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

1. Wrong Way Round?

Daniel Garcia Katsuyori Shibata
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Next time, Tony Khan should give serious thought to switching Collision and Rampage around. Y'know, if that's possible. TV execs will obviously have a big say in that, but it'd be nice if Tony could ask them to program Rampage before Collision. Things felt like they were the wrong way around on Saturday night.

The three-hour block peaked before Rampage even went live on air.

Katsuyori Shibata and Daniel Garcia vs. Shane Taylor and Lee Moriarty was a decent enough match, but it really didn't deserve to be the final segment in the block. Essentially, that thrown-together tag was the main event of the entire three-hour programming cluster, and that's a wee bit rubbish.

Everything on Rampage would've been better lead in to everything on Collision, basically. Swerve vs. Claudio had to be the lingering visual for this back-to-back assault from AEW. They need to start putting their best foot forward rather than tailing off with these things.

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