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Select Answers: AEW Contracts, Gunns, All In

Added 2025-07-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Who was the AEW top star Raj Giri was referring to as having a contract expire later this year?

I would imagine it's Chris Jericho. He signed an extension in 2022 that takes him through the year. However, there are a lot of variables that could end up adding time to a number of deals. I'm not sure if his is one of them.

Do you know if the Gunns's AEW contract is up this year? Wondering if this might be another Mariah situation especially since Austin mentioned on Twitter that they aren't injured.

Fightful Select reported in February 2023 that the Gunnns had re-signed new deals with the company. The two year mark has already passed on those, so assuming they signed longer than that, they almost certainly wouldn't be up this year. There's also potential injury time added. I just think they're benched.

Why is Y’all In earlier than usual aew PPVs? Do you think aew ppvs could move to 6pm CST in the future? It would make a big difference.''

I don't think that will become the standard, but I wish it would, selfishly. The later PPVs have generally been a better "fight" model. That's why boxing and MMA PPVs start so late. However, I think pro wrestling is just different. The audience will generally show up when the show is on. AEW knew WWE was going to pull counter programming measures, and decided to have the show earlier. It's hard to do "Saturday Mid Afternoon To Early Evening Main Event" on NBC.