One week before World’s End, a special pre-Christmas edition of AEW Collision takes place for the first time at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. For this week, the show will be begin after the College Football Playoff Game. If the game ends before the scheduled start time, AEW Collision will start at its scheduled time.

It is a loaded show consisting mainly of matches in the Continental Classic as wrestlers are jockeying for position to make into the top two spots of the Blue and Gold League, respectively, with the semifinals and finals occurring at AEW World’s End. On tap in the Gold League, Darby Allin looks to continue his momentum after defeating Will Ospreay on Wednesday’s Dynamite in the best match of the tournament thus far, as he battles Death Rider member Claudio Castagnoli. Ospreay looks to get back on the winning track as he takes on Ricochet in a must-win bout for both guys.

A loss would essentially knock them out of the tournament. Coming off getting beatdown by The Hurt Syndicate, TNT champion Daniel Garcia looks to exact revenge on Shelton Benjamin, who after getting the better of Garcia, held up the belt to put the titlist on notice in Blue League action. Also on the show will be TBS champion Mercedes Mone, who is coming off a successful title defense on Sunday at the New Japan Strong Style Evolved event over Hazuki in perhaps the best women’s match of 2024. Mone followed that performance up with beating Anna Jay on Wednesday’s Dynamite to retain the TBS gold.