AEW Collision Notes: Results, Hangman Page Return Vignette, Riho Makes Surprise Return, Jeff Cobb Surprise Appearance & New Trios Match Set for Forbidden Door 2024, Hikaru Shida Advances in Women’s Owen Hart Cup

AEW

Steve C.

Jun 29, 2024

AEW Collision Results – June 29, 2024

June 29, 2024
Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
Commentary – Excalibur and Nigel McGuinness

Quick Match Results

Orange Cassidy & Tomohiro Ishii defeated TMDK (Shane Haste & Robbie Eagles) via Beach Break (pinfall)
- Cassidy pinned Eagles after hitting the Beach Break to give his team the victory.
Stephanie Vaquer defeated Lady Frost via Package Backbreaker (pinfall)
- Prior to the start of the match, Mercedes Mone came out to ringside to watch the match.
- Following the match, Mone got into the ring and engaged in a staredown with Vaquer. After Vaquer left the ring, Zeuxis ran out from the crowd attacking Mone leading to a brawl between the two that ended after Vaquer got back in the ring and laid out Mone.
Serena Deeb defeated Kelly Madan via Deebtox (pinfall). Following the match, Deeb grabbed a microphone and issued an open challenge calling for someone on her level to come out. This led to Riho making her surprise return and got into the ring for a staredown to Deeb’s delight.
Hechicero defeated Kevin Blackwood via Double Arm Breaker (submission)
Daniel Garcia defeated The Butcher via Piledriver (pinfall)
- Prior to the start of the match, “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard came out and sat down at the announcer’s table for guest commentary in support of Garcia.
- Following the match, Garcia helped up The Butcher and the two gave a brief embrace and The Butcher raised up Garcia’s hand in honor of his victory. Garcia and The Butcher then left the ring together.
2024 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match – Hikaru Shida defeated Deonna Purrazzo via Kitana (pinfall)
- Following the match, Shida’s victory celebration was cut short by Purrazzo who attacked her from behind. Purrazzo grabbed Shida’s kendo stick but before she could do anything, Thunder Rosa ran out to save Shida causing Purrazzo to bail out of the ring.
Jack Perry, Konosuke Takeshita, & El Phantasmo defeated Mark Briscoe, Dante Martin & Lio Rush via Power Drive Knee (pinfall)
- During the match, ELP went to tag in Perry who refused and dropped down from the apron only to get quickly hit from a dive by Briscoe to the outside. Takeshita then laid out Briscoe with a swift punch strike.
- Following the match, Perry attacked Takeshita from behind with the TNT Championship leading to a brawl breaking out that ended with Briscoe doing a cannonball dive off the ladder in the ring to everyone on the outside.

Hangman Page Return Vignette Airs at Saturday’s AEW Collision Show

Saturday’s taped AEW Collision show featured Hangman Adam Page making an on-screen return appearance.

During the show, AEW aired a vignette hyping up Page’s upcoming return to AEW. This video featured Page in his home and clips of his past issues with AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland and The Young Bucks suspended him from The Elite.

What could this mean?

Watch #AEWCollision on TNT! pic.twitter.com/faUcSlQeUY
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 30, 2024

This was Page’s first appearance in AEW since this past March due to him taking a break for family-related reasons.

Riho Makes Surprise Return at Saturday’s AEW Collision Show

Saturday’s taped AEW Collision show also featured Riho making her surprise return to AEW.

Following Serena Deeb’s victory over Kelly Madan, Deeb grabbed a microphone and talked about failing short in her quest to become AEW Women’s World Champion. Deeb then issued an open challenge calling for someone on her level to come out. This led to Riho’s music playing and her making her surprise return. Riho made her way to the ring and got into a face-to-face staredown with Deeb leading to smiling and nodding her head in approval before leaving the ring.

Who will step up to Serena Deeb?

Watch #AEWCollision on TNT!@SerenaDeeb pic.twitter.com/iWx8rGUMPr
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 30, 2024

This was Riho’s first appearance in AEW since this past March.

Jeff Cobb Makes Surprise Appearance & New Trios Match Set for Forbidden Door 2024

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured NJPW talent Jeff Cobb making a surprise appearance and being revealed as The Learning Tree’s partner for their Trios match against Samoa Joe, HOOK, and Katsuyori Shibata at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024, which takes place on June 30th at the UBS Arena in Long Island, New York.

This new Trios match was initially setup in recent weeks over the bad blood issues between The Learning Tree and Joe, HOOK, & Shibata leading to Chris Jericho revealing on Friday’s Rampage show that he will be revealing his and Big Bill’s partner for their Trios match at Saturday’s Collision show.

During tonight’s Collision show, The Learning Tree’s Jericho was giving out advice throughout the show and walked up to a Zamboni. When Jericho tried to get into the Zamboni, Joe, HOOK, and Shibata were revealed to be inside and attacked the Learning Tree. This brawl spilled out from the backstage to the ring leading to Joe, HOOK, and Shibata quickly getting the upperhand. This led to Cobb running out and quickly laid out HOOK and Shibata and engaged in a meaty men fight with Joe that ended with Joe also being laid out. Cobb and The Learning Tree then raised up their arms and stood tall as Excalibur confirmed that Cobb was the mystery person Jericho teased about. This Trios match was then made official for Forbidden Door following a match graphic being shown.

NJPW World Television Champion Jeff Cobb has hit the ring!

Watch #AEWCollision on TNT!@RealJeffCobb pic.twitter.com/qpyutgWb4A
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 30, 2024

Current card for June 30th AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024:

AEW World Championship – Will Ospreay vs. Swerve Strickland (c)
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Tetsuya Naito vs. Jon Moxley (c)
TBS Championship & NJPW Strong Women’s Championship Title vs. Title match – Mercedes Mone (TBS) vs. Stephanie Vaquer (NJPW Strong Women’s)
AEW Women’s Championship – Mina Shirakawa vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
Vacant AEW TNT Championship Ladder match – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin vs. Lio Rush vs. El Phantasmo
2024 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match – Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi
Trios match – The Elite (Kazuchika Okada & The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson)) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster)
Trios match – The Learning Tree (Chris Jericho & Big Bill) & Jeff Cobb vs. Samoa Joe, HOOK, & Katsuyori Shibata
Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
MJF vs. Hechicero
Zero Hour Pre-show: Willow Nightingale & Tam Nakano vs. Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe
Zero Hour Pre-show: 2024 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Mariah May vs. Saraya
Zero Hour Pre-show: Trios match – Yota Tsuji, Titan, & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Mistico & The Lucha Bros (Rey Fenix & Penta El Zero Miedo)

Hikaru Shida Advances in 2024 Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Saturday’s taped AEW Collision show also featured one First Round match for the Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament.

This was Hikaru Shida defeating Deonna Purrazzo.

Hikaru Shida has advanced in the tournament#AEWCollision pic.twitter.com/jQv119PqS9
— JJ Williams (@JJWilliamsWON) June 30, 2024

As a result of her victory, Shida advances to the next round of this year’s Women’s Owen Hart Cup tournament. Shida will be facing off against the winner of Mariah May/Saraya in the Semifinal Round.