AEW Rampage Beach Break live results: Mariah May vs. Hikaru Shida
Tonight’s AEW Rampage Beach Break features a semifinals matchup in the Owen Hart Foundation women’s tournament.
Mariah May will face Hikaru Shida in the Owen semifinals matchup on tonight’s episode. The winner will advance to the tournament finals set for the July 10 AEW Dynamite against Willow Nightingale. Nightingale won the 2023 Owen.
The eventual tournament winner will challenge Toni Storm for the Women’s World Championship at All In at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 25.
Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher of The Don Callis Family will be in tag team action on tonight’s episode against Private Party’s Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen.
Kyle O’Reilly will have a singles match against enhancement talent GPA on the show.
Rush will also go one-on-one with Komander on tonight’s episode.
AEW Rampage Beach Break was taped Wednesday night, July 3 in Chicago at the Wintrust Arena. Spoilers from the show are available here.
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Taped in Chicago, Illinois.
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Don Callis were on commentary, at least for the opener.
Rush defeated Komander (w/ Alex Abrahantes) (12:09)
This was every Rush match in AEW where he just beats up his opponent around ringside and treats him like a total jobber.
Rush violently yanked Komader off the ring apron and to the floor, then tossed him all about the ring barricades. Referee Aubrey Edwards kept Rush from using a steel chair, but while she got the chair out of the ring, Rush choked Koamder with the camera cable.
Back in the ring, Rush hit a powerslam and a running double stomp. Rush kicked an imaginary field goal. Komader hit a spinning DDT. Rush went to the floor. Komader jumped off the apron with a rana, but Rush caught Komader and swung him into the ring barricade, getting a seal of approval from Don Callis.
Rush did the spot where he went for the diving dropkick in the corner, but stopped and hit the guy with a kick instead. But they guy isn’t moving out of the corner or anything, so why doesn’t Rush just finish the guy? Anyway, Rush hung up Komader on the top rope and went for the diving dropkick again, but Komader pulled himself up and Rush missed. Komader hit a torino in the ring and a tope suicida out of the ring. Koamder followed up with an Asai moonsault.
Back in the ring, Komader hit a shooting star press for a near fall. and a crucifix bomb for another near fall. Rush came back with a German suplex and a headbutt. Rush hit a superplex for two. The fight went to the apron, and Rush belly to belly suplexed Komader to the floor. Back in the ring, Rush hit the diving dropkick in the corner for the pinfall.
After the match, Rush dumped Komander at Don Callis’s feet. “Can we get a coroner for Komader? It doesn’t look good.”
– Renee Paquette interviewed the Undisputed Era about the Conglomeration. Roderick Strong wants revenge for Ishii taking the ROH TV title from him 3059 days ago.
Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher defeated Private Party (9:10)
Fletcher & Takeshita jumped Private Party when they got to the ring. Private Party went for a double-team suplex on Takeshita, but Takeshita reversed it and suplexed both his opponents. Fletcher than stacked both members of Private Party on top of each other, and Takeshita came off the middle rope with a senton bomb.
After the commercial, Zay hit Fletcher with a top ropes crossbody and a hurricanrana. Zay knocked Takshita out of the ring with a dropkick, then took both his opponents out on the floor with a tornio. Zay grabbed a shark fin hat from someone in the crowd, and came off the top with a senton.
Stereo brainbusters got The Callis Family team a near fall. Private Party countered a top rope powerbomb attempt into the Gin and Juice on Takeshita, then took out Fletcher with the Silly String. Takeshita came back and mowed down both members of Private Party with clotheslines. Zay got hit with a blue thunder bomb from Takeshita, and Fletcher finished off Quen with a face-first piledriver.
The first two matches were overly long squashes that really drug down the show.
– Don Callis conducted business earlier this week and signed Rush. Wouldn’t it have made sense to show this before Rush’s match tonight?
– A video package ran down Daniel Garcia’s match with Will Ospreay and a MJF’s heel turn.
– Roderick Strong has replaced Don Callis on commentary.
Kyle O’Reilly defeated GPA (1:34)
O’Reilly won after a suplex into a juji gatame. After the match, the Undisputed Era tried to celebrate with O’Reilly, who walked off.
– Samoa Joe challenged Chris Jericho for next week in Calgary. Joe promised a massacre. Later in the show, Chris Jericho v. Samoa Joe in a Calgary Street Fight was announced for Dynamite.
– “Timeless” Toni Storm narrated a hype video for her match with Trish Adora tomorrow night on Collision.
Mariah May (w/ Luther & Toni Storm) defeated Hikaru Shida in a Owen Hart Foundation Women Tournament Semi-Final Match (11:35)
May went for a sunset flip powerbomb off the apron and onto the floor, but Shida countered with a rana. Shida and Storm got into each others faces on the floor. May and Shida fought on the floor during the split-screen commercial break. Then it was all Shida once they got back in the ring.
After the long break finally ended, May took control with clotheslines and a running knee. May came off the top rope with a dropkick for a near fall. Shida hit an enziguri, then sent May headfirst into the turnbuckle. Shida hit a superplex for a near fall.
Shida drove May down to her knees with right hands. May came back with a spinning slide slam. May went for a hip attack, but Shida caught her and suplxed her. May responded with a suplex of her own. Shida went for the Falcon Arrow, but only got one. May followed up on a back suplex with a hip attack. May went for the Storm Zero, which lead to a series of cradle reversals. Toni Storm distracted Shida, who walked into a headbutt from May, but Shida came back with a knee. Shida went for the katana kick, but May countered that with a cradle and got the pinfall.
The finals will now be Willow Nightingale v. Mariah May for the title shot at All In.
For Collision Saturday:
- Riho v. Lady Frost
- The Conglomeration v. The Iron Savages
- We’ll hear from Jack Perry, MJF, Christian Cage (separately).
- Adam Page v. Jay White in the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Semi Final match.