AEW: Jay White & More Promos Segments Set for 4/5 AEW Collision Show, Harley Cameron on Puppet Mone Being Mercedes Mone’s Idea, Backstage Update on Chris Jericho vs. Bandido Match for AEW Dynasty 2025

Apr 5, 2025

Jay White & More Promos Segments Announced for Saturday’s AEW Collision Show

AEW announced three new segments for the card of tonight’s AEW Collision show.

This show was taped on Wednesday, April 2nd at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois as part of that night’s Dynamite taping.

These new segments announced were promo segments featuring Jay White, Jamie Hayter & Billie Starkz, and Kris Statlander & Thunder Rosa.

TONIGHT!#AEWDynasty is TOMORROW! Tune in for the FINAL #AEWCollision before Sunday’s PPV at 8pm ET/7pm CT on @TNTDrama & @SportsOnMax! pic.twitter.com/3pS4yuPXnJ
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 5, 2025

Current card for April 5th AEW Collision show:

Max Caster Open Challenge Series match – Max Caster vs. mystery opponent
Mercedes Mone & Harley Cameron vs. Athena & Julia Hart
Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher) vs. Powerhouse Hobbs & Tomohiro Ishii
Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. CRU (Lio Rush & Action Andretti).
Cash Wheeler vs. PAC
“Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Dralistico
Jay White to speak
Jamie Hayter and Billie Starkz to speak
Kris Statlander and Thunder Rosa to speak

Harley Cameron Comments on Puppet Mone Being Mercedes Mone’s Idea

A recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featured Harley Cameron as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Cameron’s thoughts about how her Puppet Mone was an idea from Mercedes Mone for her to do for their storyline feud.

“I posted a thing on Twitter being like, ‘Me and Earl are doing Cameo.’ I guess everyone at work was like, ‘You’re a puppeteer?’ It was Mercedes’ idea. I still remember when we spoke about it and she was like, ‘Could you ever do a puppet of me?’ It’s so funny she said it because the moment she said it, I was like, ‘No shit, I was literally thinking about doing this.’ I actually made the puppet. I bought the puppet base, but the hair and outfit, I have to give a shoutout to Chris, the seamstress here, he’s fantastic, he made the gear. I gave some of my old gear to him and he made her gear. We created Mini Mone ourselves and the people love it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Backstage Update on Chris Jericho vs. Bandido Match for AEW Dynasty 2025

As noted before, AEW recently added a ROH World Championship Title vs. Mask match of Bandido vs. Chris Jericho to the card of this Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event. The announcement of this match was notable for comments made by AEW CEO Tony Khan during a media scrum implying that issues on Bandido’s end was the reason why this match was not originally mentioned during the card rundown at this past Wednesday’s show and why it had been removed from AEW’s website for the show.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that the reason for why AEW ended up officially announcing that match late was due to issues involving Bandido’s representatives.

Meltzer reported that these issues managed to get resolved by the evening of Thursday, April 3rd and those spoken to described it as being a “ridiculous” situation over the past few weeks in the finalizing of the match for the event.

No other details were given regarding this undisclosed situation.