AEW Rampage live results: Royal Rampage
A battle royal for a future shot at the AEW World Championship headlines tonight’s AEW Rampage.
The annual Royal Rampage is a dual ring over-the-top-rope battle royal with the winner earning the aforementioned title shot at this September’s Dynamite Grand Slam in Queens, New York.
Brody King won the 2022 version for a shot at the then-Interim AEW World Championship while Darby Allin won last year’s match for a shot at the TNT Championship at All Out.
Kris Statlander will be in action on tonight’s show, facing Leila Grey in the latter’s first televised bout since March 2023.
A four-way tag team match will feature The Don Callis Family (Kyle Fletcher & Rush) vs. The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum) vs. The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen).
Lance Archer is also set for action on tonight’s show against an enhancement talent.
Spoilers from the show are available here.
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– Excalibur, Matt Menard, and Tony Schiavone were on commentary for tonight’s episode of Rampage.
Darby Allin won the Royal Rampage Match (Winner Earns an AEW World Title Shot at AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam)
Orange Cassidy, Claudio Castagnoli, Brody King, and Komander entered first to start the match in the two rings. Cassidy faced off with King, while Castagnoli and Komander were face to face.
Cassidy held on to King’s hand, while Komander did the same with Castagnoli. Both tried for a simultaneous arm drag, but King and Castagnoli stopped them cold in their tracks.
Entrant 5: Tomohiro Ishii (The Conglomeration)
Ishii and King began battering each other with chops as Komander tried and failed to eliminate Castagnoli. Over in the other ring, Conglomeration teammates Ishii and Cassidy teamed up on King.
Entrant 6: Brian Cage
Cage went after Castagnoli in the right ring and hit a feint kick. Komander’s casa dora was caught by Cage, who slammed him down.
Entrant 7: The Butcher
King and Butcher hit a double elbow drop on Ishii and continued to work together as they attacked Cassidy afterwards. The alliance was short-lived as King and Butcher foguth each other.
Entrant 8: “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard
Menard got up from his commentary table and entered the right ring to attack Castagnoli with punches.
Entrant 9: Roderick Strong (Undisputed Kingdom)
Strong slid into the left ring and went right after Cassidy immedaitely, then stomping on King, and Ishii in the other corners. Strong and Butcher worked together as the former took out King with a running knee.
Entrant 10: Kip Sabian
Sabian entered the right ring and went on an offensive flurry against the competitors inside that ring. The action began to wind down for a bit as the next entrant made his way to the ring.
Entrant 11: Brandon Cutler
Cutler walked down the ring with a microphone and talked about what he and the Young Bucks went through in Blood and Guts. He ended up being the first elimination after Ishii clotheslined Cutler as he got on the apron.
Entrant 12: Nick Wayne (The Patriarchy)
Wayne entered the right ring and went after Sabian right away. Hurricanrana by Wayne, followed by a dropkick on Sabian. Meanwhile, Cage eliminated Menard from Royal Rampage with a clothesline.
Entrant 13: Kyle O’Reilly (The Conglomeration)
O’Reilly targeted Strong with his signature kicks before he turned his attention to The Butcher. Menard returned to commentary in the mean time.
Entrant 14: Jeff Jarrett
Jarrett got a huge reaction from the crowd as he entrered the right ring and went on a tear. Rampage went to a picture-in-picture break at this point, with the Royal Rampage match still in progress.
The Butcher was eliminated as Rampage returned from the break, which led to the next entrant entering.
Entrant 15: Matt Taven (Undisputed Kingdom)
Taven aided Strong in the left ring as he went after Cassidy and O’Reilly. Over on the left ring, Komander was eliminated by Wayne after he got pushed off the ropes.
Entrant 16: Jay Lethal
Lethal mixed it up with Wayne in the right ring, flooring him with a smooth dropkick. Jarrett and Lethal attempted to team up to get Wayne eliminated, but Sabian instead got the honor of eliminating Wayne. We saw the rest of The Patriarchy watching the match backstage, as Christian was upset at Killswitch for not helping Wayne out in Royal Rampage.
Entrant 17: Mike Bennett (Undisputed Kingdom)
Bennett floored Cassidy with a backpack stunner of sorts before he got into a chop battle with Ishii in the middle of the left ring. Bennett and Taven then worked together on Ishii.
Entrant 18: The Beast Mortos
Mortos took down Castagnoli with a pop-up Samoan Drop and hit Lethal with a fierce headbutt. Jarrett and Lethal worked together to eliminate Sabian from Royal Rampage.
Entrant 19: Darby Allin
King locked his eyes towards Allin and began to fight with him in the left ring. King rammed Allin back-first into the corner as the battle spilled outside with both men rolling under the ring to avoid elimination. In the right ring, Jarrett and Lethal hit double guillotines on Castagnoli and Mortos as they then did the Jarrett strut.
Entrant 20: Lio Rush
As Rush entered the ring, Allin and King were fighting in the crowd. Back inside the ring, Rush fought with Castagnoli and Lethal as Rampage headed to another picture-in-picture break.
Rampage returned with Mortos getting eliminated by Rush, while Allin and King’s brawl made its way back to the ringside area. Ishii and Bennett ended up getting eliminated around the same time. Rapid fire eliminations happened with Cassidy, Taven, and O’Reilly all getting eliminated one after the other. Allin, King, and Strong were left in the left ring.
Castagnoli caught Rush from the apron and brought him over the rope. In the ensuing standoff, Rush was eliminated after Castagnoli threw him from the apron. Strong ended up also getting eliminated simultaneously. Lethal also got eliminated.
Over on the left ring, Allin and King had fought on the apron until Allin scored the eliminatiuon by charging into King to send him crashing from the apron. Back on the right ring, Jarrett was on fire against Castagnoli and Cage. “Hangman” Adam Page appeared out of nowhere to ambush Jarrett from behind. With Jarrett out of it, this allowed Cage to easily eliminate Jarrett. We went to a full commercial break with Hangman continuing to pummel Jarrett at ringside.
Back from the break, Castagnoli and Cage were fighting in the right ring, while Allin got a bit of time to rest as the last man standing in the left ring. Castagnoli and Cage’s fight made its way to the apron, where Castagnoli got the elimination by hitting the Neutralizer on Cage.
With two competitors left, Castagnoli got the upper hand by throwing Allin from one ring to the other, which caused Allin to roll out under the bottom rope.
Outside the ring, Castagnoli grabbed the steel steps and then did the Giant Swing on Allin right into the steel steps. Back in the ring, Castagnoli threw Allin with a German suplex. On a second German suplex attempt, Allin landed on his feet and sent Castagnoli to the apron.
Castagnoli grabbed Allin from the apron and the two began to fight. Allin bit at Castagnoli’s hand and perched him on the top rope. Allin went up top with a Coffin Drop to cause Castagnoli to tumble to the outside for the win.
This year’s Royal Rampage might not have been as strong as previous year’s editions, but it was still an entertaining match. Allin as the holder of the AEW World Title shot at Grand Slam in September will make whoever leaves All In: London as AEW Champion between Swerve Strickland and Bryan Danielson quite the interesting opponent.
– After the match, Castagnoli refused to shake Allin’s hand.
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– We got comments from Willow Nightingale after Kris Statlander’s attack on her on Dynamite this pst Wednesday. Nightingale said that Statlander might be a bit obsessed with her as she put up her CMLL Women’s Championship on the line for next week’s Dynamite in a Title Eliminator match.
Kris Statlander defeated Leila Gray
Statlander kicked Gray in the head before finishing things off with the Friday Night Fever for the quick win.
Pretty much a short squash to give Statlander some heat ahead of her CMLL Women’s Championship Eliminator Match on Dynamite.
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Lance Archer defeated Local Talent
Archer carried his opponent to the ring, having already beaten him up before hand. Once both made their way to the ring, Archer made short work of his opponent with repeated chokeslams, much to the approval of the Nashville crowd. Archer put an end to things with the Blackout for the pin and win.
Short and sweet, but it’s always fun to see Archer put away hapless jobbers.
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– Backstage, Saraya and Harley Cameron were interviewed. Saraya said she’d be in action next week to prove why she deserved to be in the ring at Wembley for All In: London.
Don Callis Family (Rush & Kyle Fletcher) defeated The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd), The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) and Private Party (Isaiah Kassidy & Marq Quen)
The match began in progress as Vincent found himself getting floored by an Outrunners double team attack. Dutch entered the match and easily pushed aside Magnum and Floyd. The Righteous continued to have control of the action. Rampage went to its final commercial break with The RIghteous having the upper hand.
We returned from break with Private Party in the match, using their high-flying offense to take everyone out. Kassidy took down Dutch with a backstabber, which allowed Quen to soar with a 450 splash on the big man. Floyd dropped Kassidy across the top rope with a guillotine. Floyd’s taunt was interrupted by Fletcher, who began to chop at Floyd alongside Rush.
The Don Callis Family duo showed great chemistry as Rush set Floyd up for his running attack, but stopped short and kicked him instead. Fletcher finished this match with a belly-to-belly Tombstone piledriver on Floyd for the victory.
– After the match, Rush took the camera cable from Don Callis and choked Floyd with it as Fletcher punched at Floyd to end this week’s Rampage.
A decent main event that did get disrupted a bit by the sheer length of Royal Rampage so the flow felt a bit off. That said, it’s always good seeing these four teams get a spotlight in the main event.