Casino Gauntlet match for AEW World title shot set for next week’s Dynamite

Tony Khan has announced a Casino Gauntlet match for the January 8, 2025, edition of AEW Dynamite.

The winner of the match will receive a shot at Jon Moxley’s AEW World Championship on the January 15, 2025, edition of the show, which is branded AEW Maximum Carnage.

Khan noted that next week’s match will be “the first simulcast Casino Gauntlet Match on MAX + TBS!”

The January 8 show takes place at the F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, TN. As of Friday’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, 1,236 tickets have been distributed to the show. WrestleTix noted today that the number was up to 1,464.  

AEW Maximum Carnage is scheduled for the Brady Music Center in Moxley’s hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. AEW will also tape an episode of Collision there the following night. Tickets for both shows did not go on sale until December 30. The January 16 Collision taping had initially been scheduled for Lousiville.