3 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Rampage (Dec 9)

3. This Is Too Last-Minute

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ROH Final Battle will begin airing less than 24 hours after Rampage finished. So, AEW's decision to run a promo package on why Shane Taylor and JD Griffey have beef with Keith Lee is very-much a case of too little, too late. This is all so last-minute it's almost tragic.

The first time All Elite fans get a glimpse at Griffey is in a pre-taped backstage segment the day before he hits the ring on pay-per-view. If that doesn't show that AEW has far too many wrestlers on payroll, then nothing will. It's genuinely hard to care about any of this.

'Just buy the PPV and shut up'. That's how it comes across.

Tony Khan has known he had Final Battle coming up for a while now, but he's waited until the last possible second to try and mix Lee's ongoing issues with Swerve Strickland in with some old ROH stuff. It feels lazy, and it feels like JD/Taylor will disappear after Saturday's show anyway.

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