AEW Rampage live results: House of Black vs. Lio Rush & Action Andretti

Five matches are set for tonight’s AEW Rampage including the House of Black in tag team action.

In the featured match, Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews will team up against Lio Rush & Action Andretti. Rush and Andretti are aligned with Dante Martin, Darius Martin and Leila Grey of Top Flight.

Konosuke Takeshita will look to keep his recent win streak going as he goes one-on-one with Angelico.

After staking her claim on Dynamite as the top contender to Mariah May’s AEW Women’s World title, former CMLL Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale will be in action against Taya Valkyrie.

Anna Jay returns from her Japanese excursion in the Stardom 5-Star Grand Prix tournament to take on Robyn Renegade.

Former AEW Tag Team Champions The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) will face enhancement talents Ryan Clancy & TJ Crawford.

This week’s Rampage was taped last Saturday in Springfield, Massachusetts, following Collision. Spoilers from the show are available here.

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Taped in Springfield, Massachusetts. 

Tony Schiavone & Matt Menard were on commentary. 

Malakai Black and Buddy Matthews(w/ Brody King) defeated  Lio Rush and Action Andretti (w/ Top Flight & Leila Grey) (9:04)

At least Top Flight weren’t dressed like airline pilots. Black calmy sat in his corner while Rush and Andretti argued over who would start. Rush caught Black with a quick stunner which didn’t really phase Black. Andretti and Matthews got the tags and there was more dissension between Andretti and Rush. Rush was aggravated and it was distracting Rush. Rush ate a knee from Matthews that sent him to the floor. 

On the floor, Andretti kept trying to get into it with Matthews. Back in the ring, Andretti flew in and hit Matthews with a springboard forearm. Matthews blocked a double-suplex attempt, only to get hit with a double dropkick. The Righteous was shown watching the match from the back. 

After a split-screen break, Black nearly choked out Andretti with a chinlock. Andretti fought out of it, and both guys crashed into each other going for crossbody blocks. Rush and Matthews got the tags, and Rush caught Matthews with a poison rana and a springboard cutter. Black got the tag and floored Rush with an elbow. Rush came back and set up Black for a splash off the top, but Andretti got the blind tag. Rush and Andretti argued, but that gave Black the opening to hit Andretti with the Black Mass kick and got the pinfall. The arguing between Rush and Andretti was over the top.

After the match, Andretti threw a water bottle at Brody King, who mauled him with a clothesline. Top Flight drug Andretti out of the ring before things got worse for him. Later in the show, it was announced that Andretti and King will face off at Collision: Grand Slam tomorrow night. So I guess things are gonna get worse for Andretti anyway.

– Lexi Nair interviewed Anna Jay, who’s going to find her new place in AEW tonight after a tour of Japan.

Anna Jay defeated  Robyn Renegade (2:39) 

This is Jay’s first match back from a tour of Stardom. Jay blocked a hip toss attempt and buried a series of knees in Renegade’s midsection. Jay yanked Renegade out of a corner and hit a shotgun dropkick. Renegade came back with a stiff forearm. Renegade clawed at Jay’s face… then licked her own fingers afterward. Jay fired back with chops, ducked a clothesline and hit a forearm. Jay hit a rolling neckbreaker, then hit a Gory bomb to get her 60th win all time in the women’s division. Jay looked improved here.

– Renee Paquette moderated a face-to-face between Ricochet and WIll Ospreay. Ospreeay kind of ran down Ricochet for not winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight  Championship, and Ricochet responded that with his decades of experience, failing to win that title didn’t matter. The full interview is available on YouTube. 

Konosuke Takeshita defeated Angelico (8:05 aired) 

Takeshita hit a flying cutter just before the long commercial break. 

After the break, Angelico caught Takeshita with a pair of clotheslines and a small package for a near fall. Angelico tied up Takeshita’s arms, but Takeshita broke free and hit a forearm. Angelico tied up Takeshita with a leg scissors and chinlock combination, but Takeshita made it to the ropes. Both guys climb the ropes, but Takeshita raked Angelico’s face to send him to the mat. Angelico climb back up again and backdropped Takeshita off the turnbuckles! Angelico then went for a blind dive, but dove right into a forearm from Takeshita. A spinning blue thunder bomb followed by a falcon arrow finished off Angelico.  Most of the match took place in the split screen before the break, but the finish was awesome.

– Recap of Bryan Danielson & Nigel McGuinness and Dabry Allin & Jox Moxley from Grand Slam.

The Acclaimed (w/ Billy Gunn) defeated  “Fancy” Clancy and TJ Crawford (2:03)

Max Caster’s rap was quite political. He rapped about “eating cats and dogs in Springfield,” but they weren’t in that Springfield. A few weeks ago it looked like Acclaimed was thisclose to getting the tag titles back, but they look further away from the top of the division than ever. Clancy had a nice looking dropkick. Other than that, this was a squash for the Acclaimed. Bowens hit the uranage on Clancy, followed by the mic drop from Caster. He wasn’t the legal man, so Caster and Bowens hit some kind of double team powerbomb out of a press slam on Crawford for the finish. 

After the match, Caster cut a promo on the MXM Collection (calling them the Maximum Male Models), The MXM Collection responded with just an incredible promo from the big screen in the arena.

Willow Nightingale defeated Taya Valkyrie (10:53)

Willow avenged a earlier loss to Valkyire with a victory here.

Valkyrie tried to whip Nightingale out of the corner, but Nightingale did a cartwheel and caught Valkyrie with an enziguri. Nightingale followed up with several slams. Nightingale hit a shotgun dropkick off the middle rope, and Valkyrie dropped to the floor. There was no respite for Valkyrie on the floor, as Nightingale followed her out with a cannonball. 

Nightingale was fighting from underneath after the split screen break. Nightingale floored Valkyrie with a lariat. Nightingale mauled Valkyrie in the corner and hit a spinebuster for a near fall. Crowd chanted for Willow, but she missed a shotgun dropkick. Valkyrie came back with a clothesline and hit a meteora in the corner for a near fall. 

Valkyrie hit a superkick and went to the top, but Nightingale cut her off with a superplex. Valkyrie hit a series of forearms, but Nightingale came back with the pounce. Willow got the pinfall after a Doctor Bomb.