Feeling Within AEW Is PPVs Are Too Long

The feeling within All Elite Wrestling is that the promotion's pay-per-views are too long and should be ending before 12 am ET/5 am GMT/BST.

AEW pay-per-views have traditionally had a runtime of 4 hours, but all three of the company's major shows in 2025 have ran longer. March's Revolution was 4 hours 5 minutes, April's Dynasty was 4 hours 23 minutes, and May's Double or Nothing was 4 hours 30 minutes.

Bryan Alvarez has reported on Wrestling Observer Live that the overwhelming belief within All Elite Wrestling is pay-per-views are too long.

"Yesterday, I spent the whole day talking to all sorts of people in AEW and - I will say with one exception because if I say everybody then like, you know, but it was actually everybody. Every single person was like, 'These shows are too long. We all know it. They should end before midnight on the East Coast,'" Alvarez said.

"Like every single person in that company that I talked to, except Tony because I didn't talk to him because of course he doesn't think they're too long, every single person there is like, 'They’re too long. He just does it. We can't stop it. There's nothing that can be done.' I hear from fans, 'Yeah, we had to leave the show early, we've got kids.' The shows are too long. Everybody knows it except Tony and his small handful of the sickos that would watch the shows if they were nine hours long."

Despite the long running time, All Elite Wrestling's pay-per-views in 2025 have largely been praised with the exception of a few matches. Double or Nothing was widely praised, with the belief being it was one of the promotion's best pay-per-views yet.

One AEW talent who doesn't believe the pay-per-views are too long is Ricochet, as he tweeted: "Honestly, even if we changed something, it would just be something else that people would complain about."

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