The main event of tonight’s episode of AEW Collision will see CM Punk put the ‘Real AEW World Championship’ on the line against Ricky Starks.
Recently in conversation with Sports Illustrated‘s Justin Barrasso, Punk discussed AEW Collision going head-to-head against SummerSlam tonight, marking the first time a prime-time AEW program has gone head-to-head with a WWE pay-per-view. He said,
“We are not competing with SummerSlam. We are going to go up against college football soon. We have already been up against monster UFC cards every single Saturday. We are not competing with them. We are competing with what we did last Saturday. I am competing with who I was yesterday as a human being and a pro wrestler, and we, as the Collision team, are competing with what we did last Saturday. That’s always going to be what we are striving to do, and I think that’s an important message for the fans to understand.”
We will have live coverage for AEW Collision and SummerSlam later tonight.