7 Ups & 3 Downs For AEW Collision (16 September)
1. Nobody Gave A Damn
The Hardy Boyz are clearly one of the greatest tag teams in the history of the business, but it can be tough to watch them these days. Matt and Jeff have put their bodies on the line so many times throughout their legendary careers, and that really does show in their work nowadays. That's not a dig, that's not a knock, it's just merely the results of the wear, tear, and wars the brothers have put themselves through.
It's tough for the Hardys to put on truly great matches here in 2023, and with the Righteous they had opponents that the fans in attendance at State College simply didn't give a damn about. And that's not the fault of those fans, nor necessarily the Righteous.
In the Righteous, we've got a tandem who have only made a couple of extremely fleeting appearances on AEW programming. Yet, here they are, picking up a relatively clean win over an iconic team in just seven minutes as a way to involve Vincent and Dutch in the ROH Tag Team Titles picture.
Post-match, we got Vincent warbling about being prisoners to false idols, devils on shoulders, false love, fake friendships, yada, yada, yada. It was all just a little 'amateur theatre', and the Bryce Jordan Center reacted to absolutely none of this.
Nigel McGuinness did his very best to try and make this feel like a genuinely big deal on commentary, but it's hard to believe Nigel's words when this match and promo played out to crickets.