3 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Rampage (Mar 31)

1. Little Bit Disappointing

You can shove two fundamentally sound workers in the ring all you want, Tony Khan - story is important, and so is character development. Juice Robinson vs. Action Andretti had zero chance of getting more than polite applause from the Rampage crowd, and it suffered for two distinct reasons.

First, neither guy has been properly fleshed out in front of the AEW audience. Second, that picture-in-picture ad break knackered proceedings just a few short minutes in. The energy was gone after that, and both men struggled to pick it back up again for a hot finishing sequence.

Rampage needs more than 'Wrestler A vs. Wrestler B will be a good match...honest!'. Sadly, the chase sequence that happened with barely 25 seconds of airtime left looked plain bad too. Juice wasn't even running that fast, so Ricky Starks had to slow down rather than catching up with him.

Oh dear.