We see a video package for "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship later tonight.
Backstage, Tony Schiavone interviews Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D., Jamie Hayter and Rebel. Britt Baker says that all three of them are disgusted that none of them are AEW Interim Women's World Champion, and Hayter says that by the one of the year, one of them will be interim champion. Britt says that one of them will be Women's World Champion, and Hayter says "Toni Time" is over.
Toni Storm retains the AEW Interim Women's World Championship against Hikaru Shida. After the match, Jamie Hayter and Rebel come out of the crowd and attack Toni, then Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. arrives in a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey just before Saraya shows up and charges at her. Saraya and Britt brawl on the outside as Rebel hits Toni Storm with a crutch, and Saraya tosses britt over the barricade. When Jamie Hayter and Rebel realize what is going on, Riho shows up and takes down Rebel before sending Hayter tumbling out of the ring and hitting her with a top rope cross body on the outside.
We hear from WarJoe (Wardlow and Samoa Joe). Wardlow says that he has zero tolerance for disrespect, and says that they will physically hurt The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) however they can. Samoa Joe says they can have any title they want, but they have been given six million ways to die and they have chosen the wrong ones.
Backstage, Renee Pacquette interviews FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler). Dax says all he and Cash ever wanted to do was be the best tag team of all team and while this year was a great starting point, they have a big target on their backs. Nevertheless, they want the AEW World Tag Team Championships. Cash says that they have had the best year of their careers, but at the end of the day, they have to be two-time AEW World Tag Team Champions or else they cannot live with themselves. Swerve In Our Glory (Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee) show up, and Swerve says they are deserving of the tag team titles, not FTR. Keith Lee agrees that they deserve a shot, and Dax Harwood gives them a shot at the #1 contendership for the AEW tag team titles next week, to which Keith Lee says "Indubitably." Swerve says "What?" and goes after Keith Lee after he leaves, then Dax Harwood mutters "It's FTR's house, bitch."
Backstage, Alex Marvez interviews Sonja Dutt, Jay Lethal and Darby Allin. Jay Lethal says he wants a rematch and that Darby's victory against him is a fluke. Darby says he beat Jay Lethal two weeks ago and that he will do it again and again as long as Lethal keeps asking for rematches, and Sonjay Dutt tells Darby they know his weakness after "a close, personal friend" told them, then calls Darby "a trash panda." Darby tells Marvez to leave, then shoves both Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt after Marvez leaves. Sonjay and Lethal then gang up on Darby, then Lethal slams him into a nearby sliding door and Sonjay traps Darby under it while Sonjay stomps on Darby and Lethal puts Darby in a Figure Four Leg Lock. Referees and security have to pull Lethal off of Darby.
Tony Schiavone interviews William Regal in the ring. Before William Regal can get more than a few words in, MJF shows up. Regal pulls out his brass knuckles, but MJF tells him to put them away because he is here to talk. Tony Schiavone leaves, then MJF then tells a story about how when he was nineteen years old and training at Create-A-Pro Wrestling Academy, Pat Buck and Brian Myers took him aside and told him that his hard work paid off and got him work as an extra in a WWE show. MJF packed his best gear and his best suit and drove off to the event, and he and the extras were put together and talked to by William Regal, who proceeded to tell them that they would have try-out matches before the show against random opponents. His match was second, and Arn Anderson, Dean Malenko, Adam Pearce and Regal watched on as he fought for his life, as professional wrestling is his life. After the match, he was victorious, and everyone looked at him "like he had eight heads" until Regal brought him into a room and told him "You have three minutes to sell yourself to me...go." MJF says that by the time he was done, Regal told him he would get him a job. He realized that he would no longer be looked at like a superstar and not a "five-foot-nothing ADD-riddled Jew boy," but when MJF told Regal he was nineteen, Regal told him he was too young. MJF says his heart dropped and his dreams evaporated, and in one fell swoop, Regal resuscitated hope and said he does not put his name on many people, and when he comes of age, he would put his name on him. Regal then told him to go home, work his ass off, and send him a match and a promo every month. MJF says he busted his ass off and did just that, and Regal kept telling him he would be reviewing his progress. Regal then sent him a promo on the third month that MJF still has to this day, which is as follows: "Max, I'm a very, very busy man. I've got talent from all over the world to watch, and he just had to sit for minutes watching you 'show me your acting skills.' Do not reply to this, but how would this make me say 'Oh, I know, let's hire Max?" Make aname yourself in the wrestling world and you'll get noticed, and that means being a high-level performer. When you do, trust me, I'll know. Unfortunately for you, the game has changed, and WWE exclusively hires the best talent in the world to world-class athletes. When you're one of them, then maybe send me your stuff. Yours sincerely, William Regal." He accuses Regal of squandering his dream, and when he read that e-mail, he wanted to quit professional wrestling and life and made him want to kill himself. He then realized that if he did, Regal and all the naysayers would win and he could not have that. MJF then says the tables have turned, and Regal is nothing more than "a sad, withered old man who got fired" and have snuck into his company like a flea-ridden rat by sticking to talents far better than he ever was like a succubus while he is on top of the world as a generational talent. He says he is also the man who WWE would take several human lives just to get him to sign with them in the bidding war of 2024, and he tells Regal he reads that e-mail every day not to put a chip on his shoulder, but for a good, hearty laugh, as Regal is nothing more than a joke while he is about to become AEW World Champion. Regal talks about how he was having to fight men in a carnival at sixteen years old when he started, and says he did not cast him aside. He says he saw in him what he is seeing now and that he knew MJF would be a big star, and that he wanted to light a fire under his backside, as they live in a world where someone under twenty-one does not have to fight grown men and have their face caved in and have to go to bed crying with blood coming out of every hole in their body. Regal told himself he would not quit and would become a professional wrestler, and he says that if "a bloody e-mail" is what took MJF to get here and was what he held onto all these years, then MJF had it easy. He says that MJF had it easy, and that he has told him over the years what to practice. Regal says he has seen what an incredible talent he could be when he faced Wheeler Yuta, then talks about how he beat people up and insult Tony Schiavone in WCW and how he would never put a hand on Schiavone because he is an "ODV" - an "ordinary, decent villian" - and while anyone who steps between the ropes is fair game, MJF did not have to put his hands on Schiavone. Regal also tells MJF that he wanted him to be where he is now, as he knew he had it in him, but he let him down by taking shortcuts and has not proven anything to him yet. He says getting paid in AEW, making a lot of money, hiring people to do his work for him and knocking people out does not prove anything to him, and that he only used brass knuckles because he liked hitting people with them. Regal tells MJF not to take shortcut if he wants to be the Devil, and to make a name for himself by doing it right and beating everyone who stands in front of him, and that regardless of the liberties he must take with his opponents, he must "get to that place." He then tells MJF that if he wants to be the devil, he should prove it right now. Regal turns his back to allow for a free shot. MJF puts his ring on, but hesitates to hit him. Regal tells MJF he still has a lot to prove, then leaves.
Backstage, Renee Pacquette interviews The Acclaimed ("Platinum" Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) and Billy Gunn. Billy Gunn welcomes Renee to AEW, then says "Smart" Mark Sterling is trying to take away the phenomenon of "scissoring." Bowens says that on Rampage, it will be The Acclaimed vs. "The Premier Athlete" Tony Nese and "The Technical Beast" Josh Woods and that they will get back to scissoring. Caster says that if Sterling wants to cool them off, he will find out that they are hot forever and that they will stomp him in the nuts.
In footage from earlier today, Renee Pacquette interviews Wheeler Yuta and Bryan Danielson. Danielson says it is never fun to lose a match, especially to Chris Jericho for the Ring of Honor World Championship, as the title means so much to him and the person and wrestler he has become. He says that he has a lot of high hopes for Daniel Garcia, as he sees him as a person who could surpass everything he has done after all he has done at a young age, and says that with the right guidance, he could be the best wrestler anyone has ever seen. Wheeler Yuta asks Danielson how he is surpsied with what happened last week, as he and Claudio Castagnoli saw what would happen a mile away and that Daniel Garcia is "like a snake" and is using him to get what he and Jericho want. He says that he thought bleeding for The Blackpool Combat Club meant something to him, Claudio and Jon Moxley, then says that he should not have met his hero as it means nothing to him.
In a match that also sees Jake Hager beat up Dalton Castle's boys for stealing his purple bucket hat, Chris Jericho retains the Ring of Honor World Championship against Dalton Castle. After the match, the rest of The Jericho Appreciation Society show up to celebrate with Jericho, and Jericho says that he will continue to desecrate the Ring of Honor legacy, including its commentators. "Cool Hand" Angelo Parker and "Daddy Magic" Matt Menard drag Ian Riccaboni out from the commentary table and hold him down so that Jericho can hit him with the Ring of Honor World Championship, then Jerry Lynn stops Jericho from carrying out the attack only to be kicked in the groin and hit with a piledriver on the Ring of Honor World Championship. Referees and medical staff check on Jerry Lynn.
We see a video package chronicling the feud between Jungle Boy and the team of Luchasaurus and Christian Cage. Christian Cage says that Luchasaurus was the brains of the team, then says they are done with Jungle Boy and that is is about championship gold from here on out. He puts everyone with a championship on notice, telling them that reality will give them a bitch slap in the form of his "right hand of destruction" Luchasaurus.
Backstage, Leila Grey and Kiera Hogan are trying to find Jade Cargill. Jade Cargill shows up wanting to know where the TBS Championship is and tells them that "The Native Beast" Nyla Rose is not in the building. Kiera then tells Jade that she has found out that Nyla Rose will be at Rampage, and Jade says she will be there and demand the return of the TBS Championship. Jade tells Tony Khan to bring her the belt or she will hijack the entire show.
William Regal guests on commentary for the next match.
Jon Moxley retains the AEW World Championship against "Hangman" Adam Page by referee stoppage after Page is medically unfit to continue following a clothesline that turned him inside out. (After the show, it is announced that Page had suffered a concussion.) Early in the match, MJF is seen in the luxury box, but later on, he is not there. After the match, a gurney is brought out for Page, and Jox Moxley says he hopes and prays that Page recovers to 100% and can perform for everyone again, then says that this is a dangerous game and that one must have guts to play it. He says one must risk it all to play the game and put everything on the line every time one steps between the ropes to succeed in professional wrestling. Moxley then says he heard someone talking their shit and tells MJF that if he wants to prove he is who he says he is, then he can get his "suburban ass" in the ring right now. MJF shows up with referee Bryce Remsburg and the AEW Casino Battle Royal poker chip, and this leads to another AEW World Championship match. MJF teases cashing in by taking his shirt off, then rolls out of the ring, grabs a microphone and tells Regal that the fans know he is the man. He says that he will cash the chip in, but when he does, he wants Jon Moxley at "110%," so when he beats Moxley in the ring clean in the middle ring, there will be no excuses and no question that he is better than Moxley. MJF announces that he is cashing in at Full Gear, as for the first time in his miserable life, he is going to earn it. Moxley tells MJF that all he will earn is the heel of his boot in his mouth, his teeth going down his throat, his fist going up his ass, his throat getting squeezed until his head turns purple and pops like a Pez dispenser, and a date with destiny against him where everyone finds out what he is made of and that getting in the ring with him is "dangerous as all hell."
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