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THE AEW RAMPAGE REPORT

By Cory Strode on 2023-05-05 20:16:00

It is time for AEW Rampage, which was recorded after Dynamite at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore MD. Our commentary team is Excalibur, Jim Ross, and Tony Schiavone. 

The Lucha Brothers (Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Mero) and El Hijo del Vikingo vs Powerhouse Hobbs, Aaron Solow and QT Marshall

The match starts with QT making fun of Vikingo’s height, and Vikingo makes them run the ropes. Vikingo ends it after QT mocks his springboard landing with a spin kick. Vikingo hits a drop kick off the ropes after spinning through the ropes. He then hits two kicks and an implosion hurricanrana on QT. Vikingo hits a corkscrew kick into a phoenix splash off the second rope for two. 

Solow tags in as does Rey They run the ropes and Rey gets an arm drag after rope leaps. Rey tries for a leaping knee bar, but Sokow tags in Hobbs.

Penta tags in as well and they jockey for control until Penta gets a thrust kick. Hobbs then runs through Penta. Rey leaps into a forearm and Hobbs catches Vikingo, who leapt off the top, for a power slam. Hobbs holds Penta in a delayed vertical suplex and then tosses Penta out of the ring. QT attacks Penta on the outside and tosses him into the ring post as we go picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Solow and QT have isolated Penta, and Penta starts fighting back, taking them each out. When Hobbs comes into the ring, Penta is able to drape him on the top rope as Rey runs the rope and kicks Hobbs in the head. All three men dive onto Hobbs, QT and Solow. 

Solow is tossed into the ring. Vikingo hits a shooting star press, and the L:ucha Brothers hit an assisted slam for two, broken up by Hobbs and QT. Solow hits an over the back slam on Rey, and it’s time for everyone to come in and hit a finishing move one at a time on the last person who came into the ring. All six men are down and Rey and Solow are up first. They fight on the apron until Hobbs is up and nails Rey, followed by QT slamming Rey, and Solow hitting a diving foot stomp for two and Penta and Vikingo break it up. 

Vikingo and QT fight on the apron until Vikingo gets a destroyer onto the apron and QT lands on a table that was set up ringside during the break. Vikingo goes for a drive, but QT is pulled off the table and Vikingo puts on the brakes. Solos tries to attack Vikingo, and Vikingo hits him with a German Suplex. 

On the floor, Hobbs is attacking the Hype man Alex. Inside the ring, the Lucha Brothers hit Solow with the Fear Factor for the pin and the win.

Winners: The Lucha Brothers (Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Mero) and Vikingo

We get a video of MJF from right after Dynamite. They show him tossing stuff around backstage after he found out the main event at Double or Nothing will be a four way.

Chris Jericho requested Lexi interview him, and he’s hiding in his locker room.  After he’s sure it is her, he can’t do commentary until he’s sure Adam Cole won’t be around. 

Jade Cargill (TBS Champion) vs The Already In The Ring Gia Scott

We are told Taya Valkyrie is suspended for putting her hands on an official after she faced Cargill.

Cargill hits Jaded for the pin and the win in less than a minute.

Winner and still TBS Champion: Jade Cargill

Lexi then asks Mark Brisoce about the challenge from Jeff Jarrett vs FTR, and Jarrett’s team shows up and asks him the same question. Mark says that FTR has never backed down from a fight. Jay asks Mark to have them accept, and Mark says he has a match.

Mark Briscoe vs The Already In The Ring Preston Vance

Mark starts with strikes until Vance is knocked to the outside. Vance rips up a sign held by Mark’s daughter. Mark goes to the outside and bears down Vance. Mark puts Vance in a chair and comes off the second turnbuckle, but Vance gets out of the chair so that Mark slams into it. Vance then beats down Mark on the outside as we go picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Mark is chopping the crap out of Vance. Vance slaps on a full nelson, and Mark goes to the turnbuckle to shove himself back and stays on Vance for two. Mark gets a German Suplex on Vance, but Vance gets one on Mark. Vance hits an elbow strike, and Mark follows with a leaping kick. Both men are down.

Mark is up first, and calls for Vance to strike him. They trade chops and forearms. Vance hits a knee and Mark hits a leaping elbow strike. They run the ropes and Mark gets a clothesline. Mark gets a clothesline in the corner and then grabs Vance for a slam and a two count. Mark goes for the Jay Driller, but Vance escapes and hits a clothesline Mark rolls out of the ring. 

Mark goes over near his family at ringside and Vance tosses him into the ring and pulls a chair out from under the ring. His advisor tells him to drop the chair and he does. Vance hsi a spear as he comes into the ring for two. The chair is slid into the ring and as the ref is dealing with that, Vance hits a low blow and covers for two.

Vance tries for a Jay Driller, yelling “Reach for the sky, bitch” and Mark drops down and rolls to the ropes. Mark then dumps Vance to the floor, sets up the chair and launches off of it for a leap onto Vance. Mark hits a high running boot and tries for the Jay Driller, but Vance escapes. Mark is able to get it the second time for the pin and the win.

Winner: Mark Briscoe

His family comes into the ring to celebrate. 

Lexi is then with Dustin Rhodes, and she asks him about how AEW is going to Austin Texas. Swerve Strickland and the Mogul Associates attack him and say they will see him in Austin.

We get a video building the Julia Hart vs Anna Jay match. Is Anna still a part of the Jericho Appreciation Society?  

The Firm Deletion

Matt Hardy and his crew vs The Firm (Stokely Hathaway, Big Bill, Lee Moriarty, and Ethan Page)

The Firm show up, angry, and destroy Matt’s mailbox.  Vanguard shows with a Hologram of Matt and he says space and time flow differently at the Hardy compound. A bright light hits and it’s night time. Matt fires roman candles at them after letting us know “Firm! I Knew You’d Come!”

Matt is in full Broken mode. Matt, Jeff Hardy, Hook and Isaiah Kassidy attack the Frim and all four men brawl. Big Bill manhandles Jeff and Isaiah and leaves them both laying. 

Matt suplexes Page for two and they brawl with Page breaking a branch over Matt’s back. Jeff is fighting with Bill, and tries to choke him out with a tree branch, and Bill passes out. Stokely is nearly run over when Max and Wolfies try to run him over with a scooter. Matt and Page make it to a ring in a barn as we go picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Page covers Matt for two. Matt hits a Twist of Fate after Page yells that Matt lied and took everything from him. Bill gets in the ring and breaks up the pin with a steel chair. 

Stokely is in a luxury room and is told to  beware the gothic baby. He sees Matt’s daughter and Ruby shows up yelling at him and asking why he is in her house in Spanish. Senor Benjamin then appears and nails Stokely with a taser. Matt’s kids then beat the crap out of Stokely as he yells that Tony Khan will pay for his crimes.

Back outside, Page pours gas on Matt and Jeff as Bill holds a barbeque lighter.  Isaiah, now Brother Zay, leaps off the building to break it up. Matt says “Isaiah, I knew you’d come!”

Stokely is rolled into the ring by Reby and Senor Benjamin. Max goes to the top, hits a swanton and yells Delete. Outside, Hook puts Lee Moriarty through a table. Brother Zay hits a leg drop off of a ladder onto Bill through a table. Page is then beat up in the ring by Matt and Matt’s whole crew join him in the ring, surrounding Page. They take turns attacking him and Matt says that iIn different circumstances, they could have been great friends. 

Jeff hits a swanton, and Matt covers for the pin and the Deletion.

Winners: The Hardy Crew

Jeff goes to the outside and sets a Hardy symbol in the ground on fire.

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