AEW Collision Results: Review, Grades, Card For July 26

By Matt Black

Our AEW Collision results for tonight include Dustin Rhodes defending the TNT Championship against Lee Moriarty, Athena defending the ROH Women’s Title against Alex Windsor, and the tag team eliminator tournament continues.

AEW Collision Card

The announced card is as follows:

  • AEW TNT Championship: Dustin Rhodes (c) vs. Lee Moriarty
  • Ring of Honor Women’s World Championship: Athena (c) vs. Alex Windsor
  • AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament: The Bang Bang Gang vs. Big Bill and Bryan Keith

AEW Collision Results:

This week’s episode of Collision kicks off with a match for the TNT Championship.

AEW TNT Championship: Dustin Rhodes (c) vs. Lee Moriarty (w/ Shane Taylor)

  • The finish of the match saw Dustin Rhodes reverse Lee Moriarty’s Figure Four into a small package to score the pinfall victory.

Winner: And still TNT Champion, Dustin Rhodes

After the match, Kyle Fletcher and Don Callis make their way down the ramp. Fletcher says he didn’t come out there to fight him; he’s not looking to take any cheap shots as he outclasses Dustin in every way. The crowd tells Fletcher to shut the f*ck up. Fletcher says he is rightfully owed a one-on-one match for the TNT Championship.

Fletcher says he wants his match next week. Rhodes asks the crowd if he should give him a shot, and they clearly say no. Rhodes says he’ll give Fletcher a shot next week on Collision in a Chicago Street Fight.

Grade: B+

This was a fun match to kick off the show. Moriarty is a very promising talent for AEW that should be a pretty prominent name for them a few years from now if he can stay healthy. Rhodes continues to prove why he’s so good in the ring as someone who can believably sell anything. I enjoyed this opener a lot.

Tony Schiavone acknowledges the death of Hulk Hogan and AEW sends their condolences to his family, who are suffering right now.

Lexi Nair is backstage with Toni Storm. The AEW Women’s Champion has a bunch of innuendos that I don’t think I’m gonna repeat here. You can just check out the promo for yourself below.

AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament: The Bang Bang Gang vs. Big Bill and Bryan Keith

  • The finish of the match saw Juice Robinson flip a pin into one of his own on Bryan Keith to score the pinfall victory for his team.

Winners: The Bang Bang Gang

Grade: B

Solid tag match. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing incredibly special either. I’m interested in seeing FTR and the Bang Bang Gang go at it again; those two teams always deliver when they face each other.

Can Shane Taylor and Don Callis get along?

Lexy Nair is backstage with Shane Taylor. Before Taylor can say anything, he’s interrupted by Don Callis, who wants STP and the Don Callis Family to take out The Outrunners before they face the Young Bucks on Wednesday in tonight’s $400K 8-man tag. Callis says he’ll get $300K and Shane will get $100K. Taylor tries to dispute that, but Callis quickly leaves.

Anthony Bowens answers Max Caster’s open challenge.

Max Caster vs. Anthony Bowens (w/ Billy Gunn)

  • The finish of the match sees Anthony Bowens hit Max Caster with the Mollywhop to score the pinfall victory.

Winner: Anthony Bowens

After the match, Bowens continues to attack Caster, but Gunn pulls him off Caster. Bowens looks like he’s going to attack Gunn from behind, but storms out instead.

Grade: B+

I normally give these squashes an A+ because they entertain me, but this match didn’t do it for me. They’ve already done it once, and tonight seemed like they want to double turn Caster and Bowens. I don’t love that, but I’ll let this play out and we’ll see where it goes.

$400K 8-Man Tag: Lance Archer, Hechicero, and The Infantry (w/ Shane Taylor and Don Callis) vs. The Outrunners, Hologram, and Tomohiro Ishii

  • The finish of this match saw The Outrunners hit Shawn Dean with Total Recall to score the pinfall victory for his team.

Winners: The Outrunners, Hologram, and Tomohiro Ishii

Grade: B

This was kind of all over the place. Ref bumps, outside interference, all that happy horeshit. It was fine, but it wasn’t a match designed for me. And I’m okay with that.

A hype package airs for the AEW World Title rematch between Hangman Page and Jon Moxley next week on Dynamite.

Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue, and Thekla) vs. Rachael Ellering, Mazzerati, and Laynie Luck

  • The finish of the match saw Thekla hit Mazzerati with a stomp to score the pinfall victory for her team.

Winners: Triangle of Madness

After the match, Queen Aminata hits the ring with a steel chair, but Megan Bayne comes out and attacks Aminata from behind before hitting her with a running Liger Bomb.

Grade: N/A

Just a quick squash match to showcase the new trio. There’s really nothing to grade here.

Stokely Hathaway keeps making enemies

Lexy Nair is backstage with Stokely Hathaway, who is flanked by security. Hathaway runs down Adam Copeland for having The Hurt Syndicate fight his battles for him. He then targets the Bang Bang Gang and runs down Austin Gunn and Juice Robinson ahead of their match with FTR next week. Hathaway stops using the crutch, and Nair questions if he’s actually hurt. He stares her down before using the crutch again to walk away.

Kyle O’Reilly interrupts a locker room promo from Hologram and Tomohiro Ishii. O’Reilly tries to get Roderick Strong involved, who doesn’t seem to want anything to do with it. O’Reilly seems to want to be in both Paragon and the Conglomeration at the same time.

Angelico and AR Fox vs. Nick Wayne and Kip Sabian (w/ Mother Wayne)

  • The finish of the match saw Nick Wayne hit Angelico with a Killswitch to score the pinfall victory for his team.

Winners: Nick Wayne and Kip Sabian

Grade: B+

This was a fun tag team match. I’m curious how long Christian Cage is going to be off television before he comes back looking for revenge. I also wonder if we’ve seen the last of the turtleneck, but I digress.

The seemingly never-ending frienemy feud

Renee Paquette is backstage with Kris Statlander. Paquette asks her if she has something to say about Willow Nightingale, and Statlander is overly obnoxious with her response. Statlander says she knows Nightingale wants to move on and start fresh, but thinks she would have thanked her first. Statlander thanks Nightingale for reminding her that she doesn’t need her to be who she is.

I gotta say, I was into this a few months ago when I thought it was leading to these two getting back together and potentially going for the AEW Women’s Tag Titles, but since that hasn’t happened, this has dragged on to a level that I’m just over it. Can they both just move on already… please?

Ring of Honor Women’s World Championship: Athena (c) (w/ Billie Starkz) vs. Alex Windsor

  • The finish of the match saw Athena hit Alex Windsor with the O-Face to score the pinfall victory.

Winner: And still Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion, Athena

Grade: A-

After the match, Starkz and Athena attack Windsor, which brings out Toni Storm to even the odds. Storm and Windsor stand tall as AEW Collision goes off the air.

AEW Collision Results:

This was a middle-of-the-road show for me. While there was some solid and enjoyable wrestling, this episode fell into a trap Collision stumbled into last year, where if you missed this show, that’s okay because almost nothing of note happened.

AEW really needs to focus on making sure moments happen on this show to give people a reason to tune in every week. I understand this is a secondary show to Dynamite, but the show is also as important as you book it to be.

I hope this isn’t a sign of where this show is going because there’s been a ton of great episodes of Collision this year, and this wasn’t one of them.

Grade: B

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What did you think of tonight’s episode of AEW Collision? What was your favorite match or segment? Let us know your thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black has been covering wrestling video games since WWE Warzone from Acclaim. Coverage of wrestling video games eventually lead him into the world of wrestling news. Matt is a fan of every wrestling company and enjoys the current state of the industry in 2024.

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