If you’re like Tony Khan, you’d never complain about getting any amount of great in-ring wrestling for your PPV buck. You’ll also always find time to watch more wrestling.
This is a drum we’ve beaten in the past. And presumably wrestling bloggers and our ilk aren’t the only ones who don’t love TK’s “more wrestling is always better” approach to booking AEW pay-per-view events, or he wouldn’t have been asked about it a post-PPV presser a few months back.
AEW’s president and head of creative didn’t say
he was going to book shorter shows after Full Gear, though. He just said he probably wouldn’t do them on Sunday nights on the East Coast. The next PPV on the AEW calendar is Revolution, March 15 in Los Angeles. That’s a Sunday, but it’s definitely not in the Eastern Time Zone. The listed local start time for the show in Crypto.com Arena is 4 p.m., so the main card will start at 5 p.m. — or almost no risk of sending the ticket-buying sickos home after midnight.
Which isn’t the only reason TK added two more matches to next weekend’s PPV card hours after they were set-up on Dynamite. This Thekla/Kris Statlander two-out-of-three-falls AEW Women’s World title bout isn’t just a rematch. It’s the follow-up to a Strap Match, in a feud that’s already wound through a Blood & Guts match…
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And putting Mistico with JetSpeed for a Trios title shot against new champs The Don Callis Family (specifically, ProtOkada! and Mark Davis) isn’t just a five-star rating waiting to happen. It’s a logical follow-up to the end of this week’s Dynamite, you had to get Page away from needing to team with Speedball Mike Bailey & Kevin Knight regularly, and this rematch-of-sorts gets several big names on the card.
And look, to not book Mistico — who headlined regularly as CMLL drew one million fans to Arena Mexico last year — in Southern California when you have a chance to book Mistico in Southern California is promotional malfeasance.
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Those will probably get an hour between them, and we still only have seven matches set for Revolution. That means we’re probably getting four or five more, not counting the pre-show…
- AEW Men’s World championship: MJF (c) vs. Hangman Page in a Texas Death Match; if Page loses, he can never challenge for the World title again
- AEW Women’s World championship: Thekla (c) vs. Kris Statlander in a two-out-of-three falls match
- AEW World Tag Team championship: FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson)
- AEW Continental championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita with no time limit
- AEW Trios championship: ProtOkada! (Kyle Fletcher & Kazuchika Okada) and Mark Davis (c) vs. Mistico and JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & Speedball Mike Bailey)
- Bandido vs. Andrade El Ídolo
- Brody King vs. Swerve Strickland
Excited for six hours of AEW action next weekend, or will you grumble about it a bit with us no matter how great the wrestling is?
