10 Things You Didn't Know About AEW Double Or Nothing
5. A Most Lengthy Run Time
Your taste for AEW's diversified bag of pro wrestling will heavily favour your judgement of the 2022 Double or Nothing.
Clocking in shy of five hours (add one hour if you viewed the Buy-In), the card was AEW's longest and boldest yet. With twelve matches on the main card, only 65.7% of the bloated show contained pro wrestling (per Cageside Seats), totalling 4 hours, 38 minutes, and 58 seconds, sans Hookhausen vs. Tony Nese and Mark Sterling. The other 34.3% contained entrances, interviews, pieces-to-camera, VTs, et al, as well as one particularly poignant speech from Martha Hart.
Martha remembered her late husband - the great Owen Hart - in a warm, earnest speech upon presenting the inaugural Owen Hart Foundation Tournament winners, Adam Cole and Britt Baker, with their respective black and pink championships. Tony Khan, realising the magnitude of the moment, purchased an extra hour of pay-per-view time to accommodate Martha's entirely unscripted speech, allowing her to speak for as long as she needed and ultimately presenting Double or Nothing with a real tearjerker of a speech that only the stonehearted wouldn't have been touched by.