5 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Double Or Nothing 2023
1. "AEW Is Changing"
Tony Khan used this line to describe the June the company is set to have with the arrival of Collision, the release of Fight Forever, and the Forbidden Door pay-per-view alongside all other events taking place in Canada and beyond.
Was he trying to highlight a quiet philosophical overhaul too?
Not for the first time in 2023, one of AEW core tenets fell at Double Or Nothing 2023. The company had never outright said there'd not be impromptu matches and the like, but they didn't need to and they never booked them. That was how faith in processes was restored, that was how talent got over in more meaningful ways, and that was one of the many ways the group distinguished itself from WWE.
When Kris Statlander unseated Jade Cargill to a monster, monster pop in one of the feel good moments of the year - and more on that later - that's what happened. It can be both happy and sad faces in the theatrical iconography, and that's exactly what it was here.
AEW is changing, but it when it does stuff the same as it always did...