AEW Rampage live results: Bullet Club Gold vs. Ricky Starks & Shawn Spears
Friday’s early edition of AEW Rampage will feature the maiden voyage of Jay White and Juice Robinson’s Bullet Club Gold.
Friday’s show will air at 6:30 PM Eastern due to the NHL playoffs on TNT.
The team will take on Ricky Starks and Shawn Spears. Starks came to Spears’ aid two Dynamites ago when White and Robinson attacked him.
After Jeff Jarrett defeated Dax Harwood Wednesday due to outside distractions, FTR’s Cash Wheeler will look to even the score as he faces Jay Lethal in a rare singles match for Wheeler.
Naturally Limitless (Dustin Rhodes & Keith Lee) will reunite as a tag team against opponents to be named while Anna Jay A.S. will take on Ashley D’Amboise.
The show will also feature an in-ring promo by former AEW Tag Team Champions The Acclaimed.
The Outcasts (Toni Storm, Saraya and Ruby Soho) will also be heard from in another promo segment.
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Taped from Sunrise, Florida. Jim Ross, Excalibur and Tony Schiavone were on commentary.
Jay White & Juice Robinson defeated Ricky Starks & Shawn Spears (9:50)
The match started fast with Starks and Spears rushing the ring. Both teams brawled around ringside, White paired off with Spears and Robinson with Starks. White choked out Spears with a microphone cable. Back in the ring, Stars worked Robinson over in the corner with chops. Spears tagged in and got a near fall with a legdrop. The babyfaces worked over Robinson in their corner. White caught Spears with a knee from the ring apron, and Robinson hit a leg lariat. Robinson sent Spears to the floor, where White suplexed him face first onto the ring apron.
After a split-screen break, the heels controlled the match with Spears in their corner. Spears fought back, but White cut him off with a dropkick to the knee. Spears countered a suplex from White and got the tag to Starks, who flattened Robinson with a clothesline. Robinson blocked a DDT, but Starks countered with a Northern Lights Driver, then clotheslined White to the floor. Starks hit a superplex on Robinson, and Spears followed up with a splash off the top for a near fall.
Spears went for death valley driver on Robsinson, but he countered with a eye rake. Spears caught White with a sky high for a near fall. Spears went for the death valley driver on White, but he slid out and caught Spears with a smooth as silk Blade Runner, and got the pinfall. Great finish, so-so match.
– Lexi Nair interviewed the Hardy Boys and Hook in the backstage area. Isaiah Kassidy is missing. Was this an angle from Dynamite? Apparently the Firm kidnapped Kassidy at Applebees, and have him in a different area backstage. Ethan Page threatened to have Big Bill chokeslam Kassidy off some scaffolding unless Matt Hardy agrees to make The Firm Deletion match next Friday at Rampage. Matt agrees, and then Big Bill chokeslammed Kassidy off the scaffolding anyway. Hook promised the Firm will be deleted next week.
Naturally Limitless (Dustin Rhodes & Keith Lee) defeated Brady Pierce & Charlie James (2:08)
Lee tossed James across the ring with a beel throw, and then beeled Rhodes into both their opponents. Lee dropped James with the Spirit Bomb and got the pinfall.
After the match, the Mogul Embassy came out to confront Lee and Rhodes from the stage.
– Lexi Nair’s interview with Sammy Guevara was interrupted by Tay Melo, who read Sammy the riot act. Tay told Sammy MJF isn’t his friend, and he’s shouldn’t blow his opportunity at the World title by laying down for MJF.
Anna Jay A.S. defeated Ashley D’Amboise (4:43 aired)
Most of the first four minutes of this match took place in a split screen window, and Jay was absolutely dominant. After the commercial, Jay caught D’Amboise with a hangwoman’s neckbreaker and then locked in the Queenslayer sleeper for the tap out. This was a glorified squash.
After the match, Julia Hart attacked Jay from behind, and they brawled around ringside until the referees broke things up.
– The Outcasts said the usual but this time they were wearing t-shirts with a picture of Britt Baker’s black eye. Saraya will face Willow Nightingale on Dynamite next Wednesday.
The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn defeated Cameron Stewart, Ryzin, and a third local talent (0:50)
Max Caster referenced Ron Desantis, the new Little Mermaid, and the recently fired Don Lemon in his rap to the ring.
And the rap was longer than the match. The Famouser, the Arrival and the Mic Drop finished off Cameron in short order.
– On Dynamite Wednesday May 10th, Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley will face off in a steel cage.
– New for Dynamite next week, Juice Robinson will finally go one-on-one with Ricky Starks, and there will be a Trios battle royal with six teams.
Jay Lethal (w/ Jett Jarrett, Sonjay Dutt & Satnam Singh) defeated Cash Wheeler (w/ Dax Harwood) (12:18)
Mark Briscoe came to the ring as a “ringside enforcer” for this match.
There was a funny bit where Lethal tried to get in a Fargo Strut, but Wheeler kept interrupting him. Lethal worked over Wheeler’s midsection. Wheeler countered a Lethal Injection and clotheslined Lethal to the floor.
After a split-screen break, Lethal had Wheeler trapped in an abdominal stretch. On commentary, JR claimed the abdominal stretch used to be an automatic submission. Sonjay Dutt tried to interfere, but Mark Briscoe stopped him. Back in the ring, Wheeler got a near fall with a small package. Lethal dropped Wheeler ribs first across the top rope, continuing to work over Wheeler’s midsection. The psychology here was very strong.
Lethal came off the top with an elbow drop, but Wheeler got his knees up. Wheeler came back with body shots and forearms. Wheeler hit a powerslam and a spinning DDT for a near fall. Wheeler kept trying for a piledriver, but Lethal kept escaping and hit the Lethal Combination.
Lethal went for the Lethal Injection, but Wheeler countered into a Gory Bomb for a near fall. Sonjay Dutt slid in the ring to distract the ref, which brought Briscoe up onto the ring apron. While Briscoe and Dutt argued on the apron, Lethal sent Wheeler crashing into Briscoe. Lethal then hit the Lethal Injection and got the pinfall.
This was a very solid professional wrestling match.