 AEW World Trios Champions Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta and Pac def. The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, John Silver and Evil Uno)I'm pretty sure this was a part of Battle of the Belts, but I've seen others suggest it was an extension of Collision. I mean, it was, but officially, it took place during the Battle of the Belts taping. It's one giant three-hour hour block of AEW programming, so it hardly matters. Oh, and the match was total domination as you'd expect, despite the champs already having defended the titles right beforehand. The best part about this is that it hopefully means we can move on from Dark Order feuding with Jon Moxley's crew.
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 AEW Women's World Champion "Timeless" Toni Storm def. Taya Valkyrie in an AEW Women's World Championship Eliminator MatchStorm vs. Mariah May for the AEW Women's World Championship is obviously already set for All In, so there was no way Valkyrie was winning here, but they had a quality contest in the time they were allotted. Storm cut a passionate promo afterward that the crowd was really into. I like that Storm is basically the same character she was as a heel except she's embracing the audience now.
 FTW Champion Hook def. Shane TaylorHook has had a few matches as of late against Shane Taylor Promotions alongside Chris Jerico, so it was logical to give Taylor a shot at his (pointless) title shot. I appreciated that it wasn't a squash like a majority of Hook's matches are and that Taylor was able to score plenty of offense before eating defeat. This was good stuff to start the special. Chris Jericho was nowhere to be seen and I'm not complaining.
 AEW World Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks and Big Bill def. Le Sex Gods in a Street FightWait, when was this made a Street Fight? Was it always supposed to be a Street Fight? I must've missed that. Honestly, this probably benefited the stipulation. It was definitely a mess and all over the place, and I can't imagine it would've been any better than it was if it was a standard tag team match. I just can't bring myself to care about almost anything involving Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara at the moment, but they put forth a commendable effort here, I'll give them that much. Of course, Starks and Bill retaining was the right call. Konosuke Takeshita and Powerhouse Hobbs interfered a few times, so their feud with Le Sex Gods will continue.
 AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy def. John SilverI had totally forgotten that Cassidy and Silver had a match back at Full Gear 2020. I honestly have very little recollection of that. At any rate, Silver was hardly a threat to the title here since Cassidy just regained the gold last week, but it was a well-wrestled affair for what it was worth. Cassidy announced later on backstage that it will be him and Kazuchika Okada vs. Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli in tag team action on Wednesday's Dynamite, which is quite the attraction.
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