Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s coverage of "AEW Collision: Maximum Carnage" on January 17, 2025, coming to you from their residency at the Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas.
Last week, Andrade returned to AEW and reunited with the Don Callis Family. He'll have his first match since returning to AEW against the Spanish Announce Project's Angelico.
It'll be a busy night for the DCF as Kyle Fletcher, El Clon, and Josh Alexander will take on SkyFlight. SkyFlight's newest new member, Zayda Steel will go one-on-one with Marina Shafir following Shafir and her Mega Problem's partner, Megan Bayne attacking Steel last week. Bayne and Penelope Ford will also be in action. This will be Ford's first match since she was injured last October.
After weeks of feuding, Eddie Kingston and Ortiz will team up to take on GYV.
Anthony Bowens goes one-on-one with Jack Perry and the winner will get a shot at Ricochet's National Championship.
On "Dynamite", the new tag team of Mark Davis and Jake Doyle earned at Number 1 contendership for the tag titles. FTR stared them down following the match and we'll hear from them tonight.
JetSpeed was one of the teams that Davis and Doyle defeated on Wednesday. Following their match, Swerve Strickland and Hangman Page encouraged them and told them they were the future. Page went a step further and said he wanted to team with them against The Opps for the AEW Trios titles. Earlier in the night, Page declared he would take everything from Samoa Joe.
Andrade came to the ring, accompanied by Don Callis. Angelico was already in the ring and was accompanied by Serpentico.
Angelico immediately locked him up from behind, but Andrade hit him with a back elbow to escape. Andrade hit him in the corner, went for the pin, and pulled him up by the hair before getting to three. He teased the Figure Four before chopping Angelico against the ropes. He followed with Three Amigos, except Angelico escaped before the second one and hit him with a rising kick. Angelico tied him up, so Andrade backed him into the corner and forearmed him.
Angelico hit him with a big boot and Andrade followed with a rising knee strike before putting him on the turnbuckle. Andrade superpelxed him and connected with the Three Amigos before pulling him up by the hair again.
Angelico with a rising knee strike. Angelico attempted to block a rising knee strike, but Andrade caught him with a back elbow. Andrade picked him up and hit him with The Message for the win.
Winner: Andrade
