2025-05-17 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 of Collision was dubbed “Beach Break.” Why? idk 🤷♂️
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STORYLINES:
(1) Megan Bayne defeats Anna Jay…
Participants:
Details:
-Replay: 2 week’s ago when Anna Jay got the best of Megan Bayne + when Harley Cameron attacked Bayne w/ lead pipe…
-Match: Megan Bayne w/ Penelope Ford vs Anna Jay w/ Harley Cameron…
Physical Interference from Penelope Ford behind the refs…
Penelope Ford looks to cheat again but is thwarted by Harley Cameron… the two fight off…
Winner: Megan Bayne…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Cool entrance from Bayne & Ford but the finish didnt land that nicely here…
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(2) Upon further thought, Nigel McGuinness accepts FTR’s challenge… will team w/ Daniel Garcia at Double or Nothing…
Participants:
Details:
-Commentator Nigel McGuinness cuts a promo for the tv audience at the announce desk…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I haven’t liked the premise for this angle. Nigel just had a match for the ROH Pure title at their last PPV. it’s not like he’s some old guy who hasn’t wrestled in years…
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(3) Kyle Fletcher defeats AR Fox…
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Kyle Fletcher w/ Don Callis vs AR Fox… Don Callis joins commentary…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: In theory, this is a nice matchup w/ two athletic guys, but the issue is w/ how much Kyle Fletcher has cooled down. they’ve really done an awful job making him seem important when he’s not feuding w/ Ospreay. maybe he’s party to blame too since he hasn’t carried over any of the same passion into anything since…
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(4) Ordinary people give their take on who will win the Owen…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has fans picking between Ospreay & Hangman…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: man these seemed like planted fans w/ memorized scripts. cringe bad…
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(5) Don Callis Family lose to thrown together group of babyfaces in 6 Man tag… their Post Match attack also fails…
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Tomohiro Ishii gets his hands on Rocky Romero for first time since Romero turned on him…
(B) Don Callis Family Post Match attack thwarted by Outrunners…
Details:
Winners: King, Ishii & Bandido…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Don Callis Family attack the victors…
Enter Outrunners (Turbo Floyd, Truth Magnum) to clean house and make the save…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Not a good night for Don Callis Family here. their 3 worst guys, takin an L and Don Callis sits at commentary and does notning to help 😕… this was just not an interesting booking. other than romero and ishii being old friends, which nobody really cared about, hard to care about much here… sad for Rocky Romero because i don’t think this is gonna turn out great…
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(6) Paragon agree to face Grizzled Young Veterans this coming Thursday on Collision…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Interview w/ Paragon (Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly)…
Enter Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake, Zach Gibson)…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I really like Grizzled Young Veterans so i wanna dish out some points here but man, Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly have got to be one of the top worst promos in the business. and Adam Cole 🤦♂️. man. this guy comes into aew, ruins MJF’s credibility w/ that long ass angle they ran, and now nothing even came of it for him. sad…
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(7) La Facción Ingobernable ruin Mike Bailey moment w/ Kazuchika Okada..
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Mike Bailey defeats Blake Christian…
(B) Mike Bailey’s challeng for Continental Champion put on hold as LFI interrupt Okada’s answer, attacking Bailey out of no where…
Details:
Winner: Mike Bailey…
-Post Match, Mike Bailey cuts promo challenging Kazuchika Okada…
Enter Kazuchika Okada… Okada cuts promo, seemingly willing to face Bailey when…
Enter La Facción Ingobernable (Dralistico, Rush) who attack Bailey and leave him layin…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Man! i was ready to give this 3pts at the idea of Bailey vs Okada but then La Facción Ingobernable came in and ruined it! only 1pt from me here, but that means i still liked it. Bailey’s match w/ Christian was solid, and the idea of Kazuchika Okada vs Mike Bailey is a juicy one. even the tease gets me. that’s gotta happen down the line…. Rush vs Bailey isn’t such a bad idea either. that could be a dope match!…
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(8) Learning Tree pick up HUGE win over Gates of Agony in Chicago Street Fight…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package reviews the feud between Learning Tree & Gates of Agony so far…
-Chicago Street Fight: Learning Tree (Big Bill, Brian Keith) vs Gates of Agony (Toa Liona, Bishop Khan)…
Winners: Learning Tree…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I don’t really understand using Gates of Agony like this. i get that it’s a strong win for Bill and Keith to give them some cred, but they coulda gotten them over some other way. Gates of Agony can really be used better… ALSO, i thought the point of this was for Learning Tree to prove themselves and get a world tag title shot, but i guess that went to Sons of Texas. i’m not sure what happened there, but ok 🤷♂️…
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(9) Jon Moxley promo recorded after this past Wednesday’s Steel Cage match adresses upcoming Anarchy in the Arena and introduces Gabe Kidd as new ally…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has promo recorded after Wednesday’s Dynamite w/ Jon Moxley (w/ Marina Shafir, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Gabe Kidd) cutting a promo…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I actually really liked this promo, surprisingly! i’m usually not big on Moxley’s weird promos but this one smacked! he had the adrenaline flowing from the bloody match he just had. this was amazing!…
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(10) ROH world tag champs earn shot at AEW world tag titles…
Participants:
Details:
-Tag Match: Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes, Sami Guevara) vs Cru (Action Andretti, Lio Rush)…
Winners: Sons of Texas… who become #1 contender’s for WORLD TAG TITLES, as per the stipulation…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Solid matchup. and the fact that it gave us an ROH tag champ vs AEW tag champ matchup, is kinda cool, i would say… that’s a pretty tasty matchup…
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(11) Willow helps Hobbs fight off Death Riders amidst drama w/ Kris Statlander…
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Kris Statlander / Willow Nightingale saga… Willow still won’t accept Statlander’s overture to rekindle their friendship, and is, in fact, quite hostile at the thought…
(B) Death Riders / Hobbs feud… Hobbs defeats Yuta and thwarts post match attack…
(C) Death Riders / Willow Nightingale fued… Willow runs in to help Hobbs, renewing long standing feud w/ Marina Shafir…
Details:
Enter Willow Nightingale… Statlander tries to tell Willow she didn’t realize there was interference in their last match, but Willow ain’t having it, pulls Kris Statlander’s hair and the two storm off in opposite directions…
-Match: Wheeler Yuta vs Powerhouse Hobbs…
Winner: Powerhouse Hobbs…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, enter Marina Shafir to attack Hobbs… Shafir & Yuta engage in Post Match beatdown…
Enter Willow Nightingale to make the save… SCUFFLE… Hobbs & Willow run off Death Riders…
Enter Kris Statlander who watches dramatically from the entrance ramp…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I’m a sucker for anytime they tease physicality between a man and a woman. even if it doesn’t happen, it’s one of the best tools in wrestling to get the audience going… as for statlander and willow, i like the passion, but even if they do reconcile, is anyone really gonna care??
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Other:
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(A) AEW pays tribute to Steve “Mongo” McMichael w/ entrance ramp segment hosted by Toni Schiavone w/ guests Dean Malenko, Mongo’s wife & Ric Flair…
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