Royal Rampage Match 2024

[6.0] "Not a ton that'll live long in the memory here but a fun chunk of TV nonetheless, featuring some terrific talent as always. Allin's presence is notable also, hopping back in the double ring not even an hour removed from his WarGames heroics. Fun piece of business, with The Royal Rampage remaining a smart usage of the Blood & Guts setup. ***"

[6.0] "Probably the worst/least memorable Royal Rampage match so far. Still, I had fun with the gimmick and there was some fun action in it."

[4.0] "Really boring match for the most part. Only picked up towards the end once most wrestlers were eliminated. Not worth the nearly 40 minute runtime"

[5.0] "I found this boring and lacking any real drama. Lio Rush coming in and getting massive offence on guys twice his size and star power was also jarring to watch. There is an art to booking these rumble style battle royales and it involves weaving in existing and new storylines with surprise entrants . This didnt really do either. That being said it was watchable"

[7.0] "Opens with the Rampage Royale: Was fairly slow paced as the rings started filling up. The first elimination was Brandon Cutler, 13 minutes into the show. Daddy Magic was next out. Its been slow so far. Kyle O Reilly comes out and gets a big pop. Jeff Jarrett comes out and gets the mega pop, good for him. Picture in Picture. Butcher out. Taven enters and hits a good sequence of moves. Kommander knocked out by Nick Wayne. Jay Lethal joins Jarrett. Nick Wayne eliminated by Sabian. Mike Bennett enters. 3 on 3, undisputed kingdom and conglomeration in left ring. Mortos enters. Sabian eliminated by Jarrett and Lethal. DARBY enters, another big Pop. Hes the man. Gets flattened by Brody King. Jarrett and Lethal do the strut, great stuff. Final participant, Lio Rush. Lets go. Brody king and Darby head into the crowd. Bennett and Ishii eliminated straight after the break. Darby chair shotted Brodys head on the steps. Orange eliminated, Taven and O Reilly all eliminated in quick fashion. Mortos eliminated at some point. Missed it. Roderick strong FLATTENED by Brody and eliminated at the same time as Roddy. Lethal eliminated. Darby Eliminates Brody! Jarrett fires up and gets some offence. Hangman jumps in and flattens Jarrett. He gets eliminated by Brian cage and they go to break with Hangman beating the snot out of JJ. Back from the break, Claudio eliminates Brian Cage, great performance from the Vanilla Gorilla. Darby and Claudio last left. Darby hits the coffin drop for the win. Good from all involved. 6.5-7/10"

[7.0] "Pretty entertaining battle royale by AEW's standard, but as usual, lacked star power outside a few individuals. In the end, there was barely any memorable moments."

[9.0] "This was probably my favorite Royal Rampage match that I have seen yet! Darby Allin, Claudio Castagnoli, Brody King, Jeff Jarrett, Adam Page (despite not even BEING in the match), Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, Kyle OReilly, and Tomohiro Ishii were the main highlights in the ring here. The Brandon Cutler elimination spot got a REALLY good laugh out of me too! This fun opener definitely gets a 9 out of 10 from me here."

[6.0] "This was fun and I love the concept of a two ring battle royal but just went too long with too much time between stuff happening. The last ten minutes were great but this would have been a better 20-25 minute match versus a 35-40 minute match. ***1/4"

[6.0] "Decent enough battle royal. The Darby/Brody stuff was the obvious highlight though I also loved the continuation of the Hangman/Jarrett storyline."

[8.0] "Will probably end up being the high voter for this one but I love these Royal Rampage matches. It just feels fresh and unique. The Brody/Darby feud picking up for this was great, great brawl all over the arena. Jarrett got a great hometown pop and I'm glad they are continuing the beef with Hangman."

[6.0] "This is a tougher one to rate for me. There was undoubtedly some good action in this match but there a was a long middle stretch where it felt like nothing was happening other than entrances, and they were not of people I wanted to see on this match. It felt like there was no plan going into this. Eliminations were missed on camera. Big eliminations happening at the same time with no real impact behind them. The ring basically filled up for the whole match and then all at once everyone was eliminated. All that being said there was a lot of good work here. The opening bits with Claudio Kommander Orange and Brody was good. The continuation and call back of the Brody Darby feud and just Darby being in it was great considering he was just in Blood and Guts. Jeff Jarrett got a huge pop and had a nice showing along with Hangman attacking him for getting in the way of Swerve that was quite good. And once a big chunk of the field was eliminated the closing segments was entertaining as well. But I cant excuse guys like Menard, Bennett, Taven, Butcher, Kip Sabian, Cutler, Lethal and more being in a match for a shot at the WORLD TITLE. There was maybe three or four guys at most you could believe would win here and thats me being generous to Brody and Jeff Jarrett. All things considered this was still solid. 3.25/5"