Hello, and welcome to the AEW Rampage review.

I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture, joined by one of the deadly boys, Michael Sidjwick from WhatCulture

to review everything I have on Friday Night's episode of AEW Rampage.

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we have interviews, round table discussions, and a round of the week complete.

Well, let me go quiz, of course, on WrestleCulture. As I said, joined by Michael Sidjwick to review.

Hey, I just made it. This is crazy, but here's my number.

He's a weird baby. That laugh every time gets me.

What do you make of this week's show?

I thought this was a better than usual rampage. But the caveat here is that

what constitutes a good rampage now is not what constituted a good rampage when the show was at

its peak. If that makes any sense, there are rampages that I just totally bang average.

There are rampages that there's never an, it's very rarely an actively bad rampage, right?

But now what's happened is the show has been so stigmatized as this

inessential genuinely devoid of real-star power and stakes and attractions that this vibe has

cloaked it. And it's visually represented by the fact that a lot of people in these arenas

just simply go home after the dynamite portion of the Wednesday tabings is finished and it's

so obvious on a visual level because those arenas look like I'm traumatized by what WCW

Nitro looked like the 1999 because they were so bright and they put the lights up to a very

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