AEW Rampage Outcomes: Winners, Reside Grades, Response and Highlights from July 28
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Welcome to Bleacher Report’s stay protection and recap of AEW Rampage on July 28.
This week’s present featured an enormous Battle Royal with a lot of the tag groups in AEW competing for an opportunity to face the winners of FTR vs. Adam Cole and MJF.
One tag group that wasn’t within the Battle Royal was The Kingdom, however Mike Bennett and Matt Taven had their very own match to fret about.
We additionally noticed two former AEW girls’s champions collide when Nyla Rose confronted Hikaru Shida, and Kip Sabian took on the high-flying Komander.
Let’s check out what occurred on this week’s episode of AEW Rampage.
Tag Workforce Eliminator Battle Royal
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- It was stunning to see Spanish Announce Challenge on this match. They’ve been principally used on ROH.
- Jay Deadly was teaming up with Satnam Singh as a substitute of Jeff Jarrett for this match.
- Kassidy is so agile. Hitting a springboard seems to be like the best factor on the planet to him.
- Finest Buddies wrestled proper earlier than this present was taped on Dynamite, so that’s the reason they weren’t included within the match.
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Rampage opened with all the rivals within the tag group battle royal surrounding the ring. There was a complete of eight groups.
Brian Cage and Huge Invoice have been again to working as a group after discovering some chemistry in the course of the latest bling eliminator tag tourney.
A lot of the different groups have been regulars on AEW TV, however it was fascinating to see Ethan Web page and Brother Zay included.
It got here right down to The Butcher and The Blade towards Huge Invoice and Cage on the finish. They paired off and began brawling. When the mud settled, Cage and Huge Invoice have been the final males standing.
In terms of Battle Royals, there is not a lot center floor. They have a tendency to both be entertaining or boring. Sadly, nearly all of this bout felt fairly uneventful till the ultimate couple of minutes.
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Everybody performed their position, however it by no means felt like this was as aggressive because it ought to have been. A part of the issue might need been that so many AEW mainstays like Finest Buddies and The Younger Bucks weren’t concerned.
Winners:
Grade: C+
Notable Moments and Observations
Komander vs. Kip Sabian
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- Folks may underestimate how laborious one thing like a easy somersault off the highest rope to the mat might be. Komander makes it look straightforward, however it will be really easy for 99% of individuals to harm their again making an attempt the identical factor.
- Sabian might use some new entrance music.
- The springboard dropkick from Sabian in the course of the business break regarded nice.
- The springboard destroyer from Komander was nuts.
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Alex Abrahantes was again at Komander’s aspect for this match towards Sabian, who had Penelope Ford in his nook to make issues even.
Sabian tried to determine management early on by grounding the high-flyer and taunting him a bit, however Komander did precisely the identical factor to him a second later to indicate he wasn’t intimidated.
Sabian confirmed off his agility with a flip off the highest rope, however there aren’t too many individuals on Planet Earth who can outshine Komander in relation to aerial maneuvers.
Sabian hit a cannonball adopted by a working taking pictures star press for an in depth two-count shorty earlier than the masked celebrity hit a taking pictures star press from the highest rope to attain the win.
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Penelope Ford is making an attempt to steal the match for Kip Sabian!
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This was a extremely enjoyable and aggressive match that confirmed off the similarities and variations between these two stars. Holding the surface interference to a minimal positively helped maintain the deal with highlighting Sabian and Komander’s abilities.
Winner: Komander
Grade: B+
Notable Moments and Observations
The Kingdom vs. Myung-Jae Lee and Hayden Backlund
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- No, Hayden just isn’t Bob Backlund’s son.
- The Kingdom is a good group and may positively maintain the ROH or AEW tag titles inside the subsequent six months.
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Mike Bennett and Matt Taven have been in motion this week towards two jobbers named Hayden Backlund and Myung-Jae Lee.
The match was over in lower than a minute and ended with The Kingdom getting the win sooner than it took for them to make their entrance.
Winners: The Kingdom
Grade: Incomplete
Notable Moments and Observations
Nyla Rose vs. Hikaru Shida
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- It was a little bit bizarre that Rose stated Shida needed to undergo her to get to Toni Storm throughout her pre-match promo as a substitute of claiming she needs to be the one getting a title shot.
- Get that paycheck, Mark Henry.
- Shida all the time has the good entrance gear.
- It was fascinating to listen to the stat from Tony Schiavone about how Shida and Rose are the 2 girls with probably the most wins in all of AEW.
- The way in which Rose swung Shida into the barricade regarded tough.
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Rose started attacking Shida proper as she acquired into the ring, so the ref known as for the bell instantly to get the match began.
The Native Beast virtually acquired herself disqualified when she considered utilizing Shida’s kendo stick, however she thought higher of it and threw it out of the ring.
Shida is all the time a fighter and by no means lets an opponent management her for too lengthy, so she and Rose have been buying and selling the higher hand lots all through the match.
After taking out Marina Shafir together with her kendo stick and avoiding a Beast Bomg, Shida hit the Katana knee strike for the win.
These two have been within the ring collectively greater than 20 occasions in AEW, in order that they know one another strengths and how one can intensify them. This was a stable option to shut the present and provides Shida an enormous win as she continues to chase the ladies’s title.
Winner: Hikaru Shida
Grade: B
Notable Moments and Observations
The Last Phrase
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Through the closing moments of the present, The Outcasts got here out to mock Shida from the apron as Excalibur knowledgeable us that Tony Khan had formally booked Storm vs. Shida to happen at Dynamite 200 for the title.
Apart from the fast squash with The Kingdom, each match achieved one thing on this present.
The Battle Royal arrange the primary match for whoever leaves MJF and Cole vs. FTR because the tag champs, Komander vs. Sabian delivered the very best motion of the evening, and Shida vs. Rose ended with a title bout being booked for subsequent week.
Rampage has been hit and miss in latest weeks, however it’s protected to say this one falls into the hit column.
Grade: B
