AEW Rampage has held up as well as it could in recent weeks with its television ratings, despite being moved around to different time slots and different nights due to TNT’s coverage of the NBA and NHL playoffs.
The show will be undergoing changes in the next month as AEW plans to launch a second weekly two-hour television show on Saturday night titled AEW Collision. The new weekly show is slated to air on TNT starting June 17th, 2023, and will be built around the returning CM Punk.
As previously reported, Rampage is expected to showcase more young talent like Dark and Dark Elevation had been doing before AEW ended the programs. The plan is for AEW to air Dynamite live on Wednesday nights before taping Rampage and then to air Collision before taping ROH TV on Saturday nights.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select reported that “AEW Rampage, we’re told, will become more resembling what WWF Heat once was.”
The report added that many talent from the independent scene would likely get more opportunities on ROH programming.
Heat aired from 1998 through 2008, where it was a one-hour program that, while at first featuring top talent, usually relied on upper to mid-card talent beating lower-tier talent. They would also have pre-shows for pay-per-view events.
The content that will be exclusively hosted on Warner Bros. Discovery’s platforms will be AEW, “with ROH seemingly not being a part of that.” So for now, ROH’s weekly TV show will remain on HonorClub.
WBD is expected to announce a new television deal with AEW next week at the UpFronts and confirm Collision, for which AEW has major plans for including a marquee match.
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