Hello and welcome to the AEW Rampage Preview, I'm Adam Wilborn from What Cools You're

joined by one of the dadly boys, Michael Sidjwick from What Cools You're To Look Ahead To Tonight's

episode of AEW Rampage. But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing,

make sure you subscribe to What Cools Wrestling on either iTunes Spotify or ever get your

podcast from for daily wrestling podcasts. Well, we not only review AEW Rampage, but also AEW

Dynamite, Raw, SmackDown, NXT, Bayviews. We have interviews, round table discussions,

and a round of the week, complete. With them, I mean, of course, on Reza Culture. As I said,

they're joined by Michael Sidjwick, Michael Hamlet, still enjoying a well-earned week off.

And Sidj, no pressure, not much to live up to on this week's Rampage. I can't quite believe

it's only a week since CM Punk debuted in AEW. Christ almighty, yeah, it still doesn't feel real.

We've talked about this at length. It just feels surreal, seeing him in that ring.

Unfortunately, the hype that had generated was not capitalized upon whatsoever. So it just feels

a little bit... I don't know, I feel a little bit downbeat about AEW, but that's always going to

happen after an AEW Dynamite, but you expect, right? Okay. They've got a paper view in like three

weeks or whatever it was, when Rampage, CM Punk debuted. You thought, right, they've got punk,

they're going to set up the match with Alan. They're going to really go hell for leather in terms

of setting up the angles with grey promos and all the rest of it. In this all-out card,

if it wasn't for Punk coming in, it would look like possibly the worst lineup on paper so far.

And this week's Dynamite did so little to advance something that... I think it'll be great on the

night. I think certain specific matches will be different and fantastic, but without the punk,

the punk feeling has replaced the feeling of AEW's like incredible paper view builds. I don't

want to say they're being lazy or if they're being maybe cautious as the word. This is not

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