Tony Khan Announces Huge Cash Prize For Top AEW Stars

Written by Marc Middleton • Published Sep 10, 2025 18:05 EDT
AEW-ROH boss Tony Khan shows the money at TNA Impact

Tony Khan is thinking big as AEW prepares to wrap its residency at the former ECW Arena in Philadelphia. Dynamite is set to kick off in just a few hours, and the AEW-ROH owner has shaken things up in a major way.

Khan seems to be high-up on matches that end with the winners receiving a big storyline pay-off in cold hard cash. The lifelong wrestling fan booked a $300,000 Three Kings Christmas Casino Battle Royal at the 2022 Holiday Bash Rampage 2, won by AR Fox and Top Flight. That was the last money match in AEW until Brian Cage won $100,000 in a Collision Fatal 4 Way in January of this year.

JetSpeed, Will Ospreay, and Mark Briscoe won $400,000 on Dynamite in April, Sammy Guevara won $100,000 on Collision in May, Thekla won $100,000 on Dynamite in July, Gates of Agony won $200,000 on Collision that same week, while July closed with The Conglomeration and The Outrunners winning $400,000 on Collision. Kris Statlander then won $100,000 on Collision last month.

Tony Khan Announces $500,000 Prize For Dynamite

Tony Khan has revealed a $500K 10-Man Tag Team Match for tonight’s Dynamite in The City of Brotherly Love. The match will see World Tag Team Champions Bandido and Brody King join World Trios Champions Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Katsuyori Shibata to battle Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Nick Jackson, and Matt Jackson.

The winning team of five will receive $500,000, apparently split five-ways with $100,000 per grappler. Khan took the opportunity to continue the ongoing heckling against The Young Bucks.

“Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite TONIGHT! $500k 5-on-5 Match World Tag Team Champions Brodido + World Trios Champions The Opps vs Death Riders/@youngbucks Teams of 5 fight for $500k as World Champions unite Opps/Brodido vs Death Riders + the down-on-their-luck Young Bucks TONIGHT!,” wrote Tony Khan with the graphic below.

AEW has also announced the following for tonight’s Dynamite at the 2300 Arena: Riho and Alex Windsor vs. Emi Sakura and TBS Champion Mercedes Moné, a non-title Grudge Match between World Champion Adam Page and Josh Alexander, Shelton Benjamin vs. Ricochet, plus a non-title Philly Street Fight between Skye Blue and Women’s World Champion Toni Storm.