Swerve makes AEW in-ring debut on Rampage

Shane "Swerve" Strickland makes his AEW in-ring debut on Friday night when he meets old foe Tony Nese. Plus, Private Party's Marq Quen takes on Darby Allin, Keith Lee is in action against QT Marshall and Mercedes Martinez faces Jamie Hayter. You can catch AEW Rampage at 10pm et/7pm pt streaming on TSN Direct and on TSN.ca.

Shane "Swerve" Strickland vs. "The Premier Athlete" Tony Nese - Shane Strickland's arrival in AEW was announced at the Revolution pay-per-view and on Friday night fans will get their first look at him in an AEW ring. Winning titles everywhere he's been, Swerve is a dynamic talent and a former CZW Heavyweight Champion, MLW Heavyweight Champion, EVOLVE Champion and NXT North American Champion. He's stepped in the ring with the likes of Zack Sabre Jr., RUSH, Jonathan Gresham and Will Ospreay. On Friday night, he meets man he knows very well in Tony Nese. Nese took umbrage with the fact that Strickland's arrival in AEW was met with more pomp and circumstance than his was and vows to make Strickland's first match a difficult one. Will Swerve's debut be a successful one or will Nese make it an unwelcome one?

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Darby Allin (w/ Sting) vs. Marq Quen (w/ Isiah Kassidy) - We last saw Darby Allin and Marq Quen in the same ring on this past Wednesday's Dynamite. As the Andrade El Idolo-Matt Hardy partnership dissolved with Andrade, Quen, Isiah Kassidy, The Butcher and The Blade beating down Hardy, Allin and Sting attempted to make the save. The numbers game was catching up to them until the intervention of the debuting Jeff Hardy to help even the odds. The enmity from Wednesday continues into Friday when Allin meets Quen. The match will be Quen's first singles match since his injury in the fall that kept him out