5 Things AEW Must Steal From WCW (And 5 It Shouldn’t!)
9. No: Rampage Lingering Like Saturday Night
Rampage is dying, people.
The Friday night show is turning into WCW WorldWide; all it'd take is UK Channel 5 execs firing up some Batman from the 1960s-style sound effects when someone lands a steel chair shot. "Thwack!", "Crash!", "Thump!" etc. A. fairer comparison might be the old Saturday Night show that died a slow, miserable death.
Pre-Nitro, Saturday Night was the must-see WCW weekly. Whilst Rampage was always in the shadow of Dynamite, it did appear important when it landed in 2021. Less than two full years on, the show is about to usurped by a new addition to the lineup. The future does not look good, basically.
Tony Khan should cut the cord, man. He shouldn't let Rampage hang about stinking up the place like Saturday Night did between 1995-2000. If anything, watching Saturday Night in the summer of 2000 was like watching a totally different promotion to the one shown off on Nitro and Thunder.
AEW don't want that to become Rampage's fate.