For the fourth straight year, AEW held Anarchy in the Arena at AEW Double or Nothing.
Over the years, the match has been accompanied by a musical track that plays while the action spills across the arena. Along with a backing track, which is eventually cut off, the match has featured fire, explosions, staplers, blood, tumbtacks, and much more.
Scott D'Amore believes it belongs in the upper echelon of gimmick matches.
"AEW’s Anarchy in the Arena match — with the nonstop chaos and rock music playing on a loop — has joined Hell in a Cell, War Games, the Royal Rumble and, I would humbly suggest, Ultimate X as one of the industry's top-tier gimmick matches.
"Anarchy has done for falls-count-anywhere brawls what War Games and Hell in a Cell did for cage matches — and what the Royal Rumble did for battle royals. It took a staple gimmick and elevated it to something unique and truly spectacular," wrote D'Amore in his D'Amore Drop column on Yahoo.
2025 marked the first year women have competed in Anarchy in the Arena.
Kenny Omega, Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale and The Opps (Samoa Joe, Katsuyori Shibata and Powerhouse Hobbs) defeated Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnioli, Marina Shafir and Wheeler Yuta) and The Young Bucks (Matthew and Nicholas Jackson) in this year's bout.
