This past Friday produced a unique situation for the world of pro wrestling. With Friday Night SmackDown shunted to FS1 for the night, WWE opted to add on an extra 30 minutes of commercial-free action that wound up running head-to-head with AEW Rampage on TNT. This led to an immediate response from AEW president Tony Khan, who claimed he looked forward to finally beating WWE’s flagship program. He then spent the following week giving a boatload of interviews hyping up the show and even produced a one-hour Buy-In that ran against SmackDown’s second hour and featured an instant classic between Bryan Danielson and New Japan’s Minoru Suzuki.
P18-49Rampage: 313,000Smackdown: 314,000Each demo and margin is below.Quarter-hours coming soon.Updated report here: https://t.co/EWZNV3BUfs pic.twitter.com/IGfdUctObY
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