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I honestly prefer the original Rampage method of swapping people between shows. You don’t reuse anyone in the same week, but you also don’t keep the same people on Rampage every week. So half the card each week gets moved around.

And you could potentially keep a few on certain shows, but it probably wouldn’t be necessary.

Punk will most likely be on the Saturday show, though, for the foreseeable future since WB wants him to be the anchor to ensure it gets viewers.

At first I imagine yeah, he actually did that for Rampage after his debut too, his first matches were on there I'm pretty sure
 

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so he's not "getting his own show" at all like some people made it sound like
It sounds like he’s speculating.

From everything we’ve seen the Saturday show is being optioned on the understanding Punk will be a large part of it. Whether or not he appears on Dynamite as well, would be Tony’s discretion.
 

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and the more comes out, the more "keeping ppl apart" sounds like some exagerations from the dirtsheets but I could be wrong lol
 

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and when he isn't , it'll be Omega / Danielson / Cole at the very least to maintain star power. this is a good thing to me which ever way you slice it

There will be a lot more pressure to maintain star power on this slot than Rampage's I imagine too. Saturday is still not a good one but it's better than late Friday night and two hours vs one hour as well
 
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It sounds like he’s speculating.

From everything we’ve seen the Saturday show is being optioned on the understanding Punk will be a large part of it. Whether or not he appears on Dynamite as well, would be Tony’s discretion.
Yeah I think it's more like, is Punk also coming back? yes? then cool a new show makes sense. if he wasnt, maybe it still happens, it may not.

I think he will still be on dynamite some weeks regardless, not only to switch it up, but also some weeks, competition will be stiff on saturdays so they will load up dynamite instead, and vice verse when playoffs happen on wends
 
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and the more comes out, the more "keeping ppl apart" sounds like some exagerations from the dirtsheets but I could be wrong lol

Maybe, Zarian did originally say he expected it to be a very "soft split" and like two days later he said he thinks he was wrong bc after he said it a lot of people basically said "harder split than you think" so it's pretty up in the air for me. I can't really draw any conclusions until I see a few weeks of booking.

So in the meantime I will laugh at people that have convinced themselves they know everything about the situation lol
 
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There will be a lot more pressure to maintain star power on this slot than Rampage's I imagine too. Saturday is still not a good one but it's better than late Friday night and two hours vs one hour as well
yup, and again, good! they did kind of drop the ball on rampage ( i love the show anyways but it is mostly inconsequential)
 

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There will be a lot more pressure to maintain star power on this slot than Rampage's I imagine too. Saturday is still not a good one but it's better than late Friday night and two hours vs one hour as well
It’s a two-hour prime time slot. They will not have the leeway Rampage has had for sure. He’ll need to establish this a second Dynamite level show immediately. A can’t miss show.
 

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Maybe, Zarian did originally say he expected it to be a very "soft split" and like two days later he said he thinks he was wrong bc after he said it a lot of people basically said "harder split than you think" so it's pretty up in the air for me. I can't really draw any conclusions until I see a few weeks of booking.

So in the meantime I will laugh at people that have convinced themselves they know everything about the situation lol
the main thing that gives me doubt is that no one has talked to the elite in ages becase...well they arent talking. so how would anyone know if they want to be on a separate show than punk. esp that we know they havent met in person at all yet
 
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and the more comes out, the more "keeping ppl apart" sounds like some exagerations from the dirtsheets but I could be wrong lol
I bet they don’t want to work a program, but they’re professionals and can co-exist in a locker room for sure.
 

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The worst thing would be if it's a TNT show tbh, they'd have so many more preemptions than TBS which I think might just have some baseball playoffs
 

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I bet they don’t want to work a program, but they’re professionals and can co-exist in a locker room for sure.
yeah I think for the most part, they are more concentrating on getting that bag right now, all 4 of them are in negotiations for extensions
 
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The worst thing would be if it's a TNT show tbh, they'd have so many more preemptions than TBS which I think might just have some baseball playoffs
Most likely would be because those two channels did this with WCW. They want equal programming.

But, yeah, the exemptions are a killer.

Would it get moved to Sundays?
 

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The worst thing would be if it's a TNT show tbh, they'd have so many more preemptions than TBS which I think might just have some baseball playoffs
i am almost certain I read TBS but mb i am wrong. agree tho, tnt sucks , its too full of live stuff. dynamite has been way better off on tbs imo, been prempted like once last year iirc thats it
 

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Most likely would be because those two channels did this with WCW. They want equal programming.

But, yeah, the exemptions are a killer.

Would it get moved to Sundays?
I actually think the opposite, i dont think warner or aew want it on tnt. they have hockey and all that crap on there