Why AEW Rampage Hasn't Quite Worked (Yet)
Fuego Del Sol has ceased being sympathetic within weeks of emotionally securing his AEW contract on the very first edition of the show in August. This couldn't have been clearer than when Miro battered the sh*t out of him in a rematch on September 17th, and then again a segment designed to prepare Sammy Guevara for similar doom.
Jon Moxley's gone from the guy carrying a broken world on his shoulders to no longer having a discernible purpose beyond smashing the random elderly men that walk through the forbidden door. Fun's being had, but there's increasingly less meat on the bone and the guy that drew during a pandemic should be a piece of p*ss to promote in front of these hot crowds.
The acting in the Dark Order dissension angle has been shoddy enough to sap it of heat, putting unnecessary pressure on just how big the moment will be when Hangman Page puts them back together. This too has felt like the preserve of a Friday rather than a Wednesday, and ask yourself why you're already permitting the weaker aspects of the product to play out on Rampage rather than Dynamite.
The answer is worryingly simple - because it feels like B-Show rather than an A-Show accompaniment to your wrestling week. It's not ideal.
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