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Damage CTRL Stands Tall, Escobar Beats Lee, Takeshita Defeats Komander | WWE SD x AEW Recap

Wrestling
Colin Tessier Mar 16, 2024 1:17AM

Here is your fight size update for WWE Friday Night SmackDown and AEW Rampage on Friday, March 15, 2024.

WWE SmackDown

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- Bayley faced Dakota Kai. Bayley scored the disqualification win when IYO SKY attacked her. Naomi came out and tried to make the save, but she was outnumbered by Damage CTRL (IYO SKY, Dakota Kai, Kairi Sane, and Asuka). Damage CTRL attacked Bayley and stood tall.

- Dragon Lee faced Santos Escobar. Interference from Legado del Fantasma helped Escobar clinch the win.

- The Rock sang about Cry Babies, Ja Morant, Cody Rhodes, and Seth Rollins. He also brought back the Hollywood Rock theme.

- Kayla Braxton spoke with LA Knight. He challenged AJ Styles to face him at WrestleMania 40. Styles blindsided him and accepted the challenge after he hit him with a chair.

- Jimmy Uso accepted Jey Uso's challenge to a match at WrestleMania 40.

- Randy Orton faced Grayson Waller. Orton beat Waller, and Kevin Owens made the save when Austin Theory and Logan Paul attacked him.

- As announced by Nick Aldis, Logan Paul will defend the WWE United States Championship against Randy Orton and Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 40.

- Legado del Fantasma (Angel and Berto) defeated The LWO (Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro) in a WrestleMania 40 qualifying match.

- New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate) defeated Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) to qualify for the next round in the tag team tournament.

Rey Mysterio challenged Santos Escobar to face him on the March 22 episode of WWE SmackDown. Check out the card here.

- Triple H will appear on The Pat McAfee Show on April 5.

- Sami Zayn and Gunther will sign the contract for their match at WrestleMania 40 on the March 18 episode of WWE Raw.

- Michin expressed her hope that The OC would be a family again.

- Rey Mysterio made it clear that he intended to get payback on Santos Escobar.

- Legado del Fantasma made it clear that they were determined to win the tag team titles.

- Bayley vowed to take out Damage CTRL one by one.

- Santos Escobar sent a message to Rey Mysterio ahead of their match on the March 22 episode of WWE SmackDown.

- Ja Morant responded to The Rock.

Click here to catch up on our coverage of the March 15 episode of WWE SmackDown. For a full review, check out the post-show podcast on our YouTube channel.

AEW Rampage

- Konosuke Takeshita defeated Komander in a hard-fought match.

- AEW announced the bracket for the AEW World Tag Team Championship Tournament.

- Mariah May and Toni Storm scored a decisive win against Kayla Sparks and LMK. Deonna Purrazzo confronted them and revealed Thunder Rosa as her partner for a tag team match against the duo.

- Undisputed Kingdom (Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett, and Matt Taven) defeated Top Flight (Dante and Darius Martin) and Action Andretti.

- Orange Cassidy and Trent Beretta defeated Evil Uno and John Silver of Dark Order.

- The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch) sent a message to the AEW roster.

- Backstage, Saraya said Zak Knight wanted a fight. He attacked some bystanders. Angelo Parker took the fight to him, and officials separated them.

- A video package highlighted Queen Aminata. She previewed her upcoming match against Red Velvet in ROH.

A video package highlighted Serena Deeb. Deeb vowed to become a champion.

- Ruby Soho and Angelo Parker sent a message to Saraya and Zak Knight.

- Check out the card for the March 16 episode of AEW Collision here.

Click here to catch up on our coverage of the March 15 episode of AEW Rampage.

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