4 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Rampage (Aug 4)

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4. Still Not A Fan Of This Formatting

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It will forever seem odd to yours truly that AEW hits pause on programming that's actually happening to remind you about more AEW programming that's about to happen. Look, nobody's saying the promotion should avoid advertising upcoming events, but there has to be a better way to go about it than this?

Interrupting matches in-progress, going picture-in-picture and then crowing about "must see" wrestling is daft. It seems to happen multiple times throughout Rampage too, including during main events. Seeing All Elite go silent on a 'Parking Lot Brawl' to tell you that there's a...'Parking Lot Brawl' on Wednesday's Dynamite is rather annoying.

Stop it.

Excalibur normally does his run down thing of what's coming up on the show anyway, so there's simply no need for these pic-in-pic intrusions. Imagine this happened anywhere else on TV? Forget this episode of a hot new show you're watching, because the same hot new show airs again soon.

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