2 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Rampage (Oct 28)
Keith Lee's face sums up Rampage; Jon Moxley wrestles; AEW tries to go "spooky season".
AEW is Firm-ly (bet your sides are splitting) on the road to Full Gear now, and you'd think that'd give Rampage much more of a purpose heading into the next pay-per-view. Yes and no - Tony Khan did use Friday's 'B' show to push feuds like The Acclaimed vs. Swerve In Our Glory ahead, and he even served up some content for Jon Moxley.
There were still more misses than hits though, sadly.
A quick glance at the card for this week's show indicated that it'd be throwaway, but nobody could've expected that Swerve Strickland would be turned into a Halloween horror gimmick or that Billy Gunn would be tortured like he was on the set of the latest Saw movie. Yep, this actually happened.
Positives came in the form of Matt Menard holding his own in the opener and Wardlow showing some fragility in the main event. Unfortunately, neither of those two plus points could offset some of the horrible stuff AEW put on elsewhere.
It's Halloween now, but Rampage has been pretty scary all year! Here's all the good and bad from the latest effort.