AEW to decide two top World title contenders at Double or Nothing

[cero2k]

Source: f4wonline.com

The two top contenders to the AEW World Championship will be determined on Saturday.

On the finale of AEW's Road to Double or Nothing video series, it was announced that the top contenders for the title will be established at Double or Nothing this Saturday. The winner of the Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho main event from Double or Nothing will face the winner of the Casino Battle Royale at a later date to decide the first AEW World Champion.

AEW hasn't announced when the World title match will be taking place.

It was previously noted that the Casino Battle Royale winner would get the first shot at the AEW World Champion.

The Casino Battle Royale will be part of the hour-long pre-show for Double or Nothing, which begins at 7 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday. There will be 21 entrants in the match, with it starting with five wrestlers in the ring. Five more will enter every three minutes after that, then the 21st participant will enter on their own.

Shawn Spears (formerly Tye Dillinger in WWE), Jimmy Havoc, Billy Gunn, MJF, Michael Nakazawa, Jungle Boy, Glacier, Sonny Kiss, Joey Janela, Brandon Cutler, Ace Romero, Brian Pillman Jr., Sunny Daze, Dustin Thomas, Marq Quen, Isaiah Kassidy, and Luchasaurus have been confirmed as entrants for the battle royal.

The Road to Double or Nothing finale is available to watch below:

[cero2k]

On the finale of AEW's Road to Double or Nothing video series, it was announced that the top contenders for the title will be established at Double or Nothing this Saturday. The winner of the Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho main event from Double or Nothing will face the winner of the Casino Battle Royale at a later date to decide the first AEW World Champion.

not a fan of this. tournaments are overplayed right now, but choosing between two match is way to 'handpicked' in my opinion

[NWK2000]

On the finale of AEW's Road to Double or Nothing video series, it was announced that the top contenders for the title will be established at Double or Nothing this Saturday. The winner of the Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho main event from Double or Nothing will face the winner of the Casino Battle Royale at a later date to decide the first AEW World Champion.

not a fan of this. tournaments are overplayed right now, but choosing between two match is way to 'handpicked' in my opinion

I'd much rather have the tournament because, while rather overplayed, usually you get clean finishes in tourneys, whereas with two matches you have the possibility of a dirty finish. BUT of the two choices, the two match system is the best thing to do on your first show, because you have two established names, and a wild card.

[Big Red Machine]

On the finale of AEW's Road to Double or Nothing video series, it was announced that the top contenders for the title will be established at Double or Nothing this Saturday. The winner of the Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho main event from Double or Nothing will face the winner of the Casino Battle Royale at a later date to decide the first AEW World Champion.

not a fan of this. tournaments are overplayed right now, but choosing between two match is way to 'handpicked' in my opinion

I agree, but I think a tournament wouldn't feel overplayed if they did a straight-bracket, eight-man single-elimination tournament, and either spread it out over a long period of time (like, start it now and end it in September) or if they did it in the early fall. It's far away from 16 Carat Gold and Super Strong-Style 16, relatively well-timed between NJPW tournaments, will feel different from NJPW tournaments by not being round-robin, different from King of Trios by not being a trios tournament, different from BOLA by not switching from singles matches to three-ways, and different from SOTF by being a tournament with real brackets rather than a bunch of qualifiers for a large final match.


Part of me really doesn't like one of the spots going to the battle royale winner, but on the other hand, that's the only way to do it without it really just being a four-person tournament, and it does let them give the win to a surprise entrant (i.e. Moxley) or create a situation where it's easy to set up some big monster heel).

[Bob-O]

I think this would be OK any other time, but I feel like the only RIGHT way to crown an inaugural champion is through a tournament. Played out or not, it's just how it should be done, imo.

Here we're getting somebody that beat Chris Jericho or Kenny Omega (fair enough), and somebody that managed to not get thrown out of the ring... I mean, I like that some weight is put on the battle royal, but it just doesn't feel right. I mean, in a sense, all you have to be is fat to have a shot at being the company's first champion... I don't like it.

[Big Red Machine]

I think this would be OK any other time, but I feel like the only RIGHT way to crown an inaugural champion is through a tournament. Played out or not, it's just how it should be done, imo.

Here we're getting somebody that beat Chris Jericho or Kenny Omega (fair enough), and somebody that managed to not get thrown out of the ring... I mean, I like that some weight is put on the battle royal, but it just doesn't feel right. I mean, in a sense, all you have to be is fat to have a shot at being the company's first champion... I don't like it.

My understanding is that the logic of the battle royale thing is that while a battle royale requires you to do something less impressive to (throw people out of a ring without getting thrown out yourself), the trade-off is that it's a match with a lot more people in it than you'd have in a regular match. Even with a six-way, which is the highest-nuimbered multi-wrestler match we commonly see, this match has three and a half times more wrestlers.

[Bob-O]

My understanding is that the logic of the battle royale thing is that while a battle royale requires you to do something less impressive to (throw people out of a ring without getting thrown out yourself), the trade-off is that it's a match with a lot more people in it than you'd have in a regular match. Even with a six-way, which is the highest-nuimbered multi-wrestler match we commonly see, this match has three and a half times more wrestlers.

I'm on the internet, which means I'm never going to be happy. I appreciate the fact that they're doing ~something~ to build to a match to crown their first champion... but I'd feel better about it if they just crowned the winner of the battle royal and the winner of Omega/Jericho was to be #1 Contender... or vice verse...

There's just such a difference in how each guy gets into the title match, it isn't fair. The winner of Omega/Jericho will have fought a war for the opportunity, the winner of the battle royal gets there by luck. From a smark perspective, yes, you have the highest-numbered mulit-wrestler match, but it's pretty obvious that none of the announced entrants will be winning, so what's it matter?

The planned "winner" is obviously not being announced because I'm sure this individual's name would stick out of this pack like a sore thumb... forget spoiling the "surprise", they'd be spoiling the winner!

That's why I like a good tournament for this sort of thing. Just a good 4 bracket night at the matches with a huge prize on the line. That'll never get played out.

[Big Red Machine]

My understanding is that the logic of the battle royale thing is that while a battle royale requires you to do something less impressive to (throw people out of a ring without getting thrown out yourself), the trade-off is that it's a match with a lot more people in it than you'd have in a regular match. Even with a six-way, which is the highest-nuimbered multi-wrestler match we commonly see, this match has three and a half times more wrestlers.

I'm on the internet, which means I'm never going to be happy. I appreciate the fact that they're doing ~something~ to build to a match to crown their first champion... but I'd feel better about it if they just crowned the winner of the battle royal and the winner of Omega/Jericho was to be #1 Contender... or vice verse...

There's just such a difference in how each guy gets into the title match, it isn't fair. The winner of Omega/Jericho will have fought a war for the opportunity, the winner of the battle royal gets there by luck. From a smark perspective, yes, you have the highest-numbered mulit-wrestler match, but it's pretty obvious that none of the announced entrants will be winning, so what's it matter?

The planned "winner" is obviously not being announced because I'm sure this individual's name would stick out of this pack like a sore thumb... forget spoiling the "surprise", they'd be spoiling the winner!

That's why I like a good tournament for this sort of thing. Just a good 4 bracket night at the matches with a huge prize on the line. That'll never get played out.

I think MJF and Joey Janela could easily win the battle royale, as getting those two in the title match against Omega would be a great way to establish one of them (I woudln't even object to putting the belt on MJF).


I agree that a tournament would have been better, though.

[cero2k]

I think MJF and Joey Janela could easily win the battle royale, as getting those two in the title match against Omega would be a great way to establish one of them (I woudln't even object to putting the belt on MJF).


I agree that a tournament would have been better, though.

there's still open spots and for all we know, Moxley could come in, and now Hangman Page is suddenly out of a match too.

[Big Red Machine]

I think MJF and Joey Janela could easily win the battle royale, as getting those two in the title match against Omega would be a great way to establish one of them (I woudln't even object to putting the belt on MJF).


I agree that a tournament would have been better, though.

there's still open spots and for all we know, Moxley could come in, and now Hangman Page is suddenly out of a match too.

I think everyone is expecting it to be Moxley, but Bob-O said that none of the announced names were exciting him, and I thought there was a good argument that they could use this to elevate MJF.