AEW Rampage 4/22/2022

AEW Rampage 4/22/2022

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2022/04/aew-rampage-4152022.html

Owen Hart Tournament - Tomohiro Ishii vs Adam Cole

No intros for either guy. Ishii runs him over with a shoulder. Cole poses and turns his back then gets chopped over by Ishii. Ishii chops him on the outside and accidentally lariats the ring post. Cole then throws himn into the rails.

Cole pounds on Ishii then chinlocks him. Cole neckbreakers him and slaps him in the back of the head. Ishii starts to fire up and no sell then forearms him and powerslams him. Ishii backdrops him for 2. Cole death valley drivers him over the knee as we go to PiP break.

We return and and Ishii delay brainbusters him off the 2nd rope for 2. Cole comes back with a superkick then Ishii sliding lariats him for 2. Cole pump kicks him then suplexes his head on his knee for 2. Ishii no sells a superkick then they trade enzugiri's him. Ishii headbutts him, takes a superkick then lariats him. Jay White comes out and throws Rocky Romero into the steps. Rocky was in Ishii's corner. Cole then hits the boom knee to win.

I wasn't a big fan of this one. There was a lot of no selling and White attacking Romero took away from the match.

The Jericho Appreciation Society was banned from building when they tried to get in. The guard said management banned them. Why is management also banning Wardlow? Daniel Garcia then says he doesn't need them as he will beat Eddie Kingston on his own. Jericho said he would file a complaint through HR on the security guard.

Hook is interviewed in the back. He runs into Danhausen who has spilled chips all over the floor. Hook grabs him and says he has his attention now.

Lance Archer vs Serpentico

Serp dives on him as he enters and Lance just brushes him away. Lance forearms him and slams him on the apron. Lance throws him on a suplex then splashes him in the corner. Lance then hits his reverse razor's edge and wins it in no time at all.

There was no point or reason for this.

Archer chokeslams him after and tries to do a chokeslam symphony to mock Wardlow's powerbomb symphony.  

Tony Nese gets a package and Mark Sterling talks about him being a premier athlete. Tony says Mark lines them up and he knocks their lights out.

Daniel Garcia vs Eddie Kingston

Eddie slap flurries him to start. He hits some machine gun chops then chops him against the rails. Garcia hits some knees to the body. Garcia tries to boot him down but Eddie fights to get up. Garcia pounds on him in the corner and bites him then Eddie bites him back. Eddie is rammed into the post as we go to PiP break.

WE return with Garcia hitting euro uppercuts then they trade submission attempts. Garcia german's him then climbs on top of him and stomps in the corner. Eddie 2nd rope kneedrops his neck then Garcia crabs him. The ref pulls off Garcia and does a messy job of it. Eddie enzuguri's him in the lower back then exploders him. Eddie back suplexes him  then uraken's him for the win.

This was really bad. It had no momentum at all, a lot of the strikes looked bad, the crowd wasn't into it and these two just did not gel at all. I expected this to be a lot better than it was.

Eddie teases whipping him with the belt after. Eddie says he is saving the whipping for Chris Jericho and tells him to send that message to Chris Jericho.

Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland were interviewed. Lee said he wants to annihilate Team Tazz. Swerve called Hobbs and Starks "Calvin and Hobbs". Swerve said the war is far from over. This was not good.

Ricky Starks and Hobbs were at the announcer's desk and said they had a check to cash with their names on it.

Britt Baker and Jaymie Hayter were interviewed with Toni. Toni asked what she did except for being AEW women's champ. Toni asked if she ever left Pittsburgh. She said she'd see Jaymie in the first round and Britt maybe later if she makes it that far.

FTR said they wanted to face each other in The Owen Hart Tournament. They said they wanted to pay respect to Owen Hart and Dax said he has to win for his girls.

Marina Shafir and Jad Cargill do split screen promos. Jade asks who Marina is then hands it to Mark. Mark said he is a black belt as he bought one off Amazon for $20. Mark said there will be balloons for Jade's 30th win tonight. Marina said problems don't care about plans. Jade called her "Marena".

TBS Women's Title - Jade Cargill (c) vs Marina Shafir

Jade poses and gets kicked in the leg. Marina climbs on her back for a sleeper but is thrown then gets taken down. Jade fallaway slams her and Marina is lariated over the top. Jade's Baddie Section throws popcorn at Marina. Red Velvet then beats up on Marina. Jade then backdrops her for 2 and mounts and pounds her.

Jade does some delayed powerslam and we go to PiP break. We return after a long break and Marina hip throws her. Marina heel hooks her. Marina bangs her leg off the post and hip throws Sterling. Marina argues with Jade's friend and takes a stiff pump kick. Jade chokeslams her through a table but the table doesn't budge much at all and she takes a hard landing on her neck.

Jade poses on top of her and Marina heel hooks her. Jade kicks her way out and hits the double chickenwing bomb to win.

There were some okay parts to it, but I didn't think it was good.

Overall thoughts: Not a good edition of Rampage at all. I thought everything on this sucked.