Well, I thought the world of that Statlander vs Jade Cargill match from Rampage the night before, so I really wanted to follow up here. I was able to watch part but not all of Collision live, and I purposely turned it off during this match so I wasn’t watching it half-assed.
Statlander’s TBS title is on the line! Dr. Baker is at her alma mater, Penn State University!
I’m in a very cautious budgeting period of my normally reckless, freestyle way of life but I really wanted to watch this pay-per-view program live, so I went the crowdsourcing route via Ko-fi. It worked! And I actually did use the money to buy the show instead of sneaking away with it and stealing a pirate stream, which I do know how to do, despite everyone on the internet assuming you don’t know how if you suggest you’re willing to pay for something.
Also, I note nobody asked for any match reviews or anything, but I’d have a feeling of some type shame or the like if I didn’t do anything to even kinda feel like I’d earned this great payday, so I’m going to dust off the ol’ PPV-reviewing gloves and do a proper PPV review for the first time since probably, like, 2014.
This is a match review blog by design, but also it is a stupid fucking blog intermittently given attention by an aging idiot, so this will just exist. Who knows? Maybe more of this will happen. I do actually believe that there is value in how matches seem in the context of their entire show, but also in how matches seem in a vacuum. So in other words I have no opinion about reviewing wrestling other than most people should stop it. Not me, though.
Technically the main event of the live broadcast matches from Queens, but that is a technicality, sort of in the way that Andre the Giant, Rocky Johnson & Tony Atlas vs The Wild Samoans trio was the “main event” at MSG on Jan. 23, 1984.
This is for Baker’s AEW women’s title, with Statlander coming in holding an 18-0 record in 2021 as the top contender for the belt. I don’t go nuts about AEW’s record keeping and using it as something, but I think they do it well, it’s not the thing, but it helps logically build cases for what they want to do, and to do it right, you have to actually book people in a way that makes them look strong. I think in a sense it helps as much to keep the bookers/”creative” in check as anything.
AEW Dynamite: St. Patrick’s Day Slam, Jacksonville, FL
This is a lights out match, which just means it’s unsanctioned by AEW. Anything goes! Jim Ross mentions the first lights out match he ever called was between Bill Watts and Bob Sweetan in the 70s. Excalibur notes it’s the first lights out match on Dynamite.
Tape Machines Are Rolling 
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