Recap of AEW Dynamite/Collision, 27 May 2026

===AEW Dynamite/Collision 27 May 2026===

Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA

RESULTS 

• Dark Match: STEVEN BORDEN def. KIRAN GREY
• Dark Match: ACTION ANDRETTI def. JOE KEYS
• Dark Tag Team Match: DEATH RIDERS DARK HORSES (Wheeler Yuta & Daniel Garcia) (with Marina Shafir) def. LSG & MATT MAKO
• Everyone Banned from Ringside: JERICHO def. RICOCHET via pinfall in 13:57
• Superstation Showcase 4-Way: "El Toro Blanco" RUSH def. "The Machine" BRIAN CAGE, "Blackheart" LIO RUSH, AEW World Trios Champion ORANGE CASSIDY via pinfall, RUSH over Lio Rush, in 12:08
• Attack on Orange Cassidy by ROCKY ROMERO, LANCE ARCHER, JAKE SOMETHING
• Aid for Orange Cassidy provided by RODERICK STRONG and KYLE O'REILLY 
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: BRODY KING def. CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI via pinfall in 12:01
• King advances to face Swerve Strickland in semifinals 
• Tag Team: TAYJAY (Tay Melo & Anna Jay) def. ALLIE KATCH & AVA EVERETT via pinfall, Anna Jay over Ava Everett, in 1:10
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: AEW National Champion MARK DAVIS (with Don Callis) def. JUNGLE JACK PERRY via pinfall in 17:24
• Davis advances to face Will Ospreay in semifinals 
• Trios: DEATH RIDERS ("The Bastard" PAC & AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley) (with Marina Shafir) & WILL OSPREAY def. THE RASCALZ (Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz, Myron Reed) via submission, Will Ospreay submitting Myron Reed, in 10:22
• ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO def. ACE AUSTIN via pinfall in 8:50
• Lights Out Philly Street Fight: KRIS STATLANDER def. HIKARU SHIDA via pinfall in 17:00
• Assist to Kris Statlander by HARLEY CAMERON 

DEVELOPMENTS

• After Double or Nothing, Renee Paquette meets WILL OSPREAY backstage. She congratulates him on the win and he says his neck feels fantastic. He's heading to the trainer's room to ice his bicep. He sees KENNY OMEGA there, who wants to talk to him about his association with the Death Riders and Will looks taken aback by this. "My worry is that you can't trust those guys," he says. "You come back from a career-threatening injury, you had me by your side. I would do anything for you, Will. For you to realize your dream of being champion? There's nothing I wouldn't do--why didn't you ask for me? It would have been so easy for me to help you, Will."
• Will retorts: "For sure, it would've been, if you showed up. Mate, with all due respect, you're not here." "I can't be here every week, Will." "Why not? This is the 'best that Kenny Omega's ever felt' for a while so why aren't you here, man?" Kenny says he lost his chance, presumably at the world title, and he can't rebound the way he used to, be it physically, mentally, or emotionally. "Again, I get the appeal to the Death Riders. They're serious. They mean business. They get the job done, so I'm not saying don't trust them... what I'm saying is be careful, as a friend."
• JON MOXLEY walks into the room as Kenny says this. "It's good advice. We all... have our... skeletons. Don't we?" Kenny mutters, "yeah, don't we all?" Moxley hands Ospreay the ice pack he had set to the side, telling him the Death Riders truck is outside. "Look, I'll, uh... I'll leave you two to do your neck bridges or whatever it is that Death Riders do, but, hey--for real, anytime, call me." Kenny leaves, and Ospreay tells him not to give up on the world title. 
• Here comes the Jet. KEVIN KNIGHT is met with loud boos as he comes out looking literally exactly like The Rock. I mean, he's got the mannerisms, he's got the outfit, this literally is just prime Rock. It's unbelievable.
• It's hard for Kevin to so much as get a word in over the "FUCK YOU, KEVIN" chants and the booing. "You know, I shouldn't expect anything less from you meathead sickos," he says. "Y'all gonna give some respect to The Jet when I got the mic, you hear me?" Knight shouts over "SHUT THE FUCK UP" chants. Kevin's here to explain his attack on Darby Allin. "I told Darby Allin not to let The Jet down. I told him not to let you people down! And guess what he did? He blew it." The crowd is now chanting "ASSHOLE" at Kevin. "Darby Allin blew it. Just like the Sixers did against the Knicks: he let us all down. Philly, I'm--I'm with y'all! I'm on your side! He let us all down." Kevin says he did what he had to do. "Who was the last person that MJF was looking up at? Who was the last person that humbled MJF? Me. The Jet."
• Kevin thinks he should have had the main event at Double or Nothing, but instead he was in the back. "Do I look like a bench player to y'all? Am I not a highlight each and every time I step in this ring?" "I'm not here just to take part in AEW. I'm here to take over this whole damn company." [...] "When I first got here in this business, Darby Allin told me, 'don't waste any time.' So when I saw that he couldn't get the job done, I came out there, and I didn't waste any time leaving him in a pool of his own blood with The Jet standing right there on top of him."
• SPEEDBALL MIKE BAILEY's entrance hits, and they're walking with purpose down to the ring. "Kevin, I hear what you're saying, but I know you. I know how ambitious you are, and that's your best and your worst quality. The reason we work so well as a team is because we both want to be the best. But Kevin, you're impatient. You get ahead of yourself. And you make mistakes. And what you did to Darby Allin at Double or Nothing? That was a mistake. But we can fix this. If you apologize and own up to what you did, we can make things right." Speedball holds their hand out, saying "be a man. Own up to what you did. You know it's messed up. Do the right thing," and Kevin's considering this. He goes to take Speedball's hand but instead just shoulder checks and walks past them before suddenly turning around and decking them with the microphone. Kevin's got the same reaction he had after he attacked Darby. He goes to leave the ring, but changes his mind, instead grabbing Speedball by the wrist and hitting the craziest fucking Rock Bottom ever.
• Renee Paquette is backstage with THE DEMAND. She tells him he's beaten Jericho twice with the Rico-sault, but at Stadium Stampede, Jericho got the pin off the Lionsault. Ricochet says he's not concerned with Jericho and that he got lucky at Double or Nothing. Bishop Kaun interjects and says that he won because the opposing team mugged him 7-to-1. Toa says it's a travesty that he and Bishop can't come to ringside tonight. Ricochet tells Jericho that it's not that he doesn't have his guys, it's that Jericho doesn't have six other guys to save his ass when he has him beat.
• Jericho beats Ricochet with a string of a Codebreaker, Judas Effect, and Lionsault unanswered. His post-match celebration is interrupted by TOMMASO CIAMPA rushing the ring and attacking him from behind. Ciampa chokes him out and beats him down before hitting him with his signature running knee.
• The IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO is backstage. He says that now that the Stadium Stampede is over, he can focus on the world title. "MJF, do you think you are better than a real Latino man?... How you know?"
• This 4-way match is happening just because. I'm not sure any of these guys necessarily need the money but we're working. Lio Rush is still a freak.
• Orange doesn't really know what to make of Lio, and frankly he doesn't really want to touch him.
• Late in this match, Orange hits a tope tornado DDT on Brian Cage. Suddenly, LANCE ARCHER and ROCKY ROMERO come out of the crowd. It's a 4-way so there's no disqualifications. Orange wipes out Rocky and Lance but suddenly gets clobbered from behind by a returning JAKE SOMETHING. RODERICK STRONG and KYLE O'REILLY are here to brawl with them, including Brian Cage, all the way to the back. Lance basically kidnaps Orange. This 4-way match has effectively become a head-to-head affair between Lio Rush and RUSH.
• RUSH has brought back the green wire to choke Lio with. 
• Renee Paquette is backstage with MJF. He's got the Triple B around his shoulder and is dragging the regular world title on the floor. He's wearing some fucked up shit. This interview is interrupted by KEVIN KNIGHT. Max says he wanted to thank Kevin for attacking Darby because he says he knows Kevin did it to show respect to the biggest star in the company. Kevin stops him as he tries to leave and tells him he didn't do anything because of MJF, he did it because Darby blew an opportunity that should have gone to him. He reminds Max that he still very much intends to dethrone him.
• Kevin now runs into KYLE FLETCHER, who eyes the TNT title. DON CALLIS is here and the literal first thing he says when he sees a Black man is "so much young athleticism in one place" which you know really checks out for Don Callis. Don tells Kevin that if he ever wants to get serious about becoming "Jet Two Belts," he and Kyle are around. 
• Renee Paquette is backstage with the BRAWLING BIRDS. Jamie says her loss is water off a duck's back and reminds Renee that she did take Thekla's head off. She reaffirms that next time she will take the title. Alex Windsor has her quarterfinal match in the Owen next week against a wild card opponent, and she addresses Willow, saying that when she's back healthy, she's ready to throw down. Windsor says she's been preparing for this her entire career. She gasses up Will Ospreay as well.
• It is time for the MJF townhall. He is being carried out on a palanquin and drops the normal world title belt in a garbage can. MJF says in the history of major promotions since the 1800s, only eight men have ever been three-time world champions at age 30 and tells the crowd they should feel fortunate to be witnessing it. He does the Rainmaker pose as a banner that says "3x World Champion" falls from the ceiling with confetti.
• MARK BRISCOE's theme hits as he walks down to the ring and tears the banner down. "Friedman!... lookin' at you standin' here in this city... man, you like a stranger in a strange place... what I'm sayin' is you don't fit in here, Max. It's kinda like if a-if a *penguin* was wanderin' through the desert... and I'm not talkin' about one of those exotic South American beach penguins..." Mark says that some of the toughest people in the world are in Philadelphia, and Max sticks out like a sore thumb because tough he is not.
• Briscoe reminds MJF that it wasn't long ago that he pinned him in the middle of the ring, and he wants a title shot. Max says no because AEW isn't just a sport, it's a business, and it's bad enough that an "emo freak" like Darby Allin "even sniffed" the title. Max says if Briscoe challenged for the title, it'd put the company out of business.
• Max goes to leave but as he gets to the stage RUSH's tron hits. RUSH already wanted a world title match if Darby retained. "You are not a fighting champion!...a no eres, cabrón. And it's too funny that's a chicken farmer, but you? You're a chicken... SHIT!" RUSH says he's nearly beaten Max before, and he wants his title shot. Max says he agrees that if anyone's earned a title shot, it's RUSH, and he's more marketable than Mark Briscoe. RUSH will get his match on Dynamite next week.
• JUNGLE JACK PERRY is in the Jurassic Express. He's 1-1 with Mark Davis, but the stakes are higher than ever because a world title shot in the line. LUCHASAURUS slams on the brakes in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, known colloquially as the Rocky Steps, and wants Jack to go climb them. This leads into a dramatic training montage with Luchasaurus as his trainer. Luchasaurus also drinks a cup full of egg yolks gross style.
• Claudio and Brody beat the fuck out of each other. This match is like 95% strikes. Last minute or so, Brody picks up Claudio into powerslam position but Claudio slips out and uppercuts him in the back. A rolling lariat from Brody is intercepted and Claudio uppercuts Brody's front. He ducks a line and springs back off the middle rope; Brody catches him and hits the ropes himself only for Claudio to nail him on a pop-up uppercut. Claudio's staggered, though, and Brody beasts it and wipes Claudio out on a meaty lariat to get the 3.
• It is time for the CAGE & COPE townhall. Christian tells the crowd to sit down and shut up while he conducts business and Adam tells him to stop. "What did I say that was so bad, huh? What, it's not like I banged any of their mothers... actually, maybe I did." Christian straight up does not get why the things he says might be disapproved of by the crowd.
• He addresses FTR, putting them over but reaffirming that they are, in fact, better than FTR. Adam says that FTR agreed to an "I Quit" match with two guys who, between them, were retired for a combined 16 years before getting their careers back. It's time for the 5-second pose, or at least Copeland says. Cage refuses so Adam rallies the crowd. Christian tells him that they don't even "make flash photography anymore" so Adam goes out and retrieves from under the ring a sack full of disposable cameras that he says he bought 20 years ago. He hands them out to the crowd and they're about to do the pose when CLARK CONNORS and DAVID FINLAY attack both of them. Finlay beats Christian's injured arm with the shillelagh before crushing it under the ring steps. David chokes out Edge with the shillelagh before Connors spears him. They then do their own five-second pose after Connors announces their intent to take the tag titles.
• PRINCE NANA is backstage with SWERVE STRICKLAND. He tells us that Swerve is taking the Owen and going back to the main event at Wembley. Swerve congratulates Brody. He says he gets a sentimental feeling when he sees Brody succeed, because without Swerve, nobody would know Brody's name because he broke Brody into the industry in 2016. He says he doesn't care how Bandido's doing; all that matters is that millions of people watched what he did to him and couldn't look away. "One thing I learned about making money in this country, right: conflicts creates cash. War makes money. And Brody... I plan to make a lot of money with you."
• We get a picture in picture pretape with DIVINE DOMINION during TAYJAY's entrance. "Welcome back. The clock is ticking: not for how long your match is, but to see how long we let you stay alive. Tick-tock, TayJay."
• SPEEDBALL MIKE BAILEY is backstage. They say Kevin Knight made his choice: he heard what they had to say, they offered him their hand, and he attacked them in return. "Is that the road you wanna go down? Well, so be it. We can walk down it together, just on opposite sides. So how about me and you, one on one? You wanna show the world who you really are?"
• Mark Davis knocks Jack Perry to the floor from the apron and is content to sit on the top turnbuckle and let Perry get counted out. This pisses Taz the fuck off because he's doing it in Philadelphia to the point where he takes off his headset and literally yells "STEALIN' MY GIMMICK!" directly at Davis.
• This match gets three segments. Heading into the second break, Davis gourdbusters Perry as hard as he fucking can on the apron. The impact of Perry's legs against the ropes literally knocks his shoes off. Mark proceeds to take Jack's socks off and stomps on his bare feet repeatedly.
• Perry gets Davis in a front guillotine on the top rope and proceeds to literally snap suplex him DDT-style from there. He's able to hit a piledriver on Davis for a 2.9. Perry also survives the rebound lariat at 2.9.
• Perry's got Mark back up top but this time inadvertently crotches himself because he's not used to navigating the ropes shoeless. Davis uses this opportunity to kill Jack with a spinning piledriver off the second to win the match. 
• Renee Paquette gets in the ring with Mark and Don, who has something important to say. He reminds Will that he was in the Don Callis Family and thought he was the Chosen One. He never was, and neither was Konosuke Takeshita, he says. The only Chosen One in the Family is KYLE FLETCHER who is now here to make his entrance with ROCKY ROMERO. 
• Kyle embraces Don as Rocky taunt spams and then shakes Davis's hand because he doesn't know what else to do. Kyle says he came back from his torn meniscus and twice-broken leg in under two months because he's a genetic anomaly. There was something else that pushed him to get healthy, though: he wanted to be the man to cut loose the dead weight of the Family.
• "I have been trying to hold this family together for the better part of a year, when Konosuke Takeshita has tried to drive a wedge between us. And the second that I was out of the way, he did what he always does: what's best for him. You see, Konosuke Takeshita, he never cared about the Family. Takeshita never cared about me. And the sad thing is, I really wanted to sit atop the wrestling world alongside Takeshita! ProtoShita running the whole world! But now, that is never going to happen, because Konosuke Takeshita is a selfish PRICK."
• KONOSUKE TAKESHITA's theme hits, and the new International Champion is here. Kyle is goading him on, but suddenly THE CONGLOMERATION--O'Reilly, Strong, Briscoe, and Cassidy--come out to back Takeshita up. They slowly walk to the ring and get in, promptly Fletcher, Romero, and Davis to vacate the ring. Takeshita grabs the microphone left behind and says he's got his title back. "Now... Kyle Fletcher... I... want... YOU!" 
• WILL OSPREAY is backstage ahead of his trios match with Moxley and PAC against the Rascalz. He congratulates Mark Davis on advancing to the semifinals. "Hey, our history is very well-documented. You was in the United Empire with me, you lived in my house for a year and didn't pay me any rent, but what's documented is you are the one guy who has [won] a match with a doctor's stoppage. That doesn't sit right with me, because I was at 50% when I wrestled you last. Now, baby, I'm a hundred percent, and there is nothing--I mean nothing--stopping me from going to Wembley Stadium, bruv!"
• JON MOXLEY, PAC, and MARINA SHAFIR are now here. Mox is jumping. A likely thing for him to do. Mox fist bumps Ospreay, and Will offers the same to PAC, telling him good luck. Marina reaches over and intercepts the fist bump, but PAC doesn't take it, blowing him off. Ospreay fist bumps himself. The Death Riders turn and walk away, but Ospreay is right by the stage. "My entrance is this way, guys!"
• If Ospreay never fully joins the Death Riders, it is going to be because he is far too extra to give up his entrance. Mox, PAC, and Marina still enter from the crowd. 
• Moxley and PAC hot start on Wentz and Reed and fight them to the floor. Ospreay is surprised by this, evidently unaware of the game plan, and he and Xavier go to work in the ring instead. Ospreay's style shift is noticeable, going into an international with Xavier and just booting him out of the air when Dezmond tries to leapfrog him.
• Ospreay takes a wristlock on Xavier and backs towards the corner where he's looking for a tag from Moxley, but PAC instead tags himself in. Ospreay looks confused at the treatment and Mox just pats his shoulder. PAC tags in Moxley not long after.
• Marina is basically serving as the coach this match, making calls to all three men on her team. The Death Rider team starts running a train on Myron in the corner that Will gets in on, and he and PAC start clicking with a tag team whip to Moxley who hits an Ace Crusher. Ospreay and PAC boot Dezmond and Zachary off the apron before hitting stereo topes con giro. Myron somehow kicks out of a piledriver.
• Ospreay double stomps the left arm of Reed being held by Moxley off the top before doing his La Mística setup move to ground him. Wentz charges Ospreay with a round kick but Ospreay boots Wentz in the gut into a rear body lock from Moxley in the corner. Xavier now goes for the Kardiak Kick on Ospreay but Ospreay goes low and back bodies him. PAC takes the Brutalizer on Dezmond. Will throws a kick at Myron who catches it but Ospreay takes over into Death Ground. Myron taps out the moment Ospreay gets into full extension. Tony Schiavone says this is the 200th win for Moxley in AEW.
• THE OPPS are backstage. Joe says they stand in opposition of anyone who stands in their way, and they provide opportunities for men who deserve them. "Once again, opportunity calls, and Hollywood's ringing." Joe is going to be gone for a few months, presumably filming Twisted Metal.
• Lexy Nair is backstage trying to get a word with TAYJAY. She instead runs into DIVINE DOMINION. Lena says "that only lasted 30 seconds"; Lexy turns the corner to reveal Tay and Anna, who have been Killed.
• Andrade goes to take a selfie with a woman in the front row. He takes the phone to take a front shot so I guess she wraps her arms around his neck and walks forward and literally pulls her over the barricade to do this. She is confused but they take the picture anyway and then he picks her up and sets her back over the railing.
• Ace Austin, seated in the corner, cuts off Andrade by dodging the meteora, going up and hitting a spinning gamengiri. Austin wants the Fold but Andrade intercepts him with the murderous back elbow and hits the DM to win the match.
• Main event time on Collision. It's an unsanctioned street fight between Kris Statlander and Hikaru Shida, between whom tensions have boiled over. Shida starts the match swinging for the fences with her kendo stick but Kris boots it out of her hand.
• Shida and Statlander fight into the corner of ringside. A fan tosses Shida an apple, which she catches and hits her in the head with before doing 10 punches in the corner with it. Shida now somehow has gotten a second apple and stuffs it in Kris's mouth before hitting a round kick to the side of her head. Kris powerbombs Shida on the floor.
• Kris and Shida brawl into the tunnel of the entranceway and this makes the crowd very unhappy because they can no longer see them. Statlander gets up a metal barricade against a chair and tries to suplex Shida but Shida counters and does it to Stat instead.
• Shida lays out Kris on the stage and walks backstage once more. She emerges riding a bicycle, which she proceeds to run over the fingers of Statlander with. Taz says that happened to his friend Joey Tuccalomundo as a kid. Shida then just discus throws the bicycle into Kris's head and Excalibur compares that to Kiryu from Yakuza. Kris kicks out at 2.
• Shida tries to enter a Duel of the Fates with Kris. The issue here is that Shida has her kendo stick and Kris has a whole-ass chair. That ends poorly for Shida.
• Shida hits a Falcon Arrow for a two count but Kris, in the action of kicking out, fully kips up to her feet and this is horrifying to Shida, who gets fucking decked in the face by a thrown chair. Kris has produced a table on the commentary end of ringside. Shida, on the other end, is Assembling the Structure with chairs. While she does this, Kris tries to do the Strowman Express spot and gets drop toe held into a chair. Shida wants to suplex Kris into a set of four chairs but Stat counters and DVDs Shida onto them.
• Kris now produces a bundle of three light tubes. Shida begs off, pleading for mercy. Kris relents and sets them down, less out of pity but evidently more out of a feeling that it's simply too much work. As she turns back around Shida immediately rakes her eyes and then cracks the bundle of light tubes across Stat's back. Another Falcon Arrow is still only good enough for a 2 count.
• Kris's lower back has been opened up badly and it's not helped by Shida starting to whale on her with her kendo stick. Shida wants to pillmanize Stat's neck vertical style but Stat throws the chair into her face. They fight to the apron next to the set-up table; Shida grabs a different kendo stick and swings it at Statlander and hits her in the side but Kris tanks it, ripping it out of her hands and snapping it over her knee before digging the splintered ends into the forehead of Shida before hitting Staturday Night Fever off the apron through the table.
• Kris rolls Shida back into the ring. HARLEY CAMERON is now running out from the back and hands her Shida's special kendo stick. Stat cracks Shida across the back and hits a second Staturday Night Fever to win the match. Harley gets in to celebrate with Kris, but Statlander remains a bit aloof. Shida looks furious. 

STILL TO COME

Collision, 30 May (Live coast-to-coast, 8 ET/5 PT)

• 5-Minute Tag Team Championship Eliminator: AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions DIVINE DOMINION (Megan Bayne & Lena Kross) vs. TAYJAY (Tay Melo & Anna Jay)
• PERSEPHONE on commentary: HAZUKI vs. MAYA WORLD
• AEW World Trios Championships: THE CONGLOMERATION (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O'Reilly, Roderick Strong) (c) vs. DON CALLIS FAMILY (Trent Beretta, Rocky Romero, Lance Archer) 

Dynamite, 3 June

• Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: NJPW STRONG Women's Champion ALEX WINDSOR vs. WILD CARD 
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Semifinal: WILL OSPREAY vs. AEW National Champion MARK DAVIS
• TNT Championship: KEVIN KNIGHT (c) vs. SPEEDBALL MIKE BAILEY
• AEW Men's World Championship: MJF (c) vs. RUSH

Forbidden Door, 28 June