News On Why AEW Chose This Week For AEW Collision Premiere

The premiere of AEW Collision is in the books, and CM Punk is back in All Elite Wrestling.

While speaking on the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted how AEW strategically chose June 17th as the date for the premier of Collision. He said,

“The show was a good show. In that sense, it’s a positive. I mean, if the show went and sucked, then you would go like, ‘Oh, it was a bad whatever.’ Saturday’s gonna be a very tough night over the long haul because of all the different forms of competition. There’s gonna be almost every week and real bad in the fall and all that. They picked this week to debut because the key sports events are over and there’s nothing for a couple of months to, so they can build this audience until they know it’s gonna be very, very tough once college football starts. So they wanted this… was a very strategic night to pick for the debut of this show.”

CM Punk cut another pipe bomb to open the show, while Punk & FTR defeated Samoa Joe, Jay White and Juice Robinson in the main event. Another major development saw Luchasaurus defeat Wardlow to capture the TNT Championship at the show.

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