AEW Rampage Results: Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights Before All In

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Welcome to Bleacher Report's live coverage and recap of AEW Rampage on August 25.

All AEW has left before Sunday's All In pay-per-view is this episode of Rampage and Saturday's episode of Collision, so there was a lot of time spent hyping the event.

Friday's show featured the usual array of matches both big and small. We saw QT Marshall take on Gravity, Orange Cassidy battled Aaron Solo, and Luchasaurus was in action.

We also saw the four competitors in Sunday's women's title bout compete in a tag match when Toni Storm and Saraya took on Britt Baker and Hikaru Shida.

Let's take a look at what happened on Friday's episode of Rampage.

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Orange Cassidy was out first to defend the international title against QTV's Solo. Harley Cameron sang Solo to the ring during his entrance, which obviously made the crowd jeer with gusto.

This is easily the biggest match Solo has had up to this point in his career, but nobody came into this expecting him to win. That is not a slight against the young star. It's simply a fact due to how OC has been booked.

Cassidy has not only had one of the best title reigns in all of AEW when it comes to the number of successful defenses he has had, but he has also put on some great matches against stars at every level on the roster.

However, that kind of success rate means he was never going to lose the belt to someone who has never won a major singles match on TV before.

This match wasn't necessarily anything special in the grand scheme of things, but it was a great display of Solo's skills and how far he has come. It doesn't need to be the Match of the Year for Solo to get a rub from it.

Cameron got involved and almost cost Cassidy the match when she distracted the ref for Solo, but OC was able to recover and hit the Beach Break for the win.

Winner: Orange Cassidy

Grade: B-

Notable Moments and Observations

• Cameron has made her character much better than expected. She does a lot of little things that are really funny and add to her performance. Things like facial expressions and the way she says specific words. 
• Solo has really grown in confidence. The way he moves and the way he sells are totally different than they were a year ago. 
• One of Cassidy's biggest assets is his balance. He's like a cat. He's lazy and he somehow lands on his feet every time. Orange Cattidy? Is that a thing?

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Marshall gave a sit-down interview with Jim Ross before the match to talk about how he has always been underestimated and it took him going to another country to be taken seriously.

His newly won AAA Latin-American Championship was on the line against one of the newest lucha libre stars on the scene in AEW, Gravity.

Marshall mocked Gravity in Spanish and referenced how he is the younger brother of Bandido, so he was looking to play some mind games before the ref even called for the bell.

Gravity didn't let it phase him and uncorked a slap to shut Marshall up, but the champ used his size and power advantage to control the pace from the point forward. Gravity hit some of his high spots to pop the crowd, but Marshall had the upper hand for most of the match.

They had a couple of moments where their lack of chemistry came into play, but for two guys who haven't spent much time in the ring together, they worked together well. Marshall is a great base for high-flyers, and Gravity always makes sure to include a handful of spots that get the crowd on its feet.

Marshall scored the victory with the Dirt Sheet Driver to retain his title.

Winner: QT Marshall

Grade: B-

After Marshall made his exit, Luchasaurus came out for a quick squash match against a local talent named Ren Jones. The TNT champion, who was sans belt, won before the show needed to cut to another break.

Winner: Luchasaurus

Grade: Incomplete

Notable Moments and Observations

• Marshall has put on quite the tan. 
• Why does the AAA Latin American Championship look better than the AAA Mega Championship, which is that promotion's top title?
• Gravity's walk is so dumb that it's funny, but it was even funnier when Samoa Joe did it to make fun of him. 
• Marshall is so good at making a crowd hate him. He used to be a highlight of AEW Dark for that very reason. 
• The backbreaker Marshall hit looked nasty. 

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All four women started brawling as soon as they were in the ring. Storm and Shida paired up while Saraya went after Baker.

The Outcasts took control and isolated DMD from the women's champion on the other side of the ring. When Ruby Soho interfered, Kris Statlander came out and literally carried her away on her shoulders.

This match was kind of chaotic but to their credit, you always knew who the legal competitors were. They had some fun moments and sequences, but there were also moments of awkwardness.

Saraya ended up getting the win for The Outcasts by hitting DMD with her finisher for the pin.

Winners: The Outcasts

Grade: C+

Notable Moments and Observations

• Some of Storm's facial expressions are impossible to see without laughing. She has become so funny with this new direction of her character. 
• Shida and Storm sell better than a lot of women in AEW. They just throw themselves into their bumps and it looks great. 
• Statlander carrying Soho away was 10 times funnier because of the way Soho was flailing her arms around. 

This week's Rampage and Saturday's Collision are the final shows before Sunday's massive All In PPV, so we didn't get much on Friday's show because everyone big was either overseas or being saved for the PPV.

The only big-name competitors on the show were the four women who competed in the main event. Thankfully, this was pre-taped, so it's not as if they had to immediately hop a flight to England as soon as the show was over.

The action on this week's show was fine for the most part, but nothing stood out. Rampage usually has at least one memorable match, but with the lack of talent available, it's not surprising that it was a light week.

Cassidy vs. Solo was probably the highlight of the night, so if you only go back to watch one thing from the show, make it that.

Grade: C+