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AEW News: Two Changes To Double or Nothing PPV Tonight, Stadium Stampede Match Note

By John Canton • Published 23rd May 2020
TJR Wrestling

There are changes to the AEW Double or Nothing event that takes place tonight from Jacksonville, Florida. For information on how to order the show on pay-per-view, visit AEWrestling.com for info right here.

Rey Fenix is out of the Casino Ladder Match due to a rough landing on a dive out to the floor on Dynamite on Wednesday. Basically, the wrestlers didn’t catch Fenix and he took a huge bump on the floor. The AEW twitter account noted that Fenix isn’t expected to miss a lot of time, but they probably want to be cautious and that’s why he’s not wrestling tonight. Joey Janela will be in the match in Fenix’s place.

Also, Britt Baker is out of her match against Kris Statlander due to a knee injury. During her tag team match on Dynamite, Statlander and tag team partner Hikaru Shida gave Nyla Rose a body slam that sent Rose’s full body weight crashing on Baker’s knee. It was a very sloppy spot that shouldn’t have happened. Baker might have a torn ACL that could see her miss 7-9 months, but that hasn’t been announced yet. Anyway, AEW announced that Statlander will now face Penelope Ford at Double or Nothing tonight.

Regarding the Stadium Stampede 10-man tag team match that’s taking place at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, it was apparently taped last night according to Wrestling Observer Live’s Bryan Alvarez. The rest of Double or Nothing is expected to take place live tonight. It was noted by Bryan that they taped the Stadium Stampede match in order to edit some things into the match. For example, Matt Hardy changed his gear multiple times in a tag team match on Dynamite, so they might do some things like that and perhaps other “Broken” Matt elements into the mat.

Chris Jericho was likely very pleased with how the match went and tweeted about it early this morning.

That means the full lineup for AEW Dynamite tonight looks like this.

AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Brodie Lee

Stadium Stampede Match: The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Santana, Ortiz and Sammy Guevara) vs. The Elite (Kenny Omega, “Hangman” Adam Page, Nick Jackson, Matt Jackson and Matt Hardy)

(They will have a match in the empty TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville.)

TNT Championship Tournament Finals: Cody vs. Lance Archer – Mike Tyson will present the championship to the winner.

AEW Women’s Championship in a No Disqualification, No Countout Match: Nyla Rose (c) vs. Hikaru Shida

Casino Ladder Match (Winner Earns Future AEW World Championship Match) – Darby Allin vs. Colt Cabana vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Joey Janela vs. Scorpio Sky vs. Kip Sabian vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Luchasaurus vs. TBD (TBD means To Be Determined. No name announced yet.)

Maxwell Jacob Friedman vs. Jungle Boy

Shawn Spears vs. Dustin Rhodes

Penelope Ford vs. Kris Statlander

Number One Contender’s Match: Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) vs. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent) (PPV Pre-Show Buy In Match)

Here’s our AEW Double or Nothing 2020 Review on TJRWrestling in case you haven’t seen it yet.

I’ll be back with a live review of AEW Double or Nothing 2020 later tonight.