doctors because he's bleeding but doesn't have time to bleed, because he needs to prepare himself to become the AEW World Champion. He admitted it might not look like it right now, but he's never been so confident in his life, and he thanked Mox for showing him what it's going to take and the level he needs to reach to get there. Perry said iron sharpens iron, and he needs to face everyone who's been at that level: Samoa Joe, “Hangman” Adam Page, and his friend Kenny Omega. He trailed off and simply said, "you," as he got up, and a familiar laugh rang out, revealed to be Swerve Strickland.
Swerve responded by running down the list of names Perry had just mentioned, his so-called friends, saying he'd beat all of them: the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, “Hangman” Adam Page. He acknowledged the fight Perry had with Jon Moxley was a tough one, someone Swerve himself hasn't quite figured out yet, but told Perry he's not quite ready to walk among killers like them. Perry looked at his bloody hand and said, “I think I am.” Swerve warned him not to bring a knife to a Swerve fight. Swerve walked away as Perry stood there contemplating what he'd said, blood still dripping from his nose.
Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks Confronted by Cage and Cope
After taking a special look at Omega vs. Ospreay for the AEW World Title at All In: London, Omega addressed the Don Callis Family, calling them "the crap stain on the underpants of that which is my life," and saying that while he wouldn't normally complain about a week off, he doesn't like Callis and he doesn't like bullies. He challenged any three members of the group to a six-man tag team match next week, promising to bring two of his friends. The Young Bucks, Matt and Nick Jackson, backed him up, declaring The Elite are back in action and that they've always got Kenny's back.
AEW World Tag Team Champions Christian Cage and Adam Copeland showed up and tried to figure out what happened in their match last week in Mexico when they teamed with the Bucks. When Cope asked what happened when he had Jon Moxley pinned while the Bucks were doing flips on the outside. Omega excused himself, and the Bucks brushed it off before needling Cope about his age, after he pointed out that Nick was 37. He said he was already wrestling when Nick was three years old, watching his matches as a kid. They joked that he's old enough to be their father. Cage shot back, "Who says I'm not?" He left before asking Cope when he’ll be done trusting them.
AEW Continental Challenge Cup First Round Match: The Conglomeration's Kyle O'Reilly def. The Conglomeration's Roderick Strong
This was the first time that Roderick Strong and Kyle O'Reilly were on opposite sides since Strong defeated O'Reilly to retain the AEW International Championship at Dynasty 2024. In fact, Strong held a 5-1 all-time singles record over O'Reilly coming into this match, with O'Reilly's last victory over Strong coming 12 years ago.
They locked up at the bell but had a tough time separating from each other, although it was Strong who struck first with chops. O'Reilly answered with kicks, and the two wrestled around on the mat until Strong got away. He jumped right into a big right hand from O'Reilly, who worked him over in the corner briefly before stretching him on the mat. O'Reilly rolled Strong into a cradle for a near-fall, then took him down with kicks to the chest, followed by a leg sweep. O'Reilly continued working on Strong's left arm and then snapped him down to the mat with another kick to the back.
Strong finally broke free with a backbreaker across his knee. He picked up O'Reilly, threw him into the corner, and followed with a pair of chops before a snap suplex got him a near-fall. O'Reilly fought back to his feet and tried to hit a running knee against the ropes, but Strong flipped him to the outside. Strong tried to follow up with a pair of boots through the ropes, but O'Reilly was ready and caught him. Strong still managed to kick his way free and tried the double boots through the ropes again, but once again O'Reilly moved. O'Reilly then jumped up to the apron and came running down with his signature knee, but Strong was ready and picked him up, dropping him across the barricade with a nasty backbreaker.
Back in the ring, O'Reilly continued to chop down Strong to the point that even Paul Wight on commentary was surprised at just how hard these two friends were going at each other. Strong appeared to break free of O'Reilly but ran into a boot in the corner. O'Reilly put himself on the second rope and came flying down on Strong with a knee. Strong cut O'Reilly off with another backbreaker and covered him, but O'Reilly kicked out at two.
Strong was clearly in pain from all the work O'Reilly had done on his leg but limped forward to move O'Reilly to the corner. He dropped him once and brought him out for a vertical suplex, but O'Reilly escaped, so Strong hit a chop. O'Reilly came back with a succession of kicks to put Strong in the corner. Strong tried to battle back, but O'Reilly caught him in a guillotine choke, adjusted it into a triangle choke, and then tried to pick the ankle, but Strong rolled to the outside.
O'Reilly followed with a running knee off the apron and threw Strong back in the ring. O'Reilly tried to go to the top rope, but Strong stopped him and brought him down with a violent backbreaker! Strong covered him for a two-count.
Strong and O'Reilly traded strikes until Strong put a few together to knock O'Reilly into the ropes, but O'Reilly came right back to drop Strong with a clothesline. O'Reilly hit a short brainbuster for a two-count and tried to lock in a cross armbreaker, which Strong initially blocked but then rolled through into a near-fall. Back on their feet, Strong and O'Reilly traded kicks and chops until Strong hit a kick to the back of O'Reilly's head and covered him for another two-count. The crowd chanted "Fight Forever" as they got back to their feet and resumed throwing strikes.
O'Reilly hit a big kick, so Strong grabbed him for a backbreaker. O'Reilly floated out of it, and Strong turned things around; then O'Reilly did the same, and they continued to exchange reversals until O'Reilly snatched Strong with a rolling cradle for a three-count out of nowhere! O'Reilly moves to the round of eight in the C3.
After the match, when O'Reilly went up to Strong, Strong pushed him down, then pulled O'Reilly back up, hugged him, and raised his hand. The two embraced one more time and left the ring together, where Orange Cassidy was waiting for both of them at the top of the ramp. O'Reilly and Cassidy, who could meet in the quarterfinals, had somewhat of a face-off until Strong grabbed them both and led them to the back. That brought Collision to a close!
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