2025-04-26 AEW Collision - REVIEW
2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System (Rev2):
🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]
🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]
❤️ - Loved It! [+3]
👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]
👍 - Liked It [+1]
½ - Kinda Liked It [+0.5]
👊 - Indifferent [0]
👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]
👎👎 - Really Didn’t Like It [-2]
🤬- Hated It [-3]
🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]
🙋♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]
Or any combination of the like…
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This episode was dubbed “Playoff Palooza.” I guess they were trying to turn it into some kinda positive that the start time was adjusted for a sporting event that most everyone deemed more important…
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STORYLINES:
(1) Young Bucks try to make Swerve Strickland’s night a miserable one, but Kenny Omega makes run in to back up Swerve and even the odds…
Participants:
(A) Young Bucks feud w/ Swerve Strickland…
(B) Blake Christian & Lee Johnson aligned w/ Bucks, although they didn’t come through today against Swerve…
(C) Young Bucks feud w/ Kenny Omega…
(D) Kenny Omega & Swerve Strickland find common ground in common enemy…
Details:
Enter Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson) who bump up Swerve’s match to right now… The Bucks introduce Blake Christian… Christian shakes Young Bucks’ hands on the way in…
-Match: Blake Christian w/ Lee Johnson vs Swerve Strickland w/ Prince Nana… the Young Bucks stay on the entrance ramp to watch the match…
Physical Interference from Lee Johnson gives Blake Christian an advantage… regardless…
Winner: Swerve Strickland…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, the Young Bucks look pissed… Lee Johnson attacks Swerve Strickland from behind… Swerve fights him off…
Young Bucks take advantage of Swerve letting his focus down for a second to hit the ring and attack Swerve…
Enter Kenny Omega who sends the Young Bucks running. Kenny Omega & Swerve Strickland share some dap…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: at least this was a little less convoluted today without including the whole thing with the Young Bucks trying to align w/ the Death Riders…
(2) Samoa Joe warns Moxley that he’s coming for that AEW world title…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage, Samoa Joe cuts promo…
-Video Package has clips of Master P & Opps feuding w/ Death Riders this past Wednesday…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Not the most memorable promo. i don’t really feel it from joe. he doesn’t REALLY sound motivated here. kinda makes me think he already knows he’s gonna lose and his hearts not in it…
(3) Toni Storm defeats Queen Aminata in world title eliminator match…
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Toni Storm w/ Luther vs Queen Aminata…
Winner: Toni Storm… Queen Aminata fails to earn world title shot and is eliminated from title contention until there is a new champion…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Finally starting to see some personality from Queen Aminata here, as she had a showboat moment. it’s about time. how long has she been around and she’s been nothing but stone faced serious…
(4) Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal throw Sonjay Dutt under the bus, blame him for the stables recent run of nothing…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Interview w/ Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett, Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh… Lexi Nair asks where they’ve been and they throw Sonjay Dutt under the bus…
Enter Sonjay Dutt who is attacked by everyone in the group and blamed for not showing up and working on getting them opportunities… they all walk out on him, even Satnam Singh…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: wth was this? it seems like they just forgot about these guys and this was this only way to try to make “sense” out of the whole thing… but poor sonjay. i’m sure he volunteered to do this but it’s all so unnecessary if they had only booked coherantly…
(5) Hologram answers Max Castor’s open challenge…
Participants:
Details:
-Max Castor cuts in ring promo…
-Match: Max Castor vs Hologram…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: This is almost worthless now. the only sliver of hope i see is that the aew faithful can somehow get this stupid sh*t over. if the crowd actually chant Max Castor’s catch phrase to the heavens, it might just be enough a moment (AEW-wise) to make this all worth it. 🙄
(6) Cru defeat Top Flight in texas tornado no dq match…
Participants:
Details:
-Tornado Tag Street Fight: Cru (Lio Rush, Action Andretti) vs Top Flight (Darius Martin, Dante Martin) w/ Laila Grey…
Laila Grey tries to get involved and stop their opponents’ use of brass knucks but Darius Martin gets pushed into her, leading to a series of moves that ends the match…
Winners: Cru…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: it was a decent match but not worth all the build… move on from these two teams, PLEASE! 🙏…
(7) Penelope Ford & Megan Bayne attack a returning Anna Jay…
Participants:
Peripheral Participants:
[jobber]
Details:
Winner: Anna Jay…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Enter Penelope Ford…
Ford gets in Anna Jay’s face and the distraction of Megan Bayne’s music playing gives Penelope Ford an opening…
Penelope Ford & Megan Bayne leave Anna Jay layin’…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Feels like they brough Anna Jay back w/ the sole purpose of feeding her to Megan Bayne… kind of lazy booking imo. coulda waited a little bit more to make it feel a little more organic, but ok. at least Penelope Ford had previous history w/ Anna Jay to make it not seem completely out of no where, but i still don’t like it, especially considering i don’t see Megan Bayne becoming champ. why keep wasting time pushing her like this? i guess they just trying to squeeze whatever tv segments they can out of her…
(8) Women’s Owen Hart Tournament… Mercedes Moné & Jamie Hayter cut promos on upcoming Final…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has Mercedes Moné & Jamie Hayter cutting promos on upcoming Owen Hart tournament final…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: decent promos. nice matchup. looking forward to it…
(9) Bandido defeats Dralistico to retain ROH world title…
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Dralistico vs Bandido…
Winner: Bandido… who retains ROH world title…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: no interest… Bandido’s finisher, i’m not a fan of … i’ll also make mention how Dralistico’s stable is so useless rn. i think they should give up on La Facción Ingobernable. none of them even bothered to try to help him today…
(10) Big Bill & Brian Keith lay down the plan to crack some skulls and stack some Ws… Brian Keith wants to do it so Jericho won’t be dissapointed in them and return, while Bill seems to want to do it for himself…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment w/ Big Bill & Brian Keith… Bill and Keith call out the Gates of Agony…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: crackin skulls and stacking Ws. i like that. as for the angle, it’s fine. if it gets bill out of this stable in the end then i’m happy w/ it… also, if they have to job out Gates of Agony, F it, i’m fine w/ that too. they’ve totally blown it with their booking and their useless. job them out and let them go back to squashing jobbers on roh…
(11) Rush picks up win over AR Fox…
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Rush vs AR Fox…
Winner: Rush…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: I’m over Rush. just forget it. this La Facción Ingobernable storyline is never gonna take off because these guys just won’t be around. Dralistico had an roh tite match earlier and no one even cared to try to help him. i’m giving up on La Facción Ingobernable 👎👎…
(12) Roppongi Vice want their respect!… beat down disrespectful Outrunners backstage…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage, Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta, Rocky Romero) cut a promo about the disrespect they feel from the wrestling critics… Rocky Romero overhears Outrunners (Turbo Floyd, Truth Magnum) talking over their promo and go over there to confront them… FIGHT… Outrunners get laid out and Roppongi Vice finish their promo, demanding to be appreciated…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: i liked the idea of the promo but the angle here was just obviously lazy and slapped together. they overheard them talking over their promo in the hallway and got mad? now i’ve seen it all… 😄
(13) Men’s Owen Hart Hart Tournament… Kyle Fletcher & Hangman Page cut promos ahead of Semi Final showdown…
Participants:
👉Subplot:
(A) Kyle doesn’t know if it’s more important to win the tournament or stop Will Ospreay…
(B) Hangman admits he needs this…
Details:
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I was into Hangman Page’s parts. i feel the seriousness of him feeling like he needs that ALL IN main event… for Kyle Fletcher it’s just more of the same. Will Ospreay this and Will Ospreay that. ok ok. you’re in love w/ Will Ospreay. we get it!
(14) FTR defeat Paragon in main event and threaten to beat down Adam Cole, who is saved by pissed off crowbar wielding Daniel Garcia…
Participants:
Details:
-Tag Match: FTR (Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler) w/ Stokely Hathaway vs Paragon (Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong)…
FTR heavy on the heel tactics today…
Winners: FTR…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Enter Adam Cole…
Stokely Hathaway holds Adam Cole’s leg while FTR shatter machine Roderick Strong…
FTR surround Adam Cole…
Enter Daniel Garcia w/ crowbar to run off FTR…
Daniel Garcia cuts promo promising to be on FTR’s ass until he gets back at them…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: well, i kinda wish i’d feel more from FTR being bad guys, but it’s all very ordinary to me. at least tonight was. i liked last week with more talking. today it was just a long ass tv match that they left waaaay too much time for at the end of the show…
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