Jade Cargill vs. Kiera Hogan, Moxley vs. Garcia set for 8/20 AEW Rampage

Originally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2021/08/18/jade-cargill-vs-kiera-hogan-moxley-vs-garcia-set-for-8-20-aew-rampage/

Three matches set for ‘The First Dance’ edition of Rampage.

Episode two of AEW Rampage on TNT will host three matches. It was announced on the 8/18 edition of Dynamite that come Friday at the United Center in Chicago, Jade Cargill is going to be in action against former IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Champion Kiera Hogan. Kiera has had two matches under the AEW banner thus far and those matches were against Hikaru Shida and Kris Statlander on the Dark and Elevation programs respectively.

The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) are defending the AEW World Tag Team Titles at All Out. To determine their opponents, there will be an eliminator tournament with the following teams:

  • Private Party (Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy)
  • The Lucha Brothers (Rey Fenix & Penta El Zero M)
  • Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus)
  • Varisity Blonds (Brian Pillman Jr. & Griff Garrison)

Private Party versus Jurassic Express is taking place on Rampage.

In addition to those matches, Jon Moxley is facing Daniel Garcia. Moxley and Eddie Kingston opened the 8/18 Dynamite and they were ambushed during their entrance by Daniel Garcia, Matt Lee and Jeff Parker.

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— FITE (@FiteTV) August 19, 2021

Parker and Lee were the most recent guests on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast and Jericho revealed that they’ve signed deals with All Elite Wrestling.

It’s going to be a fun show, but these are glorified AEW Dark matches and they need to be careful. If they put out stuff like this on a week that wont have CM Punk debuting, I dont see the ratings staying where they are now.

Jade is coming off arguably her worst match yet on Dark: Elevation, so hopefully she and Kiera will put together something fun.