The AEW Trios division will continue to heat up on tonight’s AEW Rampage between some rivals with serious grudges.
The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Tomohiro Ishii & Kyle O’Reilly) will team up to battle The Undisputed Kingdom’s Roderick Strong, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett. Cassidy and O’Reilly have had their issues with all the Kingdom members with Ishii recently entering the fray to lend the babyfaces a hand.
Another NJPW star — Minoru Suzuki — will return to the rings of AEW against The Butcher. Suzuki will challenge Chris Jericho for the FTW title this Wednesday.
Jericho will be on the show teaming up with Big Bill against The Outrunners.
Two longtime AEW teams will clash once again as the Lucha Bros will battle Private Party. This will be their first match against each other since July 2022.
Former TBS Champion Kris Statlander will be in action for the first time since attacking Willow Nightingale during her Owen Hart tournament final match.
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The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Tomohiro Ishii & Kyle O’Reilly) defeated The Undisputed Kingdom (Roderick Strong, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)
Orange Cassidy makes his way out with Tomohiro Ishii and Kyle O’Reilly. The Conglomeration trio settle inside the squared circle, where their opponents, The Undisputed Kingdom trio of Roderick Strong, Matt Taven and Mike Bennett are waiting for them.
Strong and O’Reilly kick things off for their respective teams in this trios opener. The two lock up and jockey for position. O’Reilly goes behind Strong and takes his back standing. Strong ends up on the mat on his back. O’Reilly looks for a submission but Strong defends and gets back up.
Cassidy and Taven tag in for their respective teams and the pace quickly picks up. Cassidy comes off the ropes with a ton of speed and runs over Taven before tagging in Ishii. The fans in the building chant the name of the Japanese legend as he goes to work on all three members of The Undisputed Kingdom.
Bennett and Taven attack Ishii from behind. They look for a double suplex, but Ishii defends it. O’Reilly and Cassidy join him in the ring and the three hit a suplex on Bennett and Taven at the same time. Ishii and Bennett are alone in the ring when the smoke clears.
Ishii goes to work on Bennett, bringing him into the corner of his team. O’Reilly and Cassidy come back in and the two hit some multi-person spots with Ishii for a big crowd reaction. The show then heads into a mid-match commercial break as the trios opener continues.
When the show returns from the break, Taven, Bennett and Strong hit multi-person spots on Ishii to shift the offensive momentum in their favor. Strong is left as the legal man with Ishii. He blasts him with loud chops in the corner that get funny reactions from the Japanese legend.
Fans try and rally behind Ishii, but to no avail, as The Undisputed Kingdom members utilize frequent tags and cut the ring in half, keeping him on their side of things. Ishii hits a German suplex on Taven, which buys him enough time to tag in O’Reilly.
O’Reilly goes to work on Taven as Cassidy hits a dive onto the other members of The Undisputed Kingdom on the floor. Cassidy hits a top-rope splash and pops up for a quick tope suicida to the floor. Ishii tags in and hits Chasing the Dragon for a two-count, after Bennett broke it up.
Cassidy hits Stun-Dog Millionaire on Bennett. Ishii follows up with a lariat. Taven hits a big splash off the top-rope for a super-close two-count on Ishii. Ishii and Strong trade shots back-and-forth. Ishii gets the better of things and stumbles back to tag in Cassidy.
We see Cassidy go for a dive through the ropes to the floor, but he is met by Bennett and Strong, who both slam him back-first into the ringside barricade. As The Undisputed Kingdom trio settle back into the offensive lead, the show heads into another mid-match commercial break.
After the show returns from the break, we see Ishii connect with a top-rope superplex on Taven. O’Reilly trades shots in the center of the ring. Cassidy hits a sunset flip off the top-rope but the pin attempt is broken up.
Cassidy hits a DDT counter off the ropes to Bennett. O’Reilly and Cassidy hit the high-low sweep and then Ishii and Strong each take the other out with a double clothesline. Taven goes for a roundhouse kick but spins right into an Orange Punch from Cassidy for the pinfall. Good opener to kick things off on this week’s show.
Once the match wraps up, Don Callis comes out and stands behind Cassidy in the ring. Cassidy turns and notices him and gets angry. He takes his arm pad off as he backs him into the ropes, but before anything can happen, Kyle Fletcher from The Don Callis Family attacks from behind.
ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe runs out to make the save, but ends up getting laid out by Roderick Strong. Strong takes Briscoe’s ROH World Championship and holds it high in the air as he poses over him with The Undisputed Kingdom as the commentators promote their title tilt coming up at ROH Death Before Dishonor 2024.
Saraya & Harley Cameron Backstage Interview
Backstage, Saraya and Harley Cameron are interviewed. Saraya talks about how they are trying to keep her off of the show at AEW ALL IN at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 25.
Harley says that would be like having Beverly Hills Cop without the Beverly Hills Cop. Great analogy, Harley. Saraya insists she will be on the show.
The Learning Tree (Chris Jericho & Big Bill) defeated The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd)
We hear a super enthusiastic “Hi guys!” from the longest “For The World” champion in the history of planet Earth. On that note, The Learning Tree duo of Chris Jericho and “The Redwood” Big Bill make their way down to the ring for advertised tag-team action.
Already in the ring are their opponents, The Outrunners team of Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd. Bill kicks things off for his team while Jericho hangs on the apron with his FTW title still around his waist. He pulls out a cell phone.
Jericho begins texting someone multiple times as Bill easily handles both members of The Outrunners by himself. Bill stomps away at one of The Outrunners in the corner while frantically laughing like a psycho. Truth tags in and lands a shot on Bill, which changes his happy-go-lucky persona quick, fast, and in-a-hurry.
“The Redwood” gets serious now as he charges from one corner of the ring to the other, splashing Magnum and Floyd. After Bill finishes things off with his chokeslam finisher, Jericho finally asks for the tag and comes in with his FTW title still around his waist for a foot-on-the-chest arrogant pin.
Minoru Suzuki defeated The Butcher
As Jericho sends a text boasting about teaching people something tonight, he and Bill and Bryan Keith head to the back, but are stopped when Minoru Suzuki makes his way out for the next match of the evening.
The Japanese legend settles inside the squared circle after intimidating Jericho briefly on the entrance ramp. The commentators promote Suzuki vs. Jericho for the FTW title for next week’s episode of AEW Dynamite. The show heads into another commercial break.
When the show returns, The Butcher is in the middle of finishing up his ring entrance. The bell sounds to get this one started. The Butcher and Suzuki stand in the middle of the ring and Butcher tells him he wants to trade shots to start things off.
They do and Butcher gets a little over confident. This leads in Suzuki going to work on him with flurries. Moments later, Butcher tries chopping Suzuki a few times, with one eliciting an audible laugh from Suzuki that pops the crowd.
Butcher says he’s going to break Suzuki’s back. He hits a big suplex and floats over for a pin attempt. After he kicks out, Suzuki chokes out Butcher and dumps him on his dome for the victory.
Mark Briscoe Reacts To Roderick Strong’s Attack
Backstage, the four members of The Conglomeration are standing by for a promo segment. As usual, ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe does the talking. He says today’s word of the day is “Miscombobulation.” O’Reilly asks for the country of origin, and Briscoe says America.
When asked to use it in a sentence, Briscoe says, “In the midst of my miscombobulation, Roderick Strong cracked me in the face with a knee and stood over me holding my ROH World title high in the air.” He tells him next week at ROH Death Before Dishonor, he’ll have something for him.
But before that, on AEW Collision tomorrow night, Roderick Strong will go one-on-one against Tomohiro Ishii. He vows that Ishii will show them how they do in The Conglomeration and then barks like a madman into the camera to wrap things up.
Kris Statlander (w/ Stokely Hathaway) defeated Syndi Winnell
Back inside the arena, the theme for Kris Statlander hits and out she comes accompanied by Stokely Hathaway for the next match of the evening. Already in the ring is her opponent, Syndi Winnell.
The bell gets things started and an overconfident Statlander is caught off guard by a ferocious onslaught and wild flurry of strikes from Winnell. This backs Statlander in the corner and Winnell unloads on her.
Schiavone jokes with Excalibur on commentary about how they are fortunate that Don Callis and Stokely Hathaway both came out tonight and they didn’t have to deal with either of them joining them at the desk.
Back inside the ring, Statlander takes over with ease and within seconds, hits her Stater-day Night Fever finisher for the pin fall victory. This is her 85th victory, according to Schiavone on commentary.
Stokely hits the ring to push the referee aside so he can raise Statlander’s hand. Statlander drops down and does push-ups while Stokely puts his foot on her back.
The Lucha Bros (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix w/ Alex Abrahantes) defeated Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen)
It’s main event time!
After the women’s singles match wrapped up, the show went into another quick commercial break. Upon returning, the catchy theme song for The Lucha Bros hits and out comes the duo of Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix, accompanied by Alex Abrahantes.
The popular masked duo settle inside the squared circle to a big pop and then their music dies down. The red velvet rope is set up at the top of the entrance ramp and out comes their opponents for tonight’s main event, the Private Party team of Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy.
Fenix and Kassidy kick things off for their respective teams. Fenix establishes the initial offensive lead, but Kassidy hits Rob Van Dam’s old step-through roundhouse kick to shift the momentum into the favor of Private Party.
Quen tags in and takes over. He goes to bring Penta, now the legal man for The Lucha Bros, into the ring the hard way, but Penta blasts him with a kick that knocks him silly. Penta enters the ring and nearly beheads him with a follow-up kick that sends him to the floor.
Penta fires up for a dive to the floor, but comes off the ropes into a cross-body splash from Kassidy. Fenix hits a missile dropkick off the top-rope immediately after that. As Penta and Quen are nose-to-nose in the middle of the ring, the show heads into a mid-match commercial break.
When the show returns, The Lucha Bros go on an offensive rampage (pun intended), hitting many of their trademark high spots. Fenix walks the tight rope top-rope for a big punt kick, which sends Quen into Penta for a big sling blade.
They go for a double-team spot off the ropes in the corner, but it gets broken up. Prrivate Party hit an insane double-team spot that pops the crowd and shifts the offensive momentum back in their favor. Fenix sends Quen into the mat with authority for a two-count.
Penta and Fenix sandwich him in between a pair of stereo super kicks. They follow-up with the fear factor double stomp double-team finisher for the pinfall victory. Good main event.
After it wraps up,The Lucha Bros celebrate as Excalibur does a speed-read through the updated lineup for tomorrow night’s AEW Collision. That’s how this week’s show goes off the air. Thanks for joining us and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter/X.
