Tony Khan Addresses Criticism Of Only Booking One Women's Match At AEW All In

Despite an overall positive feeling surrounding AEW All In, a major criticism of the show throughout the build-up and aftermath has been the lack of women's wrestling on the card. All In saw just one women's match, a four-way bout for the AEW Women's World Championship between reigning champion Hikaru Shida, Dr. Britt Baker DMD, Toni Storm, and eventual winner Saraya. The days leading up to the event saw stars such as TBS Champion Kris Statlander and ROH Women's World Champion Athena reveal on social media that they would not be part of the show.

Tony Khan was asked about this in the post-show press conference, and answered:

"A lot of the card tonight was both featuring as many of the top stars in AEW as I could get, [but] a lot of the biggest stars in the company were not on this show. That’s why we have big matches like Miro versus Powerhouse Hobbs, and obviously, Ruby Soho versus Kris Statlander next week. I think the pacing of the show tonight was probably the best we’ve ever had. So to add more I think would have been challenging. But also, we have so many great stars across both the men’s and women’s division, great wrestlers.”

He also pointed to similarities between the card and that of the original All In, the 2018 show organised by the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes which acted as a precursor to AEW itself.

“A lot of the card was paying homage to the original All In. The four-way match, Dr. Britt Baker participated [in it] on the original All In. That was the key women’s match on the original show. Madison Rayne pointed that out in her commentary. She was also in that original four-way.”