Corbin:

Last week coupe De Grace this week stunner, I wonder what's in store for you next week

ValeeLove:
Its Friday night and we now know what that means, not SmackDown but AEW Rampage and yesterday was it's premier episode on TNT Drama.

What transpired?

First off it was an hour and I can't write it's history right here. It'll be too much work for me so I suggest you Google it.

It started with the Orange lightening setting as advertised weeks ago with the voices of Excalibur, Taz, Chris Jericho and Mark Henry all on commentary. Mark is also served as backstage reporter for the show.

The Line up:

'The work horse' Christian Cage vs 'The belt collector' Kenny Omega for the Impact and TNA world title in the kickoff.

The most over extra in professional wrestling at the moment Fuego Del Sol vs 'The Redeemer' and TNT champion Miro.
If Feugo wins he gets a contract with AEW.

The main event:
AEW women's world champion Dr Britt Baker DMD vs Red Velvet for the AEW women's world title.

Christian's music hits, the pyro is up in the air and he walks out with so much swagger, takes his time(as always) and enters the ring to the cheers of the Pittsburg fans as he gets set for the biggest match of his career.

Omega's music hits. The arrogant champion comes out with all his collection and Callis by his side to fuel his ego even more.
He takes his time and finally he is in the ring with Christian with the aim of making the legend fall victim as others have.
The tension is in the air and I must mention that AEW and Impact did a pretty decent job in building this. It felt huge and PPV worthy.
You guys would pardon me I'm not good at writing on matches.
They have a stare down. The crowd is electric.
And match begins.
It was a great to be honest and the commentary did a great job.
The legend Christian was able to counter Kenny's 'smart' offences with his wisdom and experience. You could tell he studied Kenny well before the match. At some point he was able to get a mental advantage over Omega with the FU sign to Kenny as the payoff to a mind blown reception from the audience in attendance.
After Kenny couldn't get the job done over and over again, Don Callis, his corperate stooge thought it was wise to confront the Ref about it and get him distracted to allow Kenny signal the Young bucks to bring in a chair as a weapon. It would have all ended for Christian if Kenny had successfully hit the one-winged angel unto the unfolded chair but again the wisdom and experience paid off as Christian Cage was able to counter into a Killswitch unto the chair to win this match.
Christian shocked the world and the fans loved it.
I screamed a bit when this happened.
Impact wrestling's EVP Scott Damore and 'The Jurassic Express' Jungle Boy and Luchassurus came out to celebrate with Christian.
Christian does a backstage interview with Mark Henry as he celebrates with his friends, bottles of wine in hand, Orange Cassidy in the background and with the TNA and Impact titles on his shoulders.

The Take Away

I can't give scores. I'm not an expert like Pu7pl3, but I'll say the match was great. It had everything a wrestling match needed for beginning to end. Emotions, moves and story telling. It's a history making match.
Kenny shined with his moves, signature moves and energy. He played a great heel too.
Christian shocked the world. He proved he could still go and he is the true work horse of pro wrestling today. His experience played out well here.

NEXT

A vignette is shown for Feugo and Miro's match.

Fuego comes out to a great reaction from the fans in attendance, as usual.
Miro comes out intimidating and not smiling, as usual also.

Fuego starts the match by going head on to Miro and successfully hits 3 tornado DDTs with one sending Miro to the floor, for an unsuccessful pin anyway.
Miro ends the match with a kick, a slam and his signature submission move to Fuego as he taps.
The dream is over for Fuego as Miro tears up the contract...or is it?
Sammy Guevara comes out with his music and Tony Khan hands him something that looks like a contract paper.
He walks towards the ring with the contract in his hand and a mic in the other pointed towards his mouth. Fuego gets to hear the truth about how he's is loved by the AEW fans despite his 1 win in like 50 matches. It was only appropriate for Sammy(his best friend) to have been the one to hand him the contract and say "Fuego is ALL ELITE".
They embrace. It's an emotional moment for the 2 and the fans are into it too. Fuego has finally signed with AEW.
I'm happy.

The Take Away

The match was short but instrumental in story telling. Fuego has come a long way and everyone is happy he is finally signed with them.
Miro played a great heel as usual and pretty intimidating. Who can stop him?

AEW Dynamite matches are announced for Next Week.

A promo for next week's AEW Rampage 'The First Dance' is shown with the Darby Allin's 'CM Punk best in the world' tease broadcasted with the day and city announced also.

The Final Match. The Main Event.

A short video interview hosted by Mark Henry between AEW Women's champion Britt Baker and challenger Red Velvet is shown.

Now to the match.

Both women come out for the match.
Red looks good on Velvet but she's in enemy territory.
Baker come out accompanied by Reba to the pyro. The orange towels up and in the air as she receives a hero's welcome in her hometown.
The match itself was another good one for the night.
The champion applied the lockjaw twice to 2 failed attempts, in-between them was a similar attempt by the Challenger who couldn't successfully put her hands into the champion's mouth to lock the move, but 3 times they say is a charm, the champ was successful in her 3rd trial as the challenger tapped to have Baker secure her title.
The highlight of the match came when Britt was about to curb stomp Velvet's head unto her title belt but was saved by Kris Statlander, the latter who was blind sided by a returning female wrestler(can't remember her name) who is now in partnership with Baker to end the premier episode of AEW Rampage, with the heels standing tall.

The Take Away

The match was good.
Velvet is great I can tell you, it's just unfortunate she wasn't given a friendly welcome. She even got booed at some instance during the match.
Baker is the best female heel in the business today.

pu7pl3:


Last week coupe De Grace this week stunner, I wonder what's in store for you next week

pu7pl3:


Wow, 3 matches, 1 hour, soomuch action...they are doing well

Congrats to Christian...I always knew Rusev/Miro was destined for big things...does he still use the same Submission (the accolade)?

Corbin:
not for me for them it will be end of days

ValeeLove:
yes that's his finisher till now.

pu7pl3:


I think they knew but want to distance themselves from the controversy

pu7pl3:


Nice, well-done bro, you did well

ValeeLove:
I heard they want to remove HHH as head of NXT. Rumours have it that he's being blamed for NXT's Wednesday Night Wars loss to AEW.
So much for Vince saying WWE doesn't see AEW as competition.
This is so sad.

pu7pl3:


That would be a mistake...what NXT needs to do is go back to how they used to book shows and tell stories before but it's not possible again cos now there are like X3 of the amount of talent that was there during those times...I still feel the approach they adopted was inevitable cos they kept on recruiting wrestlers...very soon AEW would get like that too and the wrestlers shining now won't get to shine anymore and people would start complaining too

I think NXT's problem is over saturation... AEW is also going that route... RAW and SMACKDOWN have been like that already

ValeeLove:
well you're right in a way, but I think NXT's major problem is that Vince doesn't believe in it and also their stars are always called up without proper replacement.
As for AEW I don't think that will be the case. Unlike WWE they actually know how to book. Their 4 shows will be able to give everyone a shining chance...fingers crossed anyway.

ValeeLove:
Small news dey o...

I believe yesterday AAA held their Triplemania XXIX event and Kenny Omega defended his AAA Mega championship against Andrade along side Ric Flair, his father-inlaw.
At one point both Ric and Andrade double-teamed to chop Kenny.

WWE didn't grant Charlotte the permission to appear at the event, but she was backstage anyway to help Andrade prepare for his match and was in talks with AAA and AEW along with other female wrestlers names unknown except for Chelsea Green.

samistry:
Laughs in Brian cage, matt sydal, The hybrid2, andrade hasn't done anything since he got there also. This elite storyline about hugging all the titles is weighing folks down. I give them kudos though, they make good use of the roster resulting in fresh matches unlike smackdown which has a relatively small roster yet same same. As for raw why can't they utilise the 24/7 roster to give us fresh matches.

samistry:
Sounds like I missed a good match ooooo. Wwe won't let Charlotte go now but I could see her there in the future. Will the AEW crowd boo or cheer her as overpushed. I assume Ric would have a say in her booking

ValeeLove:
well you're right in a way, but I think NXT's major problem is that Vince doesn't believe in it and also their stars are always called up without proper replacement.
As for AEW I don't think that will be the case. Unlike WWE they actually know how to book. Their 4 shows will be able to give everyone a shining chance...fingers crossed anyway.

ValeeLove:
Small news dey o...

I believe yesterday AAA held their Triplemania XXIX event and Kenny Omega defended his AAA Mega championship against Andrade along side Ric Flair, his father-inlaw.
At one point both Ric and Andrade double-teamed to chop Kenny.

WWE didn't grant Charlotte the permission to appear at the event, but she was backstage anyway to help Andrade prepare for his match and was in talks with AAA and AEW along with other female wrestlers names unknown except for Chelsea Green.

don't read toomuch meaning into that one

Did Andrade win?

ValeeLove:
all the guys you've mentioned wrestle on Dark, Dark Elevation and also appear on Dynamite if necessary. Cage is also in a feud at the moment. Everyone will get a chance to shine, it just needs proper booking. Kenny just lost a title, so it means we're passing that storyline gradually. That's what I like about AEW. They know how to book, start a story and end it when necessary, all this happening at the right pace.

pu7pl3:


don't read toomuch meaning into that one

Did Andrade win?

ValeeLove:
Kenny won

After all the moral support

Who was giving Kenny moral support?

pu7pl3:


They know how to book cos they just started and they don't have half as much employees as WWE yet...just wait

pu7pl3:


After all the moral support

Who was giving Kenny moral support?

pu7pl3:


don't read toomuch meaning into that one

Did Andrade win?

ValeeLove:
just read the article again and it says Charlotte no showed a WWE program to be at Triplemania. Plus the meeting with AAA and AEW was not at Triplemania, it's at the moment and she's in Mexico for that purpose.
Toor after SummerSlam them fit fire her. They fired her dad, who is she?

ValeeLove:
he doesn't need it. He's the best wrestler in the world.

Balor and AJ and Seth are clear

ValeeLove:
they've been around for more than 2 years now and they still have momentum, lots of feuds untouched, matches not yet done, possibilities choke... Let's look on the bright side Pu7pl3, not everyone screws good things like WWE. Plus if Khan has any challenge booking, he can get help from almost everywhere, his wrestlers, the EVPs, the veterans, coaches and even fans. If he has to repeat matches and feuds he'll make it fresh. All these are possible because he and his management LISTEN. As we're speaking AEW already has storylines they've planned for a year and after.
Let's be positive for them. Them dey try.

pu7pl3:


I'm not disputing the fact that they are doing absolutely remarkable, they are awesome..I'm just saying that the saturation would get to them soon enough too and they would definitely start doing boring WWE stuff too...the storylines they have planned for 1yr is a slippery slope cos there is no way they can see the future and write in new wrestlers they haven't signed yet

ValeeLove:
if Khan does good management I don't think we would experience that..