Worlds Collide (2020) was a professional wrestling show and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their NXT and NXT UK brands. It took place on January 25, 2020 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and was streamed live on the WWE Network. It was the second event promoted under the Worlds Collide chronology.
Worlds Collide is a series of professional wrestling shows that began on January 26, 2019, when WWE held an interbrand tournament featuring wrestlers from their NXT, NXT UK, and 205 Live brands. The "Worlds Collide" name was subsequently adopted for a WWE Network series that aired in April 2019. During their Royal Rumble weekend announcements, WWE revealed that a second Worlds Collide event would air live on the WWE Network on January 25, 2020.
Six matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Imperium (Walter, Fabian Aichner, Marcel Barthel, and Alexander Wolfe) defeated The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish, and Roderick Strong) in an eight-man tag team match.
Singles match
Kay Lee Ray def. Mia Yim
I had to go back and watch this match AFTER watching the rest of the show since I wasn't aware that they were airing matches on this kick-off show that weren't going to be on NXT the following week. That being said, I thought this was the better of the two women's matches on this card. Can't say that I'm a big fan of either of these women but they definitely put on one hell of a showing here. I wouldn't mind seeing them go at it again though.
On a side note, KLR is going to kill herself off how she takes some of these bumps and dives. (Laughs) Is she trying to be the UK version of Sasha Banks? She already died for our sins at Survivor Series.
Singles match
Finn Bálor def. Ilja Dragunov
I understand that Dragunov is NXT UK's pet project of sorts, but allowing main roster guys to beat the stuffing out of him isn't doing him any favors outside of showing his threshold for punishment. Sure, these matches are excellent athletic showcases, but if Dragunov is a rising star then he needs to be garnering some big wins underneath his belt. This just seems like on the job training with seasoned/much more experienced talent to educate Dragunov for higher profile matches down the road.
Nevertheless, this was an excellent match to kick off the show with and set the tone for the night. The right man went over with Bálor picking up the win.
Fatal 4-Way match for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship
Jordan Devlin defeated Angel Garza (c), Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, and Travis Banks
Devlin is another guy that I've heard that NXT UK is really high on as one of Bálor's former students, but I REALLY don't agree with taking the belt off Garza so soon. The guy just won it a few weeks ago and haven't had much time to do anything with his run outside of talking shit on commentary for a few weeks. On the positive side, I suppose this opens the door for more NXT UK talent to bounce back and forth on both shows to defend/challenge for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship.
This match was great, but there were far too many spots and instances where I literally shouted, "C'mon, that should have been the FUCKING finish!" only for guys to pop back up and do more shit for another few minutes. I know, we've been through this a million times now as that's the trend in modern wrestling, but goddamn that shit gets annoying sometimes. Every match doesn't have to go on like it's the main event at WrestleMania/Wrestle Kingdom.
Tag Team Match
DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) defeated Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate)
The first thing that went through my head watching this was that Trent Seven must have given up working out altogether like Jericho has over on AEW. This was a nice little dream match, even though I thought this went on a little too long at points. Either team could have won this match and people would have been happy. This was just fan service at this point. Nothing to complain about on my watch in regard to this match as a whole.
I can't speak for anyone else but I get nervous every time I see Ciampa take a head/neck bump and he immediately starts holding his neck, especially after the guy just came back from neck surgery. It'll pass like it did for me with Daniel Bryan coming back from retirement, but geez, there looked like there were a few close calls here.
Tegan Nox attacks Dakota Kai
Nothing to really write home about this since it was settling up their underwhelming match from this week's NXT TV episode. I don't understand why they couldn't hold that match off until the next TakeOver event in another month instead of blowing it off on free TV but that's a topic for another day.
Singles match for the NXT Women's Championship
Rhea Ripley (c) defeated Toni Storm
Out of the two showing for the women on this show, I have to say that this match was a little underwhelming. If I'm perfectly honest, I wasn't too impressed from their previous encounters on NXT UK either. This was a match with a lot of buzz behind it, but just didn't deliver to my expectations. That was added by the fact that Toni Storm failed to recapture the NXT UK Women's Championship from KLR at their Blackpool event a few weeks ago too, so both titles weren't on the line.
I love these two ladies and it hurts me to say it, but this match was easily the weakest thing on this entire card for the night.
Eight-Man Tag Team Match
Imperium (Walter, Fabian Aichner, Marcel Barthel, and Alexander Wolfe) defeated The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish, and Roderick Strong)
Alexander Wolfe was taken out of the match early after he didn't lift his chin to safely take the incoming strikes from Fish and O'Reilly, only to be legitimately knocked out and carried to the back. It worked to the benefit of this match as Imperium was down to 3 vs. 4 disadvantage, even though I could have seen Walter easily take on all four members of Undisputed Era on his own if push came to shove.
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| Even I felt that chop. That shit sounded like a fucking gun shot. No way in hell I'd be agreeing to take any chops from Walter nor Strong. |
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| Jesus. |
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| Holy shit, Strong is incredible to hit an Olympic Slam on that big Austrian bastard. |
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