10 Things We Learned From Attending AEW: Double Or Nothing

10. The Step Up From All-In Is Already Huge

A small one this but the gulf in class between AEW’s first show and the event that effectively spawned it was staggering. Production, organisation, logistics, scale, everything felt like it had come on leaps in bounds in just a few short months.

Now, yes, getting into bed with legitimate billionaire Tony Khan does afford you the luxury of such extravagances, but as anyone will tell you money guarantees nothing in this business. It’s clear that they’ve gone and put the right people in the right places backstage, and accepted that a lot of things are better handled by other people.

If nothing else, this bodes really, really well for their upcoming TV product. A lot of the roster have never worked a weekly TV show before, and the nuances of that compared to a string of indie dates are numerous and critical. Time will tell if Dynamite lives up to Double or Nothing, but they’re on the right track.