AEW Rampage 7/1/2022
Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2022/06/aew-rampage-6252022.html
Royal Rampage for an Interim AEW title shot
It's
time for our monthly battle royale. I think I've finally figured out
why they do so many of these, and it's to get a lot of people on TV at
once. Why this is needed when we have rankings to determine the top
contender is beyond me. It was also never explained how people qualified
for this. It was a clever way to use the two rings from Blood and Guts
though and is something different. Wardlow looked like a dummy here for
passing up his second chance at the interim title in order to chase
Scorpio Sky's TV title.
They have two battle royales going on at
the same time here. The winners from both meet in a battle royale to
determine the winner. Some of the highlights were Tony Nese going out
early here by being thrown out on Mark Sterling, then getting tope'd by
Darby. Butcher came down and swung Darby into the rails powerbomb style.
Hobbs took a double backdrop from John Silver and Adam Page before they
hugged. They each then teased throwing each other out. Rush came out
and made his AEW debut here and fought Penta on the entrance ramp when
he entered. They eventually fought on the apron where Rush low blowed
him and they both fell out. Takeshita hit a double german suplex on
Darby and Swerve.
As everyone expected, Darby Allin and Brody
King (lol) were the winners of their battle royales. King then took out
Darby and won it.
This was long and slow with King winning out of nowhere. Rush also lost on his debut in true AEW fashion.
Hook
was interviewed while he ate chips and he had nothing to say as usual.
Alex pestered him about his lack of responses, then Hook grabbed him. He
said those other interviewers don't think and said anything essential
is invisible to the eyes.
Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI vs The Young Bucks
Goto
hiptosses Yoshi on a Buck early and they double clubbed their
opponents. Yoshi took a locomotion northern lights suplex then Goto got
in and took one too. Nick then walked up the buckles and did a corkscrew
dive to the outside. We went to PiP break and returned to Yoshi getting
suplexed. Goto bulldogged one of the Bucks then one of the Bucks
flipped off the other with a shiranui. Yoshi and Goto hit a russian
legsweep + blockbuster combo. Goto flipping lariats one of the Bucks
then takes a superkick from the other. Yoshi then lariated over the
Buck.
Goto neckbreakered a Buck over his knee then a Buck took a
superkick into a neckbreaker over the knee. Yoshi got superkicked and
Goto got double superkicked. Yoshi then took the BTE trigger. Nick then
ran up the ropes and did a double springboard on Goto in the other ring,
then came back did another up the buckles double springboard into a
Meltzer driver on Yoshi to win it.
The ending spot was so stupid.
The Bucks had it won and then started doing springboard moves for no
real reason other than to them. The match wasn't anything particularly
special, but it couldn't be since it had no build or anything to it.
We
get a video on Jonathan Gresham. He said he agreed to a tag match with
Tully Blanchard's crew and will keep his promise. He said he didn't like
Cesaro and Danielson saying they are the best technical wrestler when
it's him. He said next week he would show us why.
I am not watching the main event due to it being intergender nonsense.
Overall thoughts:
The battle royale was slow and boring. King won it for no reason and
there were a bunch of logic loopholes. Bucks vs Goto/Yoshi wasn't
anything too special with a real stupid finish, but it was cool to see
Goto and Yoshi.
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