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

9. Slow But Steady

With the launch of AEW Collision, the promise was that this would be a new platform to showcase some of the underserved talent of All Elite Wrestling. And in that regards, few have been as underserved in recent months (and longer!) as Miro and Scorpio Sky, and, to an extent, Powerhouse House.

In the case of Miro, he'd bafflingly wrestled just four matches in 2022, and he'd only competed twice in the 12 months prior to Collision's first episode. Where Sky is concerned, it's nearly a year since the AEW Original last wrestled; that coming on a July '22 Dynamite, where he lost the TNT Title to Wardlow.

Seeing Miro back in action and destroying Tony Nese last week was long overdue, and a follow-up pre-taped promo here was fine for what it was. There, we saw the Redeemer renounce his god, his gold, and his beautiful wife. It wasn't long, but this nicely returned Miro to the roots of what made him so compelling prior to his time spent in, as the Bulgarian Brute himself put it, "exile".

For Scorpio Sky, a short backstage interview had a confident, composed Scorp promise a reset of sorts, explaining how he was previously operating as a shadow of himself and couldn't handle the "big break" of his AEW success. Again, very brief, but very much solid in reintroducing Sky to AEW television.

With Powerhouse Hobbs, he picked up a squash victory over local talent Jeremy Prophet on this week's Collision, which is hopefully the start of establishing Hobbs as a brutal monster who spends his Saturday nights cracking skulls.

All of this has a feel of K.I.S.S. - as in, Keep It Simple, Stupid. Taking a slow, thought-out approach to making Miro, Scorpio and Powerhouse key Collision players should reap solid rewards down the line.