Report: AEW Looking To Avoid Booking Collision To Go Head-To-Head With Major WWE Shows

Due to primarily airing on Saturday night, AEW Collision has often gone head-to-head with major WWE shows but that could soon be a thing of the past.

It was recently announced that Collision during WWE WrestleMania 41 week will air on Thursday, April 17 as opposed to on Saturday, April 19 against night one of WrestleMania. AEW may deploy a similar strategy for the next WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, with Dave Meltzer reporting on Wrestling Observer Radio that AEW are "monitoring the situation" around airing Collision against major WWE shows.

"I think the same thing is going to happen - I don't know that this is as a fact, but the week of Memorial Day weekend, I think that they are going to run, instead of going head-to-head with Saturday Night's Main Event, I think that they're going to run on Thursday. And the interesting thing here - I have not been told that, but I was told that they are monitoring the situations when it comes to Saturdays with WWE major shows, in particular Saturday Night's Main Event, because TBS doesn't want to go against a wrestling show on NBC, understandably so - or TNT doesn't. And, you know, perhaps pay-per-views as well. Obviously they don't want to go against WrestleMania. And also that week, there's probably other commitments for TNT anyway," Meltzer said.

This is a different strategy to WWE, who have looked to air shows against AEW pay-per-views over the past several months. AEW have tried to prevent this from happening by modifying when they announce pay-per-views but the change failed to prevent WWE from planning an NXT PLE for the same night as AEW Double or Nothing.

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