AEW Rampage Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from June 17

Welcome to Bleacher Report's coverage and recap of AEW rampage on June 17.

This episode was also called Road Rager like Wednesday's Dynamite, so AEW booked a few big segments it knew would be enticing.

In the women's division, Jade Cargill put the TBS Championship on the line against Willow Nightingale.

Hook and Danhausen made appearances, and so did the duo of Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee. We also saw Darby Allin take on Bobby Fish, and Jon Moxley battled Dante Martin.

Let's look at everything that went down on Friday's show.

Unlike most weeks, Friday's Rampage did not begin with the competitors in the first match already in the ring. Martin and Moxley each got his full entrance for this bout.

This match was almost like a test for the 21-year-old star, so Moxley was putting him through the wringer. At one point, he was daring Martin to hit him as hard as he could just to show him that he could take it and dish it out twice as hard in return.

Whenever Martin would find some momentum, Mox would steal it from him and put him on the mat to neutralize his aerial offense. The pair did a good job of telling the story, even if it was clear they were holding back and not trying to make this a Match of the Year candidate.

This match was fun, displayed the abilities of both competitors effectively and told a coherent story. Was it the most exciting bout ever? No, but it did its job quite well.

Grade: B+

Notable Moments and Observations

• Martin could use just a little more power behind his kicks. They look a little too much like he is trying not to hurt his opponent. 
• Watching Martin just hop up to the top rope and then hop back into the ring like it's nothing will never stop being impressive. 
• Moxley is a much better technician than people give him credit for. He can be smooth when he wants; he just prefers to be a bruiser. He is versatile but chooses to be a brawler because he has more fun that way. 

The team of Bear Country and Leon Ruff, known collectively as Ruffin It, took on Max Caster, Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn in a trios match.

Ruff has not been featured much on AEW TV, so this was a nice opportunity for him to remind the mainstream wrestling audience why we all fell in love with him in NXT.

Well, it would have been if the match had lasted more than three minutes. Caster and The Gunn Club scored an easy win and celebrated with Anthony Bowens and Papa Billy.

Grade: C-

Notable Moments and Observations

• Caster getting the pin was the right call.
• Bowens and Billy together is comedy gold. Give those guys a sitcom. 

In what was definitely the biggest match of Willow's AEW career, she took on Jade for the TBS Championship in the third match of the night.

As expected, The Baddies and Stokely Hathaway were there to lend their support. Hathaway was on commentary, while Kiera Hogan was at ringside to get involved behind the ref's back.

This bout was more competitive than most of the matches Jade has had during her reign as champion, but the result was never in question. The champ scored the win before Athena arrived to take out Hogan from behind. Jade took her down with a pump kick before Kris Statlander ran down to clear the ring.

This was decent, but there is definitely room to grow in future encounters.

Grade: B-

Notable Moments and Observations

• Jade is a dominant heel, so she doesn't need the heat that comes from having somebody interfere for her. The whole point of her is that she is better than everybody else and knows it. Hogan interfering felt unnecessary, but that is just how it goes with heels these days. 
• The crowd really likes Willow. She is a good performer, and she has great charisma. She is just easy to root for, and there aren't a lot of babyfaces with that kind of natural likability these days. 
• The announcers called it a double underhook facebuster because that is the proper term, but Jade used a Pedigree. It's that simple. 
• Statlander smacking Hathaway in the back of the head as she ran to the ring is the funniest thing to happen all week. 

The main event of the evening was the showdown between Bobby Fish and Darby Allin. The pre-match interview had the usual levels of tension, but Fish got in a few funny lines too.

Fish and Allin both work styles that can be described as very physical, but they have different ways of going about causing damage.

Fish is a striker and submission specialist, while Allin is a daredevil fighter who is willing to take just as much damage as he dishes out if it means his opponent can't get up.

This was a competitive back-and-forth exchange, but Fish may have had a bit more control throughout the match. As Fish tried to lock in a submission, Allin rolled back into a cover and scored the win.

Fish kept up his attack and called Kyle O'Reilly to join him with a steel chair. The lights went out, and Sting appeared in front of KOR to block his path and hit him below the belt with his bat.

This was a fun main event, but Moxley and Martin might have fit better in this spot.

Grade: B+

Notable Moments and Observations

• Chris Jericho was right when he said on commentary that Allin has the best suicide dive in the business. He just launches himself with no regard for his own safety, and it always looks awesome. 
• Fish is so good at making his strikes look real, especially when it comes to his knees and kicks. 
• Sting will always be able to get a huge pop from any crowd. He reached that level a long time ago.