Nova's Recaps: Recap of AEW Collision: Playoff Palooza, 25 April 2026

===AEW Collision: Playoff Palooza 25 April 2026===

Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR

AEW World Trios Championships: THE CONGLOMERATION (Roderick Strong, "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy, Kyle O'Reilly) (c) def. DON CALLIS FAMILY (Lance Archer, CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Hechicero, Andrade El Ídolo) via pinfall, Orange Cassidy over Lance Archer

10-Man Tag: THE DOGS ("100 Proof" Clark Connors & David Finlay) & DEATH RIDERS (Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli) (with Marina Shafir) def. THE RASCALZ (Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz, Myron Reed) & YOUNG BUCKS (Matt & Nick Jackson) via pinfall, Clark Connors over Zachary Wentz
KRIS STATLANDER (with Hikaru Shida) def. B3CCA via pinfall
RUSH def. ADAM PRIEST via pinfall
Tag Team: AEW Women's World Champion THEKLA & SKYE BLUE def. CMLL World Women's Champion PERSEPHONE & NJPW Strong Women's Champion ALEX WINDSOR via pinfall, Skye Blue over Persephone

Trios: THE DEMAND (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, Toa Liona) def. JERICHO & THE HURT SYNDICATE (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin) (with MVP) via pinfall, Ricochet over Jericho

THE CONGLOMERATION are backstage to start us off but FTR interrupt them because they need to do their townhall I guess. Cash says they accept Adam Copeland's challenge. Dax says nobody wants Adam and Christian here and that he wants to amend the match at Double or Nothing to an I Quit match.

The Conglomeration come out as FTR are leaving. They stare down on the ramp; Kyle and Roddy push over Dax and Cash and Stokely falls on his ass when Orange feigns a punch.

Andrade stops Orange from putting his hands in his pockets and goes to remove his pants but he stops after unbuckling his belt. Orange responds by doing his shoot kicks but at the end instead pulls his belt all the way off. They go into an International that ends with Orange pantsing Andrade. Later on, Andrade takes Orange's shirt off and puts it on himself; when he goes to ringside to meet with the woman of the week, she takes it off of him before they take a selfie.
It's time to see what happened to WILL OSPREAY after the Death Riders left with him. JON MOXLEY is sitting in a chair in the parking garage; there's another chair set up opposite him that Claudio sets him onto. Yuta throws water in his face; Danny immediately corpses. Marina takes a towel and wraps it around his neck before cranking it to one side and then the other. I guess this fixed his neck somehow.

"What is it you're trying to accomplish, other than breaking my neck?" Moxley asks. "When you go to the ring... when you get up in the morning... where are you trying to go, who are you trying to be? What is it you're chasing? I don't think you know the answers to those questions anymore." Moxley says that eventually, Will's body will break down.
"You can try to run through the brick wall as many times as you want, the wall's not going anywhere. But, if you step back and realize there's a door, you can walk right through it and become whoever you want on the other side." Moxley, it seems, wants to train Ospreay to have better control over his mind. "We can turn you into a weapon like professional wrestling has never seen. This 'thing' has gotta come to a head one way or another... we can saddle up," he produces a metal chair and throws it on the ground in front of Ospreay, "and you can be just like everybody else... or you can become everything you were meant to be. Your choice."
Moxley has now made himself fully prone on the ground with his hands behind his back, completely vulnerable, as Ospreay cautiously takes the metal chair. He's completely unsure of what to make of this. He takes a beat before demanding the camera operator leave.

Mox is on commentary for this ensuing 10-man tag. Given that his neck isn't fucked up, it's safe to assume that Ospreay did not Pillmanize him.
Lexy Nair backstage with HIKARU SHIDA, KRIS STATLANDER, HARLEY CAMERON, and MINA SHIRAKAWA. Harley is still throwing a pity party over Stat not training her, and Mina demands Shida apologize to Harley for what she said behind her back. Shida says, in English, that Harley is not on their level and never has been, and that if she doesn't believe that, she and Statlander will do what they couldn't--beat Divine Dominion for the tag titles. Kris looks kind of blindsided by this assertion. Harley says something to Shida in Japanese and those three start arguing as Kris leaves for her match, bewildered. B3CCA proceeds to hot start on her lol
Kris handily defeats B3CCA but blows past Shida on her way up the ramp, almost treating her like she's not there. This is a reluctant pairing to be certain.
Lexy Nair backstage now with DIVINE DOMINION. She asks for a response to Shida's challenge, and Kross asks why should they be worried? They say nobody looks, moves, or destroys like they do. It seems like Bayne and Kross have no problem with Shida and Statlander coming for their belts.
After Dynamite, we hear from KONOSUKE TAKESHITA. He says out of respect for Don Callis and the Family, he tried to avoid this, but if Okada wants to face him at Double or Nothing, he'll happily take his title--bitch.

KAZUCHIKA OKADA responds tonight. He says he doesn't fear him, he doesn't like him, and he doesn't respect him. Then he shouts something in Japanese and says at Double or Nothing, you LOSE!!!!!

Persephone goes for Razor's Edge on Skye Blue, but as Thekla distracts the ref, JULIA HART slips into the ring and mists Persephone. Paul Turner's never able to see the mist, and Skye hits Code Blue to pick up the pin.
El Clon once again removes the Velcro cover from his eyes. He's got his face painted like the mask underneath.
WILLOW NIGHTINGALE video package. She's once again looking for someone else to return and challenge her for the TBS title.
THE OPPS are backstage. Hook tells Joe that he's been recruiting, he hasn't done jack shit. ANTHONY BOWENS wants to know if he's in The Opps, Hook and Joe say there's no more vacancies--but that's because Bowens has filled it. He's in.
The Hurt Syndicate are wiping out GOA on the floor, leaving just Ricochet and Jericho in the ring. Aubrey Edwards is distracted by the carnage at ringside which allows Ricochet to low blow Jericho and hit the "Ricosault" to pick up his second consecutive pinfall win over purple boy.

Dynamite, 29 April

RUSH in action
TNT Championship: "The Jet" KEVIN KNIGHT (c) vs. MJF
AEW Women's World Tag Team Championships: DIVINE DOMINION (Megan Bayne & Lena Kross) (c) vs. HIKARU SHIDA & KRIS STATLANDER
AEW Men's World Championship: DARBY ALLIN (c) vs. BRODY KING

AEW International Championship: KAZUCHIKA OKADA (c) vs. NJPW World Television Champion KONOSUKE TAKESHITA
"I QUIT" NEW YORK STREET FIGHT for the AEW Men's World Tag Team Championships: FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c) vs. ADAM COPELAND & CHRISTIAN CAGE