The premiere episode of AEW Collision is in the books after airing from Chicago, IL, on Saturday night, featuring CM Punk’s return.
Punk opened the show with a hot promo and closed it with a win in a trios bout alongside FTR over Samoa Joe, Juice Robinson, and Jay White. Now, the promotion looks ahead to future shows.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that AEW wanted June 17th as the premiere date because it fell in a window with no major sports competition.
“The show was a good show. In that sense, it’s a positive. I mean, if the show went and sucked, then you would go like, ‘Oh, it was a bad whatever.’ Saturday’s gonna be a very tough night over the long haul because of all the different forms of competition. There’s gonna be almost every week and real bad in the fall and all that. They picked this week to debut because the key sports events are over and there’s nothing for a couple of months to, so they can build this audience until they know it’s gonna be very, very tough once college football starts. So they wanted this….was a very strategic night to pick for the debut of this show.”
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