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AEW Collision 7/8/23 Review - CM PUNK AND SAMOA JOE RIVALRY RENEWED, TAG TEAM CLASSIC

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Tv & Film, Wrestling, Sports, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Solomonster reviews AEW Collision for July 8th, 2023 with the first singles match between CM Punk and Samoa Joe in 18 years and more action in the Owen Hart Foundation tournament, plus a tag team classic between FTR and Bullet Club Gold. Seriously, go out of your way to watch this match (after listening to this review, of course).

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0:00.0

In the last time CM Punk and Samoa Joe set foot in a wrestling ring together to go one

0:06.4

on one, it was for a promotion called Frontier Wrestling Alliance based over in England.

0:12.8

This was in March of 2005.

0:17.1

And Samoa Joe won that match as he did most of their matches except for the couple of time

0:21.8

limit draws that they went to classic matches.

0:25.2

In Ring of Honor, the 60 minute time limit draws that the two of them had.

0:28.4

That was many, many years ago.

0:30.7

There were a lot older now.

0:31.7

They have a lot more mileage on their bodies.

0:34.6

CM Punk, we weren't even sure if he would be back in AEW.

0:37.9

So to get Punk and Joe in 2023 is something of a novelty.

0:44.0

But it had some importance tonight because they had a match as part of the Owen Hart Foundation

0:48.7

tournament in the semi-finals and we got that match tonight in the main event.

0:55.2

And CM Punk is going on to the finals.

0:58.3

CM Punk finally did what he could not do years ago.

1:01.7

He beat Samoa Joe.

1:04.4

That was not a decisive win.

1:06.0

It was one of those kind of fluke roll-up wins, but nonetheless, Punk has finally exercised

1:11.7

his demons for many years ago.

1:14.8

And he is moving on to the finals where he will now set foot in the ring with absolute

1:19.3

Ricky Starks.

1:20.3

And that match is going to be taking place in Calgary.

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