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THE LAST STOP BEFORE ALL OUT: AEW RAMPAGE REPORT

It's Friday, AEW is still at the Now Arena in Chicago Illinois, and it's Rampage, the last show before this Sunday's All Out Pay Per View. Our Announcers are Excalibur, Taz, Mark Henry and Chris Jericho. This week's show is live!

Malakai Black vs Lee Johnson

Lee comes to the ring looking frightened, and Black slowly stalks to him in the corner. Lee tries to get in waist locks and then dodges Black counterattacks. When they finally do engage, Black is able to get in a series of strikes. He tosses Lee to turnbuckles and while Lee gets in a block here and t6here, Black keeps control onto the small screen.

We come back to Lee having shoved Black into the turnbuckle and then getting strikes and a drop kick on Black. He leaps onto Black on the floor and keeps up the attack. Lee's comeback ends when Black nails him with a kick to the head that the crowd actually cheers. Black then kicks and strikes him in the corner. Black goes to the outside and looks under the ring for a chair.

Rick Knox, the referee, talks to Black but does nothing to stop him. Black lays the chair next to Lee and then squats down by him and offers to let Lee nail him with the chair. He turns his back to Lee and waits. Lee slowly gets to his feet and Black hits the spinning heel kick, picks Lee up with his weight belt and drops him to the mat and covers for the three count.

Your winner: Malakai Black

Black stands with a foot on Lee's head until Dustin Rhodes runs to the ring. Black gets out of the ring and slowly walks to the back, showing he outsmarted them. Or he's in their head.

Dustin Rhodes is backstage with Mark Henry when we come back from the commercial. He says that since Black has shown up, he has been about the element of surprise, but when he comes for him next Wednesday, he will see him coming. Quick little promo with Dustin showing fire.

Miro then comes out for a promo and Jericho calls him a cigarette machine with a head on it. He takes a minute to gather himself and he says Eddie Kingston says he is the mad king, but the only king he recognizes is Mad at him. He says that Eddie has become comfortable and is nothing more than a bat boy for Jon Moxley.

Eddie comes out and says Miro being God's favorite champion is bull$#!t. He says his god brought him here to punish Miro. He then says he will be going after Miro's weakness, his neck. Eddie charges the ring and Miro leaves the ring. Eddie charges and Miro nails him with the belt and it goes into the ring. Miro misses his attack and Eddie hits a DDT and leaves Miro laying.

Rebel and Jaime Hayter w/Britt Baker vs Kris Statlander

Rebel seems to have forgotten her crutch, so this is a handicap match.

Oh come on, you have to grant me a terrible joke every now and then.

Statlander and Hayter hook up and struggle all around the ring. They start throwing hands and Rebel holds Statlander's hair to keep her against the ropes. When Rebel tags in, she turns to Hayter and and Baker to brag how good she did. Statlander is able to take control, slams Hayter onto Rebel and then takes them both down after beating them up in opposite corners. Statlander gets Rebel up for the electric chair, and when Hayter tries a cross body, Statlander grabs her and slams them both. Impressive strength there from Statlander.

Statlander locks on a Spider crab and Rebel has to submit with Baker and Hayter not doing anything to stop it.

Your winner: Kris Statlander.

Baker, Rebel and Hayter surround the ring, but Red Velvet come out to even the odds and they leave.

We get an update of how the Elite were able to beat down Christian Cage and the Lucha Bros at the end of Dynamite and then a rundown of the matches for All Out.

We get the main event interview. Mark Henry asks about the match tonight and 2.0 says they will prevent the match between Darby Allin and CM Punk. Darby then says he not overlooking Daniel Garcia tonight, he will beat him and then walk up the ramp and stare down CM Punk.

Darby Allin w/Sting vs Daniel Garcia w/2.0

CM Punk is on commentary, but first he leaps into the crowd again. Punk is wearing a Bret Hart t=shirt and Darby stares him down when he comes to the ring.

They hook up, go to the corner and takes a long time to break. The fight goes to the outside and when Darby tries to go after Garcia, he misses, runs into a table and lands hard on the concrete. Kids. Don't do what Darby Allin do. Sting keeps 2.0 from attacking Allin, and the match goes back into the ring.

Darby escapes a slam and locks on an arm bar. They go outside the ring again and Darby starts going after Garcia's arm on the stairs. Garcia gets in a kick as Darby enters the ring. They trade control until they go to the top and Garcia gets a superplex on Darby. Garcia gets a two count as we go to picture in picture.

Punk says he's doing cardio for his training, and they discuss it. Taz then says "Hey, I used ta do cardio!", and Punk responds, "Yeah, in 1996!"

Garcia keeps control on the small screen, and when we come back to the big screen, Garcia has Darby in a sleeper and Darby gets out of it by climbing to the top and hitting a coffin drop with Garcia on his back. Punk notes that it seems that Darby has a weakness to the rear naked choke. Garcia and Darby trade chops until Darby hits a Pepsi twist, Punk's old move. They trade holds until Darby hits a Code Red for a two count.

Darby locks on a reverse Scorpion Death Lock to pin Garcia and get the two count.,

Your Winner: Darby Allin

2.0 and Sting rush the ring as the post match beat down starts. Punk leaves the announcers position and backs 2.0 down until Darby hits a tope into them, leaving Punk and Darby face to face, and we're out of time!!

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