Quelle: All Elite Wrestling
Loading …All Elite Wrestling „Rampage #35“ (Tapings: 06.04.2022)
Location: Ort: Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
First broadcast: April 08, 2022
Spectators: approx. 5,600
It’s friday… you know what that means! Another installment of Rampage is upon us – Excalibur, Taz and Ricky Starks will be joining us through the show today, and William Regal will also be at the commentary booth for the opener.
1. Match
Singles Match
Bryan Danielson defeated Trent Beretta via submission in an inverted LeBell lock.
Match time: 13:42
– A good opener, initially dominated by Danielson and becoming more balanced over time.
– Before the finish, Danielson first hit his opponent with the Busaiku knee, then the Gotch-style piledriver and kicks to the head before applying this previously unseen variation of his LeBell lock.
We switch over to Lexy Nair in the dressing room, where she invited Hook for an interview. She tries to get him to say something, at least something, but Hook doesn’t bother to answer the interviewer; instead he quietly munches on his chips. After a while he finally gets up and goes to the garbage can, from which Danhausen suddenly appears and tries to curse Hook once more; However, he is once once more unimpressed and casually throws his bag of chips at Danhausen, so that it ends up in the trash can. Hook ignores the protesting Danhausen as he exits the locker room, leaving him to feast on the leftover chips.
Next we see TNT Champion Scorpio Sky in the ring, and as usual, he’s brought in “All Ego” Ethan Page and Dan Lambert. Sky calls his decision to scrap the “Open Door Challenge” brave because he’s been on the lookout for someone who can really take on him, someone who can stand out from the rest of the locker room and achieve what no one has been able to do for a long time . Again he addresses his undefeated streak, which has now lasted for 394 days.
However, Sammy Guevara has already heard enough. He goes onto the stage with Tay Conti and tells the champion to finally shut up, which actually not only ensures positive reactions from the audience. Guevara says the title should not make the champion, the champion should make the title and with his behavior Sky currently makes the title completely worthless. He asks Dan Lambert if he has anything lewd or sexist to say; if that were the case, it would leave him and Conti cold, claims the ex-champion. He asks Conti to translate “sexist piece of shit” into Portuguese, to which she replies “Dan Lambert.”
He doesn’t want to put up with that any longer and grabs the microphone. He may be sexist, yes – but he’s also a father and that part of him thinks Conti has already embarrassed himself enough tonight. He suggests that if they’re big mouthed, they should at least talk regarding what’s going on in the ring and less regarding what’s going on in their own bedroom – a remark that is positively received by the crowd.
Sammy really just wants the aforementioned TNT Championship match, but Ethan Page says he’s only putting on the boots for one match, which is also a way to make money, but even though Guevara is one of the mainstays of AEW, it wouldn’t be such a match if he were up once morest Page or even Scorpio Sky. Because as one of the pillars, Guevara is also one of the first cracks in the foundation and together with Conti he would eventually cause an absolute PR disaster once more – week following week. He speaks to his daughter Gabriella and says he can only hope that one day she won’t become like Tay Conti.
Guevara, on the other hand, isn’t the least bit interested in Page’s daughter. He just wants this match and until he gets it, he’ll come out with Tay Conti every week and make life hell for the American Top Team. Dan Lambert’s car was just the beginning. “See you later, bitch!”
We now see a video in which Chris Jericho introduces his personal “Sports Entertainer of the Week”. Today it is QT Marshall. Among other things, he earned this award for his success as a coach at the Nightmare Factory.
2. Match
Singles Match
Swerve Strickland defeated QT Marshall (w/ Aaron Solo & Nick Comoroto) via a pinfall following a flatliner and a back heel kick to the back of Marshall’s head.
Match time: 05:10
– Solo and Comoroto were banned from the hall during the match.
Immediately following the end of the match, Ricky Starks spoke from the commentary desk. He approaches Swerve and says there is still work to be done between them and that the same is true between Keith Lee and Powerhouse Hobbs. So Starks challenges the two to a tag team match at the next edition of Dynamite!
Here is a little hype video regarding former MMA fighter Marina Shafir. The question is if she might be the one to end TBS Champion Jade Cargill’s winning streak. She urges the “problem solver,” as Cargill dubbed itself last week, to try to solve this problem.
3. Match
Singles Match – Owen Hart Women’s Tournament Qualifier
Red Velvet defeated Willow Nightingale via pinfall following a corkscrew roundhouse kick.
Match time: 05:22
– The crowd didn’t seem to think much of Red Velvet as the winner, at least she was booed before the end of the three count.
Backstage we now see Tony Nese with Lexy Nair. The “Premier Athlete” directly accuses Nair of not showing the same enthusiasm with him as with all the other interview partners. He describes himself as the biggest free agent signing in All Elite Wrestling history, but would give her preferential treatment to the likes of Hook and Danhausen. His question as to when he’ll get what he deserves remains unanswered as “Smart” Mark Sterling joins them. He heard everything Nese said and agrees with him. Sterling hands Nese his business card, saying he’s seen what he can do for his clients and suggesting that Nese might just need to be represented properly. He leads Nese away for a private chat, leaving a somewhat bewildered Lexy Nair alone.
Mark Henry asks Wheeler Yuta ahead of the main event what he might have in store for Jon Moxley, having already pushed Bryan Danielson “to his limit”. Yuta addresses that he already knows Moxley and that he embarrassed him the first time they met; the second time it was much tighter. Now he’s not the same and will do whatever it takes to earn Moxley’s respect.
But Mox makes it clear that it’s not his job to show him respect. He’s not Yuta’s boyfriend and doesn’t care what William Regal thinks of him. Today he’ll be spilling Yuta’s guts all over the ring so we can all finally find out what the new ROH Pure Champion is really made of.
With Moxley now simply walking away from the interview, Mark Henry concludes, as usual, that enough has been said beforehand. IT’S TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
4. Match
Singles Match
Jon Moxley defeated Wheeler Yuta via submission in the bulldog choke.
Match time: 12:23
– Yuta wasted no time and attacked Moxley with a suicide dive before the ring bell rang and threw him once morest the ring stairs. He then punched Mox behind the barricade and through the crowd before Mox led the two back to the ring.
– All in all, this was a tough, intense and also bloody match.
– Yuta performed his own version of the bulldog choke once morest Moxley, but it didn’t bring the win.
– Moxley hit Yuta with the Death Rider (the high-pitched version of the Paradigm Shift) near the end of the match, but Yuta managed to break out of the pin attempt!
After the match, William Regal goes down to the ring and offers a handshake to Wheeler Yuta, who has struggled to his feet by now, which he accepts. Yuta draws the initials of Blackpool Combat Club – BCC – across his chest in his own blood. Moxley believes that “the real work” is only just beginning. With these images, today’s issue of Rampage ends.
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