"AEW Wrestlers React to Reports of Refusing to Lose Cage Match and Speculation on Potential WWE Moves"

AEW's Malakai Black and his faction mates Brody King & Buddy Matthews were booked in a cage match on AEW Collision, with Dave Meltzer implying that the "Escape" stipulation came about because no one in House of Black wanted to do the job. However, Black's teammates and AEW's Wrestling Administration Coordinator refuted Meltzer's assessment, stating that the wording change in the match graphic was just for clarity and that the format and stipulation of the cage match was always what it was going to be.