AEW Rampage 10/25/2024
Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/aew-rampage-10182024.html
Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) vs. The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor)
Roderick Storng is on commentary. Taven and Lee lock up. Taven wristlocks him. Lee escapes and takes him down. Lee armdrags him then rides his back. Lee clubs on him. Taven goes up and over then dropkicks him. Lee takes a lariat. Kaun back elbows Mike then back elbows Taven.
Taven misses a corner charge and takes a big lariat. Kaun hits a rare standing moonsault for 2. Kaun and Toa pound on Taven in the corner. Loa hits a corner splash then headbutt drops Taven's back. Kaun slingshot swantons Taven.
Kaun is sent into the post shoulder first by Taven. Taven step up enzugiri's Toa. Mike hits chops on Toa. Mike hits superkicks then a dropkick. Shane hits a sky high on Mike for 2. Shane hits a big lariat on Mike.
We go to PiP break and return. Taven corner splashes Shane the spin kicks Lee. Taven superkicks Kaun then springboard enzugiri's Toa. Lee takes corner attacksthen takes a death valley driver and a running knee from Taven for 2. Shane uranage's Mike. Shane knees Taven in the face.
Kaun hits an air raid crash on Shane. Toa hits corner splashes on Mike and Taven then hits a flying back elbow on Taven. Toa hits a big lariat on Lee. Tora then hits a double samoan drop on Lee and Mike.
Lee takes corner attacks and a T-gimmick slam. Taven top rope splashes Lee and gets the pin.
Thoughts: This was a random tag with nothing on the line and with team who haven't been on TV it some time. They did what they could with it here but it was pretty chaotic with people coming in and out constantly. Toa and Kaun looked good here as usual and Shane had a nice move or two.
Renee interviews Beef for some reason. Beef says he's glad to be back here on Rampage. He says Anthony Henry is all beat up. He says Henry won't talk to him. He talks about The Beast Mortos. Beef says they fight in their family. JD Drake comes in (Beef said Henry wouldn't give him JD's number) and tells Beef good luck. Beef then gets all hyped up.
Strong, Taven, Bennett and Mortos are interviewed by Renee. Strong says it's bugging them that they won't be out there with Mortos. Taven says Mortos is better off with them. Taven says they will give Mortos human beef. Mike says if Taven can beat Beef, he can eat him. Strong says you can lead a beast to water but you can't make him do whatever you do and says Beast is still his boy. Mortos then growls.
Anna Jay vs. Leila Grey
They lock up and trade waistlocks. Anna side headlocks her then shoulders her over. Anna hits knees to the gut and spinning heel kicks her. Grey boots her then blockbusters her from the 2nd rope.
Grey clubs on Anna and bangs her head off the buckles. Grey bulldogs her. Anna suplexes her and they trade chest forearms. Anna flying forearms her. Anna iconoclasms her then basement dropkicks her. Anna hits a gori bomb and wins.
Thoughts: It was a squash as expected. Grey had an okay showing though despite being limited. It was just average here.
Anna says she will see Mariah May next weekend. We see Taya Valkyrie and Deonna Purrazzo watching this on TV in the back.
The Beast Mortos vs Beef
Mort headbutts Beef over. We go to PiP break > full break then return. Mort hits punches on Beef. Beef flips out of a backdrop then boots him in the corner. Beef 2nd rope twisting crossbodies Mort. Beef hits punches on Mort. Mort's head is rammed into the buckles. Beef bulldogs him for 2.
Beef hits punches. Mort pop-up samoan drops him for 2. Mort hits a corkscrew splash off the top for 2. Beef step up enzugiri's him and crossbodies his back on the ropes. Beef goes up top. Rush knocks Beef down from the top rope. Mort reverse sitout slams Beef for the win.
Thoughts: It was a good heavyweight match here with them doing a lot of hoss stuff. But it was also one of those AEW matches where the person who should have won needed a long time to beat up the jobber. Jake Roberts did not come out with LFI and hasn't really appeared with them yet.
Rush and LFI whip Beef with a cord after. JD Drake contemplates helping then Rush chokes JD with the cord. JD gets whipped with the cord.
Harley Cameron is interviewed by Renee. HC asks if Renee has ever been beaten by Kris and punched by Rosa like she has. HC puts herself over. She says she can play rough and says Rosa is "not la mera la mera". She says anything Rosa can do, she can do also. Renee asks, "like what?" and HC says, "you'll see".
Ricochet vs Nick Wayne
People wondered how long it would take Ric to be a midcard nobody and it looks like that answer was only a few weeks. They lock up and roll on the ropes. Nick slides out and stalls.
Ric side headlock takeovers Nick. Nick hits forearms, boots and chops. Ric rolls over Nick's back and backflips into a headscissors. Ric dropkicks Nick out. Ric misses a moonsault off the apron andnearly hits Mother Wayne. Nick facekicks Ric.
Nick throws Rick over the rail. We go to break and return. Ric hits chops. Ric springboard rider kicks him. Ric springboard crossbodies him for 2. Ric running ssp's him for 2. Ric goes up top and gets his eyes raked.
Ric headbutts Nick and misses a 450. Ric armdrags him and chops him. Nick cutters him and holds onto the ropes on a pin. Nick dragon suplexes him for 2. Ric bounces off the ropes and spin kicks Nick. Ric then germans him. They trade kicks and Ric half-nelson suplexes him. Ric springboards and falls into Nick's cutter. Nick hits a double underhook destroyer. Ric flying pumping knees Nick. Ric reverse ddt lift's him and sitout drivers him with it. Ric then sliding elbows him and wins.
Thoughts: It was total indy garbage with them doing flips and big moves and not selling any of them. I feared Ric would revert to being an indy wrestler in AEW where there's no one telling him "no" and that is what happened.
Konosuke Takeshita comes out after and motions Ric to come on.
Overall thoughts: It was the usual Rampage show with few to no storylines and random matches and wrestlers. I liked Mortos/Beef. The wrestlers did the best they could in four-way and the main was indy garbage. It was an average show and I wouldn't recommend it.
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