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All Elite Wrestling, LLC
All Elite Wrestling
Company typePrivate
IndustryProfessional wrestling
Sports entertainment
FoundedNovember 5, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-11-05)[1]
FoundersShahid Khan
Tony Khan
Headquarters1 TIAA Bank Field Dr,
Jacksonville, Florida
,
United States[2]
Area served
Worldwide[citation needed]
Key people
Tony Khan
(President)
Cody Rhodes
(Executive Vice President)
Matt Jackson
(Executive Vice President)
Nick Jackson
(Executive Vice President)
Brandi Rhodes
(Chief Brand Officer)
OwnersShahid Khan
Tony Khan

All Elite Wrestling, LLC (AEW)[3][4] is an American professional wrestling promotion. The promotion was founded by entrepreneurs Shahid and Tony Khan, the owners of the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars football team. Professional wrestlers Cody Rhodes, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson, collectively known as The Elite, are the company's inaugural contracted talents. The three are serving as both in-ring performers and executive vice presidents for the promotion.

History

Background

Main article: All In (professional wrestling event)

In May 2017, journalist Dave Meltzer made a comment that the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) could not sell 10,000 tickets for a professional wrestling event.[5] The comment was responded to by professional wrestlers Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks (the tag team of Matt and Nick Jackson), who were top stars signed to ROH and good friends both inside and outside of professional wrestling as part of the group Bullet Club (and, later, The Elite).[6] They promoted and held an independent professional wrestling event called "All In" in September 2018, featuring wrestlers from ROH as well as other promotions. The event sold out in 30 minutes and became the most attended professional wrestling show in the United States not affiliated with WWE or World Championship Wrestling since 1993. The event was attended by 11,263 people.[7][8][9][10] The event was acclaimed, and it led to much online speculation that Rhodes and The Young Bucks would expand their ambitions and create their own professional wrestling promotion or do a second "All In" event and even certain people in the television industry were very impressed with the show.[11][12]

Formation

On November 5, 2018, several trademarks were filed in Jacksonville, Florida that indicated the launch of All Elite Wrestling. Names filed for trademark included: All Elite Wrestling, AEW All Out, All Out, AEW, Double or Nothing, Tuesday Night Dynamite, AEW Double or Nothing, and several logos.[1][13][14] In December 2018, Rhodes, The Young Bucks and several other wrestlers left ROH.[15][16] The official announcement of AEW's creation came at midnight Pacific Time on January 1, 2019 in an episode of Being the Elite, a YouTube web series created by and featuring The Elite. Also announced in the episode was "Double or Nothing", AEW's inaugural event and sequel to "All In".[17][18][19] On January 2, 2019, Rhodes and The Young Bucks officially signed with the promotion, serving as AEW's executive vice presidents, while entrepreneur, football executive and longtime wrestling fan Tony Khan was announced as the president of the company.[20][21] Khan and his father, Shahid Khan, were reportedly backing the promotion with an initial $100 million investment.[22][23][24] The Khans are billionaires and part of the ownership group of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C.[25][26]

Brandi Rhodes was announced as the company's chief brand officer on January 3, 2019.[27][28] On January 8, 2019, the company held its inaugural press conference at TIAA Bank Field, where they announced talents that were going to perform as part of the promotion and a working relationship with Chinese professional wrestling promotion, Oriental Wrestling Entertainment (OWE).[29][30]

Events

Event Date Location Venue Main event
Double or Nothing[31][32] May 25, 2019 Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand Garden Arena TBA

Personnel

Male wrestlers

Ring name Real name Notes
Cima[31] Nobuhiko Oshima Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
Chris Jericho[33][32] Christopher Irvine
Christopher Daniels[34][32] Daniel Covell
Cody[29][32] Cody Runnels Rhodes Executive Vice President
Producer
El Lindaman[31] Yuga Hayashi Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
Frankie Kazarian[34][32] Frank Gerdelman
"Hangman" Adam Page[35][32][32] Stevie Woltz
Joey Janela[30][32] Joseph Janela
Matt Jackson[35][32] Matthew Massie Executive Vice President
Maxwell Jacob Friedman[30][32] Max Friedman
Nick Jackson[35][32] Nicholas Massie Executive Vice President
Pac[30][32] Benjamin Satterly
Scorpio Sky[34][32] Schuyler Andrews
Takehiro Yamamura[31] Takehiro Yamamura Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
T-Hawk[31] Takuya Onodera Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment

Female wrestlers

Ring name Real name Notes
Brandi Rhodes[35] Brandi Runnels Valet of Cody
Chief Brand Officer
Britt Baker[36] Brittany Baker
Penelope Ford[30] Olivia Hasler[37] Valet of Joey Janela

Broadcast team

Ring name Real name Notes
Alex Marvez Alex Marvez Announcer[38]

Backstage personnel

Ring name Real name Notes
Billy Gunn[39] Monty Sopp Producer[38]
B.J. Whitmer[40] Benjamin Whitmer Producer[38]
Dana Massie[36] Dana Massie
Jeff Jones[41] Jeffrey Jones

Corporate staff

Name Notes
Chris Harrington[42] VP of Business Strategy
Shahid Khan[43] Lead Investor
Tony Khan[29] President

References

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