Title Match At AEW All In Had Time Cut
One of the championship matches at AEW All In was cut short.
The 2024 edition of AEW All In London was a 12-match show. There were matches on the Zero Hour Pre-Show while nine matches took place on the main Pay-Per-View broadcast.
All nine of the matches on the pay-per-view were All Elite Wrestling championship matches although one of them was an FTW Championship match, which technically isn’t an official AEW title even though it’s regularly on television. Tony Khan, the owner of All Elite Wrestling, even went out of his way to claim that the FTW Title was serious and not a joke.
Jack Perry defended the TNT Championship match against Darby Allin in the second-last match of the show. It was a Coffin Match that saw Perry dominate most of it as he tied up Allin’s hands and feet while also shoving Perry off the ramp through a table. Perry put Allin into a body bag and put Perry into the coffin to easily win the match.
After the match, The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) joined Perry to try to light the coffin on fire with Allin in it, but Allin’s former tag team partner Sting made the save, and that led to Perry and the Bucks retreating.
That match between Perry & Allin, despite being a grudge match for a title, ended up as the second shortest match of the show with a 10:40 runtime.
Why Did AEW Cut The Time Of TNT Title Match?
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez reported that AEW cut the match because the show was running long.
“Part of the problem with that match is they got several minutes cut off the match because, you know, as noted, the show had to be over by 10 [PM]. And so they went out there, and I’m actually flabbergasted it went 10 minutes because it felt like five. They came out, and they were doing glass spots immediately.”
As noted by Alvarez, AEW had a hard cut off time of 10 p.m. locally in England, which is 5 p.m. ET. The show had a runtime of exactly four hours for the main pay-per-view broadcast.