AEW: Elton John Song Returning as AEW Collision Theme Song, Casino Gauntlet Match Set for 1/8 AEW Dynamite Show, Adam Copeland & Dax Harwood on Rated FTR Forming in AEW

Jan 1, 2025

“Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” Returning as AEW Collision Theme Song

AEW CEO Tony Khan announced earlier today on Twitter that “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” by Elton John will be returning as the official theme song for AEW Collision starting with this Saturday’s show on TNT.

Starting this Sat 1/4
Collision simulcasts Saturdays on @TNTdrama + @StreamOnMax!

Our Christmas #AEWCollision episode was our most viewers in a year and a half!

Elton John
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting is back for 2025!

See you for #AEWDynamite
TBS + MAX debut
TONIGHT!
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) January 1, 2025

“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” previously was the official theme song for AEW Collision from June of 2023 to July of 2024.

Casino Gauntlet Match Set for Jan. 8th AEW Dynamite Show

AEW CEO Tony Khan announced one new match for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on January 8th at the F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, Tennessee.

This new match announced was a Casino Gauntlet match of TBA vs. TBA(s). It was also announced that the winner of this match will receive a title shot for the AEW World Championship against Jon Moxley at the January 15th AEW Dynamite Maximum Carnage show in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Next Wed, 1/8
Clarksville, TN
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
8pm ET/7pm CT, TBS + MAX

Casino Gauntlet Match
Winner Gets World Title bout vs @JonMoxley at
Maximum Carnage
Wed, 1/15

Next Wednesday
the first simulcast Casino Gauntlet Match on MAX + TBS!

Don’t miss Dynamite TONIGHT! pic.twitter.com/1FCzUDtOSZ
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) January 1, 2025

Current card for January 8th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW World Championship #1 Contender Casino Gauntlet match – TBA vs. TBA(s)

Adam Copeland & Dax Harwood Comments on Forming Rated FTR Group in AEW

Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI held a recent interview with Adam Copeland. One of the topics discussed included Copeland’s thoughts about him and FTR partnering together for Rated FTR group in AEW.

“Now you fast forward to Rated FTR, which has been talked about for a decade between the three of us, and then to get to come back at Asheville, which is now where we all live, and to be able to donate to the local charities after the hurricane, like it first one streaming on Max. Outside of, obviously, the real-life aspect of the hurricane, there’s a lot to be happy about right now. It’s not lost on me. I still really appreciate the fact that I can get back to do this, and I think not having it for nine years really puts that into perspective for sure.

In a separate interview with WrestleZone, Dax Harwood gave his thoughts about Rated FTR forming as a group being some that him, Copeland, and Cash Wheeler had been planning to do for a long time in wrestling.

“No, oh no. We’ve been talking about this [since] before he came to AEW, when it was only a thought of him coming to AEW. Like you said, we have been part of a lot of groups. The funny part is, we get a lot of flak online, that we latch onto these people or whatever, but the crazy part to me is, even going back to FTRKO, do you think that, especially in the position we were in there, do you think it was Cash and myself that went to Vince [McMahon] and Sid, ‘Hey, put us with Randy.’ Randy said, ‘I would like to be with these guys.’ Same with [CM] Punk, CMFTR. Even though we were doing well in AEW, do you think it was us that went to Tony and said, ‘Hey, make sure you put us with Punk.’ Or was it Punk that said, ‘Hey, I want to be with these guys. I want to team up with these guys.’ Same thing with Adam Copeland. We are ten-time world tag team champions, one of the greatest tag teams of all time, but even comparing to Adam Copeland’s legacy, not too many wrestlers can. Do you think it was Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler that made Adam say, ‘Let’s team together.’ It’s everyone else that wants to work with us, and obviously, we are so ecstatic to work with them. But it’s so funny to me that people like to take that as, we want to latch onto other people’s success. But that’s neither here nor there. I do think that this is different. I think that the run that we could have had with Punk was kind of altered by a few injuries. I think that would have been very successful, and again, it was three really good friends. I think our run with Randy would have been extremely successful. It lasted for two months, and what we did was great. It could have gone on a lot longer. But this with Adam, I think it’s way different. Adam lives seven minutes from my house. His daughters are friends with my daughter. Me, Adam, and Cash have been friends for well over ten years. We have a wrestling school together. We call and talk to each other every single day, and we’re very like-minded, even outside the business. But in wrestling, this was our first love, and I’ll never forget that, and I’m sure they won’t either. So we’re very, very like-minded inside the ring, inside the business, but also outside. So I know it’s going to be a hell of a ride.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2