AEW Rampage 7/1/2022

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.