8 Ups & 2 Downs For AEW Collision (12 August)

Another excellent Collision outing from Horsemen Country.

by Andrew Pollard
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Another Saturday, another stellar AEW Collision outing in the books.

From the iconic Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, Collision once again nicely balanced great matches with some impressive storyline advancement. And in terms of matches, it was CMFTR facing House of Black for the AEW Trios Titles in this episode's main event.

Elsewhere, the Acclaimed and Iron Savages were the opening bout of the night, which was then followed by another tag match in the shape of TBS Champion Kris Statlander teaming with Willow Nightingale to take on Mercedes Martinez and Diamante. ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe was another who was in action, defending his gold against Andrew Everett, whilst Christian Cage would be coaxed into letting Luchasaurus put the TNT Title on the line against Brock Anderson.

While that was the in-ring portion of this week's Collision, there was plenty more on display where it pertains to Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, Miro, and the now-former AEW Women's Champion, Toni Storm.

Following the impressive trend that Collision has amassed with its previous eight outings, this was another episode that ticked many of the right boxes, but did still have a couple of familiar problems.

Saturday night's alright for fighting, indeed...

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