6 Ups & 1 Down For AEW Collision (Feb 3 - Results & Review)

2. Prepping Red Velvet For Timeless Toni

While Hook's squash match just about falls on the Downs side of this list, Red Velvet's short win lands on the Ups.

For Red, her two-minute victory over Vertvixen was fine for what it needed to be; a straightforward win to build momentum ahead of Velvet's match against AEW Women's Champion Toni Storm on Wednesday's Dynamite. This was nothing spectacular, but it did what it needed to do in regards to giving Red Velvet some TV time and a W before meeting Timeless Toni.

Velvet's match-winning Stir It Up didn't look particularly great - the classic "they might not have got all of that" whiff - but there wasn't enough here to land this on the Downs. Not just is the AEW Women's Champion seemingly in Red's crosshairs, for her post-match chatter saw her namedrop AEW TBS Champion Julia Hart and ROH Women's Champion Athena in addition to Storm.

Also, after months of berating AEW Collision for how it always only featured one women's match, in the same spot, running seven or eight minutes and with a three-minute picture-in-picture break sandwiched in the middle... yeah, it'd take a lot to criticise AEW too much on a rare night when they delivered two contests for their ladies.

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