On Friday, AEW announced the Rampage version that Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho will face Fitter Festival Night 2 on July 20 in a barbed wire death match with the Jericho Appreciation Society hanging over the ring in a shark cage. But why is AEW releasing this new condition? According to Dave Meltzer Wrestling Radio Observer, thanks to a request from Warner Bros. Discovery for this year’s Shark Week tie on Discovery Channel. This year’s Shark Week runs from July 24 to July 30.
“So we’re going to have a bloodbath on TV, well, they did. The thing I think is the shark is the gimmick that has to do with shark week. The discovery asked them to do a tie, and so they came up with a match to do a tie. That’s a week from Wednesday,” Meltzer explained. .
It was confirmed Monday that this year’s Shark Week will see another professional wrestling match where Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be the master of festivities on this year’s programming block. He wrote on Instagram, “I am honored to be the first Celebration Director of Shark Week. Seven Bucks Productions has partnered with Discovery to bring you a very special (and badass) Shark Week. I filmed exclusively in my home state of Hawaii, these beautiful predators, the omakoa (gods). ), are deeply respected and appreciated in our Polynesian culture.”
There has been a lot of speculation about AEW’s future on TNT and TBS following the Warner Bros. merger. Discovery. However, AEW President Tony Khan has remained optimistic about the future of his promotion on television
“I’m incredibly grateful every day that AEW has such a wonderful relationship with Warner Bros. Discovery and we’ve done so well for TBS and TNT with ‘Dynamite’ and ‘Rampage’ where we give a solid performance to Warner Bros. Discovery on a weekly basis. I think There is still plenty of time left for the next rights deal, but we have something great going on right now and I think our future media rights will be important and frankly a very big source of income for AEW going forward, and I think that’s because of the great support we’ve received from the fans and the hard work of everyone behind the scenes. and wrestlers every Wednesday and Friday, putting them together and putting on great performances,” Khan said in a recent interview with New York Post.
“Whenever we agree on our next media agreement, the next deal will become historic,” he added. “It will go down in history because everything in wrestling is recorded in history to posterity. He will make history no matter what. Right now, everyone is expecting very well. We expect things to go well for us based on how strong we have been.” .
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