1 Up & 5 Downs From AEW Rampage (Oct 7)
2. How You Shouldn’t Set Up Challengers
The Acclaimed coming out to confront Tony Nese and Josh Woods suggests that Mark Sterling's renamed 'Varsity Athletes' are next in line for a Tag Title crack. Fair enough, but this is an extension of the whinge in that previous entry; Tony is flinging sh*t at a wall to see what might stick.
If he knew that Nese/Woods were going to get a proper tag name and title tilt, then why did he pen them to get jobbed out in short order by Wardlow and Samoa Joe?! Oh, that's right: "WarJoe" is what they're called these days, isn't it?
Yuck.
To summarise, these re-dubbed Varsity lads lost to a tag-team who aren't even a proper tag-team in a few minutes. Before that, Nese had been relegated to enhancement talent status against Wardlow in singles action too.
Now they're magically contenders for the belts? Come on now.