10 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Collision (June 24)

5. The Men's Owen Hart Cup Feels Important

This isn't to say that the Owen Hart Cup Tournament didn't feel like a big deal last year, but this week's AEW Collision did a particularly great job of making the men's Owen feel hugely important.

In one short video package, AEW made the men's Owen Hart Cup feel like the biggest thing in the world to those involved in it. Here, we got comments from Satoshi Kojima, CM Punk, Roderick Strong, Samoa Joe, Dustin Rhodes, Powerhouse Hobbs, Juice Robinson, and Ricky Starks - all of whom put over their opponents, put over the tournament, and portrayed a sense of genuine desire at wanting to win the Owen.

So often, we've seen tournaments where they feel run-of-the-mill and with low stakes. Not here. Instead, all eight male competitors did their very best to make the audience appreciate how seriously they're taking this and how hard they're going to fight to win this tourney.

On the other side of the fence, the women's Owen Hart Cup doesn't feel particularly heated up just yet. That said, Collision did see Willow Nightingale cement herself a spot in the tournament semi-finals...