3 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Rampage (Nov 25 - Results & Review)

1. Tony Khan’s Stubborn Decision-Making

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Speaking of awkward.

Putting Rampage and Collision up against WWE's Survivor Series was certainly a choice from Tony Khan. Sure, the latter weekly airs on Saturday nights normally anyway, but what good does getting trounced in the ratings do AEW? The company routinely gets hammered any time it tries to go head-to-head with WWE's PLEs.

Questions must be asked about what the All Elite boss was thinking with this one. It's stubborn at best and creatively suicidal at worst to think a double helping of 'B' and 'C' tier AEW TV is going to compete with WarGames. WWE didn't even put a ton of effort into their undercard, but Survivor Series was still the much stronger offering.

Granted, Tony couldn't have known for sure that CM Punk would shockingly return to the WWE fold in Chicago, but he must've had a hunch something major was in the works. Traditional TV ratings aren't the go to must-have metric in wrestling anymore, but scores for this double header could make for grim reading regardless.

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