November is one of the busiest months of the year for wrestling fans. We had Crown Jewel last weekend, AEW Full Gear is next weekend and Survivor Series is the following week. That made this the sole week without a PPV on the schedule this month.

Both WWE and AEW decided to book some title matches to keep things interesting, but Rampage was almost entirely focused on titles throughout the show anyway.

SmackDown opened with The New Day challenging The Usos for the Undisputed Tag Team Championships in yet another great match from these two teams.

Both shows also featured tournament matches. WWE held some quarterfinal bouts in the SmackDown World Cup tourney, and AEW held their own quarterfinals for the ongoing World Championship Eliminator Tournament.

Shotzi won a future opportunity at the SmackDown women's title, and Orange Cassidy put the All-Atlantic Championship on the line against Lee Johnson.

Let's look at some of the standout moments from Friday's block of pro wrestling.

The Usos and New Day Have the Best Long-Term Feud in WWE

The New Day and The Usos battled in the opening bout of this week's SmackDown, but there was more than just the Undisputed Tag Team Championships on the line. This fight was also about a WWE record.

The New Day held the record for the longest tag title reign at 483 days, but with The Usos picking up the win to retain their belts, they are guaranteed to pass them by Monday's Raw, when they will clock in at 484 days as the champs.

For the past several years, these two teams have been the backbone of the tag team division in WWE. Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have 11 reigns as a team, and The Usos have eight to their name.

Several of those reigns began with one of these duos beating the other, and even though we have seen some version of this match multiple times over the years, they always manage to get the crowd invested.

Their story has been one of the best long-terms feuds in WWE history; they have never had a bad match and keep finding ways to make us interested in seeing them fight again.

Before Monday's Raw, this just seemed like another in a long list of encounters between the two teams, but the promos they delivered to hype the match gave us one of the best segments of the week. When these two teams go into the WWE Hall of Fame, they should be in the same class so they can share the spotlight one more time.

Tournaments Will Only Matter If WWE Is Consistent with Them

The SmackDown World Cup began this week with Santos Escobar vs. Shinsuke Nakamura and Jinder Mahal vs. Braun Strowman. This might seem like a random tournament to some, but it's actually the second time WWE has done this.

Back in 2018, WWE held another World Cup tournament to coincide with the FIFA World Cup, which only happens once every four years, making it the start of a new tradition in WWE.

WWE will do random tournaments sometimes, but it should consider holding certain tourneys at regular intervals to make them feel more prestigious.

The King of the Ring was once something a WWE Superstar coveted almost as much as a championship belt, but with WWE only using the tournament seven times in the past 20 years, it hasn't felt like a big achievement in a long time.

The last time the tournament was held in back-to-back years was 2001 and 2002, which means it has been two decades since this was an annual tradition. A whole new generation of fans has been born and become adults in that time.

If WWE wants tournaments like the World Cup and KOTR to mean anything, we need to start seeing some consistency. The winners need to get a big push following the tournament to capitalize on the momentum they have built, and WWE needs to tout these accomplishments as something to be desired. An IC title shot as a reward is great, but it might not be enough.

If New Japan Pro-Wrestling can make a tournament like the G1 feel special almost every time, WWE can do the same.

Shotzi Won't Beat Ronda Rousey, but She Should

Shotzi defeated Lacey Evans, Xia Li, Sonya Deville, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez in a six-pack challenge to earn a shot at Ronda Rousey and the SmackDown Women's Championship.

Considering WWE has not been pushing the green-haired grappler too hard in recent months, this win might feel like it was designed to give Rousey and easy win before she establishes her next rivalry, but that is not how it should go down.

Shotzi is not only a unique talent in a lot of ways, but she has proved herself to be a reliable performer on many occasions and a popular babyface when allowed to shine.

If WWE really wants to build a new star, having Shotzi upset Rousey to win the SmackDown title would be a great first step. The only potential issue is that it's basically what WWE just did with Liv Morgan, but that is beside the point.

The tank-driving risk-taker is as good a choice as anyone to push as a top star heading into 2023. She would freshen up the main event scene and deliver some memorable moments along the way.

AEW Relies Too Much on Outside Interference

Pro wrestling is often filled with moments of absolute mayhem, but we expect the majority of the action to take place between the ropes. In AEW, it often does not go down that way.

Rampage featured four matches on Friday, and two of those bouts heavily featured other people getting involved in the action who were not competing in the ring.

While WWE has the same issues some weeks, it feels like AEW has fallen into a pattern of using interference to add heat to a match, and it's starting to feel repetitive.

Cassidy looked good by beating the odds to pick up a win, but he would have looked just as good if he had won clean without any of the shenanigans that took place at ringside. Even if AEW is building to a Best Friends vs. The Factory match, this felt unnecessary.

We also saw Jose attempt to steal Bandido's mask during his match with Rush earlier in the evening.

Having attacks happen backstage or after a match is one thing, but when too many bouts have people messing things up for the competitors, it begins to wear thin.