- CM Punk was a special guest commentator for tonight’s show!

M1: The Elite’s Adam Cole def. Frankie Kazarian

- Adam Cole grabbed a microphone after his victory: “Who’s ready for story time with Adam Cole baybay? Hope is a dangerous thing. That locker room hopes it can keep up with The Elite. Guess what? It’s not going to happen.
- - “I’ve only been here for a short time and there are three guys who have really gotten under my skin—Christian Cage, Luchasaurus, and Jungle Boy. If they’re so tough, how about next week, RAMPAGE: Grand Slam, them three against Adam Cole and The Young Bucks?! Thе Super Kliq is back baybay!”

- In a video package, thе AEW Tag Team Champions The Lucha Bros. accepted a challenge for this Friday’s RAMPAGE against The Butcher & The Blade!

- Tony Schiavone was backstage with Fuego Del Sol and Sammy Guevara. Fuego Del Sol challenged TNT Champion “The Redeemer” Miro to a match this Friday at RAMPAGE, and Fuego is putting his new car on the line!


- MJF came to the ring with Wardlow!
- - “Last week you guys were so sympathetic for Cryin’ Brian. But you should be sympathetic for me because right now I’m standing in the armpit of America known as New Jersey.
- - - “Right now I’d like to have a brief conversation with all the viewers at home. I was smartened up in the back that some of my comments last week might have offended you last week and I just wanted you to know—I don’t care.
- - - - “As you people all know, I’m salt-of-the-earth and I’m religious. Right now, I’d like to have a conversation with the late, great Brian Pillman. ‘Look Mr. Pillman, I’m giving you fair warning. Tell your son if he shows up in that awful place known as Queens that I’m going to massacre him. “They can chant your name as long as they want but at the end of the day it’s going to be obvious that I’m better than you and—”
MJF was interrupted by Brian Pillman, Jr.’s music. MJF ordered Wardlow to meet Pillman at the top of the ramp before he came down to the ring. Pillman, Jr. surprised MJF by jumping in the ring from behind with a steel chair! MJF retreated!

- Earlier in the day, Jim Ross interviewed Brian Pillman, Jr.
“When I left that arena last week, I was humiliated by what MJF said about your family. And next week you have a chance to whip MJF’s ass. Are you willing to do that? Because that’s what it’s going to take,” said Jim Ross.
- - Pillman responded: “MJF, while you were waking up every morning being fed by a silver spoon, I was fighting for my life. We are not the same. My upbringing was feral. On September 22nd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, you’re not just stepping in the ring with any man, you’re stepping in the ring with a Pillman!”

- Alex Marvez was backstage with Christian Cage and The Jurassic Express! “Here’s the thing, Adam. We accept your challenge. Since you’re already used to losing Wednesday Night Wars, let’s add Friday to that,” said Christian Cage.

M2: FTR—Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood (w/ Tully Blanchard) def. Dante Martin & Matt Sydal
- “The MurderHawk Monster” Lance Archer and Minoru Suzuki were backstage: “Moxley, you had everything going in our favor in Cincinnati, but that’s going to change in New York City at Arthur Ashe Stadium. You and Eddie Kingston are going to find out what strong style is all about,” said Archer.

- Malakai Black made his haunting entrance!
“Members of the House of Black…please rise, for we have an enemy in our midst,” said Black.
- - Actress Rosario Dawson was sitting in the front row with a Nightmare Factory jacket. Malakai Black walked down to confront her.
“The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes ran down the arena steps to save Dawson! Black and Rhodes brawled throughout the arena!

- Alex Marvez was backstage with Anna Jay and The Dark Order. Things continued to fall apart for them.

- In the ring, American Top Team’s Dan Lambert (with Junior Dos Santos, “The Pitbull” Andrei Arlovski, Paige VanZant, & Kayla Harrison) & The Men of the Year—Scorpio Sky & “All Ego” Ethan Page challenged AEW to respond to their challenge!
- - Dan Lambert ran down the AEW fans, calling them “morons.”
- - - And then Chris Jericho’s “Judas” theme began to play, and out came Jericho and Jake Hager. “I’m surprised to see you out here to defend these fans. You will do whatever you can to get these dipshits to spend their allowance on your stupid Fozzy albums,” said Lambert.
- “What is your problem, Lambert? You can’t scare us. Like our friend and honorary Inner Circle member ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson once said, ‘Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the face.’ So why don’t big Jake and I come right down and knock those chipmunk teeth down your throat,” said Jericho.
- - “Stop right there. If it’s going to go down, it won’t happen here in this dump of a city. We’ll see you next week in the Big Apple,” said Lambert.
- - - “All right Page and Scorpio, we’ll see you next week and there’ll be no escape from New York!” replied Jericho.

M3: Jade Cargill (with “Smart” Mark Sterling) def. Leyla Hirsch

- Taz and Hook confronted CM Punk at the announcer’s table!
“Are you trying to take my job?” asked Taz.
- - Punk had no choice but to get up. Punk stared down Hook and then Powerhouse Hobbs steamrolled him from behind! Hook applied a dragon sleeper to Punk and then Hobbs smashed into Punk again! Powerhouse Hobbs picked up Punk and slammed him on the broadcast table!

M4: Darby Allin (with Sting) def. “The Chairman” Shawn Spears (w/ Tully Blanchard)!
- After the match, fellow Pinnacle members FTR jumped into the ring! FTR began brawling with Darby and Sting! Tully hit Sting from behind with a chair. Sting turned around to go after Tully but FTR blindsided Sting! FTR impaled Sting with a spiked piledriver! Tully Blanchard grabbed the towel and rubbed off Sting’s face paint!

- Tony Schiavone was in the ring to interview “American Dragon” Bryan Danielson about AEW World Champion Kenny Omega; Before Danielson could get more than a few words out, Don Callis interrupted him. Callis walked out with AEW World Champion Kenny Omega.
- Don Callis: “The hippie millionaire. What a sanctimonious son of a b—tch you are. What a difficult decision this must have been for you to join AEW—this company was built on the back of Kenny Omega. And it was because you wanted to help the industry? And people call me a carnie SOB. Kenny told me he knows how you think and that you really believe this. So that makes you a mark like the rest of these people—“Shut up, Don. Someday this will be about the world title, Kenny. But right now let’s just see who’s better. Let’s give the people what they want—Kenny Omega versus Bryan Danielson. I came here to talk to Kenny Omega. But maybe I shouldn’t have because I came to AEW to fight ‘the best bout machine’, ‘the god of professional wrestling’, but all I’ve seen is a guy who hangs out with a bunch of stooges who lets this guy talk for him.
- - “I’ve heard the rumors that maybe you’ve lost your confidence, that you’ve lost a step. I don’t think that’s true. I just think you’ve lost your balls. So what do you say: yes or no?” asked Bryan Danielson.
- - - Kenny Omega: “So you say you want ‘the best bout machine’? You say you want ‘the god of wrestling’? My answer is yes!”

M5: Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston def. 2point0—Matt Lee & Jeff Parker (w/ Daniel Garcia)

- Suzuki’s music hit!
- While Suzuki was entering the ring to face Moxley, Lance Archer pulled Kingston out by the ankles!
- - Kingston and Archer began brawling around the Prudential Center!
- - - Moxley and Suzuki fought on top of the time keeper’s table, trading lefts and rights! Mox spiked Suzuki in the eye with the microphone as the show goes off the air!