2 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Rampage (June 10)

1. A Missed Opportunity

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Will Ospreay arriving in AEW should've been a much bigger deal.

One of the most legitimately-exciting pro wrestlers on the planet for the past five-seven years has only just arrived in Tony Khan's promotion and he's already lost in the mix. Ospreay is the latest victim of a "Forbidden Door" policy that's long-since tired but won't go away.

The concept is a revolving merry-go-round of missed opportunities that favours short-lived "surprise" over any long-term ideas, and it's starting to suck the life out of AEW's product. Each wrestler who walks "through the door" and talks about it in promos becomes interchangeable when everybody bloody does the same thing.

AEW debuted Ospreay as part of a group (shocker), then booked him to lose his first match in the company on B-show Rampage. Now, they'll likely set up another multi-man situation for the next pay-per-view. This is rinse and repeat b*llocks, and it's so uninspiring to see great wrestlers debut this way.

Sorry, but it is.

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