6 Ups & 3 Downs For AEW Collision (June 1 - Results & Review)

1. Questionable Formatting

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If you're having certain similar matches on any wrestling show, you'd ideally want to keep those matches separated from one another.

While featuring three enhancement matches on a two-hour Collision is just about okay, it was a little questionable to run two of these back-to-back. Thunder Rosa beat Reina Dorada in three minutes, Collision went to break, and when we returned we had Cage of Agony squashing three jobbers in barely a minute. Couldn't one of these matches be pushed to later in the show? Or how about at least have Claudio Castagnoli vs. Johnny TV as the meat in this particular sandwich?

This is a somewhat minor quibble, but it's also such a basic oversight from those putting together the Collision line-up.

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