**CONTAINS SPOILERS**
Tonight’s AEW RAMPAGE was broadcast from the Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence, MO!
It’s Saturday and you know what that means!
Tonight’s announce team was Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and Jim Ross.
TNT Championship Match!
Powerhouse Hobbs (c.) (with the QTC crew) vs. Penta El Zero Miedo (with Jose the Assistant)!
They exchanged strikes at the beginning of the match. Penta El Zero Miedo blasted Hobbs with a thrust kick and then a dropkick, sending Hobbs tumbling to the arena floor. Penta El Zero Miedo was about to rocket out of the ring but Hobbs countered with a stiff forearm. He followed up by ramming Penta El Zero Miedo into the ring post.
Hobbs smashed Penta El Zero Miedo with a backbreaker. QT Marshall tied up Penta El Zero Miedo’s mask to the bottom rope as Hobbs distracted ref Aubrey Edwards. Hobbs stomped Penta El Zero Miedo, then targeted the back with a delayed vertical suplex.
Penta El Zero Miedo fired back with a backstabber to Hobbs for a near fall. Hobbs gained the upper hand again after planting Penta El Zero Miedo hard on the mat. Penta El Zero Miedo got Hobbs wobbling with two thrust kicks, and then followed up by diving over the top rope and crashing onto Hobbs.
Penta El Zero Miedo landed on Hobbs twice with diving foot stomps for a two-count. Aaron Solo got involved in the match but Penta El Zero Miedo stuffed him with Made in Japan. As the ref was dealing with the QTV crew’s interference. Hobbs blindsided Penta El Zero Miedo, cracking him across the side of the head with the TNT Championship belt, and then pinned him. Rey Fenix ran down to the ring with a hammer, fending off the QTV crew from doing damage to Jose the Assistant.
“Absolute” Ricky Starks came to the ring!
Starks: “I’ll be honest, I’m not in the mood for any more talking. Juice Robinson, bring your ass out here!”
Juice Robinson walked onto the ramp with a microphone.
Juice: “Are you calling me out? If it’s an ass-beating you want, say no more. Ask and you shall receive sweet boy.”
Juice walked to the ring but stopped short. Juice turned his back and began to walk back to the locker room but Starks ran out and stopped Juice. Juice managed to escape, and said he wouldn’t wrestle Starks here, but he’d meet him on April 5th!.
House of Black’s Brody King (with Julia Hart)
vs.
Jericho Appreciation Society’s Jake Hager!
Hager shoved Brody and Brody shoved right back. Brody threw big shots at Hager and then took Hager off his feet with a double handed chop.
Hager whipped Brody King into the steel barricade, and then for good measure he sent Brody careening into the barricades again! Back in the ring Hager tried for an ankle lock but Brody rolled out of it. Brody attempted a cannonball in the corner but Hager dodged it. Hager went for the Hager Bomb but Brody got his boots up! Brody nailed Hager with a discus lariat for a near fall.
Anna J.A.S ran down to the ring and whipped Julia Hart into the ring post. Despite that, Brody King planted Hager with the All-Seeing-Eye and pinned him!
Taya Valkyrie
vs.
Leila Grey (with TBS Champion Jade Cargill and “Smart” Mark Sterling)!
Grey shoved Taya but Taya didn’t back down. Taya cracked Grey with a shot. Sterling jumped on the apron to distract Taya Valkyrie but Taya spiked Leila with the Road to Valhalla and pinned her!
“Smart” Mark Sterling entered the ring with a clipboard. He had the cease and desist letter with him but Taya paid it no mind, smashing Sterling with the Road to Valhalla!
“I sense a collision between Jade and Taya in inevitable,” said Excalibur.
The Acclaimed—Anthony Bowens & Max Caster (with Daddy Ass)
vs.
The Kingdom—Matt Taven & Mike Bennett (with Maria Kanellis-Bennett)!
Angelo Parker and Matt Menard joined the broadcast booth for this match.
The Kingdom double teamed Caster in the corner. Bowens grabbed a blind tag and Caster hit a neck breaker-back breaker combo on Bennett. The Acclaimed isolated Mike Bennett and dropped the Scissor Me Timbers on Bennett!
Taven connected with a back heel kick to Caster. Bennett and Taven mocked Billy Gunn. Maria grabbed the boot of Max Caster to distract him. Maria slid her boot inside the ring to Taven. Top Flight were on the ramp and escorted Maria to the back.
The ref took the boot away from Taven. Bowens took down Bennett with a series of shots and then he connected with a rolling elbow to Taven. Bowens used the Arrival and then Caster hit the Mic Drop and pinned Taven!
“The Acclaimed overcame the interference from Maria,” said Excalibur.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, MO!
And remember…the home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
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