AEW Collision Notes: Mark Briscoe Challenges Tommaso Ciampa to Anything Goes No DQ Stip for Their Match at 5/20 Dynamite Show, Tay Melo Surprise Appears & Reunites with Anna Jay, “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Darby for AEW World Title and More Set for 5/20 Dynamite & Collision Card

Mark Briscoe Challenges Tommaso Ciampa to Anything Goes No DQ Stip for Their Match at 5/20 Dynamite Show

Saturday’s AEW Collision show at the Wicomico Youth And Civic Center in Salisbury, Maryland featured Mark Briscoe issuing a new stipulation for his match against Tommaso Ciampa at next week’s three-hour Dynamite and Collision show.

During the show, The Conglomeration (Kyle O’Reilly, Mark Briscoe, & Orange Cassidy) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor & The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean) in an AEW World Trios Championship Eliminator match.

In a follow-up segment, Ciampa and Briscoe were seen backstage brawling that spilled out to the ringside area and eventually in the ring.

.@MrTommasoCiampa just blindsided @SussexCoChicken!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 17, 2026

Briscoe attempted to hit a Jay Driller on Ciampa who managed to escape and hit a low blow to Briscoe in return. Ciampa proceeded to attack Briscoe with a chair and attempted to slam Brsicoe through a couple of chairs only to be stopped by The Conglomeration’s Cassidy and O’Reilly who ran out to save Briscoe.

No waiting until #AEWDynamite!

The fight has erupted and mayhem is taking over right now!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 17, 2026

This led to Ciampa escaping out of the ring and Briscoe grabbing a microphone. Briscoe told Ciampa if this is how he wants to do things, then he wants their match next week to be an anything goes, no disqualification.

.@SussexCoChicken is calling for chaos!

ANYTHING GOES! NO DQ!
But @MrTommasoCiampa does not look ready for that kind of fight!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 17, 2026

Later in the show, it was announced that this match was made official for next week’s Dynamite and Collision show.

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Tay Melo Surprise Appears & Reunites with Anna Jay

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured Tay Melo making her surprise return to AEW.

During the show, Anna Jay was seen backstage for an interview with Lexy Nair. Jay talked about her recent TBS Championship match against Willow Nightingale and how she is still here despite Willow calling herself the “comeback killer.” Jay continued stating they have some work to do and looked offscreen. This led to Melo showing up and stated that they both back and ready to get into the AEW Women’s Tag Team title picture.

.@annajay___ reunites with her tag team partner, @taymelo, and they have one thing they have to do …

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 17, 2026

This was Melo’s first appearance in AEW since this past November.

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Current Card for Next Week’s AEW Dynamite Show

Saturday’s AEW Collision show also featured six new matches announced for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on May 20th at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine.

This upcoming show will be a three-hour show with the first two hours branded as Dynamite and the third hour branded as Collision.

The new matches announced were:

• AEW World Championship – “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Darby Allin (c)
• AEW World Tag Team Championship – The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy & ) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c)
• AEW Women’s World Championship Five-Minute Eliminator match – mystery opponents vs. Divine Dominion (Lena Kross & Megan Bayne) (c)
• Anything Goes match – Mark Briscoe vs. Tommaso Ciampa
• Eight-Woman Tag Team match – Athena & Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue, & Thekla) vs. Thunder Rosa, Mina Shirakawa, & The Brawling Birds (Alex Windsor & Jamie Hayter)
• Katsuyori Shibata vs. Will Ospreay
• Serve Strickland to return

Current card for May 20th AEW Dynamite show:

• AEW World Championship – “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Darby Allin (c)
• AEW World Tag Team Championship – The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy & ) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c)
• AEW Continental Championship Eliminator match – Kyle O’Reilly vs. Jon Moxley (c)
• AEW Women’s World Championship Five-Minute Eliminator match – mystery opponents vs. Divine Dominion (Lena Kross & Megan Bayne) (c)
• Anything Goes match – Mark Briscoe vs. Tommaso Ciampa
• Eight-Woman Tag Team match – Athena & Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue, & Thekla) vs. Thunder Rosa, Mina Shirakawa, & The Brawling Birds (Alex Windsor & Jamie Hayter)
• Katsuyori Shibata vs. Will Ospreay
• Swerve Strickland to return