AEW Rampage Results – Dec. 3, 2021 – FTR vs. Penta & Pac

AEW
Dec 3, 2021

Results by Matt Boone of Rajah.com

December 3, 2021
Duluth, GA – Gas South Arena
Commentary: Excalibur, Taz & Ricky Starks

Quick Match Results

  1. TNT Championship: Sammy Guevara (c) defeated Tony Nese via GTH
  2. Jade Cargill defeated Janai Kai via Jaded (squash match)
  3. FTR defeated Penta El Zero Miedo & Pac via pinfall by Harwood on Pac after Malakai Black spit mist in Pac’s eyes

TNT Championship
Sammy Guevara (c) vs. Tony Nese

The bell sounds and we’re off-and-running with this one. The commentary trio of Excalibur, Taz and Ricky Starks talk about Chris Jericho not being at the commentary desk with them this week due to the backstage attack he suffered at the hands of Daniel Garcia and Team 2point0 on Dynamite this past Wednesday night.

As they wrap up their banter on that topic, we see Guevara jumping off to an early offensive lead on Nese. He gets the crowd on their feet as he takes it to Nese straight out of the gate. Nese tries fighting back, landing a couple of strikes of his own before “The Spanish God” cuts his comeback attempt short and picks up where he left off, delivering punishment to the challenger.

Guevara ends up sending Nese out of the ring and out to the floor at ringside. He builds up a head of steam and launches himself over the ropes, splashing onto Nese on the floor as the fans explode with a big pop. After the landing, Guevara sells his injured ribs, which are taped up for this match tonight.

The commentators talk about Guevara’s ribs being injured by former UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos and how things were only made worse for him after the sneak attack from Nese during the backstage segment between these two that set up this championship contest here this evening.

Nese does a good job of finally getting some offensive momentum on his side, as he targets the hurt ribs of Guevara and begins to go to work on him with punishing offense that is all focused on the mid-section and ribs of the champ. Nese hits a big springboard splash off the ropes onto Guevara and then drops a big knee directly onto his injured ribs.

From there, we see “The Premier Athlete” stop and do a single biceps pose on one knee as the fans boo his blatant display of arrogance. Nese then picks up Guevara and whips him into the turnbuckles in the corner of the ring — hard. This doesn’t do Guevara’s ribs any favors, much like all of the offense Nese has delivered throughout this match. Nese whips him into the opposite corner of the ring and then we head to a mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break.

As we settle back in from the break, we see that Nese is still controlling the action, however Guevara is literally beginning to finally fight back, landing some shots for the first time since the first few minutes of this Rampage opener. Nese cuts Guevara’s momentum off before it really gets going, and he gets right back to work on him. This doesn’t last long, however, as Guevara ends up finally firing up for his big offensive comeback.

The fans start to come to life inside the Gas South Arena in Duluth, GA. as “The Spanish God” finally begins stringing together more than the occasional shot here and there. He hits a big spot and starts to look confident for the first time since the beginning of the match. Nese tries taking back over, but Guevara cuts his attempt short and connects with a big Spanish Fly for a close near fall.

Once he gets back up, Guevara blasts Nese with another big shot before sending him out to the floor with authority. He waits for Nese to get back to his feet and then leaps and springboards off the top-rope and connects with a picture-perfect moonsault onto Nese on the floor. He sends Nese back in the ring, however Nese catches him with a big shot as he tried rolling back into the ring to follow-up with more offense.

This allows Nese to gain the offensive upper-hand once again as he hits a big high spot of his own. He then lays Guevara out and heads to the top-rope where he connects with a big 450-splash for a super close near fall of his own. The fans react with a thunderous “This is awesome!” chant. Nese gets a bit too cocky for his own good after the near-finish moments ago, as he starts arrogantly kicking and pushing Guevara around as he is laid out on the mat.

Nese ends up coming to life out of nowhere and firing up for another comeback. Nese ends up hitting a big shot that slows him down, and then begins looking for his Running Nese finisher, however Guevara sees it coming and counters. He then connects with a big running knee of his own and the GTH. He covers him and scores the pin fall victory to retain his TNT Championship in an excellent opener to set the tone for the show this evening.

Winner and STILL TNT Champion: Sammy Guevara

Backstage: Christian Cage, Jurassic Express

We shoot backstage after the opener wraps up, and we see the trio of Christian Cage and Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) standing by for an interview segment.

“Captain Charisma” puts over his pals in Jurassic Express and talks about how they came in at the number one contender spot in the latest official AEW rankings that were released ahead of tonight’s Rampage.

With that said, he talks about how they are going to be watching the main event between AAA Tag-Team Champions FTR and the duo of PAC and one-half of the AEW Tag-Team Champions of The Lucha Bros — Penta El Zero Miedo — with vested interest.

From there, he reiterates the same point he made in another recent backstage interview segment on AEW programming — which is that even if it is the last thing he does as an active wrestler in the business before finally retiring for good, he is going to see to it that Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus end up capturing the world tag-team titles.

Jade Cargill vs. Janai Kai

We return from the break and we see “Smart” Mark Sterling emerging through the entrance tunnel as he walks his main client, Jade Cargill, down to the ring for her advertised showdown against Thunder Rosa-trained prospect — Janai Kai.

Cargill settles into the squared circle and her music dies down. Already in the ring is her opponent, Janai Kai, and as scheduled, Cargill’s opponent in the TBS Women’s Championship Tournament Semifinals — Thunder Rosa — makes her way out for special guest commentary.

Rosa takes her spot at the commentary desk and begins putting over her friend and student, Kai, as the bell sounds to officially get this one-on-one women’s match off-and-running.

This one doesn’t last long — at all. Cargill literally hits a couple of moves and then connects on Kai with Jaded before picking up the very quick squash / showcase match victory.

Winner: Jade Cargill

Once the match wraps up, we see Cargill looking incredibly pleased with herself as she celebrates in arrogant fashion before flashing a quick taunting stare at Rosa over at the commentary desk.

With that said, Cargill proceeds to unnecessarily add more insult to injury, as she beats down Kai some more after already winning the match. This goes on long enough that Thunder Rosa has seen enough.

Rosa throws her headset down and runs down to the ring to make the save for her friend and deliver a message to her upcoming opponent in the semiifinals of the TBS Women’s Championship Tournament.

We see Rosa and Cargill brawl like two crazy people as a ton of officials and security members arrive onto the scene in an attempt to break these two up.

Rosa ends up breaking free from being held back and engages with Cargill some more, as the brawl gets going once again. Finally they are broken up again and this time that ends the post-match scene.

Backstage: Adam Cole & The Young Bucks

We shoot backstage where we see the trio of The Super Kliq / The Super Elite — Adam Cole and The Young Bucks (Nick and Matt Jackson) standing by as their crony from The Elite holds the camera for the segment.

The trio go on to talk about how they beat down Orange Cassidy and some of his pals from The Best Friends on Dynamite this past Wednesday night. They then go on to talk about how they are real-life “tough guys” as we see Don Callis walk past them and nod while they keep talking.

Eventually, The Young Bucks go on to extend a formal challenge to “The Freshly Squeezed” one himself. They tell him and The Best Friends to put forward their two best members for a tag-team match on next week’s edition of Dynamite.

The Super Kliq tells their crony from The Elite to hit the red button on the camera to stop recording as they are done speaking their piece.

Backstage: Eddie Kingston

Eddie Kingston Tells 2point0 They Have To Answer For Their Recent Actions

Now we shoot to a different part of the backstage area inside the Gas South Arena in Duluth, GA. where we see Eddie Kingston seated in a staircase somewhere behind-the-scenes at the Atlanta-based venue.

“The Mad King” doesn’t look happy this evening, as he talks while seated on the stairs about how he wasn’t overly bothered with the fact that Daniel Garcia and 2point0 attacked and injured Chris Jericho on this past Wednesday night’s edition of Dynamite.

What is still bothering him, however, is the fact that the 2point0 duo of Jeff Parker and Matt Lee attacked him after his match on last week’s Rampage main event against Garcia. He makes it clear that 2point0 will “have to answer for the attack.”

Video Package: Bryan Danielson, The Dark Order

Once the Kingston backstage segment wraps up, we shoot to an elaborate video package that gives fans a special look at Bryan Danielson’s ongoing rivalry with the members of The Dark Order.

Danielson is shown talking directly into the camera in what appears to be a segment planned for the next “AEW Road To Long Island” countdown special for next week’s Dynamite, where he is scheduled to square off against John Silver in his hometown.

“The American Dragon” goes on to talk about how it felt good to beat up and hurt Colt Cabana in his own hometown of Chicago, just like it felt great to hurt Alan Angels in front of his hometown fans near Atlanta. He says he expects to feel the same when he beats and injures Silver in front of his fans in the Long Island area on next Wednesday night’s Dynamite show.

Dynamite Card

  • Bryan Danielson vs. John Silver
  • Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal
  • Jamie Hayter vs. Riho
  • The Young Bucks vs. Rocky Romero & Chuck Taylor

Interviews: FTR, Pac & Penta El Zero Miedo

From there, we shoot to our regular pre-main event feature on Rampage, as Mark Henry is standing by for his pre-match split-screen interview segment with the competitors involved in the headline bout of the evening on this week’s show.

We see the team of FTR — Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler — on one side of the screen with their AAA Tag-Team Championships in-hand. They talk about beating up and hurting Rey Fenix, but then complain about him being so fragile is what caused them to lose the opportunity they were looking forward to on tonight’s show.

They reveal that it was the chance to mark another notch in the history books by beating The Lucha Bros to recapture the AEW Tag-Team Championships so that they can be double-tag-team champions with two sets of belts simaltaneously.

This leads to the two teams arguing and refusing to stop talking over each other at the same time. Finally, “The World’s Strongest Man” has heard enough from these four. He shuts down the pre-match interview and gets the viewing audience at home and inside the Gas South Arena in Duluth, GA. ready for our main event of the evening — which starts now.

FTR vs. Penta El Zero Miedo & Pac

We shoot back inside the arena in Duluth, where we hear the familiar sounds of the entrance theme of FTR. This brings out the AAA Tag-Team Champions — Harwood and Wheeler — who head to the ring accompanied by Tully Blanchard.

They settle into the squared circle and await the entrance of their opponents for the final match of the evening on this week’s Rampage. With that said, we hear the theme for the duo from the Death Triangle trio, as Penta El Zero Miedo and “The Bastard” PAC (who has an eye patch over one of his eyes) emerge and head to the ring accompanied by Alex Abrahantes.

With all four of the competitors in tonight’s main event now in the ring, we hear the bell sound to get this match officially off-and-running. The fans are already pumped up and making a ton of noise in anticipation of what should be an excellent contest between these two highly-regarded teams.

This one gets off to an explosive start, as the four guys are flying all over the place as they set a ridiculous pace coming out of the gate. We see a bunch of back-to-back high spots elicit a ton of noise from the fans in Duluth. Eventually we see things settle down a bit as the duo of PAC and Penta start to have trouble as FTR utilize some good double-team offense to establish the offensive advantage as we head into a mid-match commercial break.

As we settle back in following our final ad time-out of the evening here on this week’s Rampage, we see that Penta El Zero Miedo start to fire up and catch anything that moves with huge kicks. PAC ends up joining in and now we see the momentum completely shift to the side of the Death Triangle duo.

PAC tags in and picks up where Penta left off, taking it to Harwood and Wheeler, catching them each with big shots before focusing his attack on the legal man in the ring. Unfortunately for him, Harwood starts to take back over after that. He decks PAC with a big right hand and then follows that up with a Tiger Driver.

We see “The Bastard” slowly work his way back into competitive form before he begins taking over again on offense. He starts picking up the pace and intensity, as he clearly seems to feel he has the FTR duo in position to be finished off in this one. Instead, as he looks to do exactly that, out of nowhere emerges Malakai Black.

Malakai sprays his trademark black poison mist directly into the one good eye of PAC. He falls down to the mat covering his eye up in agony, and Harwood notices this and immediately covers him for the three count and the victory in this week’s Rampage main event. FTR gets the win.

Winners: FTR

Immediately after the pin fall is counted, the camera focuses on Malakai Black, who is shown sitting cross-legged on the floor at ringside with his back to the ring as the crowd, commentators and viewing audience at home all soak in what just transpired in the closing moments of what was an excellent main event up to that point.

From there, he re-enters the ring and viciously gauges at the eye of PAC to deliver more punishment in what appears to be an attempt to completely blind the vision of “The Bastard.” Meanwhile, FTR tears the mask off of Penta El Zero Miedo. We see another shot of Malakai tearing at the eye of PAC and then a bunch of officials break things up as the fans loudly boo.

The commentators notice that Malakai Black drew blood from PAC as a result of violently tearing and clawing at his eyes. The camera shows a close-up of Malakai’s hand covered in blood. He raises his bloody hand in the air and lets out a war cry as the commentators talk us off the air. That’s how this week’s show wraps up.

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