AEW Collision – October 24, 2026: Laundry Day?
Collision
Date: October 24, 2026
Location: LJVM Coliseum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness, Paul Wight
The pretty quick road to Full Gear continues here and the card for the next pay per view is already starting to come together. We have a few weeks to go before then though and that means AEW needs some big stuff to fill in the time. That’s what we’ll be doing tonight with FTR vs. the Motor City Machine Guns in the second match of their best of five series. Let’s get to it.
Here is Dynamite if you need a recap.
Here is Jay White, flanked by the Bang Bang Gang and what is left of the Dogs. White teases the Guns Up line but thinks the team needs a new name. It’s supposed to be the Bullet Club but America is too stupid for that, so they’re…..The Last Outfit? Are they going to team with a washer/dryer combination in a low rinse cycle street fight against a dry cleaner?
Anyway they’ve had issues before but they can be friends again and take out the Death Riders. Marina Shafir and Roderick Strong can be together and happy now that the team is going after them. White can’t stand Orange Cassidy with his stupid kicks, but he’s going to take the Continental Title from Jon Moxley. You better be down with the Last Outfit and if not, they have two words for everyone. No starch?
Kyle O’Reilly and the Conglomeration aren’t impressed with the Last Outfit.
We look at the Motor City Machine Guns beating FTR at WrestleDream.
FTR vs. Motor City Machine Guns
Match #2 in a best of five series with the Guns up 1-0. Wheeler and Shelley start things off but it’s quickly off to Harwood, who gets caught in the Dream Sequence. We settle down to Sabin fighting out of the corner and backdropping Harwood for two. Wheeler comes in off a blind tag for a bulldog but everything breaks down. FTR is sent outside for a suicide dive and we take a break.
We come back with Shelley giving Harwood a belly to back superplex. The Shatter Machine is broken up and the tag brings in Sabin to clean house. Everything breaks down and Shelley’s sunset flip gets a quick two. FTR tries a spike piledriver but Sabin breaks it up and gets two off a high crossbody. Another Shatter Machine attempt is broken up and Sabin is elbowed into a German suplex for two more.
A small package gets Sabin out of trouble and he gets over to Shelley for the tag. Sabin’s missile dropkick sets up Shelley’s frog splash for another near fall. Skull & Bones is loaded up so Stokely offers a distraction, only for Wheeler to be sent into Stokely and Harwood. Back up and the Shatter Machine connects out of nowhere, with Shelley diving in for the save. Sabin and Harwood crash out to the floor, leaving Wheeler to grab a rollup and the rope for the pin at 16:11.
Rating: B. It’s not quite as good as their match at WrestleDream, but this was still a treat to watch as you probably expected. You have two of the best teams of their era getting a lot of time to see what they can throw out there. I liked the match again and thankfully it’s only best of five rather than seven, which is that sweet spot to avoid running it into the ground. Hot match here, again, which shouldn’t be a surprise at all.
Video on Blood & Guts being set up.
Will Ospreay is ready for Blood & Guts and none of his teammates are going to submit or surrender. Adam Copeland says he swims in blood and guts and is ready to end the Don Callis Family.
Death Riders vs. Shane Taylor Promotions
Mixed eight person tag. The brawl starts fast with Moxley and Taylor slugging it out in the ring, with Moxley hammering away in the corner. The Riders beat up the Promotions on the floor as Taylor takes over on Moxley inside. Bravo comes in and gets double shouldered by Moxley and Shafir.
It’s off to Shafir to armbar Adora, with Dean making a save. That earns Dean the running clotheslines in the corner, followed by Moxley’s cutter as we take a break. We come back with Garcia getting crushed in the corner, with a BBC (Wight: “Is that the British Baseball Club?”) making it worse. Moxley comes in with a dive for the save and Garcia gets in a spinning neckbreaker. Castagnoli (in a mask) is in to clean house, including muscling Taylor up for a suplex. It’s off to Shafir vs. Adora for the standing clotheslines, with Garcia grabbing Dean in the Dragontamer. The Brutalizer makes Adora give up at 9:55.
Rating: B-. I saw the Riders beat up the Promotions enough over the summer to not need to see it again anytime soon. That was the case here, though it was nice to see Shafir getting some focus on the way to her big showdown with Mercedes Mone. Having her use the Brutalizer is a nice tribute and I could absolutely go for that being a regular thing. More good stuff here.
Post match Moxley says Jay White thought he started a war, but the Death Riders have been at war with everyone. White made a move, but now it’s Moxley’s move.
Josh Alexander vs. Blade Brown
Alexander backs him into the corner to start and snaps off a belly to belly. Brown is allowed to get in some free chops and is promptly destroyed. An arm trap piledriver and the ankle lock finish Brown at 1:46. Total squash.
Post match Alexander puts over the Don Callis Family and thinks it’s time to bring in some gold. So on Dynamite, he wants the TNT Title. He’d be a fighting champion, just like Adam Copeland, but they smashed his head in on Dynamite. Cue Copeland, who beats up RPG Vice as Alexander runs. More of the Family runs in to lay Copeland out.
We look at Ilja Dragunov’s debut on Dynamite, where he beat Mike Bailey.
Swerve Strickland vs. Myron Reed
Strickland jumps him before the bell but Reed says he’s in. The Vertebreaker is blocked though and Reed sends him outside for a dive. Back in and Strickland easily wins a slugout and sends Reed to the floor again for a kick to the head. Reed is back up with a posting though and the big running flip dive over the post drops Strickland again. Strickland easily plants him again and we take an early break.
We come back with Strickland getting serious enough to take his shirt off but getting Stundog Millionaired. Reed plants him down on the apron and hits some clotheslines but the diving cutter is blocked. A poisonrana and 450 give Reed two but Strickland (eventually) muscles him up into the Vertebreaker for the pin at 10:55.
Rating: C+. This is where AEW’s booking style becomes an issue, as you don’t need someone on the level of Myron Reed giving a former World Champion this much trouble. That’s not even factoring in that Strickland jumped him before the bell and still had this much trouble. It’s to let someone like Strickland run through an opponent and that’s what we should have seen here.
United Empire vs. Allen Brothers
Bailey kicks Steve away and then blasts Robert with a kick to the head. Andrade takes off his pants (Nigel: “Tony, what are you doing? Put those dollar bills away.”) and the Tornado Kick finishes Steve at 1:54.
Post match Andrade loads up the photo with the fan but gets jumped by Tommaso Ciampa. Bailey chases Ciampa off.
Lena Kross/Megan Bayne vs. Wrathlander
Bayne shoulders Statlander down to start but gets knocked down. That brings Kross in for an elbow from behind and a double boot drops Statlander again. A double clothesline gets Statlander out of trouble though and it’s off to Cameron for a headscissors. Everything breaks down and Wrathlander fire off the right hands in various corners but Kross and Bayne are back with stereo fall away slams.
We take a break and come back with Bayne booting Cameron down for two. Cameron chops her way out of trouble and everything breaks down. A crucifix bomb puts Bayne down and Cameron kicks Kross away, allowing the tag to Statlander. Everything breaks down and something like a cartwheel dive off the apron hits Kross on the floor. Bayne and Cameron fight to the floor and Statlander’s toss Blue Thunder Bomb sends Kross flying. Cue the Sisters Of Sin to jump Wrathlander for the DQ at 10:41.
Rating: C+. I was liking the match but I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want Wrathlander to get a win on the way to their title shot. They’ve only been a team for a little while and some wins would help them. Then again there is a good chance for this to be setting up Blood & Guts, which shows the problems with building to a pair of matches at once, as Wrathlander needed to get a better win here.
Post match Thekla whips Kris Statlander with a belt but Willow Nightingale runs in with a chain for the save. Bayne is back up though and the villains stand tall.
Post break Nightingale and Wrathlander say the Brawling Birds hate those five too. How about Blood & Guts?
Jay White vs. Kyle O’Reilly
White immediately bails out to the floor as Wight and McGuinness do their weekly bickering on commentary. Back in and they go with the grappling with O’Reilly taking over on the arm. White kicks him into the corner so O’Reilly goes after the leg. The ankle lock sends White over to the rope and it’s a diving knee off the apron to take White down on the floor. An attempted chair shot is cut off so White dragon screw legwhips him over the rope.
We take a break and come back with White staying on the leg. O’Reilly strikes him down, including a legsweep to set up a guillotine. That doesn’t last long so O’Reilly grabs a reverse fisherman’s suplex for two more. Another guillotine is broken up and a Downward Spiral gives White two.
White goes after the leg again but O’Reilly is back with a rebound lariat. A brainbuster gives O’Reilly two more and he grabs a cross armbreaker to send White over to the ropes. O’Reilly misses a dive off the apron and hurts his leg again, meaning it’s a Blade Runner on the floor. Another Blade Runner inside gives White the pin at 14:03.
Rating: B. It’s no surprise that these two had a good match as they’re talented wrestlers who were allowed to do their thing. If nothing else, White absolutely should have gotten the win as the Last Outfit is officially a thing. It’s a good way to close the show after White and company got the big moment to start the show so they have a nice bookending here.
Post match the Conglomeration runs in but the Last Outfit surrounds them for the beatdown. The Death Riders come in (from the entrance rather than the crowd as a surprise) and the big brawl is on. Claudio Castagnoli throws some people around but gets caught with a low blow. Moxley goes Abdullah The Butcher by grabbing a fork but gets taken out as well. Orange Cassidy is up with some Orange Punches and a dive, only to hit Moxley by mistake. White gets in a Blade Runner to end the show.
Overall Rating: B+. I liked this show for the most part, but I’ve been a Jay White fan for a long time. He’s far better as a heel and while having that many people in a stable is a stretch, the biggest problem is the name. Granted the fact that I’m a few days late with this and AEW has already seemed to rename them The Cut (not great, but better) shows that at least AEW isn’t tone deaf. Other than that, good show here, with the opener being a hot match and the Blood & Guts announcement feeling important.
Results
Motor City Machine Guns b. FTR – Rollup with ropes to Shelley
Josh Alexander b. Blade Brown – Ankle lock
Swerve Strickland b. Myron Reed – Swerve Stomp
United Empire b. Allen Brothers – Tornado Kick to Steve
Wrathlander b. Lena Kross/Megan Bayne via DQ when the Sisters Of Sin interfered
Jay White b. Kyle O’Reilly – Blade Runner
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