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AEW All In
Promotional poster featuring MJF and Adam Cole
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
DateAugust 27, 2023
CityLondon, England
VenueWembley Stadium
Tagline(s)The Biggest Event in Wrestling History
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The 2023 All In, also promoted as All In London at Wembley Stadium, is the upcoming second All In professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event. It will be the first edition of the event to be produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) after the inaugural All In was held independently in September 2018, which inspired the formation of AEW in January 2019. The event will take place on August 27, 2023, at Wembley Stadium in London, England. This will mark AEW's debut in the United Kingdom, their first PPV event held outside of North America, and the company's first event to be held entirely in an association football stadium.

All In will mark the first professional wrestling event to be held at present day Wembley Stadium, with the stadium itself promoting it as part of the 100th anniversary of Wembley. AEW has subsequently promoted the event as the first professional wrestling event at the venue in over 30 years, after WWE's SummerSlam in 1992, which was held at the original Wembley Stadium. The event set AEW's attendance and revenue record on first day sales alone, and is estimated to break the record for largest attended professional wrestling event in Europe, with a reported 79,346 tickets distributed, overtaking SummerSlam 1992's record of 79,127, and with a revenue of US$9 million.

Production

Background

The event will be held at Wembley Stadium in London, England.

The inaugural All In was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) that was independently produced by members of The Elite in association with Ring of Honor (ROH) and held in September 2018 at the former Sears Centre Arena (renamed to Now Arena in September 2020) in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.[1] The event 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.[1] The success of the show would lead to the formation of the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) a few months later in January 2019 with The Elite becoming executive vice presidents of the company.[2] On the first anniversary of All In, AEW established a spiritual successor titled All Out.[3] In March 2022, AEW president Tony Khan announced his purchase of ROH,[4] in turn obtaining the rights to All In, which were owned by ROH.[5]

On the April 5, 2023, episode of Dynamite, AEW announced that they would revive the All In name for a major event to be held at Wembley Stadium in London, England on August 27, titled "All In London at Wembley Stadium".[6] The event will mark AEW's debut in the United Kingdom and will be the promotion's first PPV event to be held outside of North America.[7] AEW had originally planned to host the 2020 Fyter Fest as a PPV in London at nearby Wembley Arena, which would have been the promotion's UK debut, but the COVID-19 pandemic scrapped those plans.[8] This also marks the first professional wrestling event to be held at present day Wembley Stadium, with AEW promoting the event as the first in over 30 years at the venue, after WWE's SummerSlam in 1992, which was held at the original Wembley Stadium. The stadium itself is promoting it as part of the 100th anniversary of Wembley. This will also be AEW's first event to be held in an association football stadium.[9] The event will air live at 1 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) through traditional PPV outlets, as well as Bleacher Report, Fite TV, and YouTube, and it will be preceded by a Zero Hour pre-show at 12 p.m. ET.[10]

Tickets went on sale on May 5, 2023. During the pre-sale on May 2, the show sold over 36,000 tickets, garnering US$4.7 million in revenue, setting AEW's records for attendance and live gate.[11] Those numbers reached over 43,000 and US$5.7 million, respectively, the next day.[12] After sales opened on May 5, ticket sales hit 60,000 with US$7.7 million in revenue.[13][14] By July 28, prior to any matches being announced, the event had sold 70,400 tickets with a gate of US$9 million.[15] The event would go on to break the record for largest attended professional wrestling event in Europe, with a reported 79,346 tickets sold as of August 10, overtaking SummerSlam 1992's record of 79,127.[16]

Storylines

All In London at Wembley Stadium will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[17] Storylines are produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision.

In June, AEW World Champion MJF started a rivalry with Adam Cole,[18] who he faced on the June 14 episode of Dynamite in a World Championship Eliminator match, which ended in a 30-minute time-limit draw, thus ruling Cole out of a future championship match.[19] The two were then paired together in the Blind Eliminator Tournament to receive an AEW World Tag Team Championship match on the July 29, 2023, episode of Collision.[20] They won the tournament,[21] but failed to win the tag team titles.[22] During this time, MJF and Cole would become friends, much to the dismay of Cole's old friend Roderick Strong, and MJF promised Cole that regardless of the outcome of the tournament, he would give Cole a match for the AEW World Championship. On the August 2 episode of Dynamite, MJF followed through with his promise, giving Cole a contract which scheduled the championship match as the main event of All In.[23] The following week, in addition to their AEW World Championship match, Cole—who still felt he and MJF could be a championship caliber tag team—challenged Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) for the ROH World Tag Team Championship to take place on All In's Zero Hour pre-show.[24] Aussie Open accepted the challenge on that week's Rampage.[25]

Following FTR's (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) defense of the AEW World Tag Team Championship on the August 5 episode of Collision, they stated they had unfinished business with The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson). They subsequently made a challenge for All In with the AEW World Tag Team Championship on the line.[26] The Young Bucks accepted the challenge on Dynamite on August 9,[24] marking the rubber match between the two teams, being tied at 1–1, where The Young Bucks won their first matchup at Full Gear in November 2020,[27] while FTR defeated them on the April 6, 2022, episode of Dynamite.[28]

At Dynamite: 200 on August 2, Hikaru Shida defeated Toni Storm to win the AEW Women's World Championship.[23] The following week, it was announced that at All In, there would be a four-way match for the championship with the participants determined by a single-elimination tournament.[24] Shida was already scheduled to defend the title against Anna Jay that night[29] and defeated her to retain her spot as defending champion at All In, while Storm exercised her rematch clause to receive a bye and automatically be entered into the four-way.[24] Saraya then qualified by defeating Skye Blue during the August 11 episode of Rampage.[25] Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. secured the final spot by defeating The Bunny on August 16 at Dynamite: Fight for the Fallen.[30]

Darby Allin and Swerve Strickland have had a years long on-and-off rivalry predating AEW, going back to their days wrestling on the independent circuit in Seattle, Washington, of which Allin is a native, while Strickland hails from nearby Tacoma. The feud intensified on the August 2 episode of Dynamite when Strickland and Mogul Embassy teammate AR Fox (who himself had a history with Allin that also predated AEW) attacked rookie wrestler Nick Wayne—who Allin had taken under his wing as Nick's late father Buddy Wayne trained Allin—at Nick's home gym in Seattle[23]. On the August 9 episode, Allin confronted Strickland and Fox (along with the rest of Mogul Embassy), and Allin's longtime friend/mentor Sting helped Allin fend off the group, setting up a tag team Coffin match at All In, pitting Allin and Sting against Strickland and Fox.[24]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1PAussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher) (c) vs. MJF and Adam ColeTag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship[31]
2FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (c) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) is cancelledTag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship[32]
3Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Saraya vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.Four-way match for the AEW Women's World Championship[33]
4Darby Allin and Sting vs. The Mogul Embassy (AR Fox and Swerve Strickland) (with Prince Nana)Tag Team Coffin match[34]
5Hung Lovers (Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega, and "Hangman" Adam Page) vs. Konosuke Takeshita and Bullet Club Gold (Juice Robinson and Jay White) (with Don Callis)Six-man tag team match[35]
6Eddie Kingston, Orange Cassidy, Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), and Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta) and 3 TBAStadium Stampede match[36]
7Will Ospreay vs. Chris JerichoSingles match[37]
8MJF (c) vs. Adam ColeSingles match for the AEW World Championship[38]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match will be broadcast on the pre-show
*Card subject to change

AEW Women's World Championship Qualifier Tournament

  1. ^ Toni Storm lost the AEW Women's World Championship to Hikaru Shida on the August 2, 2023, episode of Dynamite and exercised her championship rematch clause to receive a bye in the tournament.
  2. ^ Hikaru Shida was already scheduled to defend the AEW Women's World Championship against Anna Jay on the August 9, 2023, episode of Dynamite prior to the announcement of the tournament. This match decided who would be the defending champion at All In.

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