‘AEW: Rampage’ Review (Jan 14th 2022)
Welcome to this weeks review of AEW: Rampage which, like Wednesday’s Dynamite, comes from Raleigh, North Carolina… Let’s get right into the action; and this review!
Match #1: Adam Cole def. Trent?
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Cole went for the pump kick but Trent dodged it. Trent fired back with chops to Cole’s chest. Cole used a knee strike on Trent, but Trent rallied back with an overhead throw. Trent hit a low dropkick on Cole, and Cole was sent out of the ring. Cole swept out Trent’s legs and Trent crashed hard on the arena floor. Cole pulled Trent back into the ring and nailed him with a neck breaker. Cole’s pump kick landed this time, and Trent was sent back outside. Cole attempted the Panama Sunrise off the apron, but Trent countered with a back drop! Trent charged at Cole but Cole moved out of the way of the spear! Trent’s momentum sent him headfirst into the steel barricade! Adam Cole mounted Trent with a ground and pound attack. Trent got to his feet and used a deadlift German Suplex on Cole. Trent followed up with the swinging DDT, good for a near fall on Cole. Trent met Cole on the top turnbuckle and spiked Cole with an avalanche brainbuster! Trent hoisted Cole up but Cole escaped and countered with a backstabber! Trent managed to catch Cole off guard with a half and half. Cole came back with a brainbuster on his knee! The momentum shifted when Trent hit the piledriver on Cole on the apron! Trent was trying for the Strong Zero but Cole countered with a Destroyer! Somehow Trent kicked out of the pin attempt. Trent blocked the Panama Sunrise with a suplex and then a lariat! Trent charged at Cole but Cole superkicked Trent to the face and then to the back of the neck! Cole tried for the Panama Sunrise but Trent crunched Cole with the Strong Zero! Cole got his foot on the ropes and outside the ring, mayhem broke loose as both factions began to brawl! The ref turned his attention to everything going on at ringside, and Cole took advantage and low blowed Trent, and then scored the pin!
My Score: 2.5 out of 5
Match #2: Shawn Spears def. Andrew Everett
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Andrew shouldered Spears in the midsection. Spears caught Andrew with the C4 and pinned him!
My Score: 0 out of 5
Match #3: Nyla Rose, Penelope Ford & The Bunny def. Kris Statlander, Red Velvet & “Legit” Leyla Hirsch
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Leyla tagged herself in before her partner Kris Statlander could even make a move. Nyla Rose rammed Leyla into the opposite corner of the ring. Nyla hit a belly-to-belly suplex on Leyla but Statlander grabbed a tag. The Bunny and Kris Statlander exchanged elbow strikes. Red Velvet tagged in and Kris slammed Red Velvet onto Bunny for a near fall. Leyla tagged in and worked over The Bunny. Leyla and Kris Statlander argued over a tag and in the meantime, Red Velvet tagged in. Penelope Ford tagged in for her team and she and The Bunny double teamed Red Velvet! Nyla Rose tagged in and choke slammed Red Velvet for a near fall! Nyla sat out with a senton but Red Velvet moved out of the way! Statlander tagged in and cleaned house! Statlander used a gord buster on Ford for a near fall! Statlander avoided a cutter from Ford. Statlander applied the Scorpion Crab on Penelope Ford. Vickie distracted the ref and The Bunny was able to interfere. Statlander blasted The Bunny with the Blue Thunder Bomb for a near fall! Leyla used a blind tag but Statlander didn’t want to tag out. They argued and it allowed The Bunny to roll up Leyla for the pin!
My Score: 2 out of 5
Match #4: AEW World Tag Team Championship Match – Jurassic Express def. Dark Order’s Jon Silver & Alex Reynolds
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Jungle Boy and Alex Reynolds tied up, both looking for the early advantage. Jungle Boy took down Reynolds with a dropkick. Luchasaurus tagged in and chopped Reynolds right to the throat. Jungle Boy tagged in and used a stepping senton, onto Luchasaurus and down onto Reynolds for a near fall! John Silver tagged in and blasted Jungle Boy with a big high boot! Silver backdropped Jungle Boy! Silver hit a cannon ball on Luchasaurus. Jungle Boy was going for the tope suicida but Silver caught him, hoisted him up, and Reynolds hit a tope suicida of his own onto Jungle Boy! Jungle Boy made the tag to Luchasaurus and Luchasaurus used his size advantage to hit Silver and Reynolds with running splashes! Luchasaurus choke slammed Silver onto Reynolds for a two-count. Silver hoisted Jungle Boy onto his shoulders but Jungle Boy escaped and German Suplexed Silver! Jungle Boy met Reynolds on the top turnbuckle! Silver jumped up on the turnbuckles too! Luchasaurus grabbed them from behind and powerbombed Silver while Jungle Boy crashed down onto Reynolds. Silver and Reynolds used thrust kicks on Luchasaurus. They isolated Jungle Boy and swarmed him with this awesome offensive sequence. Jungle Boy barely escaped the jack knife pin attempt! Jungle Boy sent Silver into Evil Uno on the outside with a hurracanrana. Jungle Boy nailed Reynolds with a Destroyer for a (very) near fall! Luchasaurus booted John Silver! Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus employed impressive tandem offense to allow Luchasaurus to pin Reynolds!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Final Verdict: 2.5/5
Another episode of Rampage that was made by the promos and the main event. Though to be fair to the women, I really dug the trios match but I’m just sat here waiting for the huge Leyla Hirsch heel turn and her run all over the rest of the womens division – because it need someone strong and dominant like her who HASN’T already been featured on Dynamite and Rampage and Hirsch fits the bill perfectly! As for the Spears match, I’m already ridiculously tired of the entire Spears/Wardlow thing and wish AEW would just get the Wardlow singles run underway WITHOUT the cringey MJF and Spears storyline we’re currently being submitted to.
