12/6 AEW Collision Results – We are joined by Ian Riccaboni, Tony Schiavone, and Nigel McGuinness on the commentary booth as the GalaxyCon crowd erupts into applause.
Orange Cassidy vs. Roderick Strong in a Blue League Match for the 2025 Continental Classic
Reneé Paquette’s voice comes over the broadcast as Cassidy makes his entrance. According to Paquette, Cassidy is not 100% following a recent match with Claudio Castagnoli, but he is medically cleared to compete in tonight’s Blue League happenings. Roderick Strong has reportedly made his intentions to target Cassidy’s aching lower back known.
The bell rings, and the two men take their time before locking up. The technician Strong wrestles Cassidy to the floor, but Cassidy manages to find his way back to his feet. Strong’s putting pressure on Cassidy’s arm, and isn’t keen on letting Cassidy reach the ropes. Cassidy is forced to reinvent the wheel, and forces a break by lunging back to put his foot on the ropes.
The two continue going hold for hold, and Strong looks great in the early goings. A chop misses, and Cassidy seems irritated before Strong backs him into a corner. More chops follow, and Cassidy has zero reaction before taking Strong to the bat for a headlock. Strong gets back up to his feet and breaks Cassidy’s grip on him, but Cassidy nonchalantly puts Strong on his back and in a headlock once more. This cycle of break-out and headlock continues once more. Cassidy is focused, and doesn’t look to be letting this headlock up any time soon.
A knee to Cassidy’s lower back gives Strong temporary reprieve, but Cassidy simply gets him into a Crucifix pinning combination. Strong kicks out, and Cassidy’s biceps cinch around the Paragon member’s neck once more. The two men rise to their feet, with Strong struggling to free himself. He does, and lays a particularly nasty chop to Cassidy. The jogger-wearing wrestler bears some choice chops to the chest as the two men make a tour of GalaxyCon’s ringside area, only for Cassidy to cinch in another headlock.
Bad decision, Cassidy! He is in pain after Strong hoists him up and drops him on the top of the ring barricade. Cassidy’s signature coolness fades as he bears another chop. The two are back in the ring, and another backbreaker from Strong to Cassidy has the latter writhing in pain as we cut to commercial!
Back from the break, and Cassidy has just grounded Strong with a tilt-a-whirl DDT! Both men go down, but Strong gets back up to reassume control of the match. Another disrespectful chop lands on Cassidy’s chest, and the two go forehead-to-forehead as Cassidy defiantly puts his hands in his pockets. Strong goes for the double-leg takedown, but Cassidy fights back to send Strong to the outside. His kipup is just as nonchalant as he is, but the following Suicide Dive to the outside only gives Strong an advantage!
Cassidy’s back-up top-rope crossbody doesn’t help his situation at all. Strong effortlessly plucks him out of the air and sends him landing on his hurting lower back with a powerslam. He looks to capitalize, but Cassidy changes the trajectory of the match with a Crucifix flash pin attempt. Strong misses with his lethal knee strike, and Cassidy manages to down Strong with a wonderful DDT!
That top rope is looking treacherous as Strong knocks the airborne attempt out of Cassidy. They look to be going for a Superplex, but Strong disrespectfully clocks the back of Cassidy’s head. He looks to be going for a top-rope slam, but Cassidy fights back with some fierce elbows. It’s a top-rope DDT from Cassidy, but it only manages to secure him a near-fall! If Cassidy isn’t writhing in pain from the extra work on his back, then he’ll be hurting from the pain of a victory slipping through his fingers.
Orange Punch doesn’t connect — in fact, Cassidy flies straight into The Rack! Strong goes for a End of Heartache, which turns into a Boston Crab, Cassidy switches it up with a flash pin attempt, and Strong denies him the pinfall! He goes for another End of Heartache, but the agile Cassidy lands on his feet to fold Strong into half for the one, two, three! Cassidy walks out with a victory, and is now on the board with three points to his name!
Winner: Orange Cassidy!
We cut to a balcony promo from Darby Allin, where he laments about his departure from the Continental Classic. He gives an exasperated blessing to replacement Jack Perry before storming off.
FTR and Stokley Hathaway Take to the Mic
GalaxyCon is not letting Hathaway get a word in! Regardless, Hathaway announces that this night is the best of his life, because FTR are the AEW World Tag Team Championships. Expletives ring out from the Columbus crowd, and Hathaway sarcastically thanks them for the love and support.
Hathaway begins to reference Austin Gunn and Juice Robinson’s disrespect and physical altercation with FTR on the recent episode of “AEW Dynamite.” Hathaway says that this is serious — albeit, in much more colorful language — and beckons the two rascals to come forth. Gunn and Robinson oblige.
GalaxyCon chants “Guns up!” before Cash Wheeler shuts them down. Wheeler acknowledges that Gunn and Robinson were the last team to beat FTR, but says that they are the last team to beat FTR. Wheeler beats down on Gunn with nepo baby allegations, and reduces Robinson to his out-of-ring relationship with Toni Storm. Dax Harwood says more of the same, and delineates FTR as “one-of-one,” and the supreme tag team in AEW.
Harwood says the only reason that FTR and the Bang Bang Gang have not fought is out of mercy. He says that both boys will never touch the AEW World Tag Team titles, and mockingly offers to have the Bang Bang Gang touch them.
Gunn is coming in hot! He acknowledges that his father is a Hall of Famer, but points out that Robinson’s dad is a carpenter. He mentions that Wheeler’s parent is his first cousin, and that Harwood is a son of a b****. He targets FTR for their “kink” of touching their belts, and asks them to instead touch pen to paper to sign a contract to defend their AEW World Tag Team Championships.
Robinson says that he has plenty of money to shop for AEW World Tag Team belts on AEW’s online shop, and that he already has a belt anyway: the one holding his pants up. He corrects Harwood: it’s not a belt the Bang Bang Gang wants to touch — it’s the titles. The next time the Bang Bang Gang will touch the titles, Robinson promises, will be when the referee hands it to them upon their victory in the United Kingdom. The Bang Bang Gang summon the GalaxyCon crowd for their signature “Guns up!” catchphrase, and stare down the slowly-retreating FTR and Hathaway as the segment ends, and we head to commercial.
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Máscara Dorada in a Blue League Match for the 2025 Continental Classic
We are back from commercial, and Castagnoli is making his way down the entrance ramp as a video package recalling his intense and bloody Continental Classic match with Death Riders leader Jon Moxley plays. Dorada also makes his entrance.
Castagnoli and Dorada waste no time locking up, but Castagnoli’s early attempts at wrangling in a pin are unsuccessful. Dorada tries some limb manipulation of his own, but Castagnoli’s sheer strength forces him to turn to his luchador roots in order to land on his feet. Castagnoli flattens the luchador with a chop before getting the typically airborne star back to the ground. The two of them run the ropes, but Castagnoli comes out on top of that altercation with a backbreaker.
With the agile Dorada on the floor, Castagnoli has full control. Another chop sends Dorada into a full back bump, but Dorada kicks out of the following pin cover. Castagnoli bear hugs Dorada from behind, but when Dorada escapes towards the ropes, the Swiss talent easily flattens him with a shoulder tackle. Dorada’s subsequent cartwheel rope-running ends with no target struck, but a fanciful arm drag does set Castagnoli up on the outside for a Suicide Dive!
If Dorada falling limp suggests anything, it was that he was not ready for Castagnoli’s uppercut. Castagnoli effortlessly hoists Dorada up into a military press before dropping him face-first onto the barricade, and the Death Rider decides that it is simply not enough. A second drop has Dorada writhin in pain, and Castagnoli gloats with a stoic fist in the air as we cut to commercial.
Back from commercial, and Castagnoli is still laying the heat on Dorada. The masked fighter is in a bad way as Castagnoli’s hands attempt to pull his mask off, and while he manages to fight out, it’s clear from his slow strikes that Dorada is out of sorts. Castagnoli easily overwhelms him with a double-leg takedown before taking him for a swing, but his follow-up corner uppercut attempt allows for Dorada to find some life! Both men are down, but it seems that Dorada was playing possum, as he takes Castagnoli down with a beautiful top-rope arm drag! The two men head to the outside, and while his first Suicide Dive didn’t yield results, Dorada’s second attempt saw him, once again, ground Castagnoli with an arm drag.
On the outside, Dorada hits Castagnoli with a Superkick. Castagnoli attempts to respond by pushing Dorada into the stairs, but Dorada’s momentum sends him leaping to the top, where he grounds Castangoli with a — sing along if you know the words — arm drag!
Back inside the ring, Dorada is going for a flash pin. No luck there. Castagnoli gets Dorada into a corner, and removes his elbow pad to knock the daylights out of Doarada with a clothesline. Castagnoli goes for the pin — no dice. Dorada tries another flash pin, and Castagnoli kicks out. The two go clothesline for clothesline, but both fail to score a pinfall as the match continues!
Dorada’s in the corner again, and his chest will be bruised tomorrow, if Castagnoli’s strikes say anything. After disorienting Castagnoli with some kicks to the chest, Dorada goes for a Hurricanrana, only to be stopped by the much-more-powerful Castagnoli. The two find their way to the top rope once more, where Dorado finally cinches in the Hurricananrana — from the top rope, no less! He tries to go up top, but Castagnoli meets him there, only to come crashing down! A beautiful Shooting Star from Dorada finds its mark, and in a huge upset, Dorada scores a clean pinfall on Castagnoli to score a precious three points!
Winner: Máscara Dorada!
Tony Schiavone Hosts Harley Cameron, Willow Nightingale, Timeless Toni Storm, and Mina Shirakawa
Shirakawa offers Cameron and Nightingale glasses of champagne, and Storm opens up the dialogue. She acknowledges that all four women present are “b**** with the itches” to fight, but says that she and Shirakawa’s tag team bond is stronger, having been bonded together by a tragedy, whereas the Babes of Wrath are only thrown together by the circumstance of the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship Tournament. Nightingale reminds Storm that she met Cameron three years ago, and refuses to let the argument of inexperience weigh her down. She promises to put on a smile and meet the adversity head-on, just as she’s had during these past few “imperfect” years. She acknowledges Cameron as someone who similarly keeps her focus in the face of challenges. Storm highlights how she’s beaten both Nightingale and Cameron, and while Cameron acknowledges the facts, she says that she and Nightingale are babes with wrath, ready to rewrite history at the cost of Storm and Shirakawa. Cameron points out how her first, and only, three years in professional wrestling have been a lot more successful than Storm and Shirakawa’s, and all women begin talking over each other as the segment begins to head south.
Shirakawa interrupts them with a shout, and demands that they stop and focus on the AEW Women’s Tag Team Championships: the titles they are all fighting for at Winter is Coming. She asks them to just promise to give the AEW fans a show in tournament finals, and Schiavone says that he’ll drink to that. All participants agree, and they drink calmly to end the segment as we head to commercial break.
Swerve Strickland (w/ Prince Nana) Speaks
Strickland announces that he came back to AEW programming three-months post-knee surgery with his eyes set on one thing: the AEW World Championship. Such a title, Strickland says, is the epitome of this business, and the thing that makes any AEW wrestler “public enemy number one.” Strickland mentions that the AEW World Championship is sitting on the shoulders of a two-time AEW World Champion before looking directly into the camera.
Strickland greets Samoa Joe with a smile, and asks if he remembers him. If, by some chance, Joe doesn’t remember, Strickland politely reminds him that he was the man that ended Joe’s initial AEW World Championship reign. He mentions that he made history as the first Black AEW World Championship off of Joe’s loss, and he outlines his intentions to gun for Joe’s title once more.
Strickland then takes a moment to acknowledge “Hangman” Adam Page, who he returned at Full gear to help. He mentions Page’s ongoing tensions with The Opps, and invites Page to accept his assistance in dealing with his Opps problem — for one night, however, and one night only. After that, Strickland says that he and Page will have to sit down for “a very serious conversation.”
Josh Alexander comes out to interrupt. He acknowledges that Strickland is beloved by the fans, but that AEW is no longer Swerve’s house — it’s the Don Callis Family’s house now. Alexander says that the Don Callis Family owns AEW now as Strickland strips himself of his jacket in search of a fight. Alexander says that Strickland is obsessed with titles, but is not focused on the right thing: revenge. Alexander reminds that Strickland was taken out of action by fellow Don Callis Family member Kazuchika Okada, and that while he is “disappointed” that Strickland isn’t focused on revenge, he acknowledges that the Don Callis Family’s grip on the AEW roster is just far too strong.
Alexander takes the opportunity to gloat about his time in AEW during Strickland’s absence. While Strickland was nursing his knee, Alexander has collected trophies in the form of Will Ospreay, Kota Ibushi, and Kenny Omega. Alexander takes credit for making the Don Callis Family one million dollars richer, and says that if anyone deserves a title shot, it’s him. Alexander despises Strickland’s entitlement, and says that they should contest the Number One Contender for the AEW World Championship in singles action. Strickland accepts the challenge for Winter is Coming, but before the two can come to blows, Strickland is grounded by a sneaky knee strike from Opps membr Katsuyori Shibata.
Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Leila Grey (w/ Christopher Daniels) for the AEW TBS Championship
Moné is out for blood! She easily overwhelms Grey and sends her to the outside, but a misplaced Meteora to Daniels opens the door for Grey to bring Moné back into the ring for some offense. She manages to land a few strikes onto Moné, and eventually gets Moné into a corner. Her Bulldog attempt gets blocked by “The CEO,” who nails her with a signature Meteora before going for a pin. Grey kicks out, but Moné remains unfazed and confident as we head to commercial break.
Back from the break, and Grey is on fire after dodging a corner Meteora from Moné! She flattens Moné with a comeback sequence before striking the cornered champion in the face with a knee, and her bulldog finally finds its mark! It is, however, not enough for Grey to score a pinfall, and Moné capitalizes with a Statement Maker.
Winner (and still): Mercedes Moné!
Grey taps out, but Moné cruelly refuses to yield. She looks on apathetically as Daniels pries her off, and when she is confronted by Grey’s manager, strikes him with a low blow. Moné walks over to the commentary booth, and steals Schiavone’s headset to reassert herself as the “greatest TBS Champion of all time.”
After Moné exits, we get a video package from Eddie Kingston ahead of his AEW World Championship match against Samoa Joe at Winter is Coming. After a commercial break, we cut back to an all-out brawl in the back! The Triangle of Madness is wreaking absolute havoc in the back! After taking out several of AEW’s female talent, Thekla promises to “see you in Cardiff, b****.”
Ricochet (c) (with Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun) vs. Ace Austin for the AEW National Championship
Both champion and challenger pace around in the ring before going for the lock-up. Ace slides behind Ricochet and grounds him, but the in-ring veteran easily gets back on his feet. The two run the ropes, and even after all of the flips, takedowns, and tricks, both men land on their feet.
Ricochet finds himself on the outside, heaving after an impressive showing from the young Austin. Ricochet speaks to his cronies on the outside as Austin threatens to go over Kaun, only for Ricochet to capitalize on the distraction to stage an attack on the challenger!
Austin is not fazed, and after Ricochet kicks out of his flash pin attempt, leaps up for a picture-perfect dropkick! Ricochet is sent back to the outside, where he procures the bell hammer. As the referee attempts to pry it from Ricochet’s hands, Kaun grabs Austin’s foot for the distraction. The referee finally takes the hammer away from Ricochet, only for the champion to soar and pounce on the challenger! The fight spills to the outside once more, where Ricochet takes to the sky in a beautiful Suicide Dive. The daring move finds its mark, and Ricochet is left standing tall as we cut to commercial!
Back from commercial, and Austin is giving the champion a run for his money! We cut back to see Austin land some choice strikes onto Ricochet, and when the champion attempts to leap onto him in the corner, the challenger slides out of the way to give Ricochet a harsh fall. Austin is running on all gas and no brakes as he continues to leap and strike at Ricochet, and the champion is limp and hurting. Liona attempts to get in the mix, only for Austin to best him with agile handstands and effortless flips.
A variation of the Blue Thunder Bomb sends Ricochet on his back, but Austin is only able to find a two-count. Unfazed, Austin gears up in the corner for his finisher, but Ricochet moves into the corner. Austin attempts to hoist Ricochet up, but the champion converts it into a flash-pin. Austin kicks out of that and then some, as Ricochet’s Standing Moonsault also fails to end the match!
It’s Ricochet’s turn to charge up in the corner, but his clothesline misses the mark! Austin attempts to wrestle Ricochet into a backslide pin, but Ricochet fights out to attempt some suplexes onto the challenger. Austin converts on into a flash pin attempt, but Ricochet kicks out — only to be hoisted into the top ropes! It’s a long way down, but the Superplex connects! Austin is left struggling to his feet as Ricochet struggles to recall where he is.
The Bell Ringer should have ended things, but Ricochet kicks out! Frustration begins to seep in as Austin charges up for his finisher, but Ricochet pushes the referee in the way. Austin blocks the low blow attempt, but Ricochet clocks him before picking him up for a Package Piledriver! It’s over in the blink of an eye, and Ricochet walks out of Columbus still the National Champion.
Winner (and still): Ricochet!
The night is not over for Austin, as FTR storm the ring following GOA’s departure to lay hurt onto the young talent! The Bang Bang Gang are quick to follow, but FTR quickly overwhelm them with strikes of their own. Stokley Hathway hands them the AEW World Tag Team titles, but before FTR can use them for nefarious means, both Austin Gunn and Juice Robinson synchronize their assault in order to get FTR out of the ring. Gunn and Robinson reach for the titles, and only after a moment’s hesitation, pick them up to swing them carelessly around. They end up tossing the titles back to FTR, and end the segment standing tall along Austin.
Jon Moxley vs. Konosuke Takeshita in a Blue League Match for the 2025 Continental Classic
Buckle up, because it’s time for the night’s main event! Both Moxley and Takeshita make their entrances without incident, and the bell rings. The two lock up, and they exchange bear hug attempts, with each man reversing their way out of it. Despite some early-match takedowns, neither man stays down for long.
The resting holds begin to ramp up in intensity before tempers begin to flare. Moxley pushes Takeshita against the ropes and flips him off, and Takeshita offers a shove of his own. The two go chest-to-chest before resuming their lockup, and this time, they head down for some mat work. They trade leg lock-ups, crossfaces, and headlocks before rising to their feet. They go tit-for-tat with some rope-bound shoulder tackles before Takeshita decides to gain an advantage with a Corkscrew Punch. Moxley looks winded as his knee begins to tremble, but if his stiff-handed chops to Takeshita are anything to go by, it looks like the Death Riders leader is playing possum.
Takeshita is not taking any chances with three precious Continental Classic points on the line! He brutally slams Moxley’s leg against the ringpost and onto the steel steps, and Moxley, visibly winded, retreats to a ringside steel chair. It’s a perfect opportunity to corner the former AEW World Champion, Takeshita decides, and lays some heavy strikes before swinging Moxley’s leg into the ring barricade.
The two make their way back to the ring, and Takeshita continues his stint in the driver’s seat with some choice leg torture onto Moxley. Takeshita twists Moxley’s ankle in an Dragon Screw-like motion, and Moxley is left writhing in pain as we head to commercial!
Back from the break, and Takeshita is continuing to give Moxley a run for his money. The IWGP Heavyweight Champion is looking to mess with the Death Riders leader, as a single tap and rope lock-up of the knee sends Moxley writhing. Moxley responds with a headbutt to the charging Takeshita, and the two men find themselves on the apron. After rocking Takeshita with a headbutt, Moxley dares to dream, and lands a brutal stomp onto Takeshitaa! The IWGP Champion’s eyes are blank as Moxley heaves, but both men manage to find themselves in the ring.
It’s Moxley’s turn now — or is it? The two of them trade heavy suplexes before a Double Clothesline sends both men to the mat, and the referee begins his 10-count. Both men struggle to their feet as Takeshita begins to flex his own knee. The Don Callis Family upstart is the first to rise, but Moxley is not far behind. This has turned into a slugfest, with both men trading sloppy, desperate rights and lefts. Another double lariat — this one charged by Takeshita’s superb rope-running — sends both men to the ground, and this time, it’s Moxley who rises to the occasion.
Moxley goes for a Paradigm Shift, but fails to cinch it in on the still-cognizant Takeshita. Moxley decides to gamble on a submission, and after failing to get the armbar fully extended, elects for the ankle lock. Takeshita manages to throw his arm over the ropes for a few minutes of reprieve, but the cruel and ruthless Moxley stomps on the afflicted knee of Takeshita to send the Japanese wrestler to the referee for a check. Moxley is not going to let him have it, and he looks to set Takeshita up for a piledriver on the apron. Takeshita lifts Moxley with ease, and the Death Riders leader lands back-first onto the apron.
It’s Takeshita’s turn to have leg troubles. While going for a Suicide Dive, Takeshita collapses to his feet. Moxley attempts to capitalize, but a stiff forearm from Takeshita reveals that he was playing possum, and he knocks Moxley out of the ring. Takeshita’s Suicide Dive finds its mark, but his ambitions for an outside brawl might have gone up in smoke as the AEW commentary table, hilariously, crumbles at Takeshita’s very touch. No matter: Takeshita will simply toss Moxley’s broken, red body into the carnage.
The referee begins his 10-count as Moxley struggles to his feet. Takeshita is nursing an aching leg of his own in the corner, and Moxley just barely manages to make it in in time! The top-rope Frog Splash should have done it for Takeshita, but Moxley is not a man known for giving up — until he is? Takeshita charges up for his final move, only for Moxley to flop and deny him the opportunity. Moxley goes to for the flash pin, but when that doesn’t work, he lands an incredible cutter as the ring announcer shouts the five minute mark!
Takeshita is aching, but he wants to make Moxley ache more. He puts his full weight on Moxley’s knee in one succinct slam, but Moxley’s arms do not fail him as he clocks Takeshita mid-Lariat. Moxley flips off the IWGP Champion, and finally lands the Paradigm Shift — only for Takeshita to force a rope break with his foot! Moxley hobbles to his feet, irate and discombobulated, before charging like a raging bull at Takeshita! A big boot sends Takeshita down, but he is not backing away — not even as Moxley begins to pepper him with stiff punches! When Moxley’s knee fails him, Takeshita attempts to cinch in the victory with a running knee strike of his own, only to be denied the pinfall victory! Takeshita lands another one, but for insurance, lands a clean Raging Fire! One, two, three, and Takeshita can walk out of Columbus with an extraordinary victory and three extra Continental Classic points to his name!
Winner: Konosuke Takeshita!
The Death Riders are not about to take their leader’s loss lying down. As Takeshita stands in the ring, Claudio Castagnoli, Danny Garcia, and Wheeler Yuta approach. The show, however, ends on a cliffhanger, with the broadcast fading to black as Takeshita and the Death Riders face off.
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12/6 AEW Collision Results
