AEW Rampage Notes: Results, Konosuke Takeshita Advances to TNT Championship Ladder Match, Chris Jericho Steps Down as Rampage Commentator, 6/1 Collision Airing Update

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Steve C.

May 31, 2024

AEW Rampage Results – May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024
Inglewood, CA – The Kia Forum
Commentary – Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard

Quick Match Results

Vacant TNT Championship Ladder Eliminator Qualifying match – Konosuke Takeshita defeated Penta El Zero Miedo via Power Drive Knee (pinfall)
Satnam Singh defeated “Pretty” Peter Avalon via Bearhug (submission)
AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator match – “Timeless” Toni Storm defeated Viva Van via Storm Zero (pinfall)
Kyle O’Reilly defeated Jordan Cruz via Juji-Gatame (submission)
Rey Fenix defeated Isiah Kassidy via Double Underhook Driver (pinfall)

Konosuke Takeshita Advances to Vacant TNT Title Ladder Match at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024

Friday’s taped AEW Rampage show featured one qualifying match for the Vacant TNT Championship Ladder match at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024, which takes place on June 30th at the UBS Arena in Long Island, New York.

This qualifying match was Konosuke Takeshita defeating Penta El Zero Miedo.

Konosuke Takeshita has advanced.#AEWRampage pic.twitter.com/EZlb1Dab3y
— JJ Williams (@JJWilliamsWON) May 31, 2024

As a result of his victory, Takeshita became the first competitor to have officially qualified for the Vacant TNT Championship Ladder match at Forbidden Door 2024.

Current card for June 30th AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024:

AEW World Championship – Will Ospreay vs. Swerve Strickland (c)
Vacant AEW TNT Championship Ladder match – Konosuke Takeshita vs. TBD(s)

Chris Jericho Announces He is “Stepping Down” as AEW Rampage Commentator

Friday’s taped AEW Rampage show also featured The Learning Tree’s Chris Jericho announcing that he has stepped down from AEW’s Rampage commentary team.

During the show, The Learning Tree were backstage with Renee Paquette for an interview. After some greetings by Jericho to all of his Learning Tree fans, Paquette asked Jericho why he is not at the commentary table tonight to do his usual commentary work. Jericho responded talking about HOOK’s attack to him at last week’s show. Jericho stated that he has officially stepped down from his commentator role on Rampage so that he can focused on being a big part of Collision and Dynamite instead.

#TheLearningTree and FTW Champion Chris Jericho, gives an update after last week’s unprovoked attack!

Watch #AEWRampage on TNT!@IamJericho | @TheCazXL | @bountykeith pic.twitter.com/Zfpdcep9J4
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 31, 2024

Saturday’s AEW Collision Airing Status Update

As noted before, this Saturday’s taped AEW Collision show in Palm Desert, California was scheduled to be preempted to a 12:00AM EST airing on Sunday, June 2nd due to TNT’s current commitments with the 2024 NBA Playoffs on their network that night.

Thursday’s 2024 NBA Playoffs Western Conference Finals Game 5 between the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves resulted in the Mavericks winning the game and closing out their series.

During tonight’s taped show, AEW commentator Excalibur announced that Saturday’s Collision show will now be airing at its usual start time of 8PM EST on TNT. The reason is due to no more NBA Playoff games being scheduled to take place that night.

Besides the airing status announcement, the full card for Saturday’s Collision show was also announced.

Full card for June 1st AEW Collision show:

AEW International Championship – Kyle O’Reilly vs. Will Ospreay (c)
Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor & Lee Moriarty) vs. West Coast Wrecking Crew (Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson)
Daniel Garcia & Katsuyori Shibata vs. The WorkHorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake)
The Cage of Agony (Brian Cage & Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun) vs. mystery opponents
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Johnny TV
Roderick Strong vs. Lio Rush
Thunder Rosa vs. Reina Dorada