AEW Rampage Results – Nov. 18, 2022 – Starks vs. Archer

Nov 18, 2022

Results by Matt Boone of Rajah.com

Friday, November 18, 2022
Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
Commentary: Jim Ross, Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Chris Jericho

Quick Match Results

AEW Championship Eliminator Tournament: Ricky Starks defeated Lance Archer via spear
FTW Championship: HOOK (C) defeated Lee Moriarty via Redrum submission
Athena defeated Madison Rayne via modified Codebreaker
Jun Akiyama & Konosuke Takeshita defeated Eddie Kingston & Ortiz via exploder by Akiyama on Ortiz

AEW Championship Eliminator Tournament
Ricky Starks vs. Lance Archer

The commentators welcome us to the show and then we shoot to the backstage area. When the cameras catch up with the commotion backstage, we see Ricky Starks is returning the favor to “The Murderhawk Monster,” as he is attacking Lance Archer backstage before their scheduled AEW Championship Eliminator Tournament showdown.

“Absolute” beats down Archer all over the locker room area for a minute or so, but then Archer starts to take over and punishes the former FTW Champion. The two brawl their way out to the arena and eventually make it down to the ring.

Once they enter the squared circle, the bell sounds to officially start this match, which as noted, will see the winner advance in the AEW Championship Eliminator Tournament. After some back-and-forth action, we see “The Murderhawk Monster” settle into a comfortable offensive lead.

In the end, however, Starks manages to pick up the “W” with a spear. With the win, the former Team Taz member moves on in the tournament designed to determine the next challenger for whomever emerges from the Jon Moxley vs. MJF title tilt at AEW Full Gear 2022 on Saturday night.

Winner and ADVANCING in the AEW Championship Eliminator Tournament: Ricky Starks

Once the match wraps up, we see “The Machine” Brian Cage emerges from the backstage area. He stays at the top of the entrance ramp and stares down Starks as the commentators inform us that Cage vs. Starks will take place in a tourney semifinal tomorrow night prior to the start of the AEW Full Gear 2022 pay-per-view.

While distracted at Cage at the top of the ramp, we see Archer recover and attack Starks from behind. He connects with his finisher on the steel ring steps and leaves “Absolute” laying to end the post-match scene.

Video Package: Jon Moxley vs. MJF

“I almost lost my family… I almost lost my life… what are you going to do me?” @JonMoxley @The_MJF
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) November 19, 2022

We see a video package hyping up the Full Gear main event, with comments from Moxley and MJF.

Backstage: Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara

Will the #ROH Championship title stay within the #JerichoAppreciationSociety? Find out on #AEWFullGear LIVE on PPV TOMORROW at 8pm ET/5pm PT!#AEWRampage #FullGearFriday is on right now! pic.twitter.com/z5H18FwayB

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) November 19, 2022

We shoot to a quick backstage segment from “earlier today” with Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara. “The Ocho” Chris Jericho brings up the four-way showdown for his Ring Of Honor World Championship at Full Gear.

Jericho vows that when all is said-and-done tomorrow night, the ROH title will still be in the Jericho Appreciation Society and will still be around his waist. When Jericho moves out of the camera shot, Guevara says, “we’ll see about that.”

FTW Championship
HOOK (C) vs. Lee Moriarty

Now we return inside the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. where Lee Moriarty of The Firm makes his way out and heads to the ring accompanied by Stokely Hathaway. Moriarty settles inside the ring and his music dies down. Now the familiar sounds of Action Bronson plays as the reigning, defending FTW Champion HOOK makes his way out and heads to the ring to make the next defense of his FTW title.

The bell sounds and we’re off-and-running with this championship clash. We see HOOK dominating the action over Moriarty. After this continues for a minute or two, we see the green-haired Moriarty start to shift the offensive momentum in his favor.

On that note, we head to a mid-match commercial break as this FTW Championship showdown between HOOK and Lee Moriarty continues here on the AEW Full Gear 2022 “go-home” edition of AEW Rampage.

As we return from the break, we see Moriarty continuing to control the action. He even gets in a dangerous-looking submission on the champion. Moriarty cranks back on the sub attempt and things look bad for HOOK momentarily.

However, HOOK ends up surviving, countering and applying his own Redrum submission finisher on The Firm member. He squeezes with all he’s got and Moriarty taps out. With the win, HOOK retains his FTW Championship.

Winner and STILL FTW Champion: HOOK

Backstage: Rush, John Silver, 10

“I beat you once, and I am going to beat you ONCE AGAIN.”

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) November 19, 2022

We shoot to a quick backstage interview segment where we see John Silver of The Dark Order going face-to-face with RUSH, accompanied by Jose The Assistant. Silver says he and 10 will beat them in a match, but 10 walks off, leaving Silver confused. Silver and Rush end up setting up a singles match for next week’s show.

Athena vs. Madison Rayne

Early on we see Athena controlling the action. The match spills out to the floor at ringside where Rayne runs and dives, but is caught by Athena. “The Fallen Goddess” has Rayne held by the legs and she slams her face and body into the ringside barricade.

Back in the ring, the match continues with Athena now in a comfortable offensive lead. Things build to the finish, which sees Athena pick up the victory, dropping Rayne’s face on her knees.

Winner: Athena

Afterwards, “The Fallen Goddess” continues to show off her mean streak, attacking Rayne and leaving her laying.

She also attacks referee Aubrey Edwards and leaves her laying as well, getting a lot of boos.

ROH Women’s Champion Mercedes Martinez ends up making her way out and heading to the ring. Martinez and Athena have a stare down but when the ROH Women’s Champion takes one step closer, we see “The Fallen Goddess” back off and exit the ring. She heads to the back to end the post-match scene.

Backstage: Orange Cassidy, Best Friends, The Factory, Danhausen

It’s #BestFriends & @DanhausenAD vs #TheFactory TOMORROW!
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) November 19, 2022

We shoot backstage and we see Renee Paquette standing by with her guests at this time. The Best Friends and Danhausen are announced for a 10-man tag team contest against The Factory at tomorrow night’s Full Gear Zero Hour pre show from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

Video: House of Black

We see a vignette for the House of Black.

Full Gear Zero Hour Card

The Zero Hour pre-show will air on YouTube at 7 PM ET.

Zero Hour Pre-Show: World Title Eliminator Tournament Semifinal Match: Brian Cage vs. Ricky Starks
10 Man Tag Team Match: Orange Cassidy, Best Friends, Rocky Romero & Danhausen vs. The Factory (QT Marshall, Aaron Solo, Nick Comoroto, Lee Johnson & Kole Carter)

Eddie Kingston & Ortiz vs. Jun Akiyama & Konosuke Takeshita

It’s almost main event time here on the AEW Full Gear 2022 “go-home” episode of AEW Rampage, but first, it’s time for the weekly pre-main event split-screen interview hosted by Mark Henry. “The World’s Strongest Man” talks briefly with the two teams involved in our headline bout of the show here at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the site of Saturday night’s highly-anticipated PPV event. We hear briefly from “The Mad King” and Ortiz as well as Japanese legend Jun Akiyama and his tag-team partner, AEW veteran Konosuke Takeshita. After that, Mark Henry has decided that it has, in fact, been enough talking and that it is, indeed, time for our main event of the evening.

Now we shoot back inside the Prudential Center where the theme hits to bring out the first of the two teams involved in our final match of the evening here on AEW Rampage. Eddie Kingston and Ortiz are in the ring, as are their opponents, Jun Akiyama and Konosuke Takeshita.

The bell sounds and we’re off-and-running with our headline tag-team contest here on this week’s installment of AEW Rampage on TNT. We see some back-and-forth action early on and with Akiyama and Takeshita in the offensive lead, we head to a mid-match commercial break.

As we return from the break, we see Kingston and Ortiz now dominating the offense. The commentators inform us that Ortiz made a much-needed tag during the break, and ever since then, he and “The Mad King” have been in the offensive driver’s seat.

We see Kingston and Ortiz tagging in-and-out a couple of times, with both guys taking turns delivering punishment to Takeshita. The commentators point out how despite Kingston calling out the Japanese legend Jun Akiyama, the two have yet to share the ring at any point in this match thus far.

“The Mad King” continues to dominate Takeshita, all-the-while staring over at Akiyama in the opposing team’s corner of the ring. Finally, Akiyama tags in and the two stare each other down as the roof nearly blows off the Prudential Center.

A big exploder suplex on Akiyama nearly gets Kingston the three-count, however the Japanese legend avoids being finished off. Moments later, Akiyama hits an exploder suplex of his own on Ortiz and he makes the cover. 1-2-3. The Japanese duo pick up the victory in our main event of the evening.

Winners: Jun Akiyama & Konosuke Takeshita