Daddy Magic reveals when Tony Khan came up with Anarchy in the Arena name
Anarchy in the Arena has become somewhat of a staple of the AEW Double or Nothing PPV event. There may not be one taking place this at this year’s event (we’ll find out in the coming weeks), but it was recently revealed how the Anarchy in the Arena name came together after the success of the Stadium Stampede matches during the pandemic.
Daddy Magic Matt Menard recently appeared on the What Happened When podcast to revisit the Anarchy in the Arena match from DoN 2022. During the podcast he revealed when Tony Khan first mentioned what the branding for the match would be, as it not longer made sense to use Stadium Stampede.
Menard confirmed that Khan came up with the name about a month before DoN 2022 took place, wanting to keep up the ‘tradition’ of having a big multi-man match that echoed the ‘Stampede.
Where did Anarchy in the Arena come from?
“I remember there was a Dynamite in the lead up to this [DoN 2022]. It was maybe a month before, and we had just confirmed that the match was going to happen, that there was going to be a multi-man” Menard would begin.
“We didn’t know what we were going to call it, because it’s not going to be Stadium Stampede…since we’re in an arena, this and that. I remember Tony [Khan] just spurting [it] out. We’re waiting to go out, so we’re in gorilla, and he [Tony] just goes, ‘arena anarchy, arena anarchy.’ That was the first time I’d ever heard the phrase. He switched it to Anarchy in the Arena and that was it.”
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