4 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Rampage (March 15 - Results & Review)

1. AEW’s Overcooked Trios Formula

Undisputed Kingdom Roderick Strong Mike Bennett Matt Taven
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Look, there was nothing fundamentally wrong with Top Flight and Action Andretti vs. Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett and Matt Taven, but...if you've tuned into AEW TV before now then you've seen a million of these things. Let's face it: Rampage doesn't catch many fresh eyeballs. You need to be an All Elite hardcore to check the 'C' show out.

So, in other words, anyone watching has witnessed this match 100 times.

Things might well be different if the promotion gave fans a reason to care much about dudes like Dante or Darius Martin. Excalibur and Chris Jericho can discuss how Dante has put on a bit of muscle or slowed his style slightly (he hasn't) all they like, but that doesn't count as character development.

Andretti is suffering from the same woeful lack of direction, and that's why this main event scored a 'Down'. Yours truly is simply numb to the trios stuff nowadays. Matches go through the motions delivering spots for the sake of it, not because they make sense, and it's old.

Change the record, please.

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