AEW Rampage Review – April 28, 2023
Tag Team Match
Bullet Club Gold (Jay White & Juice Robinson) vs. Ricky Starks & Shawn Spears
Ricky Starks & Shawn Spears attacks Bullet Club Gold & both teams spill to the outside, where Starks sends Juice Robinson into the barricade. Jay White delivers a chop to Spears as Starks tosses Robinson back into the ring. Starks rains down right hands on Robinson’s head, then follows it up with a series of chops and tags in Spears.
Spears & Starks deliver a double back elbow before Spears delivers a leg drop. Starks tags back in and delivers an axe handle then follows it up with a body slam. Spears becomes the legal man and he taunts White on the outside. Spears rains down right hands on Robinson in the corner then tosses him into the ropes.
White delivers a cheap kick and Robinson delivers a clothesline. He tosses Spears to the outside where White plants him on the apron as Robinson gets in Starks’ face and the referee becomes distracted as we cut to a break.
After the break White whips Spears into the corner and delivers a few chops. Spears fires back with a suplex and tags in Starks as White tags in Robinson. Starks delivers a back body drop to Robinson but Robinson catches him with a knee to his midsection.
Spears makes the blind tag before Starks delivers a superplex to Robinson & Spears follows it up with a Frog Splash. White tags in and Spears sets up for C4 but White escapes. Spears then catches White with a powerbomb but White manages to execute the Blade Runner for the win.
Winners: Bullet Club Gold
After the match Starks beats down Robinson and looks for a spear but Robinson rolls to the outside.
We head backstage to Lexy Nair is with The Hardys & FTW Champion Hook. Nair asks Matt Hardy why he requested the time and Matt says he wants to get to the bottom of where Isiah Kassidy has disappeared to. The Firm pops up on the screen behind them and we see Ethan Page & Big Bill on top of scaffolding with Kassidy. Page demands a match at The Hardy Compound next week and Matt agrees. Bill then tosses Kassidy off the scaffolding.
Tag Team Match
Naturally Limitless (Dustin Rhodes & Keith Lee) vs. Brady Pierce & Charlie James
Dustin Rhodes delivers a shoulder tackle then follows it up with an arm drag then tags in Keith Lee. Naturally Limitless deliver a double back body drop before Charlie James tags in. Lee delivers a pair of shoulder tackles then hits a splash in the corner and tosses James across the ring. Pierce tries to interfere but Rhodes takes him down and tosses James over to Lee & he delivers the Spirit Bomb for the win.
Winners: Naturally Limitless
After the match Swerve Strickland & The Embassy appear on the ramp. Strickland stares down Lee.
We head backstage to Lexy Nair is with Sammy Guevara. Tay Melo walks in and dismisses Nair then asks Guevara what he’s doing. She questions why he wants to lay down for MJF at Double Or Nothing and tells him that he has enough money as is.
Anna Jay vs. Ashley D’Amboise
Match starts off with a lock up then Anna Jay delivers a spinning heel kick then delivers a knee to her midsection. Ashley D’Amboise delivers a pair of arm drags and a series of shoulders to her midsection then whips her into the corner and charges at her. Jay moves out of the way and stretches D’Amboise around the ring post that takes us to a break.
After the break Jay delivers a neckbreaker to D’Amboise then locks in the Queen Slayer for the win.
Winner By Submission: Anna Jay
After the match the lights go out when they come back on, Julia Hart appears behind Jay. She tosses Jay out of the ring then sends her head bouncing off the floor. Jay sends Hart colliding with the ring post and stretches her around the ring post. Officials run down and separate them.
We head backstage to The Outcasts. Saraya says they heard what Britt Baker & Jamie Hayter said this past Wednesday and Ruby Soho adds that they don’t care. Saraya then addresses Willow Nightingale and says she will beat her senseless on Dynamite.
Trios Match
The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) & Billy Gunn vs. Cameron Stewart, Dante Casanova & Ryzin
Anthony Bowens calls for Billy Gunn to scissor him but Ryzin gets in between them. Gunn then clotheslines him and the bell sounds. Gunn hits the Famouser before Bowens hits The Arrival and Max Caster delivers Mic Drop for the win.
Winners: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn
AEW World Tag Team Champion Cash Wheeler vs. Jay Lethal
Match starts off with Jay Lethal rolls out of the ring. He gets back in the ring and they lock up. Wheeler fires off chops on Lethal but Lethal delivers a knee and a right hand to his midsection. He follows it up with a shoulder tackle and a pair of bodyslams then delivers a kick to his midsection.
Cash Wheeler delivers an arm drag and a hip toss then begins wearing down Lethal’s arm then delivers a shoulder to Lethal’s midsection and a back body drop before he clotheslines Lethal out of the ring as we go to a break.
After the break Lethal has an abdominal stretch locked in on Wheeler. Sonjay Dutt looks to interfere but Mark Briscoe prevents him from doing so. Inside the ring Wheeler rolls up Lethal but Lethal kicks out and sends Wheeler bouncing off the top rope. Lethal ascends to the top and looks for an elbow drop but Wheeler gets his knees up.
Wheeler then fires off several right and left hands then lands an uppercut and a body slam then follows it up with a DDT and goes for a pin but Lethal kicks out. Wheeler sets up for a piledriver but Lethal escapes and pins Wheeler. Wheeler bridges up and Lethal catches him with a back body drop.
He then delivers Lethal Combination and sets up for Lethal Injection. Wheeler catches him and plants him face first then goes for a pin. Dutt looks to get in the ring but Briscoe calls him out once again & this allows Lethal to send Wheeler crashing into Briscoe before he lands Lethal Injection for the win.
Winner: Jay Lethal
Wednesday’s Dynamite
Tag Team Match
AEW World Champion MJF & Sammy Guevara vs. Jack Perry & Darby Allin (If Perry & Allin wins they get added to the AEW World Title Match at Double Or Nothing)
8 Man Tag Team Match
International Champion Orange Cassidy, Bandido, Adam Cole & Roderick Strong vs. Jericho Appreciation Society (Jake Hager, Matt Menard, Angelo Parker & Daniel Garica)
6 Trios Battle Royal
Dark Order (Evil Uno, John Silver & Alex Reynolds) vs. QTV (QT Marshall, Powerhouse Hobbs & Aaron Solo) vs. Varsity Athletes (Tony Nese, Josh Woods & Ari Daivari) vs. Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr & Rey Fenix) & El Hijo Del Vikingo vs. The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) & Billy Gunn vs. The Butcher, The Blade & Kip Sabian
Ricky Starks vs. Juice Robinson
Saraya vs. Willow Nightingale
Next week’s Rampage
The Firm Deletion Match
FTW Champion Hook, The Hardys (Matt & Jeff) & Isiah Kassidy vs. The Firm (Big Bill, Lee Moriarty, Ethan Page & Stokely Hathaway)
Dynamite Card (May 10th)
Steel Cage Match
Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley
