“I know that it was a discussion, I don’t know if it’s going to happen,” Zarian added before also commenting that Bleacher Report is “limited” and AEW should find a better outlet for streaming its pay-per-views in the United States, a sentiment shared by many fans due to issues using the service. FITE TV, which carries AEW PPVs outside of the U.S. and Canada, is generally considered to have a superior user experience.

The only time anything like this has ever really happened before was in 1991 when WWE experimented with holding an “emergency” PPV, This Tuesday in Texas. It came six days after Survivor Series, where The Undertaker won the WWE Championship from Hulk Hogan in a way that was deemed to necessitate an immediate rematch. According to a contemporaneous Multichannel News article, the two shows combined — with no package discount thanks to the “emergency PPV” storyline — cost about $40 ($88.50 adjusted for inflation). With the second show only doing about 45 percent of the buys of the first show, WWE never repeated that experiment, though it did have months with more than one PPV when it expanded beyond monthly shows.