4 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Rampage (Mar 18)

By Jamie Kennedy /

3. House Of Black

AEW

Speaking of acts that were on fire!

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Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews and Brody King were in no mood to mess about during their squash-style six-man vs. Fuego Del Sol and Bear Country. The bout lasted just a few minutes, but it was a winner from start to finish. The dominant House Of Black trio gave Del Sol just enough to maintain interest.

Bear Bronson and Bear Boulder got f*ck all, but this wasn't really about them anyway, and they're likely happy just to be on TV these days; that's not meant as an insult, by the way. It's just...when you're a physically big tag-team getting creamed in squashes, then you're hardly in the minds of creative.

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Maybe their time will come. For now, All Elite's braintrust are doubling down on the Black/Matthews/King threesome. They've got something about them (which fans who watched Black's matches with Buddy in WWE shouldn't be surprised by).