All Elite Wrestling
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. It is owned by father and son duo Shahid and Tony Khan, with the latter being the president and chief executive officer. Its headquarters is at EverBank Stadium, the home of the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars, a team also owned by Shahid Khan.[9][10] Since its inception, AEW has been one of the largest wrestling promotions in the world, second only to WWE in terms of annual revenue.[11][12]
"AEW" redirects here. For other uses, see AEW (disambiguation).All Elite Wrestling
January 1, 2019
Worldwide
- Tony Khan
(President, CEO & General Manager) - Kosha Irby
(Chief Operating Officer) - Michael Mansury
(Executive Vice President & Global Head of Production) - Kenny Omega, Matt and Nick Jackson
(Executive Vice Presidents)
Licensing
~$175 million (2023)[4]
Shahid Khan and Tony Khan
Since October 2, 2019, AEW has produced a two-hour weekly television show, Dynamite, which is considered their flagship program and it airs live, with some exceptions. The show aired on TNT until December 2021, moving to TNT's sister channel, TBS, on January 5, 2022. The company also has two other weekly television shows, both on TNT: Rampage, a one-hour program airing since August 13, 2021, and Collision, a two-hour program that premiered on June 17, 2023. The company also has a quarterly special on TNT titled Battle of the Belts. AEW previously had two weekly YouTube-exclusive shows, Dark and Dark: Elevation, canceled following the addition of Collision. The company also produces a number of pay-per-view (PPV) and television specials throughout the year.
In April 2024, Forbes ranked AEW as the third most valuable combat sports promotion in the world with an estimated value of $2 billion, behind Ultimate Fighting Championship ($11.3bn) and WWE ($6.8bn).[13]
Partnerships
AEW has partnership agreements with several promotions around the world. In addition, as Tony Khan owns both AEW and Ring of Honor Wrestling (ROH), wrestlers from AEW companies frequently appear on ROH and vice versa; however, though ROH belts are often defended on AEW shows the reverse is rarely true.
In early 2019, AEW struck two partnership deals with Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Chinese Oriental Wrestling Entertainment (OWE) promotions.[41][43] By late 2020 and going into 2021, AEW formed partnerships with other wrestling promotions. Tony Khan has dubbed the concept of wrestlers from other promotions appearing in AEW as going through "the forbidden door".[119] In December of that year, AEW began a partnership with Impact Wrestling, which saw AEW World Champion Kenny Omega making appearances on Impact!.[120] Omega would later make his in ring debut for Impact at Hard to Kill,[121] and defeated Rich Swann to win the Impact World Championship at the Rebellion event, making him the first person to hold championships in both Impact and AEW concurrently.[122] In October 2021, the working relationship between AEW and Impact Wrestling ended following Impact's Bound for Glory.[123]
On February 3, 2021, at the Beach Break television special, AEW started a partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). After the main event, Kenta made his AEW debut and hit Jon Moxley with his finishing strike, the Go 2 Sleep.[124] Kenta would later make his AEW in ring debut at the following Dynamite. Over one year later on the April 20, 2022 edition of Dynamite, it was announced that AEW and NJPW reached an agreement to co-produce a pay-per-view event titled AEW×NJPW: Forbidden Door, which took place at the United Center in Chicago on June 26.[125][126][127] The event was an acclaimed success and was followed by a second Forbidden Door event on June 25, 2023, held at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
On March 20, 2022, at DDT Pro-Wrestling's Judgement, it was announced that AEW had formed a working relationship with DDT and Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling that would see wrestlers from both brands appear on AEW programming.[128][129]
On October 13, 2023, AEW announced a working relationship with Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre promotion.[130]