AEW President Tony Khan recently spoke about the company’s decision to move two of its cornerstone pay-per-view events, Double or Nothing and All Out, from their traditional host cities in 2025. For the first five years of the company’s history, Double or Nothing was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, while All Out was held in the Chicago, Illinois area. This year, however, Double or Nothing was held in Arizona, and the upcoming All Out pay-per-view is set to take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The move away from these traditional homes was a significant change, and Khan addressed the philosophy behind it during the pre-AEW All Out media call.
He explained that while the company remains loyal to its key markets, rotating the major events to new cities has been a positive and successful experiment.
“I think that, to be fair, it’s worked well, to try some different things, and still maintain our tradition of running great events in these same markets that have done very well, we’re very loyal to, key AEW city, that it performs very well. But, we have routed things differently than ever before and are trying some different venues and have built some — I hope — some new traditions that will go very well. I think it’ll be really, really cool to end the year and have a different holiday show in Chicago with AEW Worlds End for example… I think it’s gonna be really, really cool to have the same great cities that we are very loyal to, to keep going to the same cities with major events. But also rotating things a bit and trying some different things that are all working very well; that it seems to be doing very well.”
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