AEW Rampage & Dark: Elevation Taping Results – Sep. 22, 2021 – Spoilers from Arthur Ashe Stadium

Report by TPWW

September 22, 2021
Queens, NY – Arthur Ashe Stadium

AEW Dark: Elevation

These matches were taped before Dynamite and will air on Monday, September 27 at 7 PM ET on AEW’s YouTube channel.

Tony Schiavone, Mark Henry and Eddie Kingston were on commentary.

– Thunder Rosa defeated Kayla Sparks via Thunder Driver. Rosa got a huge pop.

– Eight Man Tag Match: The Dark Order (John Silver, Alex Reynolds, Alan Angels & 10) defeated four enhancement wrestlers via full nelson by 10. This was a fun match and the crowd was hot for Silver specifically.

– 3 on 1 Handicap Match: Paul Wight defeated Rickey Shane Page, VSK & CPA via double chokeslam. Wight dominated them. The Gunn Club came out on stage to watch the match.

AEW Rampage: Grand Slam

This was taped after Dynamite and will air this Friday at 10 PM ET on TNT.

Commentary: Excalibur, Taz & Ricky Starks

– CM Punk defeated Powerhouse Hobbs via GTS after Hook got on the apron, but Hobbs accidentally ran into him. Hobbs controlled most of the match. CM Punk was wearing short trunks, not pants.

– Adam Cole & The Young Bucks defeated Christian Cage, Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus via the Last Shot by Cole on Luchasaurus, following a Panama Sunrise and BTE Trigger on him. This was an extremely fun match and the crowd was hot.

– Men of the Year defeated Chris Jericho & Jake Hager via small package by Scorpio Sky on Hager after Dan Lambert tripped Hager when he was running to the ropes. The crowd was probably the quietest all night for this match. Afterwards, Jericho and Hager brought Lambert into the ring and were going to attack him, but members of American Top Team, including Jorge Masvidal and Paige VanZant came out and attacked Jericho and Hager.

– The Lucha Brothers, Santana & Ortiz defeated Private Party, The Butcher & The Blade via blockbuster by Santana & Ortiz on Quen, with Santana getting the pin. Fun match. Matt Hardy was going to cut Santana’s hair with scissors during the match, but Orange Cassidy came out and took out Jack Evans, then went backstage after about 10-15 seconds.

– Segment: Sammy Guevara, Fuego Del Sol, Miro – Guevara came out with Fuego onto the stage to do his cue card thing, but Miro appeared from behind and totally destroyed Guevara and Fuego. He threw Fuego off of the stage through a table, then locked on Game Over on Guevara. The crowd popped big for Miro.

– Penelope Ford defeated Anna Jay via punching her with brass knucks. The Bunny distracted the ref and threw the knucks into the ring to Penelope. They attacked Jay after the match. Tay Conti ran out, but she was also hit with the knucks. The Hardy Family Office then came out, then Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander and The Dark Order came out to clear the ring of the heels. The Dark Order had some sort of disagreement and Uno and Stu Grayson walked out of the ring and backstage to some boos. The rest of the faces in the ring all hugged each other.

– Lights Out Match: Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston defeated Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki via Kingston putting a trash can over Archer’s head and repeatedly hitting it with a kendo stick. Archer and Suzuki controlled most of the match, at one point tying Moxley’s hands up with duct tape and beating on him for a while. This was mostly a brawl with weapons. Towards the end, Archer was going to hit Kingston with the Blackout onto two chairs that were sat up, but Homicide came out for the save and took out Archer and freed Moxley from the tape. Eddie Kingston got on the mic after the match and said he loved NY, he loved his mom, and said that NYC is AEW’s town and if you don’t like it, fuck off.

Other Notes

– After Dynamite, The Acclaimed came out and Caster rapped, then said that they had challenged Tony Khan to a rap battle, but Khan was ducking them. Khan came out and introduced Lil Uzi Vert, who got a big reaction. Vert just stood there without saying anything and Khan did a quick rap, which included a line about suspending The Acclaimed again for 30 days. He then introduced the Varsity Blonds, who came out and took out the Acclaimed. Khan came out later and said to all the websites out there, he was just joking and isn’t really suspending the Acclaimed, so please don’t report that.

– During a Dynamite commercial break, Taz came out and cut a promo saying that Powerhouse Hobbs was going to defeat Punk on Rampage. Unclear if/when this will air. Interestingly, Taz had a version of his old ECW theme, Kiss’s War Machine, which was cool.