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AEW Rampage live results: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy

Posted on by Joseph Collins

Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy headlines this week’s AEW Rampage. 

Allin & Hardy will meet for just the second time in their careers in a singles match and for the first time since a May 2022 Dynamite show. 

Chris Jericho & Matt Sydal will also square off on the show for the first time in over 13 years, with their last match taking place at a WWE house show in September 2010 when Sydal wrestled as Evan Bourne. Sydal’s Bourne character was referenced in the backstage promo that set up this bout on Wednesday’s Dynamite. 

Kris Statlander is set for action on the show against Queen Aminata. Stokely Hathaway will be ringside for this women’s division contest. 

Penta El Zero Miedo faces Anthony Henry in the other match on tonight’s episode. 

This week’s Rampage was taped Wednesday night in North Charleston, South Carolina. Spoilers from the show are available here.

Taped in North Charlestown, South Carolina.

Excalibur, Ian Riccaboni, and Don Callis were on commentary (to start). 

Chris Jericho defeated Matt Sydal (10:38)

I wasn’t all that enthused to watch this match 13 years ago in WWE. 

The crowd was solidly behind Jericho at the start. Sydal caught Jericho with a step-up rana and knocked him to the floor with a clothesline. Sydal followed Jericho to the floor with a meteora. Back in the ring, Sydla hit a meteora off the top for a near fall. Jericho came back with a back suplex. Sydal went for a cazadora, but Jericho countered that and put him in the Walls of Jericho. Sydal spent a good amount of time in the hold before getting to the ropes. Jericho sent Sydal to the floor with a springboard dropkick.

After the split-screen break, Jericho and Sydal exchanged chops mid-ring. Sydal caught Jericho with a series of kicks. Jericho came off the top but dove into a kick from Sydal. Sydal then hit a mariposa for a near fall. Both men battled up the top, and Sydal caught Jericho with a sunset flip/powerbomb for a near fall. Sydal jumped off the middle rope into a Codebreaker for a near fall.

Sydal got his knees up with Jericho went for a Lionsault, and Sydal hit an Air Raid Crash for a near fall. Sydal chopped away at Jericho in the corner, but Jericho got to the top and hit an avalanche hurricanrana. Jericho then hit the Judas Effect to the victory. Don Callis immediately ran from the commentary table at the end of the match.

After the match (which was very good), Konoshue Takeshita attacked Jericho at the entrance ramp.

– The rules will be relaxed for Jeff Hardy’s match with Darby Allin later in the show. 

– Matt Menard replaced Don Callis on commentary.

El Penta Zero Miedo (w/ Alex Abrahantes) defeated Anthony Henry (3:48)

Penta hit a superkick and a spinning death valley driver for two. Henry countered a Made in Japan attempt with a cazadora and double stomped Penta. Both men exchanged leg kicks, and Henry caught Penta with a pop-up death valley driver for two. Henry missed a doubles stomp off the top, and Penta suplexed Henry into the buckles, then delivered the Fear Factor to get the pinfall.

– Ruby Soho tried to strangle Harley Cameron for kissing Jeff Parker, but (at Saraya’s urging), she pinned the whole thing on Anna Jay. Soho and Cameron go off to find Jay, while Rene Paquette (who was there to interview… someone) looked on disapprovingly. Ruby could figure  out who is responsible just by watching Rampage.  

Kris Statlander (w/ Stokley Hathaway) defeated Queen Aminata (7:43 aired)

Aminada caught Statlander with a hip attack and a sliding boot in the corner for a near fall. Aminata locked in a crossface. Statlander rolled through and into the Friday Night Fever, but Aminata countered with a roll up for two. Statlander hit a discus lariat for two. Statlander missed a charging knee in the corner, and Aminata hit a sliding knee . Aminata went for an Air Raid Crash, but Statlander countered into a spinning Falcon Arrow and got the pinfall. Both women looked really good hear. Statlander always looks good, but Aminata was also impressive.

– Jay Lethal wants to get back to in-ring action. This leads to an argument between Sonjay Dutt and Satnam Singh about whether they should kick Jeff Jarrett or Karen Jarrett out of the group. Lethal walked off, thinking it’s time to go after singles gold. 

– Rene Paquette asked Kris Statlander & Stokley Hathaway about the nature of the relationship. Willow Nightingale showed up, just getting to the arena since her travel accommodations were canceled. Willow and Stokley argued about who cared about Statlander more, and Kris stormed off. 

Darby Allin defeated Jeff Hardy (13:45)

Jeff slapped Allin, who responded with a shotgun dropkick. Allin hit Hardy with a senton on the floor, then tossed him in the ring for a near fall. Back on the floor, Hardy threw Allin into the commentary table, and threw the hood of the table on top of him. Hardy sent Allin into the ring barricade, then came off the apron with a flying clothesline. Hardy missed a dive on Allin and crashed into the barricade. Allin set Hardy on a chair and went for his high speed plancha, but Hardy got out of the way and Allin crashed into the chair.

After a split-screen break, Hardy worked over Allin’s neck with a series of rolling neck snaps. Hardy hit a face-first suplex for a near fall. Allin caught Hardy with an avalanche code red for a near fall. Allin set up for the Coffin Drop, but Hardy rolled onto the apron. Hardy hit Allin with a hangman’s neckbreaker while Allin was hung up in the top turnbuckle.

Hardy pulled a table from under the ring. Hardy set Allin up on the table and went for a Swanton off the top, but Allin rolled out of the way and Hardy crashed through table. Allin threw Hardy back into the ring and went for the Coffin Drop, but Hardy got his knees up and both men were down on the mat in a lot of pain.

Hardy went for a Twist of Fate, but Allin rolled through and flipped Hardy into a jacknife cover and held Hardy down for the three count. After the match, Allin went in for a fist bump of respect, but Hardy faked him out and walked away.

If you like car crash matches, this was a good one. 

Jeff Hardy seemed to move a lot better in this match than in the tags I’ve seen him the last few weeks. 

Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy announced for AEW Rampage

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Darby Allin will face Jeff Hardy as part of this Friday’s four-match AEW Rampage card. 

Allin and Hardy will go one-on-one for the second time ever on Friday’s Rampage, their first meeting since the May 11, 2022 Dynamite episode. 

Also announced for Rampage, Chris Jericho will face Matt Sydal. Sydal interrupted a backstage interview with Jericho on Dynamite this week. The two referenced their past matches in WWE when Sydal was Evan Bourne, then agreed to the match for Friday’s episode. 

Kris Statlander will be in action on Rampage as well, facing Queen Aminata. Aminata has been featured twice in the past month on Rampage as an enhancement talent in losses to Skye Blue and Hikaru Shida, and was the opponent for Mariah May in her debut match on Dynamite earlier this month. 

Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Anthony Henry has also been announced for Friday’s episode. 

This week’s Rampage is being taped Wednesday night in North Charleston, South Carolina. 

The lineup: 

  • Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy
  • Chris Jericho vs. Matt Sydal
  • Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata
  • Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Anthony Henry

Matt Hardy: ‘Very frustrating’ how AEW has utilized The Hardys recently

Posted on by Ian Carey

Matt Hardy is frustrated with how The Hardys have been presented in AEW as of late. 

Hardy spoke about how he and his brother have been utilized in the company over the last four months during a recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy. 

“I feel like there is such a great spot for us at AEW if we’re just utilized in the correct way and we’ve just got to get there,” Hardy said on the show.

“There’s a huge fanbase that wants to see us and we’re beloved. Sure, we’re not Matt & Jeff Hardy of 1999 and 2000 but there is so much we can do to help young guys continue to come up and also give our rub-off to these young guys, but we just need to be utilized in the right way. And we hope we can get there, we feel like we’re taking steps in the correct direction now.”

Hardy continued to say that how they’ve been used over the last four months has been “very frustrating.” 

“Creatively, just the way we’ve been utilized the last four months, it’s been very frustrating. We’ve been very patient but there has been a lot of frustration (with) things we’ve done, and kind of how we’ve been utilized in some ways.”

Hardy also expressed his belief that the brothers turning heel and adopting a more aggressive style could be something they do “to get back to where we want to be.”

The Hardys had been planned to win the AEW World Tag Team Championships last year. However, concerns over Jeff Hardy’s health led to the company changing plans. 

Other wrestlers have also expressed frustration regarding how they’ve been used in AEW of late. Britt Baker posted to X on Wednesday that she has not received any live promo time in 2023. 

August 14, 2006 Observer Newsletter: Jeff Hardy, CMLL

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Rhetoric or even a written policy may look fine to an unknowing public. But in the end, the real policy is the hiring policy. No matter how the last few weeks looks to outsiders with wrestlers temporarily benched, WWE revealed its real policy this past week.

After the past few weeks where drug testing and drug issues were the biggest news story in pro wrestling, the proof in the pudding came out. While drug testing, applied fairly (which will always be questioned not just because it’s pro wrestling because there have been questions in many sports in that same direction), can be part of the solution to the problem, ultimately, the companies, whether they play “see no evil” and “hear no evil,” choose the type of people they hire.

In a sport with significant pain as a given, and where fans and promoters covet muscular physiques because they make people more marketable, you are virtually guaranteed some significant drug issues. But making the situation worse is hiring practices. When the inexperienced Chris Masters and Bobby Lashley leapfrog past everyone else in developmental and are rushed onto the main roster, what message does it send?

Subscribers can read this issue here.

Jade Cargill vs. Kris Statlander TBS title match set for AEW Rampage

Posted on by Josh Nason

Less than a week after making her surprise return on AEW Collision, Jade Cargill will challenge TBS Champion Kris Statlander in a rematch on this Friday’s AEW Rampage.

It will be Cargill’s first match since May’s Double or Nothing when she lost the title to the returning Statlander minutes after defending it against Taya Valkyrie. It was Cargill’s first career defeat.

Statlander, the second TBS titleholder in company history, will be looking for the tenth defense of the championship.

In an eight-man tag team match, The Lucha Brothers will team with the Hardys against Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal and The Butcher & The Blade.

AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn will be in non-title action against opponents to be named while The Kingdom will take on Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal.

Here’s the lineup being taped after Wednesday’s Dynamite in Cincinnati, Ohio:

  • TBS Champion Kris Statlander defends against Jade Cargill
  • AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) & Billy Gunn vs. TBD in non-title action
  • The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal
  • Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) and Matt & Jeff Hardy vs. Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, The Butcher & The Blade

AEW Rampage live results: Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy, Young Bucks in action

Posted on by Joseph Collins

The Grand Slam eliminator tournament continues on Friday’s AEW Rampage.

Samoa Joe will begin his quest to earn a shot at AEW World Champion MJF at this month’s Dynamite Grand Slam as he faces Jeff Hardy while Penta El Zero Miedo takes on Jay Lethal.

The winner of Joe vs. Hardy will face the winner of Penta vs. Lethal on Saturday’s Collision while Darby Allin will take on Roderick Strong in the other semifinal. The finals will take place next Wednesday.

The Young Bucks will return to tag team action as they face Matt Menard & Angelo Parker. Matt & Nick Jackson will be looking to rebound from their loss to AEW Tag Team Champions FTR at All In and win their third match in their last four.

In a trios match, former AEW Women’s Champions Hikaru Shida and Britt Baker will team with Skye Blue in trios action against Taya Valkyrie, Anna Jay & The Bunny.

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Taped in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Chris Jericho were commentary. 

Penta El Zero Miedo (w/ Alex Abrahantes) defeated Jey Lethal (w/ Jeff Jarrett et. al.) to advance in the World Title Eliminator Tournament (10:39)

The winner faces the winner of tonight’s Samoa Joe v. Jeff Hardy match on Collision tomorrow night. It’s wacky now that they’re booking from show to show to show, where what happens on Dynamite and Rampage now impacts what happens on Collision. But I guess that’s a lot easier when you don’t have to worry about who’s allowed in the building or not.

Penta got Lethal hung up in the corner and came off the top with a double stomp for a near fall. Jarrett tried to trip up Penta and got his hand stomped on, and Penta sent Lethal to the floor with a gamingiri. Lethal caught a superkick trying to re-enter the ring. When Penta tried to follow up with a plancha, Sahtnam Singh caught Penta and smashed him against the ring post. Karen Jarrett tied up Penta’s mask against the bottom rope. The ref caught Jarrett and his crew doing this and sent them all to the back as the show headed into a split-screen break.

After the break, Lethal worked over Penta with chops in the corner. Penta came back with a pair of slingblades and hit Lethal with a tope con hilo on the floor. Back in the ring, Penta came off the top with a double stomp for a near fall. Lethal came back with the Lethal Combination for a near fall. Lethal tried to take off Penta’s mask again. Penta countered a Lethal Injection with a dropkick for a near fall. Lethal pulled off Penta’s mask, and he immediately covered up. Letha tried to grab Jarrett’s guitar, but Abrahanets grabbed and a tug of war ensued, which Abrahanes won. Meanwhile, Penta got his mask back on, and Lethal turned around into an attack from Penta. Penta used the arm breaker and the Fear Factor stuff piledriver to get the pinfall. Very good TV match. 

– Sammy Guevara came out to interrupt a recap of the recent tribulations between Guevara and Chris Jericho. The crowd suggested they “hug it out!” They both agree they’re pissing each other off and would like to punch each other in the face. Even though they’re well on their way to being AEW World Tag Team Champions, Jericho and Guevara need to get over this animosity, and Jericho suggests a match between them at Grand Slam to “get all this crap out of [their] system.” Both guys shake hands and agree to the match. Very good promo segment.  

– Recap of the Samoa Joe & MJF angle from Wednesday.

Hikaru Shida, Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. & Skye Blue defeated Taka Valkyrie, Anna Jay & The Bunny (w/ Penelope Ford) (6:33 aired)

Shida & Baker will be in a four way on Wednesday (along with Nyla Rose & Toni Storm) to determine the challenger for Saraya at Grand Slam. So there’s a little bit of tension between them on the entrance stage.

Blue has a lot more confidence and presence than she did a few months ago. Bunny blocked an arm drag attempt from Skye Blue, but Blue turned it into a cradle for a near fall. She got into a striking exchange with Valkyire, but Valkyrie sent her into the mat face first.

After the break, Blue finally got the tag out (she’d been in the ring the whole match) to Shida. Shida racked Anna Jay, which Valkyrie broke up with a kick. Baker got the blind tag from Shida and hit a superkick on Bunny, then suplexed Jay. Bunny sent Britt into Shida, then hit a knee for the near fall. Britt got the lockjaw on Bunny and she quickly tapped out. After the match, Shida left, frustrated with her partners.

– A recap of Hook regaining his FTW World title with no mention or even a glimpse of who he beat. Jungle Berry or something? Anyway, Hook is glad to have the FTW title back where it belongs, in New York. 

The Young Bucks defeated Matt Menard & Angelo Parker (w/ Jake Hager w/out his hat) (5:03)

Matt hung up Parker with a hangman’s neckbreaker, and Nick followed up with a senton. Matt came off the top with a double stomp on Parker’s arm. Matt gave Angelo a series of Northern Lights suplexes. And Parker was having a good hair day, too! Parker and Menard got the advantage on Matt Jackson while the crowd chanted “Where’s your hat?” at Hager. Parker dropped an elbow off of Menard’s back for a near fall while Jericho and Schivone got catty with each other on commentary.

Matt got the tag to Nick, who hit a crossbody on Parker and Menard. Parker tried the springboard elbow again, but sprung right into a superkick from Matt Jackson. A superkick took out Hager, and Bucks leveled Menard with the BTE trigger to get the pinfall. 

– A promo from Mike Santana, who is breaking out as a single. He’s “not here to make friends, he’s here to make money.”

– Jon Moxley v. Action Andretti for the International Title, a Kris Statlander open challenge for the TBS Title, and an 8-man tag for Bullet Club Gold have been added to Collision tomorrow night. 

Samoa Joe defeated Jeff Hardy (w/ Matt Hardy) to advance in the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament (8:30)

The crowd still really likes Jeff Hardy. And they really do not like Samoa Joe. Hardy caught Joe with a low dropkick and  a lariat off the middle ropes. Joe went to Hardy’s eyes to get the advantage, then hit Hardy with some jabs and kicks.

Joe continued to dominate Hardy through the split-screen break. The crowd got behind Hardy with chants, and Joe casually avoided a flying forearm from Jeff, which sent him flying into the ropes and to the floor. When Hardy got back into the ring, Joe softened him up with jabs and body shots, then taunted the crowd by applauding Hardy.

Hardy came back with Whisper in the Wind. Hardy hit a clothesline, an elbow and a forearm. Hardy dropped an elbow for a near fall. The crowd chanted for a swanton bomb, and Hardy caught Joe with a kick. He went for the Twist of Fate, and Joe quickly countered into the Kokina Clutch. Hardy quickly tapped out.

Samoa Joe v. Penta El Zero Miedo is now official for Collision. The winner of that match will face the winner of Roderick Strong v. Darby Allin, also on Collision. 

Final Thoughts: 

Star power and some good matches made for the most watchable episode of Rampage in a while. Everything on tonight’s show felt important. 

Two World title eliminator quarterfinals bouts announced for AEW Rampage

Posted on by Ethan Renner

The AEW Grand Slam World title eliminator tournament will continue on Friday’s Rampage with a pair of quarterfinals matches. 

As revealed during Wednesday’s Dynamite, Samoa Joe will face Jeff Hardy on Friday’s Rampage episode in a Grand Slam World title eliminator quarterfinal. The winner will advance to the semifinals on Saturday’s Collision show. 

In the other quarterfinal match set for Rampage, Penta El Zero Miedo will face Jay Lethal. The winner of Penta vs. Lethal will face the winner of Joe vs. Hardy in Saturday’s semifinals. Darby Allin vs. Roderick Strong is the other semifinals match set for Saturday. 

The Grand Slam finals are set for next week’s Dynamite, with the winner challenging MJF for the AEW World title at Dynamite Grand Slam the following Wednesday.

Also announced for Rampage, The Young Bucks will be in tag team action against “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard & “Cool Hand Ang” Angelo Parker, formerly of the Jericho Appreciation Society. 

Friday’s Rampage episode is being taped Wednesday night in Indianapolis. 

The announced lineup: 

AEW Rampage, Friday, September 8, 10 p.m. Eastern time on TNT —

  • Grand Slam World title eliminator tournament quarterfinals: Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy
  • Grand Slam World title eliminator tournament quarterfinals: Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Jay Lethal
  • The Young Bucks vs. Matt Menard & Angelo Parker

AEW donates Texas Chain Saw Massacre sponsorship money to Maui Food Bank

Posted on by Ian Carey

The Maui Food Bank will receive a sizable donation thanks to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s sponsorship of an AEW Dynamite match last night. 

Jeff Jarrett defeated Jeff Hardy in a match that involved the character Leatherface from the popular horror franchise. The sponsorship was to promote the Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game, which goes on sale tomorrow. 

Our own Dave Meltzer mentioned on Wrestling Observer Radio that AEW received over $100,000 as part of the deal. 

“It was a big number. It was over a $100,000 sponsorship,” Meltzer said on the show. 

AEW president Tony Khan announced to the live crowd in Nashville that he would donate “every dime I got” from the deal to the Maui Food Bank. 

Khan also shared that much of the creative for last night’s show had to be reworked at the last minute. 

“Thank you all who watched #AEWDynamite tonight,” he wrote on Twitter.”If haven’t seen it yet, please check it out + please donate @MauiFoodBank

“Thank you again to WBD + our team for helping rework tonight’s whole creative, including @TXChainSawGame with 100% of funds from the sponsor to @mauifoodbank.”

Texas Chainsaw Massacre death match announced for AEW Dynamite

Posted on by Josh Nason

In a most unusual match, Jeff Jarrett will take on Jeff Hardy in a Texas Chain Saw Massacre death match on this Wednesday’s Fight for the Fallen edition of AEW Dynamite.

The match is a sponsorship for the new video game that is aligned with the famous movie. It will be their first singles match since a December 2011 cage match at TNA Final Resolution.

Jarrett told Hardy they should both bring their crews, so there will be plenty of people involved.

In another new bout, AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy will defend against former partner Wheeler Yuta. Cassidy defeated Johnny TV on Friday’s Rampage to score his 28th title defense while Yuta is still looking for his first run with AEW gold.

Here’s the current card for this Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee:

  • AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy defends against Wheeler Yuta
  • Jeff Jarrett vs. Jeff Hardy death match
  • MJF & Adam Cole talk about All In
  • Darby Allin & Nick Wayne vs. Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona)
  • Winner advances to AEW All In Women’s title four-way: Britt Baker vs. The Bunny
  • Jim Ross sits down with Kenny Omega

AEW Rampage live results: Blackpool Combat Club vs. Best Friends parking lot fight

Posted on by Joseph Collins

For the second time in three days, Jon Moxley and Trent Beretta will be in a violent brawl as part of Friday’s AEW Rampage.

Moxley and Blackpool Combat Club teammate Claudio Castagnoli will take on Beretta and Best Friends teammate Chuck Taylor in a parking lot fight that was made after Wednesday’s anything goes three-way with Moxley, Beretta and Penta El Zero Miedo.

The match will take place at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.

With the turmoil surrounding the Jericho Appreciation Society, Anna Jay will try to turn things around in her match against Skye Blue.

After their violent attack on Nick Wayne Wednesday that left the young prospect bloodied up in his own ring. Swerve Strickland & AR Fox will be in tag team action against local competitors.

In a trios bout, Keith Lee will team with Jeff & Matt Hardy against Kip Sabian, The Butcher & The Blade.

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Taped in Tampa & Jacksonville, Florida.

Tony Schiavone, Excalibur and Chris Jericho were on commentary.

The Hardy Boys & Keith Lee (w/ Ethan Page & Brother Zay) defeated The Butcher, The Blade & Kip Sabian (w/ Penelope Ford) (8:54)

Matt & Jeff combined for “poetry in motion,” but it was more like “awkward stilted prose in motion.” Matt Hardy got a near fall on the Blade after a side effect. That mustache that Butcher is growing could get its own zip code. Matt sent Butcher headfirst all the way down to the bottom turnbuckle pad. Jeff Hardy went flying into the heel corner, taking a shot at Sabaian and the Butcher. Blade sent Jeff to the floor, and Sabian hit a moonsault on Jeff and Ethan Page. 

The heels worked over Jeff during the split screen break. After the break, Butcher dropped Jeff with a backbreaker out of a half-nelson. Hardy caught Butcher with a jawbreaker and got the hot tag to Keith Lee, whoe entered the match for the first time. Sabian tried to slow Lee down with a sleeper, but Lee avalanched both Butcher and Blade in the corner, then tossed Blade out of the corner, all while Sabain was still on his back!

Lee went for a powerbomb on Sabian, but he flipped out and hit a kick. Lee then dropped Sabian with a powerslam for a near fall. Matt Hardy hit the Twist of Fate on both the Butcher and the Blade. Lee gave Sabian a one handed powerbomb, and Jeff hit the Swanton Bomb for a pinfall. Pretty standard trios match. 

– Footage from Ring of Honor explained the history between Adam Cole and the Kingdom. They used to be close –Adam Cole even went to Mike Bennett’s wedding– but then Cole abandoned them.

– The Young Bucks declared they’d like to be back in the tag team division, and the Hardy Boys stepped in to challenge them. Pencil that in for Dynamite on Wednesday. 

Anna Jay (w/ Angelo Parker and Matt Menard) defeated Skye Blue (7:08 aired)

Two minutes of the match took place during the split-screen break. After the break, Blue fought out of a surfboard, but Jay buried a knee in her midsection. Blue hit a back elbow and a cross body. Blue hit a knee strike and a low kick for a near fall. Jay hit a back kick and a flatliner for a near fall. Blue countered a Queen Slayer attempt into a rollup for a near fall. Parker jumped up on the apron looking for a kiss from Blue, but she slapped him instead. But this distraction allowed Jay to lock in the Queen Slayer and get the tap out.

– Kris Statlander is doing squats with Rene Paquette on her back. Statlander gave Mercedes Martinez a list of chores to do before tomorrow night, when “mama is coming home.”

– Tony Schiavone & Paul Wight gave an update from the site of the Parking Lot Brawl: PAC is injured, but the Death Triangle still wants to face the winners of tonight’s main event on Wednesday. 

Swerve Strickland & AR Fox (w/ Prince Nana) defeated Logan Cruz & Tyshaun Perez

AR Fox wore a tank top stained with Nick Wayne’s blood from that heavy angle on Dynamite Wednesday.

Fox hit a top rope dropkick on both his opponents, then followed them to the floor with a top rope dive. Fox tossed Perez into a sitout powerbomb from Strickland. Fox hit Cruz with a cutter, Strickland dropped him with a brainbuster, and Fox hit a 450 to get the pinfall. Total squash, totally awesome. This better be the start of Strickland’s push to the moon. 

– A QTV Segment: Johnny TV issues a challenge to anyone that’s been on television. 

– Prince Nana, Big Bill and Brian Cage cut a promo on FTR in advance of their match tomorrow night for the tag titles. Everyone was great here. 

Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli defeated Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor in a Parking Lot Brawl (18:00 aired) 

They’re in a parking lot surrounded by cars, and the match can be won by “pinfall, submission or surrender.” Moxley and Claudio were checking all the cars before the bell to make sure Orange Cassidy wasn’t hiding in any of them. The parking area was also surrounded by fans. 

Not even 30 seconds into the match, Beretta is bleeding from the forehead and Moxley is driving a fork into the cut. Beretta came off the top of a car with a crossbody on Moxley. Castagnoli beat on both Beretta and Taylor with a spoiler he ripped off of one of the cars. Moxley was also busted open less than two minutes into the match. The Best Friends flapjacked Castagnoli into an open minivan door.

The Best Friends sandwiched Castagnoli under a car hood. Moxley and Claudio came back and powerbombed Beretta onto a car hood for a near fall. Castagnoli gave Beretta the Giant Swing, and Moxley slid a garbage can into Beretta’s head. Taylor saved his partner with a street sign, backdropped Castagnoli into a car, and attacked Moxley with a fork. Taylor set up a safety rail, on which Moxley suplexed Taylor.

After a split screen break, Claudio and the Best Friends were brawling on top of a car. Moxley ran in and hit Taylor with a Paradigm Shift on the roof of the car. Beretta went for a cannonball, but the BCC moved out of the way and Beretta crashed into a car. Castagnoli press-slammed Beretta onto the roof of the car. Claudio went for the Ricola Bomb on the roof of a car, but Beretta countered it into a DudeBuster. 

Back on the roof of another car, Beretta and Moxley were alternating between brawling and counter chain-wrestling spots. Moxley finally knocked Beretta to the ground, but Beretta popped right back up and brawled with Moxley again. Moxley gave Beretta a Death Rider through the windshield of the car.

Meanwhile, Taylor siphoned gas out of one of the cars to light a 2×4 wrapped in barbed wire on fire. Wheeler Yuta popped out of a minivan and distracted Taylor, allowing Moxley to get the 2×4 and nail Taylor. Yuta worked over Taylor with a screwdriver, but Sue(!!!) drove in with Orange Cassidy on top of her minivan. Cassidy came with a steel chain to help even the odds. 

Yuta dropped Cassidy with a Paradigm Shift on Sue’s minivan. The BCC chased Sue away, and I guess the match is now a trios brawl. Castagnoli ripped off one of the doors to the fan while Yuta and Moxley smashed up the windows with crowbars. Moxley curbstomped Beretta through a windshield, and Castagnoli covered Beretta for the pinfall. 

Well, that was suitably wild. The Blackpool Combat Club came across as very dominant at the end.

After the match, Moxley continued to destroy Sue’s fan, to the jeers of the crowd. 

Final Thoughts: 

Seek out the parking lot brawl. Completely wild stuff. Outside of that, this was a pretty pedestrian Rampage. 

Jeff Hardy wants to ‘elevate’ back to AEW Dynamite, wrestle CM Punk

Posted on by Colin McGuire

Though he isn’t currently prominently featured on AEW Dynamite, Jeff Hardy said in a recent interview that he’d love to work his way back to Wednesday nights.

In his brief talk with Muscle Man Malcolm, Hardy admitted that he’s been working to move from Rampage to AEW’s flagship program sooner than later.

“I think it’s a constant battle to elevate myself back to the Dynamite show,” Hardy said. “(Rampage) is kind of the B show, but we still want to go out there and give the people what they want – give them their money’s worth. Naturally, the ultimate goal for myself and Matt is the AEW World Tag Team Championships because we were so close before I got myself into the hell of a mess I got myself into. But now that I’m coming out of that, it’s within reach. We’re using the Rampage moments to hopefully, eventually create some huge Dynamite moments.”

Hardy went on to mention another thing goal he has in mind: one more match with CM Punk, someone with whom he’s had significant history in WWE. The two last wrestled each other in August of 2009 when Punk defeated Hardy in a Loser Leaves WWE steel cage match.

Referring to potentially stepping back in the ring with Punk someday, Hardy reflected on a quick moment the two shared on AEW television before realizing the time wasn’t right for the two to lock up.

“What I’ve seen more than anything is there’s just a huge moment between me and CM Punk,” Hardy noted. “The history alone. (If we would have touched then), we’d be throwing away a huge moment for the future. Ultimately, I can see us having another match. I think it’d be bizarre in the best of ways.”

Hardy also spoke about hoping for one more World title run while speculating on when he might begin to wind things down in the wrestling business.

“I’m a big believer in something could happen before I get home tonight that could end my career,” he said. “It’s just the little things that kill sometimes. I can’t put a number on it, but I feel like I’ll be rocking until I’m 50. I’m 45 now, so sometime between now and 50, I’m going to create many more moments.”

Jeff Hardy to make GCW debut appearance in August

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Jeff Hardy will be making his GCW debut this August.

The promotion announced Tuesday that Hardy will appear at My Name Is in Detroit on Friday, August 4th. Following the event, he will perform a live concert at the same venue, separate admission required.

It did not state whether he would be wrestling on the show.

In May, Hardy returned from a year-long absence due to a DUI arrest and subsequent rehab stay. He has worked several tag team matches with brother Matt since then. Most recently, he and Matt lost to the Gunns on a late-June Dynamite.

Hardy has wrestled sporadically on the indies since he was released by WWE in December 2021, but not since his return.

On his Extreme Life podcast in June of this year, Matt said they wanted to limit Jeff’s indie appearances and signings to help with his “journey to sobriety.”

“Jeff is just so nice of a guy where it is hard for him to say no, you know, because he is very much a people pleaser and I think part of his journey to sobriety over the last year, he has probably learned a lot and he has put his foot down some in terms of being a people pleaser, much like he doesn’t wrestle on the indie scene right now. He’s open to doing signings and cons and stuff like that, but he only wants to do two a month. He’s really put his foot down with that, and I respect that, and I’m cool with that.”

AEW Rampage live results: The Firm Deletion

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It’s another early edition of AEW Rampage Friday due to the NHL playoffs on TNT.

Tonight’s show will feature a cinematic match of sorts in The Firm Deletion which should be the end of the feud between Matt Hardy and Stokely Hathaway’s faction. Matt & Jeff Hardy, Hook and Isiah Kassidy will face Ethan Page, Hathaway, Big Bill and Lee Moriarty at the Hardy compound.

In trios action, Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) & El Hijo del Vikingo will unite to take on Powerhouse Hobbs, QT Marshall & Aaron Solo. This was made after the events of Wednesday’s trios battle royal.

TBS Champion Jade Cargill will be in non-title action against Gia Scott. Cargill is looking to keep her career-long undefeated streak alive as she awaits her next real challenge.

Mark Briscoe will compete close to his home of Laurel, Delaware, against Preston Vance of LFI.

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Taped in Baltimore, Maryland. Jim Ross, Excalibur & Tony Schiavone were on commentary. 

Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) & El Hijo del Vikingo (w/ Alex Abrahantes) defeated Powerhouse Hobbs, QT Marshall & Aaron Solo (w/ Harley Cameron) (12:23)

This match stemmed from the Trios Battle Royal from Dynamite Wednesday. Nice to see something set up on Dynamite and followed through on Rampage. Marshall started with Vikingo and got schooled. Vikingo hit an implosion hurricanrana and a Phoenix Splash for a near fall. Tags were made to Rey Fenix and Aaron Solo. Solo couldn’t keep up with Fenix and tagged in Powerhouse Hobbs. Penta got the tag and matched power for a bit with Hobbs, but cut off with a clothesline. Vikingo dove onto Hobbs and right into a powerbomb. Hobbs with a delayed vertical suplex on Penta, then tossed him to the floor.

Marshall dropped to the floor and sent Penta into the steel ringpost. Marshall pulled a table out from under the ring and the show went to a split-screen break. 

Back from break, Penta hit slingblades on Marshall and Solo. Fenix hit Hobbs with a rope-running punt kick. Vikingo and the Lucha Bros took out Marshall’s crew with triple topes to the floor.

Back in the ring, Vikingo hit a shooting star press on Solo, and the Lucha Bros followed up with the wheelbarrow double team into a splash for a near fall. Solo tried a comeback, but Vikingo took him down with a uranage. Penta hit a springboard Canadian Destroyer on Marshall and Fenix took out Hobbs with a cutter.

Marshall caught Fenix with a pop-up forearm, and Solo came off the top with a double stomp for a near fall. Fenix caught Solo with a superkick, but Marshall cut off Vikingo on the top rope. Vikingo hit him with a Canadian Destroyer on the ring apron. Vikingo then gave Solo a German suplex out of an electric chair. On the floor, Hobbs started choking out Alex Abrahantes. The Lucha Bros finished off Solo with the Fear Factor.

Hobbs went from something special to just another guy thanks to getting paired with Marshall’s  group. They are less than the sum of their parts. 

– There was a tease of controversial comments from MJF after his loss on Wednesday, but it was just him angry backstage and demanding his belt. That’s still the closest he’s come to working Rampage.  

– Lexi Nair interviewed Chris Jericho at his locker room. Jericho will not work Rampage tonight because he needs some “insurances” that he will be safe from another attack from Adam Cole. Jericho doesn’t want to work in the same building as Cole which sounds a lot like the actual problems AEW’s having with some other performers. 

TBS Champion Jade Cargill (w/ Leila Grey) defeated Gia Scott (0:35)

Pump kick and Jaded and it’s over. Jade is 57-0. 

– Lexi Nair’s interview with Mark Briscoe is interrupted by Jeff Jarrett’s crew, looking for more insights on FTR from Briscoe. FTR will respond to Jarrett’s challenge this Wednesday on Dynamite. 

Mark Briscoe vs. Preston Vance (w/ Jose the Assistant) 

Mark Briscoe’s kids were at ringside. Vance grabbed their signs and tore them up. Briscoe brawled with Vance around the ring and sent him headfirst into the ringpost. Briscoe went for a moonsault onto the floor, but Vance dodged it and Briscoe hit the floor. Vance tossed Briscoes into the barricades around ringside. 

After a split-screen break, Vance locked Briscoe in the full nelson. Briscoe kicked off the turnbuckles into a pin for a near fall. Brisco and Vance exchanged forearms. Briscoe floored Vance with a clothesline. Briscoe countered Vance’s discus lariat with an ugly flatliner for a near fall. Briscoe went for the Jay Driller, but Vance escaped and hit the discus clothesline. Vance dropped to the floor for a chair, but opted not to use it. Vance hit a spear for a near fall. Jose tried to slide Vance the chair, which distracted the ref and allowed Vance to hit a low blow.

Briscoe backdropped Vance to the floor, then used the chair as a springboard for a tope. Back in the ring, Vance countered the discus lariat and hit the Jay Driller for the pin. I love Mark, but this was just a match.

After the match, Briscoe’s family came into the ring to celebrate with Mark.

– Lexi Nair’s interview with Dustin Rhodes was interrupted when the Mogul Embassy blindsided him. Keith Lee ran them off. Seems like this feud is building to the Dynamite in Austin, Texas on May 17th. 

New for Dynamite Wednesday:

  • Anna Jay v. Julia Hart in a No Holds Barred match.
  • ROH Tag Champion Rey Fenix v. ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli in a match where the winner will get a shot at the other man’s championship.
  • The House of Black v. The Best Friends & Bandido in a House Rules Trios Title match. 

The Hardy Boys, Hook & Isiah Kassidy defeated Ethan Page, Big Bill, Stokley Hathaway and Lee Moriarty in The Firm Deletion Match

The Firm showed up at the Hardy Compound and busted up Hardy’s mailbox. They were greeted by Hardy’s drone, who deemed them “rude AF.” It went from daylight to night (via time travel?), and Hardy’s team shot fireworks at the Firm. Then the brawl started in the dark. Kassidy and Jeff Hardy double-teamed Big Bill. Bill chokeslammed Isiah Kassidy into a tree. This took Kassidy out of the match for a bit. 

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Hardy gave Page a vertical suplex, but Page countered a Twist of Fate with a double leg takedown, then broke a tree branch over Matt’s back for a near fall. Back to Jeff and Big Bill, and Jeff choked Bill out with a stick. Bill’s eyes rolled into the back of his head.

In another part of the compound, Matt Hardy’s kids tried to run over Stokely Hathaway with a motorized big wheel. Hardy and Page made their way into the warehouse with the ring, and the show went to a split screen break. 

Most of Hook’s involvment in the match came during the slip-screen break, when he suplexed Hathaway in the ring, then caught a leg lariat from Lee Moriarty. 

In the ring, Hardy hit the Twist of Fate for the near fall. Caprice Coleman was one of the referees for the match, but this wasn’t acknowledged by the commentators. Stokley Hathaway found what looked like Matt Hardy’s screening room in the house. Before he could settle in to watch “Coming to America,” he was jumped by Matt Hardy’s kids. Back outside, Bill had doused the Hardys with gasoline and threatened to set them on fire.  Isaiah Kassidy reemerged as “Brother Zay” on the top of the warehouse, and dove onto everybody. 

Back in the warehouse, Reby Hardy hit a Twist of Fate on Hathaway.  Maxel hit the swanton bomb before Reby put the kids to bed. Back outside, “Brother Zay” put Bill through a table on the outside. 

Back in the warehouse, Ethan Page was left to fend for himself in a 4-on-1. Hook hit an exploder on Page, Hardy gave him the Twist of Fate, and Jeff came off the top with a swanton bomb. Referee Caprice Coleman counted the pinfall. After the match, Jeff Hardy walked off into the night. The Hardy team celebrated by lighting a giant Hardy cross symbol on fire. 

Final Thoughts: 

There might have been a lot of inside jokes I missed in the Firm Deletion match because I’m not totally immeresed in the Hardyverse. It was just goofy enough to be fun, but I don’t know if it’s worth going out of your way to see. 

Fight Game: AEW’s CM Punk conundrum

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John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new Fight Game Podcast.

We kicked off the show with our thumbs up/thumbs down segment with a focus on AEW and what looks like a very big upcoming summer and fall.

Then, we dug into the then-newest information about CM Punk and his impending return. 

We then discussed Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite from a big picture perspective:

  • Darby Allin standing out as the only real contender for MJF’s AEW World championship
  • Wardlow and Powerhouse Hobbs’ rushed program
  • Jeff Hardy coming in to save a bad segment of television
  • The latest on The Elite and Blackpool Combat Club with no mention of Bryan Danielson and Adam Page
  • Cold Keith Lee losing to Chris Jericho, and Adam Cole’s involvement

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Matt Hardy opens up about Jeff Hardy’s AEW return: ‘He seems different’

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On a new edition of the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt Hardy opened up about his brother Jeff returning to AEW.

Jeff made his return to AEW television on Dynamite this Wednesday. It was Jeff’s first appearance since a June 2022 DUI arrest where he was driving at more than three times the legal limit. It was Jeff’s third DUI arrest since 2018.

Jeff was suspended without pay after the arrest, with AEW saying that he could only return “upon successfully completing treatment and maintaining his sobriety.”

Jeff’s DUI case was resolved this February without him having to serve any jail time. Due to him spending time in rehab, Jeff was given 38 days credit for time served. His license has also suspended for 10 years.

Matt Hardy said on his podcast that Jeff “seems different” after the work he’s done on himself during his 10 months away from AEW.

This is the most work I’ve ever seen him do on himself. And he had 10 months. He seems different. He seems different. And once again, I don’t want to sit here and vouch for him. I don’t want you to take my word for it. I don’t want you to take anyone else’s word for it. I want you to watch him and follow his actions. He’ll make you a believer, if that’s what you need. I am confident his actions, his conduct, and his behavior will make people a believer.

He’s made me a believer. I’ve got to see a lot of him and I’ve got to follow his journey and I know the work he has put in and I know how dedicated he has been to legitimately changing and trying to get his sh*t together once and for all. And all I can say is like I’m just so extraordinarily proud of him. He’s done great.

And [on Wednesday] everybody was so happy to see him. And he was like happy to be there. It was so adorable, right before we went out, he was so nervous and he was so worried because he hadn’t been in a ring at all. He actually came to my house on Monday night and got in my ring, ran the ropes a little bit, took a few bumps… It was a fun time, just catching up with him was.

Matt also spoke about the reaction Jeff received in his return:

He was worried how the people were going to react to him. Jeff is just one of the few individuals who just has ‘it’ and something that’s just so extremely special and people are connected to him in such an organic way. And when he came out and the people went nuts and they were cheering and chanting for him. They hit that, ‘Welcome back! Welcome back!’ It was great, man. A magical moment. Really glad we got to this point and I’m very excited to see where we go forward from here.

When his co-host Jon Alba said it will be up to Jeff to prove himself to the world, Matt agreed:

That’s correct. Obviously coming off his past, he has stuff to prove to people. Once again — I’m the ultimate optimist. My mentality doesn’t work for everybody, but I say, like hey, people change, give them a chance, especially if they’ve legitimately put the work in and tried. I do that with everybody. Either he’ll prove them wrong or he’ll prove you right. I have a very good feeling about this point Jeff’s at in his life right now.

In his return appearance, Jeff saved Matt Hardy, Isiah Kassidy, and Hook from a beatdown by The Firm. Matt said on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy that, after recently undergoing eye surgery, Jeff got cleared for physical activity at the end of last week.

AEW has announced that we’ll hear from The Hardys on this Friday’s episode of Rampage.