1 Up & 5 Downs From AEW Rampage (Oct 7)

2. How You Shouldn’t Set Up Challengers

Mark Sterling Tony Nese Josh Woods The Varsity Athletes
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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.

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