7 Last-Minute AEW: Double Or Nothing 2020 Rumours
Last year's Jon Moxley debut has a lot to live up to...
It's crazy what difference a year (and the global spread of an infectious disease!!) can make. Double of Nothing 2019 felt like a landmark moment in pro-wrestling, as the first company to make a serious attempt at competing with WWE in a generation took over the city of Las Vegas for the biggest show in its short life.
Tens of thousands of fans, and about as many wrestlers, made an entire weekend of it with a giant convention, a number of now-legendary parties, and a critically-lauded PPV to top it all off. In short, it was incredible.
Fast forward to 2020 though and its follow-up sees the capacity crowd of the MGM reduced to a big fat zero, with both the build and the anticipation about as tempered as it's possible to be. Some fans aren't expecting too much, others don't think it should be going ahead at all, but nonetheless AEW has put the work in on TV to try and deliver something they can be really proud of.
The AEW Championship is on the line, the first-ever TNT Champion will be crowned and, best of all (for people who write articles about surrounding rumours, anyway) there's even going to be a mystery entrant for it's most anticipated match. The internet, as it tends to do, if rife with speculation over how all of this could go down so, let's have a big old look at what the chatter is.
7. Sting Arrives In AEW
Nobody on earth knows how to feel about this one.
On the surface, there are a million reasons to be sniffy about the idea of a 61year old man emerging from relative obscurity to get a spotlight and a platform in a promotion that's absolutely adamant it's giving both of those to its own stars. Another big name who made his name, big, in the promotions of yesteryear rolling into Tony Khan's big-top parade for a delicious slice of that nostalgia dollar.
The counter-argument to all of this is, of course "shut up you nerd, Sting in AEW would be cool", and it's impossible to say which stance is right.
However the Legends deal that WWE had put him on to a) enter the Hall of Fame b) have both his facepaint and his legacy rubbed off by Triple H and, finally c) let Seth Rollins put his back out has, recently, expired. For reasons known only to them, WWE haven't picked it back up and Big Banter Uncle Dace (you've missed this column, I can tell) has confirmed that there's something in the reports linking him with AEW.
Double or Nothing might come too soon for all that, but don't count it out.