AEW: Megan Bayne Collision Debut Match Set for 2/1 AEW Collision Show, Christopher Daniels on Lack of “Pomp And Circumstance” for His Retirement Match, Penta on His Time in AEW Being “Good Session”

Jan 31, 2025

Megan Bayne Collision Debut Match Announced for Feb. 1st AEW Collision Show

AEW announced one new match for the card of this Saturday’s AEW Collision show.

This upcoming show was taped on Wednesday, January 29th at the Propst Arena at Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama as part of AEW’s set of Dynamite and Collision tapings that night.

This new match announced was a singles match of Megan Bayne vs. mystery competitor.

Saturday Night #AEWCollision
TOMORROW, 2/1
8pm ET / 7pm CT on @TNTDrama & @SportsOnMax

Megan Bayne will be in Action TOMORROW!@MeganBayne makes her Saturday AEW Collision debut!

TOMORROW NIGHT
8pm ET / 7pm CT on TNT and Max! pic.twitter.com/yrahrZZb67
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 31, 2025

Current announced card for Feb. 1st AEW Collision show:

AEW TNT Championship Three-way match – Kyle O’Reilly vs. Lee Moriarty vs. Daniel Garcia (c)
Mid-South Street Fight match – FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta)
The Learning Tree (Bryan Keith & Chris Jericho) vs. The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd)
HOOK & Samoa Joe vs. The Patriarchy (Kip Sabian & Nick Wayne)
Max Caster Open Challenge Series match – Max Caster vs. mystery opponent
Harley Cameron vs. Taya Valkyrie
Megan Bayne vs. mystery opponent
“Timeless” Toni Storm to speak

Christopher Daniels Comments on Lack of “Pomp And Circumstance” for His Retirement Match

As noted before, Christopher Daniels retired from his in-ring wrestling career following his Texas Death Match against Hangman Adam Page at the January 18th AEW Collision Maximum Carnage show.

A recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featured Daniels as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Daniels thoughts about the lack of pomp and circumstance for his retirement match being his decision.

“I felt like it would’ve been difficult for Tony because I wasn’t that major of an in-ring figure for this company. I think it’s weird for Tony to all of the sudden have all this pomp and circumstance. It would be like if we were watching Friends and we said, hey everybody, make sure to watch the final episode with Gunther. You’re like, okay, but we’ve never really focused on Gunther before. I’m trying to be humble but also I recognize that I’ve done some stuff. If this were TNA, yeah, okay, because I’ve got this backlog of stuff that I did for TNA. If this were just ROH, same thing, I did a lot of stuff there. I did have some good matches in AEW, but you can’t really say, oh, your best work was in AEW. I started when I was 49 years old. I recognize my prime was a little bit before. I still did my best, I still had good matches, but I feel like it would’ve been sort of false for Tony to be like, hey, everybody focus on this guy. The way it went toward, it sort of worked out in a positive way in the sense of like, oh, it can happen anytime. I think that’s true for any wrestler in the building. You don’t know when your last match is going to be. In a perfect world, you get a send off like Sting, but we don’t all get that. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to what ended up being my last match to be for this company that I’m proud to be a part of and to work a guy that I respect as much as Hangman Page, someone that I’ve known for 15 years. It wasn’t the original plan, but it was fate to end up the way it ended for me.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com