Tony Khan Explains Why He Didn’t Put AEW World Title Match Last At AEW Double Or Nothing

The AEW Double or Nothing pay-per-view was held at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was truly a night full of memorable matches and solid moments. That said, the main event was the Anarchy In The Arena match instead of the AEW World Title match, which many found odd. Now it appears that Tony Khan explained the reason for his decision.

As previously reported, MJF made it clear that he was very much okay with the AEW World Title match not being on last at Double Or Nothing. That said, fans still wanted to know why Tony Khan made the decision.

While speaking during the post-AEW Double or Nothing media scrum, AEW President Tony Khan was asked about the reasoning behind his decision to have the Anarchy In The Arena match to end the show.

Tony Khan explained that he always puts a lot of thought into the match order for AEW’s Double Or Nothing events. Reflecting on the past shows held in Jacksonville, he believed that the main event should go on last, similar to the original Stadium Stampede match.

When discussing this with Moxley and Brodie, they agreed that a double main event would be exciting. The first-ever Stadium Stampede match was a success, with Moxley and Brodie delivering a great main event, followed by the thrilling double main event.

The following year’s Double Or Nothing featured a three-way match for the World Title between Kenny Omega, PAC, and Orange Cassidy. Khan noted that three out of the five shows have featured a double main event, starting with the one-on-one World Title matches involving Moxley and Brodie, and then the three-way match in the subsequent year.

Well, I always put a lot of thought to it, I’ll go back to the first Double Or Nothing we did in Jacksonville, really both the Double Or Nothings we did in Jacksonville and it was a very similar thought process. You know, the weekend at the show, looking at everything we built – it felt like I’ll go back to the original Stadium STampede, it felt like the match should go on last. I remember talking to Moxley and Brodie and they had no issue with that, they thought doing a double main event would be great and it was. You know, Moxley and Brodie had a great main event and we went out and had a great double main event with the first-ever Stadium Stampede.

Then at the next year’s Double Or Nothing, we had a three-way match with Kenny Omega, PAC and Orange Cassidy. It was a great, classic World Title match and then we followed it up with the second Stampede match. So we had this wild, crazy multi-man matches and actually, when you look at Double Or Nothing historically, this has almost become the norm because three of the five shows, you’ve had with a double main event where you had the world title match and it was first two wrestlers one on one, with Jon Moxley and Brodie Lee and then you had the three-way match next year, which was the first part of the double main event.

This year the great four-way match with MJF, Jungle Boy, Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara and in each case, you end it with an amazing multi-person brawl, the Stadium Stampede we did at Jacksonville, really different from what we did with Anarchy in Arena. But it felt like going back to that might be the right way to go and I think it worked really well and just like those Double Or Nothing shows ended hot with back-to-back great matches, I thought we did it again tonight as we ended it with hot back to back matches that’s become kind of a theme with Double Or Nothing.

The show also concluded with The Elite losing to The Blackpool Combat Club in the Anarchy In The Arena match after Konosuke Takeshita betrayed The Elite. Now it remains to be seen what AEW has planned for The Elite’s storyline.

What’s your view on what Tony Khan said? Did you enjoy AEW Double Or Nothing? Let us know in the comments!

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