AEW Collision Notes: Results, Hiroshi Tanahashi Makes Surprise Appearance, Unified AEW Trios Title and The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. Cage of Agony Matches Added to Double or Nothing 2024

May 25, 2024

AEW Collision Results – May 25, 2024

May 18, 2024
Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
Commentary – Tony Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness, “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard

Quick Match Results

Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel Garcia, & Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Lance Archer & The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) via High Fly Flow (pinfall)
- Tanahashi pinned Vincent after hitting a High Fly Flow to give his team the victory.
Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) defeated The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) via Double Team Fear Factor (pinfall)
- The stipulation for this match was if the Lucha Bros won, then the Bang Bang Gang would put their Unified AEW World Trios titles on the line against Death Triangle at Double or Nothing 2024.
- Penta pinned Austin following the Lucha Bros hitting a double team Fear Factor and Fenix following it with a suicide dive to Colten on the outside.
Kyle O’Reilly defeated KM via Rolling Cross Armbar (submission)
Four-way Tag Team match – House of Black (Buddy Matthews & Brody King) defeated The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean), Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun), and The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) via Cannonball and Sliding Dropkick (pinfall)
- Near the end of the match, Gates of Agony and The Acclaimed started brawling on the outside that went towards the back. This led to House of Black isolating Bravo in the ring and hit a double team running Cannonball and sliding dropkick to Bravo for the pinfall victory.
- Following the match, Adam Copeland appeared on the big screen interrupting House of Black’s victory. Copeland talked about how Malakai Black took the one thing that kept him sane but Black also made him look for the version of him that only has a devil and no angel on his shoulders. Copeland stated that he started to imagine himself in the House of Black as Black’s dream but this was reality and their currency was only in nightmares. Copeland then talked about once he beats Black, maybe he should form a “House of Blood” with Matthews and King instead. Copeland then stated “when you truly see evil in a man’s eyes, its already too late.”
Mariah May defeated “Legit” Leyla Hirsch via May Trigger (pinfall)
Bryan Danielson & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) defeated Satnam Singh, Jay Lethal, & Jeff Jarrett via Busaiku Knee (pinfall)
- Prior to the start of the match, Karen Jarrett and Sonjay Dutt came out alongside Singh, Lethal. & Jarrett to be in their corner.
- Near the end of the match, Karen Jarrett tried to slide a guitar in the ring for Jeff to use only to be stopped by the referee. This led to Dutt sliding a chair to Jeff while the referee was distracted and Jeff ran to attack Danielson who dodged away resulting in Jarrett hitting Singh and sending him over the ropes. Danielson then hit a Busaiku Knee to Jarrett and FTR hit a Shatter Machine to Lethal leading to Danielson pinning Jarrett to give his team the victory.
- Following the match, Wheeler gave a promo talking about how AEW became the home of FTR four years ago and he will defend AEW. Wheeler stated that FTR, wrestlers, and the entire wrestling world is better off because of AEW. Wheeler then stated that Team AEW will be the only ones walking out after Anarchy in the Arena. Harwood responded stating that they fight for AEW and for every fan that comes home from a hard day at work and flip on the TV to watch AEW. Harwood also stated that they get to be the fans heroes tomorrow night for one more time if they don’t come out of their match.

Hiroshi Tanahashi Makes Surprise Appearance at Saturday’s Collision Show

Saturday’s AEW Collision show featured New Japan Pro Wrestling President and talent Hiroshi Tanahashi making a surprise appearance in AEW.

Prior to the start of the show, AEW CEO Tony Khan had announced a new Trios match for the show that featured a mystery partner for Claudio Castagnoli and Daniel Garcia. Khan teased that this mystery person was someone he was friends with.

During the show, Castagnoli and Garcia came out first and were followed by Lance Archer & The Righteous for their Trios match. After a brief pause, Tanahashi’s music played and made his surprise appearance revealing him to be the mystery person.

The forbidden door has been opened as Hiroshi Tanahashi joins Castagnoli & Garcia.

Watch #AEWCollision LIVE on TBS!@LanceHoyt | @DEATHxWALKS | @NoNamexVincent | @ClaudioCSRO | @GarciaWrestling | @tanahashi1_100 pic.twitter.com/CSVdHqDr9m
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 26, 2024

Unified AEW World Trios Titles Match Added to Double or Nothing 2024

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured one new updated match for the card of AEW Double or Nothing 2024.

This newly updated match was a Unified AEW World Trios Championship match of Death Triangle (Penta El Zero Miedo, Rey Fenix, & PAC) vs. Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn)) (c).

This match was intitally setup during this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show following PAC issuing a challange to the Bang Bang Gang and the Bang Bang Gang responding agreeing to a Trios match but would only put their Unified AEW World Trios titles on the line if the Lucha Bros were able to defeat The Gunns at Saturday’s Collision show.

During tonight’s show, the Lucha Bros defeated The Gunns resulting in Death Triangle’s match now being for the Unified AEW World Trios titles. Following the match, PAC came out to celebrate with the Lucha Bros while Jay White came out to the stage and held up his AEW Trios title while trash talking Death Triangle.

The Lucha Bros have DONE IT!

It's official, the Unified World Trio's Titles are on the line between the Bang Bang Gang (c) & Death Triangle!

Watch #AEWCollision LIVE on TBS!@PENTAELZEROM | @ReyFenixMx | @theaustingunn | @coltengunn pic.twitter.com/SjIRqqpnS7
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 26, 2024

The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. Cage of Agony Announced for AEW Double or Nothing 2024

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured one new match announced for the card of AEW Double or Nothing 2024, which takes place on May 26th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This new match announced was a Trios match of The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) & Billy Gunn vs. Cage of Agony (Brian Cage & Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun)). It was also announced that this match will be taking place on Double or Nothing 2024’s Buy-In pre-show.

This match was setup following the bad blood issues between the two groups during the Four-way tag team match on tonight’s show.

The Acclaimed vs Cage of Agony is set for the Buy-In!

"Cage" of Agony is an awful name 😂#AEWCollision pic.twitter.com/FGbY6Rw4fD
— Jack Cassidy  (@RealJackCassidy) May 26, 2024

Current card for AEW Double or Nothing 2024:

AEW World Championship – Christian Cage vs. Swerve Strickland (c)
AEW International Championship – Will Ospreay vs. Roderick Strong
AEW Women’s World Championship – Serena Deeb vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
AEW TBS Championship – Mercedes Mone vs. Willow Nightingale (c)
AEW TNT Championship Barbed Wire Steel Cage match – Malakai Black vs. Adam Copeland (c)
AEW Unified World Trios Championship – Death Triangle (Penta El Zero Miedo, Rey Fenix, & PAC) vs. Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn))
FTW Championship FTW Rules Three-way match – HOOK vs. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Chris Jericho (c)
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Eliminator match – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Jon Moxley (c)
Anarchy in the Arena match – The Elite (Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, & The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson)) vs. Team AEW (FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood), Darby Allin, & Bryan Danielson)
Orange Cassidy vs. Trent Beretta
Buy-In Preshow: Thunder Rosa vs. Deonna Purrazzo
Buy-In Preshow: Trios match – The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) & Billy Gunn vs. Cage of Agony (Brian Cage & Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun))