AEW has announced the lineup for tonight’s new Rampage episode that will air at a special start time – 4 pm ET, 3 pm C, 1 pm PT on TNT.
ROH Tag Team Champions FTR defend against Top Flight
Darby Allin vs. Anthony Henry
Hikaru Shida in action
Dark Order vs. Rush, The Butcher & The Blade
ROH Champion Chris Jericho speaks
The post-Full Gear edition of AEW Dynamite will air live tonight on TBS from Chicago’s Wintrust Arena.
Pro Wrestling NOAH announced today that Darby Allin would team with The Great Muta and Sting for Muta’s retirement match on January 22nd.
Opponents for the bout have not been announced. Muta (Keiji Mutoh) is currently on his retirement tour that will end on February 23rd, while the January 22nd match marks the final match that he will portray, The Great Muta.
WWE star Shinsuke Nakamura will wrestle The Great Muta in a singles match at NOAH’s The New Year 2023 event on January 1.
Source: EWrestlingNews.
As noted, The Elite (the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega) made their in-ring return Saturday night at AEW Full Gear, losing a match to Death Triangle for the AEW Trios Championships. The Elite came out to Kansas’ “Carry On Wayward Son” for their entrance theme. A report by Dave Meltzer from F4WOnline.com has more details on The Elite’s return, and the use of their new theme song.
According to the report, the plan is for The Elite to use “Carry On Wayward Son” as their entrance music specifically for trios matches. They won’t be using the song for regular tag team or singles matches. The Young Bucks have reportedly been looking to use the song for a long time, since the Bucks and their dad are big fans of the song. Previously, the Bucks used the song as entrance music when taking part in backyard wrestling as teenagers.
The use of the song reportedly did not have anything to do with the recent situation between The Elite and CM Punk. As many fans know, The Elite were suspended following the backstage incident that took place at All Out in September. The suspension for The Elite was lifted after the conclusion of an investigation into the incident. While The Elite were said to be aware that people think the two ideas are related, that’s said to not be the case, and they’ve wanted to use the song for a while.
Additionally, even though Saturday night’s match was contested for the Trios titles, that won’t be the case for all of the subsequent matches in their best-of-seven series with Death Triangle. The Elite can only win the titles outright if they win four matches in the best-of-seven series.
The band Kansas took to Twitter following AEW Full Gear to comment on The Elite using their “Carry On Wayward Son” song for their entrance at AEW Full Gear. You can check out their reaction below:
Source: EWrestlingNews
AEW President Tony Khan provided several updates on Miro, Andrade El Idolo, Hangman Page & Adam Cole during the post-AEW All Out media scrum.
As many of you are aware, both Cole and Page are out with concussions, while Miro and El Idolo have been off TV in recent months.
You can check out some highlights from the media scrum below:
On when Miro and Anrade El Idolo may return: “I think when we launched AEW, one thing I said was that we would build a big roster, and we would kind of have it be where I wasn’t really committing to everybody necessarily working every single week, or even possibly working people in and out of the cards. And I think that’s still something I’m committed to. So there’s people who aren’t on every event, but I would still like to get involved. And you know, you’ve seen people take some sabbaticals, absences, breaks from AEW for various reasons, come back and get very involved. And I think that’s still for both of those guys, potentially something that you could see.
“There are different reasons, I think they’re different [situations]. They’re apples and oranges in some ways, but I also think both of them are great, and I would like to get both of them involved in the future.”
On Adam Cole and Hangman Page’s statuses: “Well, I’ve been in contact with both of them. They’re both doing very well. I think again, they’re different situations. But for both of them, I think I’m optimistic we’d get both both of them back. But I can’t say when either of them would be exactly. But I do think they will both very well received and I there’s a lot of fans looking forward to both of the Adams returning. I think Hangman Page and Adam Cole would have a big reception on their return. The most important thing is, they’re both doing really well.”
Source: EWrestlingNews
ZERO HOUR
Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta, Chuck Taylor), Rocky Romero and Danhausen defeated The Factory (QT Marshall, Aaron Solo, Lee Johnson, Nick Comoroto and Cole Karter) by pinfall.
AEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament SemiFinals:
Ricky Starks def. Brian Cage
Eddie Kingston defeated Jun Akiyama by pinfall
FULL GEAR
Steel Cage Match:
Jungle Boy def. Luchasaurus
AEW Trios Tag Team Championship:
Death Triangle (c) def. The Elite
Fenix knocked out Omega with the hammer.
AEW TBS Championship:
Jade Cargill (c) def. Nyla Rose
ROH World Championship:
Chris Jericho (c) def. Bryan Danielson, Sammy Guevara and Claudio Castagnoli
Saraya def. Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D
AEW TNT Championship:
Samoa Joe def. Wardlow (c) and Powerhouse Hobbs by submission on Hobbs to win the title!
No DQ Match:
Darby Allin and Sting defeated Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett
Interim AEW Women’s World Championship:
Jamie Hayter de. Toni Storm (c) to win the Title
AEW Tag Team Championship:
The Acclaimed (c) def. Swerve In Our Glory
Swerve sends Bowens in the ring and Swerve offers the pliers to Lee!! Lee contemplates it but tosses it aside! Swerve slaps him! Lee is FURIOUS! He is stoic as he pulls Bowens up and WALKS OUT ON SWERVE! Swerve screams at him and Bowens rolls him up for two! Bowens rolls through The JML Driver and tags in Caster. They hit a sick double team on Swerve! 1…2….3!
AEW World Championship:
MJF def. Jon Moxley (c) to win the title
MJF pulls out the Dynamite Diamond Ring as William Regal makes his way down to ringside and chastises him. MJF chucks the ring then flips off Regal. Mox with a choke and MJF rolls through for a two count! New ref in and he gets taken out! Bryce struggles to gets to his feet as Mox locks the Bulldog Choke! MJF is tapping but the ref can’t see! REGAL SLIDES MJF THE KNUCKS!!!!!! Right hand by MJF knocks Mox out cold!!!!! MJF crawls towards Mox….1……..2……..3! NEW CHAMP!
MJF celebrates in the ring as the commentators are stunned by what just happened. MJF looks genuinely emotional as security helps him get to the back with his knee then pushes him away. He collapses on the ramp and clutches the title and smiles doing snow angels on the ramp as the PPV goes off the air.
After the impact World Title match, Alexander and Kazarian shake hands in a tremendous show of respect. Then, Bully Ray confronts Alexander and praises him for his performance tonight. Bully calls Alexander the most incredible World Champion in all of professional wrestling. Bully gets down to business and “calls his shot” for an IMPACT World Title match on Friday, January 13th at Hard To Kill. Out of nowhere, Bully attacks Alexander at ringside with a steel chair. Bully zip-ties him to the bottom rope and continues the assault. Bully grabs Alexander’s wife and tosses her over the guardrail. Bully threatens to powerbomb her onto the concrete until Alexander hands him the IMPACT World Title. Bully stands tall with the IMPACT World Title held high before exiting the IMPACT Zone.
AEW Full Gear 2022 pay-per-view event, which takes place from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday November 19, 2022.
Card
AEW World Championship:
Jon Moxley (c) vs. MJF
AEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament Finals:
Ethan Page vs. Brian Cage vs. Ricky Starks OR Lance Archer
AEW Tag Team Championship:
The Acclaimed (c) vs. Swerve In Our Glory
Interim AEW Women’s World Championship:
Toni Storm (c) vs. Jamie Hayter
ROH World Championship:
Chris Jericho (c) vs. Bryan Danielson vs. Sammy Guevara vs. Claudio Castagnoli
AEW Trios Tag Team Championship:
Death Triangle (c) vs. The Elite
AEW TBS Championship:
Jade Cargill (c) vs. Nyla Rose
AEW TNT Championship:
Wardlow (c) vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Samoa Joe
Steel Cage Match:
Jungle Boy vs. Luchasaurus
Saraya vs. Britt Baker
Darby Allin & Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal
Impact Over Drive will take place tonight, November 18 at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. For Ultimate Insiders members, the event will be broadcast on Impact Plus and YouTube.
Card
Impact World Championship
Frankie Kazarian vs. Josh Alexander (c)
Last Knockout Standing Match for the Impact Knockouts World Championship
Masha Slamovich vs. Jordynne Grace (c)
Impact World Tag Team Championship
The Major Players (Matt Cardona, Brian Myers) vs. Heath and Rhino (c)
Tournament Finals for the Vacant X-Division Championship
Black Taurus vs. Trey Miguel
Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship
Tasha Steelz and Savannah Evans vs. Death Dollz (Taya Valkyrie and Jessicka) w/Rosemary (c)
Tables Match
Bully Ray vs. Moose
Mickie James vs. Taylor Wilde
Pre-show: Fatal 6 Way X-Division Free-For-All
Jason Hotch vs. Mike Bailey vs. Bhupinder Gujjar vs. Yuya Uemura vs. Rich Swann vs. Kenny King
Pre-show: #1 Contender’s Match
NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin) vs. The Bullet Club (Chris Bey, Ace Austin)
Winners will earn a future shot at the Impact World Tag Team Titles.
Tonight’s AEW Rampage live from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ at 10/9c on TNT
* World Title Eliminator Tournament: Ricky Starks vs. Lance Archer
* FTW Championship: HOOK (c) vs. Lee Moriarty
* Eddie Kingston & Ortiz vs. Jun Akiyama & Konosuke Takeshita
* Athena vs. Madison Rayne
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