AEW Rampage live results: Mark Briscoe appearance, All-Atlantic title match
Mark Briscoe will make his AEW Rampage debut tonight in his first appearance since winning his promotional debut last month.
Briscoe will share some thoughts as only he can after defeating Jay Lethal in his Dynamite debut.
Friday will also feature an All-Atlantic title match as Orange Cassidy defends against Lee Moriarty, made in a backstage segment that debuted on social media. Moriarty will be looking for his first taste of AEW gold while Cassidy is gunning for his 11th title defense.
The Blackpool Combat Club’s Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta will take on Kip Sabian and The Butcher & The Blade in trios action.
“Jungle Boy” Jack Perry will look for his fifth straight win as he faces Ryan Nemeth.
Ruby Soho will look for her third straight win as she faces Marina Shafir for the first time ever. Soho is the middle of a feud with Toni Storm & Saraya who also have issues with Britt Baker.
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The preview before the show started was for last week’s show. Whoops.
Taped in El Paso, Texas. .
Jim Ross, Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Chris Jericho were on commentary.
Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta defeated Kip Sabian & The Butcher & The Blade (w/ Penelope Ford) (13:24)
No Bunny with the heel team, probably because she got her face smashed on Dynamite. Sabian and Yuta started out. Castagnoli got the tag and press-slammed Sabian. The Butcher and Castagnoli exchanged power moves. The heels got the edge after the Butcher got a high backdrop and diving crossbody on Yuta. Sabian gave Yuta a stunner out of a suplex in a creative spot.
The heels triple-teamed Yuta in their corner. Sabian charged into a boot from Yuta. Yuta caught Sabian with a dropkick from the middle rope and got the tag to Moxley. Moxley worked over Sabian in the corner and bit his forehead. Moxley hit a pair of backdrop suplexes on Sabian. Moxley locked in a kimura and transitioned into the hammer and anvil elbows. Sabian came back with a quick knee and backed Moxley into the heel corner, where the heels crotched him against the ringpost. Butcher suplexed Moxley on the floor, and Sabian hit an arabian press on the floor.
Moxley got worked over by the heels during a split-screen break.
Sabian tried a hurricanrana off the top on Moxley, but Moxley countered with a powerbomb. Butcher tried to run interference, but Moxley took him out with the King Kong Lariat. Castagnoli and the Blade got tags. Penelope Ford distracted Castagnoli with a rotary phone (google it, kids), but Castagnoli was undeterred. He went for the swing on Blade, but Sabian jumped on his back to save Blade. So Sabian got the giant swing instead. Blade tried to roll up Castagnolia (disoriented by his own move!), but Castagnoli got him in the sharpshooter. The Butcher broke that up, but Moxley took him out with a cutter. Sabian came in with a springboard dropkick on Moxley, and the Blade dumped Moxley. Butcher and Blade almost got the win after a double-team on Castagnoli. Then in an impressive spot, Yuta german suplexed the Blade.
Castagnoli launched Yuta to the floor onto the Butcher. Sabian tried to springboard in on Claudio, but Moxley caught him with a cutter. Castagnoli finally caught Blade with a pop up uppercut and got the pinfall. Wild match after the commerical.
– Darby Allin and Sting cut a promo. Allin won’t challenge Samoa Joe for the TNT title again, and he also promised to have Ortiz’s back (after he saved him from the House of Black a few weeks ago on Dynamite). Sting said he and Allin will go out “in a blaze of glory!”
– Renee Paquette will speak with Adam Cole on Dynamite next Wednesday. They teased revealing who Cole’s next opponent is going to be.
– Ricky Starks still wants to take Chris Jericho down “several notches” and he will start with Daniel Garcia. Garcia v. Starks was made offical for next week’s Rampage later in the show.
– Two of the Impractical Jokers came to taunt Chris Jericho with his stolen bat. These guys made “small bat” jokes at Jericho’s expense. They verbally “spar” with Jericho, until the Jericho Appreciation Society showed and attacked the Impractical Jokers. They put one of the jokers on a table then powerbombed the other guy though it. Jake Hager’s hat stayed on the whole time.
– Lexi Nair interviewed Dustin Rhodes in an abandoned warehouse. Pretty clever location, this way no one will interrupt the interview. Rhodes’s focus is Swerve Strickland, who wears a Doritos for a logo on his chest? Rhodes will not tolerate Swerve tarnishing his family name. Swerve’s crew show up to attack Rhodes and put him through some wooden pallets. Swerve Strickland v. Dustin Rhodes was made offical for next week’s Rampage later in the show.
Ruby Soho defeated Marina Shafir (w/ Vickie Guerrero) (5:37 aired).
Most of the first four minutes of this match took place during a split-screen break. After the commercial, Soho dropped Shafir on her head with a back suplex for a near fall. Soho went for the No Future, but Shafir blocked it. Soho headbutted Shafir, then hit Destination Unknown for the pinfall. More than half of the match took place in the break.
After the match, Toni Storm and Saraya came out to call Soho “Baby Girl” and recruit her for the Ladies World Order, but Jamie Hayter and Britt Baker ran in and start brawling. They’re broken up by a gaggle of officials. Excalibur announced Soho v. Storm v. Baker for Dynamite.
– Lexi Nair tried to interview Mark Briscoe, but Mark Sterling interrupted (because Lexi just can’t ever get through an interview no matter what she tries) to offer Briscoe his services. Briscoe politely declined, so Sterling called him a “stupid chicken farmer.” Before Briscoe could destroy Sterling, Josh Woods stepped in to remind Briscoe he’s not in Delaware anymore. Briscoe v. Woods was made official for Dynamite later in the show.
“Jungle Boy” Jack Perry defeated Ryan Nemeth (1:25)
Jungle Boy hit Nemeth with a sliding elbow strike to the back of the head. Brian Cage and Prince Nana came out after the match to confront Perry from the entrance stage. Perry v. Page was announced for Dynamite later in the show.
– Ortiz admitted he messed up with Eddie Kingston, but he won’t let Kingston become a martyr for the House of Black, even if that means he has to fight Kingston. So, if I’m following this right, Kingston wanted to join the House of Black two weeks ago, last week the House of Black didn’t want anything to do with Kingston, and this week Ortiz will fight Kingston to keep him from joining the House of Black.
– Renee Paquette interviewed an agitated Hangman Page, who isn’t happy about the way he lost to Moxley last week and that Paquette is always interviewing him after he fights Moxley. Page made the point he and Moxley are the two top guys in AEW, and a match between them shouldn’t end with a cradle.
They’re interrupted by Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford (and her rotary phone). Sabian got beat up by Moxley, but he isn’t crying about it like Page! Page left before he beat up Sabian. Later in the show Page v. Kip Sabian was announced for Dynamite Wednesday.
– Jon Mocley & Claudio Castagnoli will take on Rush and Preston Vance in a Texas Tornado match on Dynamite Wednesday. Also MJF will be contractually obligated to appear and Jim Ross will sit down with Wardlow.
Orange Cassidy (w/ Danhausen) defeated Lee Moriarty (w/ Stokley Hathaway) to retain the All-Atlantic Championship (11:28)
Moriarty grabbed a side headlock and Cassidy’s sunglasses. Cassidy reversed the hammerlock and got the sunglasses back. Cassidy was more concerned with keeping his sunglasses, so Moriarty got a go-behind and waistlock to take control. Cassidy escaped with his hands in his pockets and hit a dropkick. Hathaway never misses a trick; he had his left arm in a cast after Hook attacked him on Dynamite Wednesday.
Cassidy and Moriarty exchanged arm ringers, and Moriarty got a near fall with a version of the European clutch. They fought to the apron, and Moriarty took Cassidy down by the arm on the ring apron to take control. Moriarty worked on Cassidy’s arm during the split-screen break.
After the break, Cassidy hit Moriaty with a Michinoku Driver for two. Cassidy hit a slumdog millionaire and locked on a sleeper. Moriarty escaped and tried for the Border City Stretch, but Cassidy escaped to the ropes. Moriarty pounded him with forearms and kicks and Cassidy dropped to the floor. Excalibur denied the legitimacy of Stokley’s cast. Danhausen and Hathaway got into on the floor, and Hathaway blocked Danhausen’s low blow with his cast, hurting them both.
This distraction allowed Cassidy to hit Moriarty with a diving DDT on the floor. Cassidy came back in with a diving DDT in the ring. Moriaty dodged the Orange Punch and hit a lariat out of a hammerlock. Cassidy came back with the Beach Break. Cassidy finally hit the Orange Punch, but he was slow to cover and Moriarty caught him with the Border City Stretch. Cassidy tried to get to the ropes, Moriaty tried to roll Cassidy back into the center of the ring, but Cassidy countered that with a cradle and got the pinfall.
After the match, Satnam Singh came out on the stage to distract Cassidy and Danhausen. Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal ran in from behind and attacked them with the Golden Globe. The Best Friends tried to make the save but got laid out as well. Jarrett was about to break a guitar over Cassidy’s head, but The Acclaimed ran in (to not much of a pop) and make the save.
Final Thoughts:
Rampage is moving to 7pm next week. Hopefully the load up the show a little bit to try and take advantage of the earlier timeslot. Tonight’s show set up a lot of stuff for next week.