Tonight’s episode of AEW Collision will go head-to-head with the second biggest WWE Premium Live Event of the year, SummerSlam.
The show will feature CM Punk defending the “real” AEW World Championship against Ricky Starks in the main event, which will be officiated by the legendary Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Punk said that tonight’s Collision is not competing with SummerSlam, but it is competing with last week’s episode of the show.
“We are not competing with SummerSlam. We are going to go up against college football soon. We have already been up against monster UFC cards every single Saturday. We are not competing with them.
We are competing with what we did last Saturday. I am competing with who I was yesterday as a human being and a pro wrestler, and we, as the Collision team, are competing with what we did last Saturday.
That’s always going to be what we are striving to do, and I think that’s an important message for the fans to understand.”
Below is the card for tonight’s Collision:
– CM Punk (c) vs. Ricky Starks for the Real AEW World Championship with Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat as the special outside official
– FTR (c) vs. Brian Cage & Big Bill (fka Big Cass in WWE) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship
– Kris Statlander (c) vs. Mercedes Martinez for the TBS Women’s Championship
– We’ll hear from The Acclaimed
Below is the card for tonight’s SummerSlam:
– Tribal Combat For The Undisputed WWE Universal Championship & The Tribal Chief Spot: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Jey Uso
– Brock Lesnar vs. Cody Rhodes III
– World Heavyweight Championship Match: Seth Rollins (c) vs. Finn Balor
– Intercontinental Championship Match: Gunther (c) vs. Drew McIntyre
– WWE Women’s Championship Match: Asuka (c) vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Bianca Belair
– MMA Rules: Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler
– Logan Paul vs. Ricochet
– Slim Jim 25-Man SummerSlam Battle Royal: LA Knight vs. Sheamus vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Chad Gable vs. Otis vs. Karrion Kross vs. Grayson Waller vs. Matt Riddle vs. Santos Escobar vs. AJ Styles vs. The Miz vs. TBA
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