AEW Collision Notes: Mercedes Mone, Athena, Kris Statlander, Thunder Rosa, & Jamie Hayter Declares for 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Cup, Athena Makes Surprise Appearance, TNT Title Match Set for Dynasty 2025, Owen Hart Cup Brackets Reveal & More for 4/2 Dynamite Show

AEW
Mar 29, 2025

Mercedes Mone, Athena, Kris Statlander, Thunder Rosa, & Jamie Hayter Officially Declare for 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Saturday’s AEW Collision show at the UM Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin featured Mercedes Mone, Athena, Kris Statlander, Thunder Rosa, and Jamie Hayter all officially declaring themselves for this year’s Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament.

Athena Makes Surprise Appearance on Saturday’s AEW Collision Show

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured current ROH Women’s World Champion Athena making a surprised appearance.

During the show, a video featuring a tweet sent by Athena was aired showing Athena standing outside Mercedes Mone’s dressing room and her saying she might stop by and say hi tonight.

Following Mone’s victory over Robyn Renegade, Tony Schiavone attempetd to interview Mone only for Mone to snatch the microphone away and after some words, she officially declared herself for this year’s Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament. Schiavone responded talking about Mone’s recent issues with Billie Starkz leading to Mone to interrupt him again and stated that Starkz sucks and questioned who trained her. This led to Athena’s music playing and her coming out to the ring and the two confronting each other.

This led to a brawl breaking out that ended with Mone escaping the ring and Athena holding up her ROH Women’s World title.

This was Athena’s first appearance in AEW since AEW x ROH Global Wars Australia event this past February and Battle of the Belts X show in April of 2024 for AEW-only show.

Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia for TNT Title Set for AEW Dynasty 2025

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured one new match announced for the card of Dynasty 2025, which takes place on April 6th at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This new match announced was a TNT Championship match of Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia (c).

This match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over Garcia and Cole not being able to get the defintive win against each other in their previous two matchups for the title and the growing issues between the two. During tonight’s show, Cole and Garcia had a heated face-to-face promo segment that led to Garcia issuing a challenge for one last match between the two and this time no one allowed at ringside and no time-limit.

It was announced afterwards that this match was made official for Dynasty.

Current card for AEW Dynasty 2025:

  • AEW World Championship – Swerve Strickland vs. Jon Moxley (c)
  • AEW Women’s World Championship – Megan Bayne vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
  • AEW International Championship Three-way match – Ricochet vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Kenny Omega (c)
  • AEW TNT Championship – Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia (c)
  • AEW World Trios Championship – Rated FTR (Cope & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood)) vs. Death Riders (Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli, & PAC) (c)

2025 Owen Hart Cup Bracket Reveal & Two New Matches Announced for Next Week’s AEW Dynamite Show

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured two new matches and one new segment announced for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on April 2nd at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois.

In regards to the new matches, they were announced to be:

  • Cope vs. Claudio Castagnoli
  • “Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Penelope Ford

In regards to the new segment, this was announced to be the official reveal of the brackets for this year’s Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournaments.

Current card for April 2nd AEW Dynamite show:

  • Mixed Tornado Tag Team match – Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir) vs. Swerve Strickland & Willow Nightingale
  • Cope vs. Claudio Castagnoli
  • “Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Penelope Ford
  • Will Ospreay to appear
  • 2025 Men’s & Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament brackets reveal
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