NXT will be represented at the Emergence TNA show later this month as Riley Osborne qualified for the Ultimate X match yesterday.
The Chase U member defeated Chris Bey and John Skyler in the qualifier which opened Impact last night. Jason Hotch also qualified for the same match when he beat Ace Austin and Rich Swann.
Osborne and Hatch now join Zachary Wentz and Mike Bailey in the match, with two more open spots available.
Those spots will be decided on next week’s show with two matches featuring Frankie Kazarian vs Kushida vs Hammerstone and Laredo Kid vs Bhupinder Gujjar vs Jai Vidal.
Dynamite this week climbed to 703,000 viewers, up 81,000 viewers from the prior week which had competition from the Olympics. In 18-49, Dynamite drew a 0.23, up 0.04 from the previous week and just like the viewership, the best number in three weeks. It was only the third time since June 12 that the show went over the 700,000 viewership mark. Dynamite was #1 on cable TV for the night in the demo. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)
AEW will make its debut at Globe Life Field next year as it brings All In to the great state of Texas and specifically, the city of Arlington Texas.
Opened in 2020, Globe Life Field is the home of the Texas Rangers team of the Major League Baseball and can sit up to 40,300 in the stands.
The record attendance was of 43,598 for a Morgan Wallet concert held in October 2022 and that is a number that AEW will be looking to break come July 2025.
The stadium cost $1.1 billion to construct and has a retractable roof.
Artists such as Green Day, Metallica, Def Leppard, Lady Gaga, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John, Jonas Brothers, and others all performed at the stadium.
The stadium is located adjacent to the AT&T Stadium, the popular Dallas Cowboys home and the site of WrestleMania 32 and 38. The Esports Stadium, a location which AEW is currently using, is also half a mile away.
Arlington Mayor Jim Ross, the Texas Rangers, REV Entertainment, Arlington Sports Commission and All Elite Wrestling today announced that Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX will host AEW: All In Texas on Saturday, July 12, 2025.
The event will air live around the world on pay-per-view and marks the first time an AEW pay-per-view event has ever been held in Texas. It will also be the first-ever professional wrestling event ever held at Globe Life Field.
“On behalf of everyone at AEW, we are ecstatic to bring AEW: All In Texas to Globe Life Field in Arlington on July 12, 2025,” said Tony Khan. “AEW: All in Texas will make history as both our first-ever pay-per-view in Texas as well as AEW’s American stadium debut, building on the rich legacy of stadium wrestling events held in the US, particularly in the Lone Star State.”
“We are thrilled for Arlington to partner with All Elite Wrestling for their biggest event of 2025,” said Arlington Mayor Jim Ross. “Fans from around the world will converge on our beautiful city to be part of AEW: All In Texas, delivering a significant economic windfall to the region.”
“AEW: All In Texas marks a huge milestone in Arlington’s continued relationship with All Elite Wrestling,” said Arlington Sports Commission Executive Director Matt Wilson. “We thank Tony Khan and the entire team at AEW for all of their support to our city and look forward to an event that fans in attendance and watching at home will never forget.”
“Bringing the first professional wrestling event to Globe Life Field is a historic moment for our venue,” said Sean Decker, President of REV Entertainment, the exclusive events partner of the Texas Rangers. “We can’t wait to partner with AEW to host thousands of passionate wrestling fans at our world-class venue next summer.”
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In addition to AEW: All In Texas, a series of events in Arlington are being planned leading up to the event. Additional details will be announced in the near future.
This year, AEW: All In London takes place next Sunday, August 25 live from Wembley Stadium in London.
During the same press conference where AEW announced that next year’s All In will be moving Stateside to Arlington, Texas, Tony Khan also confirmed that the 2026 edition will return to Wembley Stadium in London, England.
Wembley has hosted the inaugural AEW All In and will host the show again next week. While tickets were a major success for the first one, AEW is looking at roughly 45% less attendance this year so far, with a smaller set up, something which was expected since it was going to be extremely hard to top last year’s show.
Moving the show to a different location for a year will probably be better for the company as they test a new audience, and the London and European crowd is more likely to return the following year after missing out.
There could be other potential reasons as to why the show was moved, including a possible WWE show or the venue being booked for a different event.
AEW today announced that All In 2025 will take pace from the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, a month earlier than usual on Saturday, July 12.
This will be the first All In show under the AEW banner which will happen in the United States.
The news was delivered during a press conference today held at the stadium with Arlington city officials present.
“It’s a big honor for us to come and be part of that big Texas wrestling tradition,” Khan said at the press conference, putting over the Texas fans and the state.
Khan said it marks the first time that AEW will hold a pay-per-view in Texas and the first stadium show in the United States. Apparently Khan does not consider the Arthur Ashe Stadium where Dynamite is held once a year as a proper stadium.
Leading up to All In, AEW will also have several shows in the area which will be announced at a later time.
It took a while, but next week’s Dynamite in Cardiff is slowly heading to a sellout with less than 500 tickets left according to @WrestleTix.
The location has been harder to sell than imagined considering this is the first time that Dynamite is being held outside of North America. But the thousands of people who will be in the country for All In next week will be in London, which is not close to Cardiff, Wales.
Dynamite has 3,800 tickets out at The Utilita Arena for next week, with the current setup of the arena at 4,236. Pretty much every section of the small arena was opened up for the show.
The cheapest tickets available are going for £85.55 each including all taxes and fees and can be purchased from Ticketmaster.co.uk.
Collision will also be taped following the conclusion of Dynamite.
NXT, back on USA Network, drew 617,000 viewers this week, up 83,000 viewers from the prior week. In the 18-49 demo, NXT had a 0.17 which was 0.01 up from the last episode which aired on SyFy. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)
In a recent interview with Stephanie Chase, Jade Cargill put over Triple H and Nick Khan for being very accommodating when it comes to the balance of work and family life.
Cargill said that Levesque understands family and WWE Superstars can now bring family members with them to work and at special events. She said that as an active mother, she really wanted to be at her daughter’s first day at school and requested if she can do that since she had other WWE commitments on the same day.
Without hesitation, Cargill said she was removed from any work schedule and allowed to be with her daughter on her special day.
“I’m at a company that understands the priority that family has on your health, on your mental health. They make sure we are there for the important things in your household,” Cargill said. “They understand that your family has to be there for you as well. I can say Paul and everybody else in the front office and Nick Khan, they make sure that family’s first.”
In a related topic, AEW President Tony Khan is also highly praised for situations like this, with many AEW stars saying that family is really first within the company.
The FTW title will be defended at All In as champion Chris Jericho puts his title on the line against former champion Hook.
Hook requested the match and Jericho agreed as long as three conditions are met: if Hook loses at Wembley, he can never challenge for the title again as long as Jericho is champion, his feud with The Learning Tree is over, and prior to getting Jericho, Hook has to face Big Bill on Dynamite next week.
Hook did not care and accepted all of Jericho’s demands so the match was made official.
Jericho won the FTW title from Hook at the Dynasty pay-per-view this past April.
Last year, the FTW title was also defended on the show but during the Zero Hour portion of the broadcast, with Hook winning the title from Jack Perry. It was the infamous match where Perry told CM Punk to cry him a river, a sentence that led to the All In brawl and departure of Punk from the company.
For the second year in a row, there will be a coffin match at All In as Jack Perry vs Darby Allin for the TNT title had that stipulation added to it on Dynamite last night.
During Dynamite, Darby Allin was doing a promo backstage on Perry when the champion attacked him. Perry managed to put Allin under a bay door and then was about to roll a cart into him but was stopped by security.
Perry then said he wanted Allin in a coffin match at Wembley, a stipulation which was made official later.
Allin was involved in a coffin match last year on the same show along with Sting against Swerve Strickland and Christian Cage, a match which Sting and Allin won.
The two seasons of the pro wrestling drama Heels will premiere on Netflix on Sunday, September 15 according to EW.
Heels, which aired on STARZ, was canceled by the network after just two seasons but earlier this year, Netflix reached a licensing agreement with Lionsgate to put the show on its streaming service.
Based in a fictional town in Georgia, Heels follows two brothers and rivals who go to war over their late father’s legacy. Netflix has the right for a third season depending on how the show does on the service after it debuts.
“Netflix is very practical. If a lot of people watch the show, then there’s a real chance that we can make more,” said executive producer and showrunner Mike O’Malley. “And if people don’t, there’s no reason to make more… The acting performances are so authentic and so genuine by every actor in this series, and I am thrilled that this platform now will be allow more people see those performances.”
Heels features Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, Allen Maldonado, Alison Luff, Chris Bauer, Kelli Berglund, Mary McCormack, Robby Ramos, Trey Tucker, Roxton Garcia, and James Harrison and features special guest appearances by the likes of CM Punk, AJ Lee, and others.
With no more Olympics as competition, AEW is back in full swing with tonight’s Dynamite, headlined with two huge title matches.
The EVPs will be back on television finally as The Young Bucks defend their AEW Tag Team titles against The Acclaimed, plus, in a first, TBS champion Mercedes Mone defends her title against former AEW Women’s champion Hikaru Shida.
Also set for tonight are AEW World champion Swerve Strickland taking on Wheeler Yuta, Hangman Adam Page vs Jay Lethal, and a three-way to determine the #1 spot in the Casino Gauntlet match at All In between Kyle O’Reilly, Orange Cassidy, and Roderick Strong.
Plus, Kazuchika Okada will come face-to-face with Claudio Castagnoli and there will be a film debut by Mariah May.
Fulham Football Club announced that the AEW logo will be the sponsor for the club’s women’s shirts during the 2024/25 season, to “reflect AEW’s commitment to progressing women’s sport.”
Alongside their support of Fulham Women, fans can expect to see AEW’s brand presence on a matchday and throughout the stadium.
AEW President Tony Khan is also the Director of Football at Fulham FC, a club owned by his family.
“Both Fulham Football Club and All Elite Wrestling hold a special place in my heart, and the partnership established here represents not only an elevation of both organisations on the global stage, but also a reminder of our investment and commitment to furthering women’s creative and athletic endeavours at all levels,” Khan said in a press statement.
“There has been significant progression and growth of FFC Women in recent seasons since the squad transferred to the performance side of the Club,” added Steve Jaye, Fulham Women Head Coach. “Having AEW as front-of-shirt sponsor for the 2024/25 campaign is a massive forward step and we are grateful for their support, commitment, and belief in our objectives. We look forward to representing the Club and AEW on the pitch from the first match of the season at Craven Cottage this Sunday.”
It was a good night for Raw in the ratings as the show pulled in 1,890,000 viewers, up 148,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast and the best number since Raw after Mania on April 8. Raw was back on USA Network after two weeks on SyFy.
The show started with 2,040,000 in the first hour, the first time since Raw after Mania that an hour of Raw broke the two million viewership. The second hour dropped slightly to 1,974,000 viewers and the third hour dragged down to 1,657,000 viewers. With the first hour doing a high number, Raw lost 383,000 viewers from the first to the third hour.
Raw had a 0.63 rating in 18-49, up 0.01 from last week’s post-SummerSlam show and was #1 on cable television for the night. (Ratings credit: PWTorch)
The Sporting News is reporting in an exclusive story that AEW is looking at doing a stadium show in Australia in 2025 with sources confirming that officials have been scouting venues on Australia’s east coast.
Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium and Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium are three of the stadiums being looked at and entertainment company TEG seem to be providing support for the event.
Sydney’s stadium holds 45,500, Melbourne’s holds just over 53,000, while Brisbane’s holds 52,500.
There were rumors that All In next year might move from Wembley Stadium and held in a different location. Australia has never held an AEW show and the country has enough fans to potentially fill one of those stadiums.
WWE’s Elimination Chamber was held in Perth in February and had over 50,000 fans.
AEW announced a new original series for their YouTube channel titled AEW Stories and the first thing to be featured will be last year’s All In.
The All In episode will feature a behind-the-scenes look at their record-breaking pay-per-view from Wembley Stadium in similar ways that WWE does with their WWE 24 documentary series.
The show will premiere on Monday, August 19 starting at Noon ET. You can see a trailer of the episode below.
Mark your calendars for a behind the scenes look at one of the BIGGEST wrestling shows of the year! #AEW Stories: #AEWAllIn London premieres NEXT Monday at noon! pic.twitter.com/sNDtGiHDSh
Penta El Zero Miedo refuted online reports that he was going to be in Orlando – where WWE PC is located – this week, saying that it’s all fake news.
“No more gossip,” Penta wrote in a message on X. “My present is aew!”
While his present is indeed AEW, he did not deny the other rumors about his upcoming contract expiration with the company. It’s believed that both he and his brother are on their way out of AEW, with Penta’s contract up first in a few weeks and Fenix’s contract expiring afterward.
Both are not legally able to talk with other promotions which is why Penta put out the statement since they are still under an AEW contract. The two have been working for AEW since its debut in 2019.
John Cena confirmed that he will be working around 36 dates for WWE next year for his farewell tour which will commence in January 2025.
Speaking to Collider, the 16-time world champion said that he has given the calendar year of 2025 “to WWE,” suggesting that he will not be doing any big Hollywood productions in that year. Cena said that filming for the TV series Peacemaker will take him until the end of this year, and then it will be all WWE once the year turns.
“I start that farewell tour in January and I’ll end it in December. It’s gonna be right around 36 dates around the world to pay thanks and gratitude to the WWE audiences around the world,” Cena said. “So, that’s what I’m doing in 2025.”
The leader of the Cenation will be part of the inaugural episode of Raw on Netflix and will work the major premium live events along the year. 36 dates do not mean that he will be wrestling 36 times although he is expected to be lacing up his boots for PLEs.
The number one contenders for the NXT title and the NXT Women’s title will be decided on next week’s broadcast and the winners will get their title shot at the upcoming No Mercy premium live event.
A triple threat match will determine who will face Ethan Page for the NXT title and the competitors will be Wes Lee, Pete Dunne, and TNA’s Joe Hendry. Hendry appeared on the broadcast last night to interrupt Page but was then taken out by Wes Lee with a superkick.
Meanwhile, a gauntlet match has been set up to see who takes on Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women’s title. Participating in this match will be six women who never received an NXT Women’s title shot before including Sol Luca, Jaida Parker, Karmen Petrovic, Wren Sinclair, Adriana Rizzo, and Kendal Grey.
NXT No Mercy will take place live from the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado on Sunday, September 1.
