3 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Rampage (April 27 - Results & Review)

Downs...

2. Hold Me Back! No, Please...Hold Me Back!

There's an upside to the hard work put into that painful (for the workers) 'Parking Lot Brawl', but first...the downside. At the end, Orange Cassidy came in to warn old pal Trent Beretta against using the weapon he was holding. Trent ignored him and potentially injured Chuck Taylor anyway. That's fine, but Cassidy's performance wasn't.

He stopped going after Beretta before Kris Statlander could hold him back. In short, if Orange was really mad at Trent, then nobody would've been able to stop him. As a result, it looked like Cassidy was only halfheartedly angry at Beretta and didn't fancy getting some of what poor Chucky T was served earlier.

What a flat ending to the segment.

Being brutally honest, the emotional friendship breakdown AEW is reaching for isn't working. They haven't given enough of the key story beats much time to breathe (Tony Schiavone even said it had only been a few weeks since Trent's turn), and that's left things a little cold.