Collision's 1 Year Anniversary

Collision's 1 Year Anniversary
Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers
Promotion	All Elite Wrestling
Date	June 15, 2024
City	Youngstown, Ohio
Venue	Covelli Center
Attendance	2,596
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Collision's 1 Year Anniversary was a professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) celebrating Collision's 1 year anniversary since it's debut episode. It took take place on June 15, 2024 at the Covelli Center in Youngstown, Ohio, and aired live as a special episode of Collision on TNT in the United States.

Six matches were contested at the event. In the opening bout, Blackpool Combat Club defeated Lio Rush, Rocky Romero and TMDK, also on the card was Deonna Purrazzo defeating Thunder Rosa in a No Disqualification match, Hechicero defeated Dalton Castle, Dante Martin defeated Lee Moriarty to qualify for the Ladder match at Forbidden Door. Kyle O'Reilly defeated Anthony Henry and in the main event, the House of Black defeated Bang Bang Gang.

Production

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel

Role	Name
Commentators	Tony Schiavone
	Nigel McGuinness
	Roderick Strong (Kyle O'Reilly vs. Anthony Henry)
Ring announcer	Justin Roberts
Referees	Aubrey Edwards
	Bryce Remsburg
	Paul Turner
	Rick Knox
	Stephon Smith
Interviewer	Lexy Nair

Collision's 1 Year Anniversary featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision.

Event

In the opening match, Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley, and Wheeler Yuta) took on Lio Rush, Rocky Romero and TMDK (Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste) in a Eight-man tag team match. In the end, Castagnoli picked up Rush and threw him to Moxley who caught him mid-air and hit him with the Death Rider for the victory. After the match Moxley, who was defending his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Tetsuya Naito at Forbidden Door on June 30, said that he was going to finish Naito's career at Forbidden Door.

After that, Tony Schiavone interviewed The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn in the ring. The Acclaimed said that they were coming back for the AEW Tag Team Championship which were held by The Young Bucks. Brandon Cutler then walked out and fined The Acclaimed. Christopher Daniels walked out and reversed the fines before Cutler got in Daniels' face. Daniels then hit Cutler with his clipboard and The Acclaimed hit the Scissor Me Timbers in the ring.

Next, Deonna Purrazzo faced off against Thunder Rosa in a No Disqualification match. In the end, Purrazzo applied the Venus Di Milo while Rosa was on the ropes which caused the referee to stop the match and award the win to Purrazzo via referee's decision.

Up next, Hechicero, accompanied by the Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona) took on Dalton Castle, who was accompanied by The Boys. In the end, Hechicero a knee lift on Castle and hit a twisting leg drop for the victory. After the match, Hechicero and The Gates of Agony triple teamed Castle in the ring until The Boys (who were actually The Outrunners) came to the ring to help Castle but were overpowered. Daniel Garcia and Matt Menard then ran out to the ring with steel chairs causing Hechicero and the Gates of Agony to retreat.

Backstage, Lio Rush introduced himself to Darius Martin although Martin dismissed him. Action Andretti then remarked that it was good seeing him.

After that, Christian Cage held his Father's Day special where he announced that he and The Patriarchy would be the next AEW World Trios Champions.

Up next, Dante Martin took on Lee Moriarty to qualify for the ladder match at Forbidden Door for the vacant AEW TNT Championship. In the end, Martin hit a frog splash on Moriarty for the win and thus qualifying for a spot in the ladder match. After the match, Shane Taylor and Anthony Ogogo attacked Martin. Darius Martin and Action Andretti came down to the ring to help Martin but they were overpowered. Lio Rush then came down to the ring and shoved Ogogo into Taylor and kicked Moriarty out of the ring.

After that, Hikaru Shida appeared in a video package where she announced she would be competing in that year's Owen Hart Cup Tournament.

In the penultimate match, Kyle O'Reilly took on Anthony Henry. Roderick Strong joined commentary for the match. In the end, O'Reilly applied a cross arm breaker to Henry who tapped out.

In the main event, House of Black (Brody King, Buddy Matthews, and Malakai Black) faced off against Bang Bang Gang (Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn, and Juice Robinson). In the end, Black hit Austin Gunn with The End and pinned him for the win.

After the match, Christian Cage appeared on the TitanTron and congratulated The House of Black on being number one contenders but said that they were not a trio anymore and it was then revealed that Cage had hit Matthews with a con-chair-to.

Matches

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley, and Wheeler Yuta) defeated Lio Rush, Rocky Romero and TMDK (Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste) by pinfall	Eight-man tag team match	13:21
2	Deonna Purrazzo defeated Thunder Rosa by referee's decision	No Disqualification match	10:41
3	Hechicero (with Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona)) defeated Dalton Castle (with The Boys) by pinfall	Singles match	13:53
4	Dante Martin defeated Lee Moriarty by pinfall	AEW TNT Championship Forbidden Door Qualifying match	8:50
5	Kyle O'Reilly defeated Anthony Henry by submission	Singles match	2:51
6	House of Black (Brody King, Buddy Matthews, and Malakai Black) defeated Bang Bang Gang (Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn, and Juice Robinson) by pinfall	Trios match	18:24

External links

• All Elite Wrestling Official website