AEW announced on Thursday that they will hold a Collision event from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN, on Saturday, October 21. Tickets go on sale this Monday at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
This marks the very first All Elite Wrestling show at the venue. For WWE, they’ve held shows at the arena several times in the past.
This show completes AEW’s October schedule. However, some were quick to point out that with just a little over a month until the show takes place, it seemed like a last-minute announcement, and that’s because it was, but not due to AEW’s fault.
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that AEW had to wait a certain time period because of the way that WWE has its contract structured with arenas.
Meltzer wrote, “The reason this date at the Fed Ex Forum was announced so late in the game is that WWE’s contract with arenas calls for no announcing or advertising of dates with other wrestling companies from a certain number of days before the event (so tickets for both aren’t on sale at the same time) and for a period after the event.”
WWE held a Raw show at the venue on August 28th. Meltzer speculated the window is about 15 days after a WWE show that another wrestling promotion could even announce its own show.
