AEW held its fourth annual Double or Nothing event on Sunday and for the first time in the history of the event, there was no casino-themed match.
The Casino Battle Royale took place in 2019 and 2021 while the Casino Ladder Match took place in 2020.
Speaking during the Double or Nothing post-show scrum, Tony Khan explained why there was no Casino Battle Royale this year.
"It would arguably get more wrestlers on, but I don't think it would spotlight people as much and it's a longer match. Historically, a lot of entrances and you talk about a match that could burn the crowd out on a night where we're trying to do that. Doing 21 entrances isn't necessarily the way to go. Also, I didn't want to have somebody come out, the winner of the match could tip what was going to happen in the main event. It could have been somebody that was a good matchup for either person. I also thought it was probably better to have Darby and Kyle do a great match at the length they did, which was a kick ass and hot match versus sticking them in with 19 other people where, anybody else, a mixed trios would have made sense there, the other matches on the card were all in good spots. Death Triangle and House of Black, with Fenix coming back, they deserved a good trios match. They kicked ass versus jamming the six of them in there with Darby, Kyle, and a bunch of people," he said.
AEW Double or Nothing featured 13 matches with Daby Allin vs. Kyle O'Reilly and Sammy Guevara, Tay Conti, & Frankie Kazarian vs. Ethan Page, Scorpio Sky, & Paige VanZant being added during the final week.
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