Christmas Collision

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Christmas Collision
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Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
DateDecember 21, 2024
City New York City, New York
Venue Hammerstein Ballroom
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Christmas Collision was a professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on December 21, 2024, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York, and aired live as a special Christmas episode of Saturday Night Collision on TNT in the United States.

Contents

Production

Background

AEW Collision is a weekly television program by the American professional wrestling company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). On November 18, 2024, AEW filed to trademark "Christmas Collision". [1] On November 28, as part of AEW's two-week span of holiday-themed programming, the company announced that "Christmas Collision" would be a special Christmas episode of Saturday Night Collision and would take place on December 21, 2024, from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York, and aired live on TNT in the United States. [2]

Storylies

Christmas Collision featured five professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. [3] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite , Rampage , and Collision. [4]

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes [5]
1 Ricochet defeated Will Ospreay by pinfall AEW Continental Classic Gold League match [6] 14:20
2 Kris Statlander defeated Penelope Ford by pinfall Singles match [7] 9:00
3 Daniel Garcia defeated Shelton Benjamin by pinfall AEW Continental Classic Blue League match [6] 12:15
4 Mark Briscoe defeated The Beast Mortos by pinfall AEW Continental Classic Blue League match [8] 11:40
5 Claudio Castagnoli defeated Darby Allin by pinfall AEW Continental Classic Gold League match [8] 11:15

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