Road Rager (2022)
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(aired June 15, 2022 and June 17, 2022)
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| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 15, 2022 (aired June 15, 2022 and June 17, 2022) | ||
| City | St. Louis, Missouri | ||
| Venue | Chaifetz Arena | ||
| Attendance | 4,731[1] | ||
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The 2022 Road Rager was the second annual and final Road Rager professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was held on June 15, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri at the Chaifetz Arena, encompassing the broadcasts of AEW's weekly television programs, Wednesday Night Dynamite, which aired live on TBS, and Friday Night Rampage, which aired on tape delay on June 17 on TNT. The 2022 event expanded upon the previous year, which was only held as a special episode of Dynamite. This would be the final Road Rager as an event was not held in 2023.
Background
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Commentators | Jim Ross (Dynamite) |
| Excalibur (both shows) | |
| Tony Schiavone (Dynamite) | |
| Taz (Rampage) | |
| Chris Jericho (Rampage) | |
| William Regal (Hair vs. Hair & Moxley vs Garcia) | |
| Stokely Hathaway (TBS Title match) | |
| Ring announcer | Dasha Gonzalez |
| Referees | Aubrey Edwards |
| Bryce Remsburg | |
| Paul Turner | |
| Rick Knox | |
| Stephon Smith | |
| Interviewers | Lexy Nair |
| Mark Henry |
Storylines
Road Rager featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[2] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television program, Dynamite, the supplementary online streaming shows, Dark and Elevation, and The Young Bucks' YouTube series Being The Elite.
Reception
Television ratings
Dynamite averaged 761,000 television viewers on TBS and a 0.28 rating in the 18-49 demographic, AEW's key demographic. This was down from the 939,000 viewership total of the previous week's episode.[3]
Rampage averaged 331,000 television viewers on TNT, with a 0.10 rating in the 18-49 demographic. This was also down from the 476,000 viewership total of the previous week.[4]