2025-05-03 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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-Adam Cole joins commentary for the show…
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STORYLINES:
(1) Toni Storm defeats impressive Lady Frost in world title eliminator match...
Participants:
Details:
-Replay: Footage is shown of Lady Frost competing in Mexico back in March…
-Match: Toni Storm w/ Luther vs Lady Frost… Adam Cole joins commentary…
Winner: Toni Storm by submission… Lady Frost is eliminated from challenging for the world title until Toni Storm is no longer the champion...
-Post Match, Toni Storm cuts in ring promo, who, in a roundabout way says she’s ready to take on any comers…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Wow. Lady Frost has sure improved a lot. impressive new moveset… i thought she made a great showing for herself. look out aew, wwe might come swoop her up…
(2) Jon Moxley mentally prepared for steel cage SHOWDOWN w/ Samoa Joe...
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment Jon Moxley cutting a promo w/ Marina Shafir on upcoming steel cage match w/ Samoa Joe…
-Video Package has Samoa Joe cutting promo at his gym… says he’s not at Collision because he is training for the match…
-Ringside, Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir attack security on their way to the ring… Jon Moxley cuts in ring promo responding to Samoa Joe’s promo…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: I was a little bored by Moxley’s promo… they really coulda made this guy a big star for AEW but they just didn’t book him that way… unfortunate…
(3) $100,000 High Speed Collision 4 Way…
Participants:
Rush, Sons of Texas (Sami Guevara, Dustin Rhodes), AR Fox, Kevin Knight, Hologram, Adam Cole
👉Subplots:
(A) What is Hologram looking at?
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: 👎
(B) Rush & Kevin Knight fight off…
(C) Sami Guevara wins CA$H…
(D) Sami Guevara calls out the TNT champ who is on commentary…
Details:
Hologram is shown watching dramatically from a lit platform…
Rush & Kevin Knight fight off…
Winner: Sami Guevara… who wins $100,000…
-Post Match, Sami Guevara points to TNT champion Adam Cole who is on commentary…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Unlike some i’ve heard, i like the matches that are straight out for cash 😆. better than it just being a cold match… seems like the competitors try harder…
(4) Paragon fall short in main event 2 out of 3 falls match against FTR... Daniel Garcia has unfinished business w/ FTR...
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) FTR feud w/ Paragon…
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: 👊
(B) Max Castor’s Open Challenge Series…
(C) Daniel Garcia deals w/ FTR…
Details:
-Max Castor cuts in ring promo making another Open Challenge for someone to last 5 minutes in the ring w/ him…
Enter Daniel Garcia…
-Match: Max Castor vs Daniel Garcia…
Winner: Daniel Garcia…
-Post Match, Daniel Garcia cuts a promo promising to talk to FTR if they handle their business tonight…
-2 out of 3 Falls Match: FTR (Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler) w/ Stokely Hathaway vs Paragon (Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly)…
Paragon win 1st fall…
FTR win 2nd fall… 1-1…
There is confusion as Paragon thought they won but Dax’s foot was on the rope… this was enough of a distraction to lead to Paragon’s loss…
Winners: FTR…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, enter Daniel Garcia w/ crowbar…
Daniel Garcia cuts promo… he say he loved FTR but is ready to fight one of them this Wednesday, as he wants answers… FTR calmly retreat…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Daniel Garcia is trying. i’ll give him that. but he’s just not that guy…
(5) Anna Jay saves Harley Cameron from post match Megan Bayne attack w/ a really long stick... Jay gets a measure of payback for last week's attack as Bayne & Penelope Ford strategically retreat...
Participants:
Details:
-Replay: Megan Bayne beating down Anna Jay last week…
-Match: Megan Bayne w/ Penelope Ford vs Harley Cameron…
Physical Interference from Penelope Ford behind the ref…
Winner: Megan Bayne
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Megan Bayne & Penelope Ford beat down Harley Cameron…
Enter Anna Jay to make the save w/ a big wooden stick… Penelope Ford convinces Megan Bayne to retreat…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Megan Bayne on the run for once. alr. we got a tag match brewing here…
(6) Outrunners challenge Roppongi Vice after last week's backstage spat...
Participants:
Details:
-Replay: Roppongi Vice fighting w/ Outrunners backstage last Saturday…
-Backstage Interview w/ Outrunners (Truth Magnum, Turbo Floyd), who challenge Roppongi Vice….
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: always nice seeing Outrunners…
(7) Josh Alexander vs Brodie King goes to hard fought TIME LIMIT DRAW...
Participants:
Details:
-Replay of Josh Alexander pinning Brodie King in tag match on Dynamite two weeks ago…
-Match: Josh Alexander vs Brodie King…
Result: 15 MINUTE TIME LIMIT DRAW…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, enter Lance Archer to check on Josh Alexander…
FIGHTING CONTINUES as Brodie King won’t let it go… Archer & Alexander turn the tide and put Brodie King down to end the segment…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: i’ll accept the booking here. these two being even isn’t bad to me. Josh Alexander w/ his pedigree and Brodie King looking like a beast… i still think Josh Alexander should go over. but i kinda liked this…
(8) Cru talk putting Top Flight behind them...
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has Cru (Lio Rush, Action Andretti) cutting a promo on beating Top Flight…
-For some reason, Cru are shown in the audience after Gates of Agony’s match… but nothing came of it…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: yes. please move on from Top Flight… anything. although it was really weird seeing them in the audience randomly as Gates of Agony were looking for Learning Tree…
(9) Lee Johnson thinks he's better than Anthony Bowens... Bowens is down for the challenge...
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Interview w/ Anthony Bowens, Daddy Ass…
Enter Blake Christian, Lee Johnson… Lee Johnson believes he’s better than Anthony Bowens… Bowens is down for a match…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: janky way to put together a match… but ok…
(10) Gates of Agony answer Learning Tree's challenge for PARKING LOT FIGHT...
Participants:
Peripheral Participants:
[2 jobbers who didn’t even have name graphics], Cru (Lio Rush, Action Andretti)
Details:
-Tag Match: Gates of Agony (Toa Liona, Bishop Khan) vs 2 jobbers…
Winners: Gates of Agony…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Cru (Lio Rush, Action Andretti) are shown in the crowd… Gates of Agony notice them and start jaw jacking when…
Enter Learning Tree (Big Bill, Brian Keith) on the big screen… they are waiting for Gates of Agony in the parking lot… Gates of Agony head out there…
-In parking lot… BRAWL… the cameras cut away to the main event match mid-brawl…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: wth were Cru doing at ringside for this?! that made no goddamn sense… i woulda liked this parking lot fight a little better if it wasn’t so hokey. unfortunate because i was ready to really like this.
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Other:
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(A) Replay from last Saturday of Young Bucks attacking Swerve Strickland… this set up a 6 man tag match on this Wednesday’s upcoming Dynamite…
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