CONTAINS SPOILERS
This episode of AEW RAMPAGE was broadcast on TNT from the Fishers Event Center in Fishers, IN!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, ROH World Champion Chris Jericho, and “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard were the broadcast team for tonight’s event.
It’s Friday and you know what that means! The fastest hour in professional wrestling!
This…is…Rampage!
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
Mark Briscoe vs. AEW Continental Champion “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada!
Okada and Briscoe locked up with Okada backing Briscoe to the ropes. They locked up again and Mark back up Okada this time. Mark hammered Okada with forearms. Mark followed up with a suplex. Briscoe hit Okada with a boot, knocking Okada out of the ring. Mark dropkicked Okada through the ropes.
Okada took himself out of the range of a cactus elbow from Mark. Mark followed Okada anyway, charged at Okada, but Okada countered with a drop toe hold onto a steel chair.
Okada rammed Briscoe face first into the ring post. Mark was busted wide open. Okada drilled Mark with a DDT in the ring. Okada pummeled Mark with rapid fire forearms and then a headbutt.
Mark fired back with redneck Kungfu. Okada face planted Briscoe. Okada and Briscoe traded forearms. Okada knocked Briscoe back down. Okada hoisted up Briscoe onto the turnbuckles, looking for a superplex. Mark blocked it and struck Okada with an open palm strike. Briscoe clobbered Okada with open palm strikes to the chest. Briscoe connected with an elbow strike.
Briscoe landed an exploder suplex on the Rainmaker! Mark delivered a lariat and then a fisherman’s buster for a near fall on Okada!
Okada nailed Briscoe with a running neck breaker. Okada landed a big time elbow drop! Briscoe ducked the rainmaker lariat. Briscoe climbed up top and hit the froggy bow but Okada kicked out at the two-count!
Okada countered a Jay Driller by rolling up Mark for a near fall. Okada spiked Mark with an inverted tombstone piledriver! Okada back dropped his way out of another Jay Driller attempt. Okada smashed Mark with the rainmaker clothesline and pinned Briscoe, earning three points!
“He is such a smart wrestler,” said Jericho.
“A crucial victory for Okada to remain in the hunt,” added Excalibur.
Up next: ROH World Champion Chris Jericho got into the ring!
Jericho: “I’ve got to say something here. On Ring of Honor last night I challenged anyone from New York to face me at ROH Final Battle for the Ring of Honor World Championship. And I was interrupted by Matt Cardona!
“Nobody touches a man’s hat! Us native New Yorkers don’t stand for that Cardona. You’re lucky I didn’t punch you in the teeth when you assaulted me last night. If you were here right now, you’d have no idea what I’d do to you!”
Matt Cardona walked out of the tunnel to answer Jericho’s challenge!
Matt Cardona: “Chris if I was here, you’d do what?”
Jericho: “What the King of New York…”
Cardona: “Enough with that. This isn’t New York. This is Indianapolis! Chris you and I, Final Battle, I say I’m always ready. These people know it. It’s more than just a catchphrase. It’s how I live my life, and Final Battle may be the biggest opportunity of my career.
“But I’m not the same kid you met 15 years ago. I’m the Indy god, the King of the Indies. I’m the Deathmatch King. I’m the king of your cruise! And if anybody is the king of New York, it’s me! I don’t care about proving anybody wrong, I care about proving myself right! And that’s going to be exactly what happens when I beat you for the ROH World Championship!”
Jericho: “I want to make something clear here. I respect everything you’ve done because you have reinvented yourself. Much respect for that. But it’s funny to me, though. Even after all you’ve accomplished, you’re still just Zack.”
Cardona took down Jericho and grounded and pounded Jericho! Bryan Keith ran down to even up the odds and he and Jericho hammered Cardona with cheap shots! Jericho whipped Cardona with the ROH World title belt! Jericho held Cardona back while Keith whacked Cardona in the face with a belt buckle!
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
TNT Champion Daniel Garcia vs. The Beast Mortos!
Garcia booted the Beast Mortos in the face. Garcia followed up with a dropkick. The Beast Mortos hit Garcia with a vertical suplex, sending Garcia tumbling over the top rope and to the arena floor. Mortos charged at Garcia, but Garcia defended himself with a drop toe hold. Garcia charged at Mortos, but Mortos countered with a clothesline!
Mortos punished Garcia with a massive Samoan Drop in the ring! Mortos used a pump handle into a back breaker on Garcia. Mortos hammered down with an elbow strike. Mortos wrenched on Garcia’s leg, turning his ankle at an unnatural angle.
Daniel Garcia dodged a shoulder tackle from the Beast Mortos. The Beast Mortos kicked Garcia in the ribs! Garcia walloped the Beast Mortos with a vertical suplex, using his technique to get the better of the Beast!
Garcia hit a stalling back suplex on the Beast Mortos for a near fall!
“This Mortos is impressive,” said Daddy Magic.
Mortos power slammed Daniel Garcia. They jockeyed for position on the turnbuckles. Garcia superplexed the Beast Mortos and held on, but the Beast kicked out at the two-count! Mortos mauled Garcia with a shoulder breaker and then a discus lariat for a near fall!
“Danny is hanging on!” said Daddy Magic.
The Beast Mortos ascended to the top rope and went for a corkscrew, but Garcia moved and rolled up the Beast in a crucifix for a near fall. Garcia followed up with a jackknife pin and got the victory over the Beast Mortos!
The Vendetta— “The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo & Taya Valkyrie
vs. Ella Elizabeth and Freya States
Taya grounded and pounded Ella, hammering down with right hands on the head of her opponent. Deonna tagged in and stomped a mudhole in Ella. Deonna pump kicked Ella in the face! Taya tagged in and squashed Ella in the corner with a double knee strike.
Deonna power bombed Ella. Taya grabbed Freya and speared her outside the ring. Deonna made Ella submit via the Fujiwara armbar!
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Ricochet vs. Komander!
Komander has taken the place as an alternate for Juice Robinson, due to Juice being injured.
Komander went for a hurracanrana, but Ricochet landed on his feet! Both men went move for move, countering one another’s offense. Komander finally took down Ricochet with the déjà vu.
Ricochet sprung up to the top rope and kicked Komander in the head. Ricochet followed up with a tope suicida, stretching all the way out! Ricochet took down Komander with a springboard forearm.
Komander rocked Ricochet with a moonsault to Ricochet on the arena floor! Ricochet blocked a DDT and countered with a Northern Lights Suplex. Ricochet planted Komander with a brain buster and then nailed him with a running shooting star press!
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
Komander walloped Ricochet with a back heel kick. Komander stunned Ricochet with a 450 splash for a near fall! Ricochet rolled to the apron and then wiped out Komander with a brain buster on the apron! Ricochet followed up with a springboard 450 splash. Ricochet decimated Komander with a running Death Valley Driver! Ricochet blasted Komander with the spirit gun and pinned Komander, earning three points!
“Komander has to regroup because tomorrow night he has Darby Allin on Collision,” said Tony Schiavone.
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