Ex-WWE Tag Team Set For This Week's AEW Collision

Released by WWE in September, this tandem is set to be at this week's AEW Collision.

by Andrew Pollard
Mace Mansoor Maximum Male Models
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Following reports that the Grizzled Young Veterans are in talks to sign with AEW, another former WWE tag team is set to be at this weekend's AEW Collision.

As per Fightful Select, Mason Madden and Mansoor, aka the Maximum Male Models, are booked for this week's Collision out of Youngstown, Ohio. There are no details at this stage on any creative plans for the tandem, but as of this writing, they are planned to be at the show.

This comes on the heels of Mansoor being backstage at a Los Angeles-held episode of AEW Dynamite on 29 May, and both Mansoor and Mason Madden were in attendance for some TNA tapings as they held discussions about working with the Anthem promotion.

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Mansoor and Madden - or ma.çé and mån.sôör, as they were known - were released by WWE in September. Since then, either as singles acts or a tag team, the pair have worked for various independent promotions and even made a surprise appearance for Uganda's Soft Ground Wrestling, where they subsequently helped raise funds for that promotion. The pair - as MxM - were most recently in action this past Sunday, picking up a win over Jun Tonsho and Soma Watanabe at GLEAT's Kaz Hayashi Retirement Road show in Nagoya, Japan.

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