AEW has filed a lawsuit against TrillerTV and its parent company Triller Group Inc., alleging the streaming platform owes Tony Khan’s wrestling company just under $5 million in unpaid revenue from pay-per-view sales and the now-discontinued AEW Plus subscription service.
The lawsuit was filed on April 29 in Duval County Court in Florida. AEW’s legal complaint alleges that Triller Group used revenue generated by TrillerTV’s distribution of AEW content to fund other business ventures, including a social media platform that failed to gain traction, rather than paying AEW what it was contractually owed.
AEW’s attorneys wrote in the filing: “Triller Group Inc.’s strategy of robbing revenues generated by TrillerTV’s distribution of AEW content to cover other of Defendants’ operating expenses, much of which was spent on the social media platform endeavor, negatively impacted its relationship with and payments owed to AEW.”
The lawsuit also revealed how revenue was divided between AEW and TrillerTV under their agreement. AEW received 75 percent of net domestic pay-per-view revenue and 65 percent of international pay-per-view revenue under a deal established in mid-2019. Prior to that, the earliest AEW pay-per-views were split 50-50. For AEW Plus, AEW received 60 percent of net revenue with TrillerTV keeping the remaining 40 percent. AEW content accounted for 24 percent of all Triller Group revenue in 2024, according to a Triller Group SEC filing.
An April 2026 legal demand letter from AEW’s outside counsel claimed $4,988,989.13 in payments were owed by Triller, with interest accruing at two percent per month under the terms of the contract. AEW says it sent written payment demands in January and March 2025 before escalating to legal action.
The picture becomes more complicated when read alongside a separate lawsuit filed by TrillerTV itself against its own parent company weeks before AEW’s filing. In that case, Flipps Media Inc., the corporate entity underlying TrillerTV, told the Delaware Chancery Court that the company is insolvent and unable to pay its debts. Flipps also disclosed it lacks a board of directors, which prevents it from filing for bankruptcy, and asked the court to declare its officers as its board so it can evaluate its options. A Delaware Vice Chancellor granted an expedited proceeding request given the company’s dire financial situation.
TrillerTV, formerly known as FITE, has been operating since the 2010s and was acquired by Triller in 2021. Triller was subsequently merged with publicly-traded financial services business AGBA in October 2024, creating Triller Group Inc. The company was delisted from the Nasdaq exchange last December after failing to file financial reports on time, briefly restored to trading on April 15, then hit with a new delisting notice two days later due to its stock price falling below the required one dollar minimum. As of Monday the stock was trading at approximately 25 cents per share.
AEW launched its own streaming platform MyAEW in partnership with Kiswe in March 2026, replacing much of what TrillerTV had offered international wrestling fans through AEW Plus for nearly seven years before its formal discontinuation last month.
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