[7.0] "Solid show with a lot of action on the show. Best match on the show was the main event slightly beating the opener. Shirakawa vs Van was probably the most disappointing matchup."

[6.0] "This episode felt more like the Collisions of early 2025 where there was really no movement or much impactful continuations of story and some basic matches. Don't get me wrong - the Triple Threat for the TNT Championship was a really good match, but that one could have been milked an extra week to build up because there was some easter egg moments that could have drawn more eyes. The Bucks and GOA match was good but not really sure how this helps GOA at all aside from setting up the wins to validate the Bucks going for the Tag Team Belts against FTR... again. The Mina/Van match - though was a great nod to the past - was... ROUGH to watch! And the Scorpio Sky/Knight match felt like the beginning of the 2011 Hardy/Sting Victory Road match in TNA. It took forever to get that match going. Definitely not Collisions best showing in quite a while but in comparison sakes - this did feel more like what Raw, TNA, and NXT have been presenting as of the late - which is a shame."

[6.0] "Opening was good, as was the final two matches. Show really stumbled in the middle, though. I thought leaving the residency would light a fire under Collision's ass, but it's clear minds were more focused on Sydney. That's not to say it was bad -- Collision rarely is -- but it's not something I would go out of my way to watch again."

[9.0] "One of the best collision in recent time the tnt match was tremendous and the parking lot was a certified banger the bucks and gates of agony was also decent"

[3.0] "It's the completionist in me that keeps me watching Collision, as well as the increasingly distant memory of it not always being this bad. The main event is okay, but there's not a whole lot you can do with a three-way so short. The Thekla and Statlander stuff is okay, too, progressing from "Call me daddy" reddit fetishism to the broadly more appealing fetishism of a woman in tight leather whipping women restrained by other women in tight leather. I'm not wrong in calling this fetish content. Either way, I think the gimmick helps in selling the rematch and I think it makes the result feel less predictable. The rest of Collision was either mediocre or dire, with the thrown-together parking lot brawl and Mina vs Viva being particular lowlights."

[3.0] "I would have to give this one a 3, because to call this adequate would be too much praise. The main event was a very good match, but for every other match and segment of the show, something was disjointed and off, with the exception of Thekla Vs Brooks, which was short enough that it didn't have time to also become disjointed and off. The only other semi-decent match of the show, the Young Bucks vs Gates of Agony, was a boring stop-start affair; while the parking lot brawl was just a gratuitous excuse to damage cars for the hundredth time to generate a worn-out shock value that's been old since the attitude era - at least it had a decent plot-point with Myron Reed kidnapping Isla Dawn, but that was only brought up on Twitter's exclusive post-match comments video, I hope it's mentioned on Dynamite next week. Hook's segment was cringe, and if it doesn't lead to an angle of conflict with Shibata for Opps leadership, then it's nonsensical as well. Windsor and Hayter was also even more cringe, "Brawling Birds? " more like "Insufferable Slappers." Unhinged violent arseholes beating a man in a bar and glassing him in the face because he was too overenthusiastic/obnoxious when asking if they wanted a drink? Lesson learned: if you are loud and obnoxious, and you see a couple of women who are as loud and obnoxious as you are, don't think you've found kindred spirits unless you want to be maimed and facially deformed for life, gotcha. Look, considering the amount of talent on this roster and some of the great potential we see them show on Ring of Honor and DPW, what the hell is this crap? Can we get a few suggestions from older heads to help with creative and innovative stuff for some of these wrestlers? TK has an alliance with Bushiroad, how about asking Taro Okada for some advice? He's done a great job with Stardom since taking over. What about the guys from DPW? They seem to know how to make the best out of the talent at hand. AEW have done decent ticket-sales for Revolution, so how about some proper promotion and build for the Aussie show which is sooner? Come on AEW, we're seeing "lame" and "stagnant" all over the other televised promotions in North America besides CMLL, now's the time for you to seize the moment; there is too much talent and too much at stake for the future of your company to waste this opportunity and to waste good TV time."

[4.0] "Pros: Main event / Mox on commentary / Parking Lot Fight. Cons: Holy moly the first hour was a tough watch / This crowd is SHIT / Mina gets a special mention because holy shit girl get it together. A genuinely painful hour of collision followed by such an uptick in quality I think the TK coke must have finally kicked in. My expectations for Fletcher v Ciampa is astronomical and if it meets them it'll be a MOTY contender for sure. Back rake count: 1, Eye poke count: 1. 4/10 collision."

[5.0] "Overall, a fairly average episode, although the last two matches slightly improved things. Too many quick matches lacking suspense and significant action. Collision's midcard segment always seems rushed, especially for the women. There's not much to remember outside of the matches, aside from the interactions between Thekla and Statlander, or those involving Fletcher (Okada, Ciampa). Match quality: 2.75/5. Off-match angles and segments: 0.75/3. Bonus/penalty: none. Total: 5.5/10. Show watched on Triller TV."

[4.0] "A lot of this show was simply just there. The stuff with the women was god awful as there's zero reason to why Thekla should be winning against a talented wrestler THAT fast. Mina and Vivan had anti chemistry too. This was on track to being VERY bad but thankfully the main event elevates it to being just a bad and not the worst collision ever. I'm getting worried for Collision too. The viewership is at an all time low and the quality has dipped a ton since the c2. I'd either move it to Thursday or simply cancel it and make a new weekly show because the current format isn't working well."

[6.0] "Until the final half an hour, this show was little better than awful. Plodding and basic. If you were trying to convince me not to care and that this show doesn't matter, you couldn't have done a better job. LUCKILY, the last half hour was excellent. The Parking Lot Brawl was oodles of fun and the Three Way main event was banging. The show was saved in the last seconds really and Collisions dip in quality has started to become a pattern again. Do better Tony."

[7.0] "Good Collision overall, not the greatest ever but a good amount of stuff I liked, especially in the second half. Really liked the parking lot brawl and the main event three way in particular."

"It is really exhausting just how little Khan cares about Collision usually just stacks it with a bunch of random matches mostly a match with either a bunch of people we don't care about or one side we care about and another we don't leading to outcomes we already know the results before the match even starts. Beyond that you get a handful of short promo that don't really build anything. You did at least get a pretaped promo from MJF and their at least trying to build something with Thekla and Statlander. It looks like their trying to build Collision around Ciampa, but really the build for Fletcher and Ciampa wasn't all that good as they wasted so much time and stuff that isnt important to have a proper confrontation between Ciampa and Fletcher. that Thekla squash match and Mina match should never have been written in the first place for this show and if they had given those 6 minutes for a proper Fletcher/Ciampa feud then their match Wed would have a lot more hype around it beyond "hey, their both good in the ring they should have a good match.""

[4.0] "With a roster as deep and stacked as AEW, there is really no excuse for putting on a show this bad. Outside of the main event this was largely woeful."

[8.0] "Fun show with a good opener, a great main event and fun parking lot brawl. The build for Thekla and Statlander's strap match was strong. Only real bad point of the show for me was Mina-Viva which unfortunately just wasn't very good."

[5.0] "Expected more. The last two matches should've been brilliant but instead they fell flat. Were they limited with what they could do in the parking lot? Felt more like a brawl than anything. Main too short. Meh."

[4.0] "Normally don't rate Collisions because they're almost ALWAYS a waste of time. The shows are never bad because the wrestling is usually up to par and entertaining enough if that's your thing. But from a story perspective this show offers NOTHING. The Bucks GOA match was okay, but that was it, we have the match and we're onto the next segment. One of the only in ring segments was awful. Statlander can't cut a promo and nobody cares about the Toxic Triangle. The Thekla squash was also a waste of time, and did absolutely nothing to further her heat. If anything it was a channel switch. Nobody cares about Scorpio Sky, instead of filling 11 minutes of telling a story with someone we actually care about, we have a Kevin Knight match where we know he has to win because he's a champion, that was average at best. The mixed tag put me to sleep. I did however like the parking lot brawl, Eddie Kingston deserves so much better than this though. The main event was the only good thing on the show, Ciampa Fletcher had a below average face-off in the end, no idea why Ciampa isn't cutting a response promo here. Maybe if they didn't waste time with matches nobody cares about, we'd have time to further a story we actually do. Bad show 4/10, no shocker."

[8.0] "Taped is always a bit weird on a double taping since you don't have people working double duty but I thought this was fun. Tag match was great, parking lot brawl was a ton of fun and the main was really good stuff. A bit draggy in the middle but not bad."

[5.0] "The most taped Collision of all the taped Collisions. Good main event, otherwise very little happened that I'll remember by next week."

[5.0] "This was a rough one. The opener was decent, the Bucks went pretty far in making the GoA look like killers, but not even the Bucks are miracle workers and GoA just kinda exists as lifeless heavies. Sky Flight are still getting tv time, but I guess somebody has to eat the pins in these maintenance matches though so it's whatever. A bit of fun in the clowning around in those matches, but overall skippable. The Mina match was atrocious. Slow, clunky, and the ending was awful. The parking lot brawl was ok. A couple spots were gnarly (that's a good thing), but the camera felt static, the location very small. Nothing felt new or particularly fun, and it looked more like they were all fuckin in that shaky limo rather than fighting. Also, the smoke in the limo could've been funny if they weren't brute forcing the pothead gimmick. We get it, let's not make that they're entire personality. Thekla got some good heat, but I'll never root against Stat."

[7.0] "I preferred last week's episode overall but this was still better than the early January ones. Toa botching the moonsault in the opener was hilariously bad, bucks were good as usual and the match was okay overall. Standard FTR promo. TNT title vid pack was fine. Solid & brief Brody promo. I don't like how they've laid out the women's title angle. I've praised AEW for being effective with their segments recently but this came off as way too functional (just a means to an end, rather than something organic). The heat segment should've occurred on dynamite and the match announced on collision because Stat immediately responding undermines the beating form the heels. Also, the sooner Thekla drops the toxic thing (cause what does that even mean) the sooner she could be a champ. Protokada segment was fine and I think I know where this is going. Knight v Sky was decent and had more consistent action than the opener. Hook segment was unintentionally funny cause he's basically the boss of Shibata and that's it. Mina v Van felt slow and energy zapping. I'm sure this didn't go long but it felt pretty long to me. The crowd do their best though and I actually think Mina and Toni are better apart. I actually found the mixed tag match more engaging than the prior matches and thought everyone involved looked impressive given their respective levels. Mox was fine on comm as usual. Post match was the right kind of effective, especially Yuta going from threatening to shave Dante to Zayda (minor but clever detail). He's an excellent mid card heel and his dynamic with Marina is kinda unique. Brawling birds vignette was alright. MJF pre taped promo reminded me that he's so far ahead of so many other guys on the mic, it's kinda concerning. Thekla squash was quick, for an aew squash. Post match made me think the whipping of her opponents could be part of her gimmick tbh (like a punisher or something). At least it wouldn't be vague like the toxic thing. Mox was relatively good in the Continental title package. I went into the parking lot brawl indifferent, and came out intrigued by how they follow-up. It started off like white noise but the crazier it got the better. Funny to see a blow off type match function to get me invested in a feud potentially going further. Could've been slightly shorter though if they cut out some of the earlier portions. Roddy/Briscoe segment backstage was same old stuff. TNT title feels meaningful atm. Also, it feel like TK has silently done a soft brand split with the titles at least (don't mind that at all). Anyways, I really liked this match. The quality of work, match layout and existing feud between Strong and Claudio all contributed to that. A lot of action was packed into this and it still felt like a sprint. I have mixed feelings about the post match. Fletcher on the mic was very convincing and he's clearly ready for the main event scene, which is why I'm not interested in him going for the tnt title. At the same time this match will slap but I see him losing (how he loses matters though). Something tells me he'll be going for the International belt soon. 6.7/10"

[4.0] "Aside from the decently fun opener and awesome main event, this episode felt like a big nothing burger that had multiple pointless matches and a waste of time of a parking lot brawl. The only thing that's actually worth rewatching or even remembering was the TNT title triple threat, overall a meh episode of collision."

"[10.0] "The Death Riders are not only the most significant heel faction in AEW today, but they also don't seem to care for most wrestlers.""