It’s Wednesday night, and you know what that means …
All Elite Wrestling returns from the Coca Cola Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with this week’s special live episode of their one-hour weekly AEW Rampage program.
On tap for tonight’s show is Konosuke Takeshita vs. Rocky Romero, as well as Katsuyori Shibata vs. TBA, a Street Fight with Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart & Skye Blue, as well as an AEW World Tag Team Tournament Wild Card Match with Best Friends (Orange Cassidy & Trent Beretta) vs. Don Callis Family (Powerhouse Hobbs & Kyle Fletcher).
Featured below are complete AEW Rampage results from Friday, March 20, 2024. The following report was written by PWMania.com reporter Matt Boone (@MattBoone0709) as the show aired from 10-11pm EST. on TBS.
AEW RAMPAGE RESULTS (3/20/2024)
This week’s Rampage kicks off at the end of the TNT title “I Quit” match from Dynamite, which sees Copeland win. After his confetti shower in the ring, the commentators send us to a video package featuring Bullet Club Gold.
Bullet Club Gold & The Acclaimed Kick Off This Week’s Show
Bullet Club Gold gloat about what they did to The Acclaimed last week. Jay White shows off a gold bat and says he gave Sting’s bat some much needed changes. They mock The Acclaimed some more and then we shoot inside the arena again.
Renee Paquette welcomes us to Rampage live and then introduces her guests at this time, The Acclaimed. Out comes Max Caster and Anthony Bowens. They talk about how Billy Gunn isn’t here tonight because after what Bullet Club Gold did last week, he’s not even cleared to fly.
AEW World Tag-Team Title Tournament (Wild Card)
Best Friends vs. The Don Callis Family
After the time-killing promo segment wraps up, we get to the real start of Rampage, which features the theme for Orange Cassidy playing as the Best Friends duo of himself and Trent Baretta make their way down to the ring for Wild Card action in the AEW Tag-Team Title Tournament.
Chuck Taylor is with them and hangs out at ringside. Now the theme for their opposition plays and out comes The Don Callis Family duo of Powerhouse Hobbs and ROH TV Champion Kyle Fletcher. “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard settles in on commentary now as well.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with our first match of this week’s Rampage. Don Callis also joins them on the call for this bout. Hobbs and Cassidy kick things off for their respective teams. Hobbs catches Cassidy with a quick spine-buster and goes for the cover, but Beretta breaks it up.
Hobbs gets sent to the outside and Cassidy goes for a dive, but Hobbs catches him and slams him into the apron a few times. Hobbs gets Cassidy back into the ring and sends him to the corner. Hobbs connects with a splash and sends Cassidy across. Hobbs goes for another splash, but Cassidy ducks and Hobbs goes to the floor.
Beretta and Fletcher get into the ring, and Beretta drops him with a Meteora. Beretta sends Fletcher to the outside and dives onto he and Hobbs. Beretta gets Hobbs back into the ring and sends him to the corner. Beretta causes Fletcher to splash onto Hobbs and delivers back elbows to both of them.
Fletcher comes back, and he and Hobbs delivers a Pendulum Bomb to Beretta as the show heads to a commercial. When we return from the break, after some hard-hitting back-and-forth action, Cassidy scores the pin fall victory to give his team the win. Best Friends advance in the tourney. We head to another break after this wraps up.
Winners and ADVANCING: Best Friends
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kevin Matthews
As we settle back in from the commercial break, we immediately hear the theme music for Katsuyori Shibata. Out comes the Japanese legend for our next match of the evening. Shibata heads to the ring to a good pop. As he makes his way to the ring, the commentators remind us he will face Will Ospreay next week on AEW Dynamite.
Already in the ring is Shibata’s opponent for our second match of this week’s live episode of Rampage, Kevin Matthews. The bell sounds and Shibata swarms on Matthews, pummeling him with strikes in the corner. He hits a running knee in the corner and then a big suplex for a two count. Matthews hits a clothesline but Shibata fights right back and chokes him down and hits a big kick for the pin.
Winner: Katsuyori Shibata
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Rocky Romero
We see live footage of Adam Copeland with some other AEW stars backstage celebrating his TNT Championship win with some champagne while still covered in blood. Back inside the arena, Konosuke Takeshita of the Don Callis Family comes out accompanied by Don Callis.
“The Alpha” settles in the ring as the commentators remind us he will be in action on next week’s AEW Dynamite against Swerve Strickland. The theme for Rocky Romero hits and out comes the eye-patch man for our next match of the evening. The bell sounds and here we go.
Takeshita dominates coming out of the gate, but then Romero connects with a hurricanrana that shifts the momentum in his favor. This doesn’t last long, however, as Takeshita takes right back over. After a falcon arrow, Romero rolls out to the floor to recover.
As he does, we shift gears and head into a mid-match commercial break as this singles contest continues. When we return from the break, we work our way into Takeshita picking up the victory in what was primarily a showcase match for The Don Callis Family member. We head to another break afterwards.
Winner: Konosuke Takeshita
Tag-Team Street Fight
Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart & Skye Blue
It’s main event time!
When we return from the break, we hear the familiar sounds of Willow Nightingale’s theme music. Out she comes with Kris Statlander in street fighting attire. They each have kendo sticks and steel chairs.
Now the theme for their opposition hits and out comes TBS Women’s Champion Julia Hart from The House of Black, as well as Skye Blue. As they make their way down to the ring for this tag-team street fight, Nightingale and Statlander exit the ring and come after them.
The baby face duo beats down the heel duo with the kendo sticks and chairs as Stokely Hathaway settles in on guest commentary. They put a chair around Julia’s neck and hit a wicked move like that. They pull out a table for a big pop and begin setting it up together inside the ring.
We see Julia Hart pull out the spike that The House of Black used to viciously assault Mark Briscoe. She goes to use it as a weapon herself, but accidentally blasts her own partner Skye Blue in the face with it. Statlander works her over as fans chant “You f’d up!” at her.
On that note, we shift gears and head into a mid-match commercial break as our main event of this back-to-back three-hour night of AEW on TBS action continues. When we return, we see two tables are set up touching side-by-side on the floor at ringside.
Skye Blue and Willow fight up to the commentary desk. Skye’s bleeding. Skye hits a Code Blue on Willow but the commentary desk doesn’t break. Ouch. Doctors rush to tend to Willow at ringside off-camera as Skye dumps a bag full of tacks in the ring. Statlander dumps a second sack of tacks.
Blue ends up power-bombing Statlander off the top-rope onto the massive pile of tacks. She goes for the cover, but somehow Statlander still manages to kick out. Skye puts a bunch of tacks in Statlander’s mouth and then blasts her in the face with a big kick for another close two count.
Fans chant “You sick f*ck!” at Blue. Willow somehow recovers and hops on the apron to cut Skye off on the top-rope. From the ring apron, Willow hits a death valley driver that puts Skye through the side-by-side tables on the floor. Back in the ring, Statlander back-drops Julia on a pile of chairs.
Statlander heads to the top-rope afterwards and she goes for the 450 splash, but Julia moves and Statlander lands on the pile of chairs while still covered in tacks. Her knees took a hard fall, too. Hart slaps on her submission finisher and Statlander taps out to end a violent, entertaining women’s street fight main event.
Excalibur runs down the lineups for next week and that’s how this week’s show goes off the air. Thanks for joining us!
Winners: Julia Hart & Skye Blue
