AEW/ROH Mini-Commentary

Spoiler-free notes from last night:

The dark match(presumably) was St. Louis' own Sidney Akeem vs. Serpentico. Serpentico has a funny entrance video which is his own silhouette doing the Angélico dance, since he uses the same music. (Side note: More Angélico plzkthx.) Serpentico scored the surprise win with a swanton bomb.

Collision ring announcer Arkady Aura nearly turned herself heel by mentioning that she's a Cubs Fan, in St. Louis. Whoops. She's cute so it didn't last. Tony Schiavone knew the score, asking if there were any Cardinals fans in attendance (though these days the reaction to that is "eeeeehhhhh..."). He then asked about football, drawing some boos, then commented "The Rams can kiss my ass." Oh well, we still have the Battlehawks.

Very divided crowd on Hayter vs. Willow. Okada was over but Mortos got a lot of "BEAST" chants.

We had some local representation with Shazza McKenzie and Tootie Lynn Ramsey both working Collision; Shazza was in a battle of Australia with Toni Storm while Tootie faced a literal tall order against Kris Statlander.

Lio Rush & Action Andretti were rocking their EVIL theme music to go with their EVIL spiky entrance coats...for when you have a wrestling match at 8:00 but have to send someone to the Shadow Realm at 7.

Fun ten-man tag with several crowd favorites for Collision.

Lot of Briscoe fans in St. Louis, though Kyle Fletcher had some fans as well. Don Callis is not well liked, well, anywhere. The Hayter-Willow match and both Continental Classic bouts delivered big-time.

Post-Collision ROH taping was admittedly a dial-back from the AEW fare, but then some people had to work Friday morning. (I had a doctor's appointment so HA!) Local indie regulars Blair Onyx and Missa Kate had a tag match with resident frenemies Athena & Billie Starkz. Another fine women's bout took place between Queen Aminata and Lady Frost. Despite literally everything in recent years, Dark Order still has its fans and I heard some "Johnny Hungee" chants.

Coach Tony K came out a few times to hype us up. Sadly I JUST missed meeting him in person after the show before he had to go backstage...le sigh. Perhaps next time.