There has been much talk about AEW holding a major stadium show in the United States next year.
The promotion has a history of holding similar events. AEW has held stadium shows in New York at Arthur Ashe Stadium and in the UK at Wembley Stadium. The London event, held in 2023, was the highest-attended event in AEW’s history.
Fightful reported that several people in the Dallas/Arlington area have said All Elite Wrestling plans to bring a major-scale event to the area in 2025. Several sources teased that it could be a stadium show on par with “AEW’s biggest event.”
Tony Khan has since stated that it isn’t planned in the near future. The AEW president discussed this idea more while speaking at the ROH Death Before Dishonor media scrum.
Khan stated, “I think it’s speculative to talk about. Certainly, nobody ever thought we would sell over 81,000 tickets at Wembley Stadium. Time after time, whether it was the very first AEW show where we did the fastest sell-out in the history of Las Vegas for pro wrestling, that’s something we had never done. I would say never count out AEW in any aspect of the pro wrestling business. We have amazed people from our very first show until right now. It’s amazing what AEW has done in five years. We’re coming up on the five-year anniversary of Wednesday Night Dynamite…..The leaps and bounds AEW has grown is really an amazing thing we’ve done.…… As far as AEW, we’ve never tried to do a stadium show in America. I do think you can never count AEW out.”
AEW returns to pay-per-view for All In next month from Wembley Stadium.
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article, please credit ROH media scrum with an h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
