Oba Femi clotheslined Omos over the top rope to close out WWE x AAA Worlds Collide, reigniting a rivalry that started on NXT house shows a year ago and giving WWE a fresh angle to push out of a taped Chicago show.
Worlds Collide was taped Saturday at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, and airs for free on WWE’s YouTube channel this Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET, an hour ahead of AEW Dynamite. The event ran the same night and in the same metro area as AEW All Out at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, with Fightful reporting that WWE held the broadcast off live television in part to pull ticket buyers away from AEW’s show. All Out sold out anyway, and Worlds Collide moved more than 12,000 tickets of its own.
In the six-man main event, CM Punk, wearing a Straight Edge Society mask to his entrance music “This Fire Burns,” teamed with Rey Mysterio and AAA Mega Champion El Grande Americano to beat Omos, Dominik Mysterio and JD McDonagh. Omos and his partners jumped the winners after the bell.
Femi, advertised only for a special appearance, ran in for the save. Omos shoved him, and Femi answered by bouncing off the ropes and clotheslining the seven-foot-three Omos over the top rope to the floor, sending the crowd home hot. WWE posted the moment to social media under the line “Omos may have met his match in Oba Femi.”
A Rivalry That Started On The Road
Femi and Omos, who are both from Lagos, Nigeria, have unfinished business dating back to October 2025, when Omos clotheslined Femi after a handshake at an NXT live event in Detroit. Femi got a measure of revenge days later at a Cleveland house show, clotheslining Omos out of the ring during a match that ended in a no-contest after the NXT stable DarkState interfered. Omos has since floated a rematch overseas, telling Heavy he and Femi are “from the same township” and leaving the door open to a program in Nigeria.
Since that Cleveland brawl, Femi has been promoted to the main roster and built into one of WWE’s biggest stars, closing out his trilogy with Brock Lesnar in a Hell in a Cell win at SummerSlam that had Lesnar himself calling Femi the future of WWE. Saturday’s confrontation was the first time the Omos issue has resurfaced since Femi’s roster jump, and it plays as a program WWE can pick up on weekly television once Worlds Collide airs.
Same City, Same Night, Different Rooms
Across town, Will Ospreay retained the AEW World Championship against Jon Moxley in the All Out main event, and both he and AEW president Tony Khan addressed the overlapping Chicago dates at the post-show media scrum. Ospreay said fans chose the right company by packing NOW Arena, and Khan said he was surprised by a Fightful report claiming WWE sources didn’t expect All Out to sell as well as it did, pointing to AEW’s year and the sellout as his answer.
Both shows happened without directly colliding on screen. The Femi and Omos staredown is the moment WWE is building around from the tape, and it’s the angle most likely to carry into WWE programming once Worlds Collide streams Wednesday against Dynamite.
