Continental Crown defense booked for AEW Rampage Homecoming
Eddie Kingston will defend the AEW Continental Crown on Friday’s Rampage Homecoming episode.
ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta will challenge Kingston for the Continental Crown on the Friday, January 12 edition of Rampage. The episode is being taped Wednesday night in Jacksonville, Florida at Daily’s Place.
Kingston vs. Yuta was announced during Wednesday’s Dynamite Homecoming episode from the same venue with a video package.
Yuta called out Kingston in the package for referring to Yuta as a “young boy b*tch” in a prior Kingston promo, and called Kingston a b*tch in issuing the challenge.
While not officially announced for Friday’s show on AEW programming, Queen Aminata vs. Hikaru Shida, plus Swerve Strickland vs. Matt Sydal are also being taped Wednesday night to air on Rampage Homecoming. Strickland was involved in an in-ring promo segment on Wednesday that also included Hangman Page, and Hook as World Champion Samoa Joe threw down the gauntlet to future title challengers.
The lineup for Rampage Homecoming:
- AEW Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston defends against Wheeler Yuta
- Hikaru Shida vs. Queen Aminata
- Swerve Strickland vs. Matt Sydal
