All In (professional wrestling)

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All In
Promotions
Independent[N 1]
(2018)
All Elite Wrestling
(2023–present)
First event2018

All In is a

London, England at Wembley Stadium during the United Kingdom's August Bank Holiday
weekend.

The inaugural 2018 event, held at the Sears Centre Arena (renamed Now Arena in 2020) in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, was notable for being the first non-WWE or World Championship Wrestling promoted professional wrestling event in the United States to sell 10,000 tickets since 1993. The 2023 event was claimed by AEW officials to have set an all-time wrestling paid attendance record of 81,035,[1] but this was disputed.[2][3] It would also be AEW's first PPV held in the United Kingdom and in an association football stadium.

Production

Background

The inaugural

professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) a few months later in January 2019, with The Elite becoming executive vice presidents of the new company.[5] On the first anniversary of All In, AEW established a spiritual successor titled All Out.[6] In March 2022, AEW president Tony Khan announced his purchase of ROH,[7] in turn obtaining the rights to All In, which were owned by ROH.[8]

On the April 5, 2023, episode of

MJF defend the AEW World Championship against Adam Cole, it was announced that All In would return to Wembley on August 25, 2024.[13]

Events

# Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref.
1 All In (2018) September 1, 2018 Hoffman Estates, Illinois Sears Centre Arena
Rey Fénix, and Rey Mysterio
[14]
2 All In (2023) August 27, 2023 London, England, United Kingdom Wembley Stadium
MJF (c) vs. Adam Cole for the AEW World Championship
[15]
3 All In (2024) August 25, 2024 TBA [16]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Footnotes

  1. ^ Show production was provided by Ring of Honor (ROH).

References

  1. ^ Savage, Amanda (August 27, 2023). "AEW Announces Record-Breaking Paid Attendance Number For All In London Wembley Stadium". WrestleTalk. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  2. ^ Thurston, Brandon (September 13, 2023). "AEW All In's turnstile count was 72,265, according to local government". Wrestlenomics. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  3. ^ "AEW All In attendance request for Wembley stadium. - a Freedom of Information request to Brent Borough Council". WhatDoTheyKnow. August 31, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Howard, Brandon. "7 things to know about 'All In' – the huge indie wrestling show coming to the Chicago area". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on May 14, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  5. Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online
    . Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  6. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (May 25, 2019). "AEW Announces All Out For August 31 in Chicago". Fightful.com. Fightful. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  7. ^ Raimondi, Marc (March 2, 2022). "Tony Khan, AEW CEO and son of Jaguars owner, acquires wrestling promotion Ring of Honor". ESPN. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  8. ^ Radican, Sean (January 20, 2019). "AEW/ROH News: Who owns All In footage, what will happen to the footage in the future". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  9. ^ Barnett, Jake (April 5, 2023). "4/5 AEW Dynamite results: Barnett's live review of The Gunns vs. FTR for the AEW Tag Titles (or FTR must leave AEW), Jamie Hayter vs. Riho for the AEW Women's Title, House of Black vs. Best Friends for the AEW Trios Titles, Hook vs. Ethan Page for the FTW Title, Ricky Starks vs. Juice Robinson, Sammy Guevara vs. Komander, Tony Khan's announcement". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  10. ^ Russell, Skylar (April 5, 2023). "AEW Bringing Back All In Event For United Kingdom Debut In August 2023". Fightful. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  11. 411Mania
    . Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  12. ^ Ravens, Andrew (June 23, 2023). "AEW All In Reaches Another Milestone". Wrestling Headlines. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  13. ^ Powell, Jason (August 27, 2023). "AEW All In results: Powell's live review of MJF vs. Adam Cole for the AEW World Championship, Will Ospreay vs. Chris Jericho, CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe for the Real World Title, Stadium Stampede". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  14. ^ Moore, John. "Moore's All In live review: Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr., Nick Aldis vs. Cody for the NWA Championship, Young Bucks and Kota Ibushi vs. Rey Mysterio, Fenix, Bandido, Kazuchika Okada vs. Marty Scurll, Christopher Daniels vs. Stephen Amell". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Archived from the original on September 2, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  15. ^ Russell, Skylar (August 2, 2023). "MJF To Defend AEW World Championship Against Adam Cole At AEW All In". Fightful. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
  16. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (August 27, 2023). "AEW All In 2024 Announced For August 25, 2024 At Wembley Stadium". Fightful. Retrieved August 27, 2023.