4 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Rampage (May 13)

3. Shawn Spears Sets It Up

Shawn Spears Bear Boulder
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First, a minor whinge. Can Taz please ditch that creaking, "...like lifting a small foreign car" line on commentary? It's something he has spewed out since the old SmackDown days alongside Michael Cole, and it never adds anything to the moment. Why does he even have to emphasis "small"?!

Bear Boulder is anything but.

On the plus side, Shawn Spears beating the tag-teamer in two minutes and then smashing his face in with a steel chair worked as setup for Spears' coming battle with Wardlow. That man mountain himself had been running through folks en route to MJF, so this was a neat twist on that formula.

Giving Spears a routine win and weaving his 'Chairman' gimmick into proceedings without eating up too much TV time? Yeah, this fan will take that sort of efficiency any day of the week. In fact, this was one of the most efficient builds for a Dynamite match yet.

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