AEW Rampage 12/17/2021

AEW Rampage 12/17/2021

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/aew-rampage-12102021.html

A whole lot of people didn't make Dynamite this week due to the Page/Danielson one hour draw so they are making up for it here with multi-man tags.

“The Infamous” Bobby Fish & The Super Elite (Adam Cole, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson) vs Orange Cassidy, Rocky Romero, & The Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent)

This was the usual Best Friends comedy and you know the Bucks and Cole have no problem getting in on that. The Best Friends partner Wheeler Yuta got kicked in the nuts last week by Cole and the Best Friends could have cared less here as Orange was kissing Cole and goofing off. I spent the first part of this trying to figure out who Trent Baretta resembles most now. A less tan Frankie Kazarian? A thinner Miro? A darker Cesaro? Brandon Cutler with hair? All of the above? Who knows. Fish drove Trent hard with a top rope falcon arrow and Trent got the win over Bobby Fish with a Peach Sunrise because reasons. Cole's value continues to drop by the appearance.

Dan Lambert promo

I hated this. He used tons of shoot terms and broke kayfabe in a promo on how much he hates Tony Khan, who really should never even be mentioned on this show.

Cody got his own special entrance here through the middle tunnel with fireworks because he's an egomaniac. Him and Lambert kept taking the mic from each other then Cody got beat up by Page and Scorpio Sky. Dustin Rhodes tried to make the save and then Sammy Guevarra had to make his own save. He hit a cool double jump cutter to clear out the heels.

Submission match - Tay Conti vs Penelope Ford

Believe it or not, I liked this. This was a submission match and both girls tried to do submissions the whole match which made total sense. The girls brought some intensity and Page/Danielson should have looked a lot more like this did. This was the women so it did have some sloppiness, but I actually enjoyed this more than most of the AEW stuff I've seen. Tay got the win here then got dropped with a nice brass knuckles shot.

Owen Hart Tournament

We were promised more info on this tonight after they failed to announce any information about it on Wednesday. They gave us one graphic that lasted like 5 seconds and didn't tell us any new information. What's the big secret?

Eddie Kingston, Ortiz, Santana & The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) vs 2point0 (Jeff Parker & Matt Lee), Daniel Garcia, & The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster)

They did a promo before this with everyone involved and Mark Henry's beard looks so bad. Fenix did an ode to Dante Martin here with a frogsplash knee to Garcia's face. They didn't have much time for this and it was really rushed with everyone trying to get stuff in. To make matters worse, it also had to go through a commercial. Garcia won out of nowhere with a pin on Kingston with a pull of the tights. Jurassic Express made the save for the faces after.

Overall thoughts: The women were really the only redeemable thing on this show as it had a lot of the usual AEW lowlights with botches, comedy and kayfabe being broken.