AEW Rampage will continue to build strong content for AEW
By Amit Shukla
All Elite Wrestling changed the wrestling landscape since its formation on the 1st of January in 2019. WWE didn’t accept them as a threat to the extent that Hunter called it a pissant company during the Hall of Fame ceremony with Billy Gunn.
All Elite Wrestling kept winning hearts and moved from a pay-per-view-only company to a weekly programming enterprise on TNT Network. It looked like we may have seen the company’s first weekly show, AEW Dynamite, compete with WWE NXT, but things are not over yet.
With time came in AEW Elevation on Monday Nights, AEW Dark on Tuesday, Dynamite on Wednesday, and now the company announces a new show AEW Rampage which will start in August this year and move to TBS in 2022.
All Elite Wrestling’s President Tony Khan spoke with PWInsider and revealed how he plans to make live programming a thing again. The Arthur Ashe Stadium in NYC will serve as the space for the recording in case Rampage is not broadcasted live, and it will also serve as the pit stop before any AEW Pay Per View. Khan believes that taping the show after Dynamite will be a good idea. Unlike the previously followed plan taping Elevation before Dynamite creates a pool of content for the network and the fans. [Transcript: WrestlingInc]
Will it hinder the company country tour? Khan thinks otherwise and finds it as a way to boost the shows. It will also keep the fans involved with their product. AEW President considers this as an opportunity and states, ‘The go-home will be live for All Out at the Sears Center, and also we’ll be live for the go-home in St. Louis, and it’ll be great.’
With a new player in the business and its constant rise, WWE needs to think out of the box to compete with the challenges and keep the fans and superstars happy to create a win-win situation for themselves, or we would see a hit in WWE ratings.