AEW Rampage 1/14/2022

AEW Rampage 1/14/2022

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/aew-rampage-172022.html

Trent Beretta vs Adam Cole

Britt Baker was out there with Cole. Trent hit some nice forearms on Cole as he was against the middle rope. Trent took a couple of ugly looking bumps here and speared himself into the rails. Cole took a big super brainbuster here which looked hard but only was worth a 2. Cole then took a snap dragon suplex and pretty much no sold it. Then Cole took an apron piledriver. That didn't bother him either and he got up soon after for a canadian destroyer which was kicked out of, naturally.

Cole then took a back suplex, a hard lariat and an mk ultra which also wasn't the finish. Best Friends got into it with the Elite outside and Cole won with the boom in an awful indytastic match.

Shawn Spears vs Andrew Everett

Everett looked like such a dork in his blue and black singlet and was promptly defeated in seconds.

Spears got on the mic after and asked if Punk was really the best in the world. He cut a bad promo with some really stupid facial expressions.

The Acclaimed did a rap video on Sting and Darby with Bowens dressed up as Darby.

I didn't see the trios match here.

Page, Lambert and Sky did a promo. Page said Cody wasn't there because he gave him a beating. Sky accused people of ducking and said he deserves a title shot.

Ricky Starks was at the commentary desk and was talking about Jay Lethal. Jay then came out and challenged him for the FTW title. He said Ricky does what daddy Tazz says and then refs broke up their possible fight.

We got a split screen promo between the Dark Order and Jurassic Express. The Dark Order played kazoos to mock Christian in a dumb segment.

AEW Tag Titles - Jurassic Express vs The Dark Order

JB got caught on a tope with a suplex then Reynolds tope'd him. As customary on Rampage main events, the commercial ate a ton out of this one. Saurus chokeslammed Silver onto Reynolds as he held both. They tried a tower of doom spot but something went wrong and they had to set it up again and hit it which looked bad. Silver was on the apron and JB jumped slightly over it and hurricanrana'd him to the floor. JB then ran up Saurus' back for a canadian destroyer which of course was only worth a 2 count. J-E hit a really sloppy double team move and won it. This was not good.

Overall thoughts: Pretty bad episode of Rampage here. The opener was a pile of indy crap and the main wasn't much better. This also had a goofy Shawn Spears promo to add onto the garbage.