AEW Saturday Night Collision #77: Maximum Carnage (January 18th, 2025) Review

AEW Collision is a weekly show that has been VERY easily skippable or missable in a sad way. It was at one point on par with (and even sometimes surpassing) their flagship show Dynamite in the early days. But now, really since CM Punk left, it has been treated as a show that is...there.

A show that is committed to them because they HAVE to make it, but not usually doing anything overly important or special on it. But this week, they seem like they are trying to steer back into it becoming important viewing. So let us see how they do.

We start off the show with very quick collection of videos from the talent of this show, saying how they will all win their matches. The face side of the main event 6v6 match (including Powerhouse Hobbs who got beat down and injured on Wednesday cool cool), Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada, and then we get back and forth from Adam Page and Christopher Daniels.

Match 1: Texas Death Match

"Hangman" Adam Page vs Christopher Daniels

Christopher Daniels has been a legend of the independent wrestling scene for 32 years. He announced on social media that this was going to be his retirement match, as he really has been acting as a coach and backstage producer more than a wrestler over the past year or so. He came into AEW back during the foundation in 2019 as a big star and very important veteran to help the promotion, but he never really reached super big heights aside from being in a group that held the AEW Tag Team Championships. Daniels was the face of promotions like TNA and ROH, being really one of the most important people in both company's histories.

Meanwhile Adam Page has been going on a super intriguing and great character arc, being driven to complete insanity and madness and obsession due to his feud with Swerve Strickland. A man who was the good guy and was the top hero in AEW for years, with the first 2 years or so of the promotion being built around Page becoming a main eventer and World Champion. Now, he is somebody who just wants to hurt anyone and everyone who he feels wrongs him or disrespects him, which often leads to him loosing and only being driven more mad.

A Texas Death Match is AEW's term for a Last Man Standing match in WWE, which I feel like is a better way to explain how to win. You have to beat down your opponent to the point the referee counts to 10, and the wrestler can not get back to their feet, or by making your opponent submit.

This match wasn't treated like Daniels last match by AEW. He came out in wrestling gear that he wore very early in his career, but that was really it.

The action started off almost immediately violent. Page dominated, throwing Daniels around the ringside area before using a steel chair and a strand of barbed wire to make Daniels bleed like crazy. Dripping and running off of his head in a super grotesque and brutal fashion that really helped make Page look truly sadistic and violent.

Page is taking his anger out on a former EVP of AEW because of him "abusing" his power in a way that Page felt was biased against him. He is seeking revenge, and he is going to do it as violently as possible.

Page Powerbombs Daniels onto two open chairs, but he doesn't let the referee check on Daniels. He throws him out the ring and hits a Fallaway Slam on the floor, followed by pulling out a table from under the ring.

Daniels has gotten almost no offense in, and is just showing that Page truly has gone mad and driven to nothing more than pure violence.

Page sets the table up next to the ring and tries to go for a Deadeye off the apron, but Daniels is able to fight back just a little bit. He hits a Clothesline that sent Page over the ropes and into the ring (a spot in a match that I always love and appreciate, thinking it should be done more) but Daniels gets back in the ring only to be thrown into a steel chair sitting in the corner. Daniels continues to get very little momentum in.

Daniels rolls out of the ring and lays across the table. Page goes to the apron and runs, jumping off feet first for a Double Stomp onto Daniels. The table barely broke, in a rather weird way. It was basically where Page hit that broke and the legs gave way, but the table didn't fully break like they normally do.

Daniels is able to get back to his feet before he looses, and Page brings out a second table that is covered in barbed wire.

Page and Daniels fight on the top rope next to the barbed wire table, with Daniels finally getting enough momentum and time to fight back. He hits a Uranage off the top rope and causes the table to absolutely explode! Page is slammed back first through the wood and barbed wire, his back becoming heavily wounded and bloody.

Daniels finally gets some offense in, the crowd behind him as he hits some slow but effective moves. He is selling incredibly well, but Page reverses another Uranage into an Arm Drag followed by sending Daniels out of the ring and onto the elevate rampway. Page goes for his finishing move the Buckshot Lariat, but Daniels ducks and goes for his finisher an Angel's Wings. Page sends Daniels back into the wing and wraps the barbed wire around his arm to go for another Buckshot Lariat, but Daniels catches him into a Flatliner and locks in a Koji Clutch.

It was a great sequence of fast reversals and counters that had the crowd heating up and shouting at Page to tap out.

Page uses the barbed wire to escape the submission hold, but then Daniels is able to hit Angel's Wings.

Sidenote: The ring canvas looks absolutely disgusting! Soaked in so much blood and carnage.

Both men get to their feet and Daniels hits another Uranage followed by his other finisher in the Best Moonsault Ever. He then grabs a piece of the barbed wire table, laying it over Page and hitting another one for good measure.

Page suddenly got to his feet at 9, looking like he was pumping full of anger and adrenaline. Page then hit a Tombstone Piledriver onto a steel chair, with Daniels selling it like he is truly injured and unable to use his arm.

Daniels barely got back to his feet, selling his arm dangling like he can't use it, as Page hits him with a Deadeye onto the chair. Page goes to the apron and prepares for a Buckshot Lariat just in case Daniels gets to his feet. Daniels does and Page blasts him with it to the back of his head and neck.

Daniels is unable to get to his feet, lying like dead weight on the mat while Page just kneels by him staring with pure rage. Having to to a VIOLENT extreme to win this match and almost murder a man.

The crowd was incredibly hot and invested, even if it wasn't treated as big or important as I think it should've been. It told an incredible story with Page going so far above what he has done (aside from Swerve) to show just how truly mad and angry he is. An incredible performance from Daniels, still looking incredible for his age and really selling the pain and danger that Page put him through.

Result: Adam Page defeated Christopher Daniels

Star Rating: 4.5/5 Stars

After the match, Page ran down to the ring to hit Daniels with his own move Angel's Wings.

Page is pulled away while the crowd and commentary sort of go into a moment of trying to make it seem like Daniels is truly hurt, starting to go into super serious voice and stuff like that.

Sure it's for the drama, but doing that sort of stuff in a fake way is always strange to me.

It helped the story, so I won't complain too much.

We come back to commercial break with Toni Storm coming down to the ring. The former 3 time AEW Women's Champion and the winner of the Pro Wrestling Illustrated Woman of the Year. Her current character is being a "rookie" with amnesia, and is struggling to understand why people keep asking her about her history as a competitor or success. Toni says that she is shocked that she won the Casino Gauntlet on this past Dynamite and that she'll get to wrestle in her home country of Australia.

Toni is asked about the Women's Champion Mariah May (Mariah used to be Toni's understudy while she was "Timeless" Toni Storm and Women's Champion. Mariah turned on Toni and filled her with trauma, leading to this amnesia character) and says that she has never met Mariah and wants to introduce herself. Tony Schiavone tries to push on Mariah, but Toni refuses to engage and ends the interview by running to high five the fans. Hiding even more of her trauma that this character is clearly playing on, which is really exciting stuff and I can't wait to see how it progresses.

We get a recap of The Hurt Syndicate beating AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party and Mark Briscoe on Dynamite.

We go to a backstage promo that was filmed that night, with MVP saying that next week we will see Lashley and Benjamin fighting for the titles against Private Party.

It was very quick and just to announce a match, which was cool and all.

Match 2: 3v3 Tag Team Match

Undisputed Kingdom (Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, and Kyle O'Reilly) vs Shane Taylor Promotions (Carlie Bravo, Lee Moriarty & Shawn Dean)

Cole, Strong, and O'Reilly have been long time friends and enemies throughout their careers, with perhaps the most well known period of their careers being as part of the Undisputed Era in WWE's NXT brand. The most popular group in wrestling at that point, full of incredible matches and even Adam Cole becoming the longest reigning NXT Champion in history (a record that still stands). The time of these 3 men in AEW has been...weird and hard to follow at points. They were a part of the Elite alongside The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega, only for Cole to turn on them immediately after suffering a concussion, meaning that he couldn't even have a proper match to blow it off. They formed The Paragon, but then Bobby Fish (the other member of the UE) left the company about the same time Strong came in, so we never got full force reunion. The feud with The Elite didn't really happen, and then we got a weird thing with them all going their separate ways. Adam Cole became best friends with AEW World Champion MJF, but then turned on him to ally himself with Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, and Wardlow to form the Undisputed Kingdom.

But then Cole suffered a horrific foot injury and was gone for almost a full year. Then he comes back...as a good guy?

Then he fights with Kyle only to then...reunite?

Yeah this story line has been very bad and very confusing.

Anyways, the match was rather basic for what it was.

Shane Taylor Promotions primarily wrestles on Ring of Honor TV (historic promotion bought by AEW owner Tony Khan so it didn't go under, but now is basically run as a developmental brand for AEW with almost no important players or matches aside from Women's Champion Athena) and have historically been treated as jobbers for most of their time in AEW. Moriarty is the only one who has gotten any sort of success or sustained push in AEW before, so this was really just a exhibition match solely to give the Kingdom a chance to wrestle together and win.

The action was fine enough, with STP having times where they were on top during the commercial break. But then we get back from the break and the entire match is just the Kingdom hitting all of their moves and beating them down without much issue. Even points where Roderick Strong takes care of miltiple men at once without breaking a sweat.

We get a moment where a pin is broken up, and Strong continues to take out all 3 men on his own before Kyle tags himself in.

Everyone gets involved to hit their moves, with Cole hitting a Panama Sunrise on Moriarty followed by Strong and Kyle hitting Total Elimination on Carlie Bravo to win in a very easy match for them.

Result: Kyle O'Reilly pinned Carlie Bravo

Star Rating: 3/5 Stars

After the match, Shane Taylor (leader of STP who was at ringside) ran into the ring and laid out Undisputed Kingdom on his own.

Then he starts to shout at Matt Menard on commentary, leading to his friend and AEW TNT Champion Daniel Garcia coming down to take out Shane Taylor.

Why is this happening?

I have no idea.

All the members of Undisputed Kingdom as well as Garcia work together to take out Shane Taylor, but then the two groups have a staredown.

This was really only here so we can get Daniel Garcia defending the title against one of them (probably Kyle) and give him a proper feud for a bit.

We go to a video recapping the Don Callis beat down of Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay, followed by an interview with Ospreay.

Ospreay says that he has had a long history of violence with Kenny Omega, but that the two will need to put their differences and egos aside in order to work together to take on the Callis Family. He says he will see Kenny on Dynamite this upcoming Wednesday.

Match 3: Tag Team Match

Don Callis Family (Brian Cage and Lance Archer) vs Top Flight (Dante and Darius Martin)

The Murder Machines (Cage and Archer) are a somewhat new team together after joining Don Callis, yet have incredibly chemistry. Cage wrestled Kenny Omega in his AEW return match this past Wednesday, which led to the aforementioned beat down of Omega and Ospreay.

It was a pretty great way to tie stories together and make it feel like a good order of things.

Cage and Archer come down to the ring while Top Flight were already ready to go, not even getting announced.

Cage and Archer attack their opponents before the bell rings, dominating this very quick match and winning in less than 4 minutes just to make them look good.

Wild to me that at one point it seemed like Top Flight were future stars or even tag champions...but now they're in this position.

There really isn't even that much to talk about. Top Flight barely get any offense in, and whatever they do get in has no effect at all. Dives and running moves that get caught or ignored, and strikes that have no effect. The only thing they can do is avoid moves and use their speed to make the larger men run into the corner or each other.

Cage and Archer are each able to reverse double team moves on them and just lay out Top Flight with ease.

Result: Brian Cage pinned Dante Martin

Star Rating: 2.25/5 Stars

After the match, Dante and Darius are in the ring when Action Andretti walks out.

Action (and Lio Rush) used to be a group alongside Top Flight, but Rush and Action were tired of losing and being disrespected, so they turned on Top Flight to be more aggressive and successful.

Lio Rush runs in from the crowd to attack Top Flight from behind, ending by hitting a Frog Splash onto Darius after a few moments.

It seems like the feud is continuing, which is sure to be a good match but is full of people who have not had momentum for a long time so it's hard to get overly excited.

ROH World Champion Chris Jericho, Big Bill, and Bryan Keith have a backstage interview ahead of their main event match.

We get some great comedy from Bill and Keith while Jericho tries to be serious and talk directly to current AEW World Champion Jon Moxley. They have a long history, but Jericho tries to say that they need to work together to take out their common enemies.

I personally find Jericho, Keith, and Bill all incredibly hilarious and fun to watch...even if their matches are not always that great. Also, they should be NOWHERE NEAR the Deathriders storyline, so that's really my only real issue.

We come back from commercial break to see TNT Champion Daniel Garcia and Matt Menard about to be interviewed, but then the Undisputed Kingdom interrupt before they can even say anything.

They basically talk about how UK is the best trio and want a match, but then Daniel announces that they will call Angelo Parker.

Parker has been a long time partner of Matt Menard and Garcia, but has been gone since October of 2024 due to him and his partner (fellow AEW wrestler Ruby Soho) having a kid.

This match should be fine enough, but I just want to get to the Garcia vs O'Reilly match because I know it'll be great.

We go to the ring to Max Caster, one half of the tag team The Acclaimed.

It is made to be all serious and dramatic, since they have been having a very long history of tension and communication breaking between them.

Caster calls out his partner Anthony Bowens, telling Bowens to admit that Max is the best wrestler alive.

Anthony snaps and tells Max that he has been trying to protect him in the ring, locker room, and media.

Sidenote: Max Caster has been an incredibly controversial figure in AEW, his character being a rapper who says all sorts of crazy stuff while also being a bit of a social media troll and annoying person.

Anthony tells Max that he is a POS and the crowd hates him, which Max can't accept.

Anthony tells Max that he is selfish and tells him that Anthony is a future star. That he is more than a tag team guy who can succeed on his own, while Max can't.

This felt incredibly personal and like real life drama was coming out, in the best way possible. Unscripted and the two letting off steam to make the crowd invested, even if the storyline itself has just been whatever.

Before they can get physical or anything, the third member of the Acclaimed "Daddy Ass" Billy Gunn comes out to try and talk some sense into them. Former Tag Team and Trios Champions with Billy trying to help them remember who they are.

Max tears into Billy, saying that Billy (a veteran who has been wrestling since 1989) latched onto the two young guys to help himself and his own career.

Max says how Anthony and Max were forced together as a team but made it work, and that Billy is just a washed up has been who doesn't have any respect.

Max tells Anthony he has to make a choice. Himself, or Billy.

Anthony very obviously chooses Billy, flipping off Max to a massive pop.

Max goes on a rant about how he is the leader and Anthony made a bad decision while going on and on about how great he is.

Anthony tells Max to get out of his life while the crowd chants "you suck" to Max and cheer on Anthony.

A segment that was...whatever to me.

About time this team is done and Anthony can hopefully move on to be successful by himself.

We go backstage to see Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana being interviewed and recapping their segment on Dynamite with Ricochet.

Swerve says that he doesn't want to do an interview because he just wants to find Ricochet and hurt him. He plans to hurt Ricochet in 3 weeks, but also wants a piece of him beforehand.

Match 4: AEW Continental Championship Match

Kazuchika Okada (Champion) vs Tomohiro Ishii (Challenger)

Two men who have incredibly long histories together back in their time in Japan, Okada has become a bad guy while Ishii is still just a midcarder who has not gotten that much success. They were even both members of the New Japan group CHAOS, with Ishii being the one to welcome Okada to the group that he would lead in the future.

Okada tries to avoid fighting at first, tying himself up in the ropes and raking Ishii's eyes. He doesn't show his former friend much respect, but Ishii is able to withstand it and lay into Okada with stiff strikes before Okada rolls out of the ring to try and lure Ishii in, going for some fighting on the floor but Ishii continues to overpower him with ease.

They get back into the ring and Okada finally gets some proper offense in, hitting a big Flapjack and keeping up the aggression before he plays to the crowd, who give him nothing but boos and jeers.

Ishii is checking on his knee and ankle, the match stopping for a bit to see of he is okay. Ishi says he still wants to fight, with Okada now being able to easily overpower and attack the weakened Ishii.

Ishii still wants to fight and refuses to quit, able to handle strikes due to his intense toughness and history of violent matches with the likes of Minoru Suzuki and Katsuyori Shibata.

Ishii is able to fight back, hitting a German Suplex followed by a crazy Superplex, but he keeps grabbing at his legs and is unable to properly capitalise for a pinfall or anything to end the match.

Okada is able to fight back with a Air Raid Crash Neckbreaker, a Bodyslam, and a Diving Elbow Drop. Okada tries to keep the pace fast and unrelenting since Ishii isn't able to keep up with it.

Okada does his signature Rainmaker pose before flipping off the fans. Ishii gets up and grabs Okada's finger, flipping him off in return.

We get a great section of trading moves and reversals back and forth, the two knowing each other so wel with their history. Okada goes for his finishing move The Rainmaker, but Ishii reversed with one of his own. They keep tradng moves back and forth with all sorts of awesome drama and fighting spirit, really feeling like a proper Japanese Strong Style type contest.

Ishii hit a Sliding Lariat for a near fall and goes for a Brainbuster, but Okada hits a Dropkick to his back and then rolls out of the ring. He goes and grabs the ring bell from the time keeper, preparing to cheat or get disqualifies to retain his title.

While the referee takes the bell away and gives it to the ring announcer, Okada hits a low blow followed by a Rainmaker to win and retain.

Result: Kazuchika Okada pinned Tomohiro Ishii to retain

Star Rating: 3.75/5 Stars

The video INSTANTLY cuts to a video package of the Gates of Agony, a tag team who have not really been doing a whole lot recently. It's just them announcing a match for Dynamite and...not really much else.

Match 5: Singles Match

Dustin Rhodes vs Adam Priest

Dustin Rhodes, current ROH Tag Team and 6-Man Tag Team Champion, came out to wrestle what was essentially a squash match against a local independent wreestler who I am actually familiar with and think is incredibly talented. This match goes just over 2 minutes, and it's Dustin dominating.

Dustin Rhodes is not the kind of wrestler who needs a squash match. He is a veteran who is a ring general and workhorse. Not a big, powerful monster or anything like that.

There was a really scary Snap Powerslam though, where Priest looked like he was dropped right on his head, but he seemed okay and able to continue so that's good.

Dustin prepares for Shattered Dreams, a move he does in the corner where he kicks his opponent right in the nuts, but the referee stopped him since it would be a dq. Priest had some moves in for a few seconds, but then Dustin hit a Cross Rhodes followed by a Final Cut to win.

Result: Dustin Rhodes pinned Adam Priest

Star Rating: 1.75/5 Stars

We get a video package about the House of Black. Or well...whatever they are going to be called now. There were no signs of Malakai Black anywhere to be seen, so it seems that he truly is gone and that Buddy Matthew, Brody King, and Julia Hart will be off to do their own things or stay together without a leader.

Match 6: Singles Match

Julia Hart vs Harley Cameron

This match is happening due to the Women's Casino Gauntlet match on this past Dynamite, where Julia Hart spit black mist into Harley's face and caused her to become blinded, leading to Toni rolling up Julia to win the match.

Julia Hart has some of the best presentation in all of AEW, one of the greatest women they have on the entire roster despite being a relative newbie to wrestling. She is great and I hope she gets time to succeed once again. Meanwhile Harley is incredible entertaining and funny, but isn't all that much of a serious wrestler.

Harley had some protective glasses and some new make up to show off the "effects" of the black mist, seeming to be a bit more aggressive.

Mist in wrestling has had a really weird history, as different colors are supposed to mean different things, but it seems like it depends more on the promotion. In the past, wrestlers like Julia herself or Skye Blue were blinded by black mist that turned them evil and "corrupted" into joining the House of Black.

The fact that Harley only seems ever so slightly effected just has me hoping they continue that storyline thing with corrupting people, but I don't know if they will.

There was a great moment with Julia looking like she was clawing Harley's face, who rolled her eyes back and screamed to make it look like a horror movie scene.

In the commercial break, it is entirely Julia dominating with all orts of eye attacks and just beating her down without really trying too hard or staying on top of her. A lot of taunting and breaks in between moves.

Harley had a few brief moments of having the advantage, but Julia quickly shut her down. Harley kept kicking out, with Julia growing increasingly angry and frustrated, but Harley wasn't really able to do a whole lot of offense that seemed to do much damage.

Julia laid Harley out and locked in her finishing move Hartless, where she won instantly after locking it in.

Result: Julia Hart made Harley Cameron submit

Star Rating: 2.75/5 Stars

Another moment where the winner is instantly cut away from to show a recap of Samoa Joe returning on Dynamite to beat up Christian Cage and his group The Patriarchy.

They go on to announce some matches for next week, but are interrupted by a comotion backstage.

Wednesday Night Dynamite: Samoa Joe vs Nick Wayne

The Learnign Tree are seen beating down Powerhouse Hobbs and targeting his injured leg, meaning the main event should be a 5v6 handicap match now.

Main Event: 12 Man Tag Team Match

Powerhouse Hobbs, Rated FTR (Cash Wheeler, Cope & Dax Harwood) & The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) vs Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta) (w/Marina Shafir) & The Learning Tree (Big Bill, Bryan Keith & Chris Jericho)

Firstly, this match should not exist. There is no reason for this, even if they are stories that connect or whatever.

The Deathriders are all about raising up the young stars and being all serious and dark badasses. Meanwhile the Learning Tree is a bunch of comedic goofuses who should be nowhere near this story.

Powerhouse Hobbs was ATTACKED AND INJURED AFTER HIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH AGAINST MOXLEY THIS PAST WEDNESDAY, BUT NOW HE'S JUST FINE!?

Let along this match should have been happening BEFORE the title match, but whatever.

The Outrunners are just a comedy tag team that also should not be anywhere near this storyline with the Deathriders.

Meanwhile FTR and Cope are all long time veterans who are feuding with both Learning Tree AND the Deathriders, but really they shouldn't be involved with the Deathriders either since they're all old veterans and already successful.

This match and storyline in general just feels like a way to fill time and pad out this storyline for at lest another week, if not a month or so.

The entrances alone took a while, and then there was even longer stalling to start off the match once the bell rang.

We start off with Jericho and Harwood, who had a pretty awful single's match on Collision last week against Jericho. It was more Jericho's fault, but still. It takes 2 to tango.

Bryan Keith comes in pretty quickly to work over Dax, but he starts to get beat down in some VERY ugly gear. Didn't even recognize him as I'm used to just black pants, but he was wearing a super ugly singlet and knee pads and awful yellow tights. I get it is for the character, but just hard to look at.

Keith tries to tag in his Learning Tree partner Big Bill, but Wheeler Yuta tags himself in. Just showing that there is tension between Learning Tree and Deathriders because...reasons.

FTR have been wrestling much more comedic and goofy in recent months, not caring as much about technical classics or anything. Not what I want from them, but they seem to be having a good time so idk.

The Outrunners have time to wrestle, one of the hottest acts in all of AEW with some of the loudest cheers of the entire night.

But then the match becomes a wild brawl with everyone getting involved, fighting inside and outside the ring aside from Jon Moxley, who just stands off to the side to watch despite the fact I don't think that's his character...like at all.

Dax cheats by using a steel chair for a bit while the ref is distracted, but we get a pretty funny moment on the barricade with a child in the front row high fiving Cash Wheeler and then hitting his own Chop on Bryan Keith to a MASSIVE pop. Everyone gets in front of the kid in what was sure to be a great, fun moment for him.

The match slows down a bit with Big Bill getting his own massive cheers and chants, coming in to beat up and brutalize Dax Harwood for a bit.

There was a bit of weird confusion with the referee and the heel team, but it was just a few moments that slowed things down a bit.

The match just goes on and on for a bit.

Moxley comes in for some loud cheers and chants, but leaves just as quickly.

We get to some time between Cope and Jericho, who have their own incredibly long history with each other.

Cope goes for a Spear, but Jericho catches him with a Codebreaker.

Turbo Floyd tags in and we get some Outrunners offense that makes the crowd go wild.

The match starts to break down once again with all sorts of chaos and madness and fighting, including Cope and Moxley fighting on the rampway. Marina Shafir distracts the referee, which lets other Deathrider member PAC to blindside and attack Cope, seeming to take him out of the match.

Claudio and Wheeler put a bag over his head, blinding him before they all work together to carry Cope away tpwards the steel steps, but Cash hits a crazy dive to break it up and just lead to more brawling and chaos.

Now it's just The Learning Tree and the Outrunners in a 3v2 matchup, only for Powerhouse Hobbs to make his way out very clearly limping on his injured leg, getting tagged in and laying out Bryan Keith and Chris Jericho with ease. Barely selling his leg as he runs around and slams people with ease.

Big Bill comes in to get a stare down between the two giants powerhouse, but Hobbs throws him out. The Outrunners lay out Chris Jericho and Bryan Keith tries to use the ROH World Championship belt whle the ref is distracted, but Hobbs lays him out, planting Keith with a Spinebuster to get the win.

Result: Powerhouse Hobbs pinned Bryan Keith

Star Rating: 3.75/5 Stars

Aside from the incredibly violent opening match and the purely chaotic, house show style fun main event, this show didn't really do a whole lot. I guess it furthered the Daniel Garcia and crew vs Undisputed Kingdom stuff, but like...eh. I just want to go straight to title defenses and not any sort of tag matches between them.

Just a lot of recaps and announcing stuff coming up on Dynamite on Wednesday.

But a big improvement over the past few weeks and even months.

Overall Rating: 6/10