Tonight is the last Friday without an episode of AEW Rampage but AEW has announced a special episode of Friday Night Dark will take place tonight on YouTube. The show will air in the same timeslot that AEW Rampage will be in starting next week. No matches have been confirmed for tonight’s show.
AEW announced the news Twitter:
The first-ever edition of AEW Rampage will take place next Friday, August 13th, 2021. The event will take place in the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Just one match has been confirmed for the show thus far. Pittsburgh’s own Dr. Britt Baker DMD will defend her AEW Women’s World Championship against Red Velvet.
AEW’s second episode of Rampage will air from Chicago’s United Center. Over 13,000 tickets have been sold to the event. While no matches have been confirmed for “The First Dance” event, it has been widely speculated that CM Punk could debut in the promotion then.
Tony Khan spoke to PW Insider about the different taping schedules that will occur for Rampage and Dynamite.
“With Rampage, there’s going to be some weeks Rampage will be live and there’ll be weeks where we plan to tape Rampage after Dynamite, including here at Arthur Ashe Stadium [in NYC], where we will be filming also after. We’ll do Dynamite live and we’ll also film Rampage. And in some of the markets where we have these amazing crowds, I think it’s okay.”