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With last night's All Elite Wrestling Double or Nothing PPV in the record books, AEW has finally transitioned from a t-shirt company to a pro wrestling company, one that produced an actual event in a sold-out arena on PPV, with a TV show launching on a national cable network in the fall, and two former[...]

Let's be fair: All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has earned every right in the world to still be celebrating their new television deal with WarnerMedia to begin airing matches on TNT later this year (more on that below) That said? AEW President/CEO Tony Khan, Executive VPs/wrestlers The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), Cody Rhodes, and[...]

Earlier this week, we learned that AEW signed a deal with Turner to air a weekly wrestling show on TNT starting this fall, as well as to air AEW PPV events, such as the upcoming Double or Nothing, on Turner's B/R Live streaming service for U.S residents Now, sports streaming service Fite TV, which streams[...]

AEW officials including billionaire money mark Tony Khan are expected to appear at Madison Square Garden for WarnerMedia's Upfront presentation on Wednesday at 10AM. Launching on the heels of the successful All In event, AEW will hold its first PPV, Double or Nothing, on May 29th Yesterday, the company announced that it would be carried in[...]

Pro wrestling fans are eagerly awaiting news on an American TV deal for upstart wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling, but fans in the UK got some good news Wednesday as AEW announced a deal with UK television network ITV to air Double or Nothing on the ITV Box Office channel A press release laid out[...]

Thank you forever. All of this, of course, begs the question: does this mean Psicosis will sign with AEW and appear at Double or Nothing in Las Vegas later this month? Sure, there technically isn't any reason to connect these two things, but Psicosis is a wrestler people have heard of, and he's in the news,[...]

Does the stay in prison represent Moxley's WWE career? Does the dog chasing him represent The Shield, the Hounds of Justice? And what about those dice toward the end? Is Moxley hinting that he will appear in Vegas at AEW's Double or Nothing? Does the barbed wire on his fist hint at a hardcore, deathmatch[...]

From what we've been reading on social media and wrestling news/rumor sites about World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), All-Elite Wrestling (AEW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Ring of Honor (ROH) Wrestling, and others over the past several months, it looks like the best storylines and true drama is going on behind the scenes (and would make[...]

Thank you everyone." Of course, just because Harper has requested his release doesn't mean WWE will grant it, especially with the company living in constant paranoia of its stars going to AEW Former WWE Women's Champion Sasha Banks has also seemingly requested her release after WrestleMania, except Banks has done so not through a direct Twitter[...]

Following up on earlier reports that Rhodes and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) met with Turner Network officials over Super Bowl weekend, The Wrap is reporting that All-Elite Wrestling (AEW) is heading to Turner – most likely to TNT, but with a multiplatform presence across Turner Network – but that a deal[...]

It's official: Jim Ross has signed a three-year deal with All Elite Wrestling to become a Senior Advisor in what the company is calling "the most lucrative deal in pro wrestling commentary history." Ross will appear at AEW's Double or Nothing event, and will also "work closely with the senior leaders at AEW on their[...]

😶 — Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) March 12, 2019 How hypocritical of Amell, who has himself participated in numerous celebrity angles in WWE and elsewhere thanks to his friendship with AEW co-founder Cody Rhodes., with the most recent being a match at All In, the prequel event to the formation of AEW put on by Rhodes and the[...]

To the male and female locker rooms, coaches and producers, to the production/ring crew, all the way up to the very top of WWE and most of all the fans…l wish you all the very best and thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything. At press time, according to Seltzer's hotline, Dillinger was[...]

This year's C2E2 convention in Chicago will be a veritable wrestling extravaganza! Hot off the buzz of selling out their first big show, and the sequel to 2018's All In, Double or Nothing, AEW will be hitting C2E2 with an AEW panel hosted by Conrad Thompson and with appearances by Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks. If[...]

Brandi Rhodes announced the signings of Kylie Rae and Nyla Rose as well as appearances of Aja Kong and Yuka Sakazaki at the event in May, and SoCal Uncensored challenged Cima to find two partners from OWE to face them as well. But that was all leading up to the main event, as a video showed the[...]

Next, AEW brought out a delegation from their partners in China, OWE (Oriental Wrestling Entertainment), who promised to bring "5000 years of Kung Fu to wrestling in the United States." Along with the OWE executives was Japanese wrestler Cima, who was challenged by Christopher Daniels to find two partners from OWE and face SoCal Uncensored[...]

Then the Young Bucks introduced the Best Friends, before being attacked by the Lucha Brothers. Next up, AEW executive Brandi Rhodes took the stage, taking a moment to wish her brother Jason a happy birthday, which the crowd was more than happy to assist with a chant But Rhodes was really out to talk about the[...]

Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta took the stage poolside to reaffirm their friendship and tell the crowd they've been looking for the best tag team division on Earth, and that's right here in All Elite Wrestling. After the Best Friends left the stage, the recently signed Lucha Brothers came out, proving AEW isn't messing around about[...]

He then began calling out Pac, promising that Pac would definitely not interrupt him like he did at the AEW rally in Florida earlier this year So of course, Pac interrupted, live via satellite, to tell Page that despite being "a very big boy," he simply not on Pac's level Pac told Page to bring[...]

Following Sonny Kiss's announcement that he would take part in Double or Nothing, co-founder Cody Rhodes took the stage poolside in Las Vegas at the AEW Rally. "If not us, who? And if not now, when?" Rhodes said, adding that AEW feels like a "revolution" as the crowd chanted its initials Rhodes brought up the company's[...]

AEW's Double or Nothing Ticket Sale party is taking place right now, and the show opened with Sonny Kiss handing free merch to the poolside crowd in Las Vegas. "So I hear AEW is for everyone Well, Sonny Kiss is for everyone," Kiss said as the crowd chanted in approval "So with that being said, I[...]

Is this proof that AEW is where The Undertaker is heading? We're going to go out on a limb and say yes: this is pretty much confirmed now. For everyone else, it might prove tough, but if you've got 25 grand lying around there are worse things you could spend your money on Probably However, The[...]

Readers of the pop culture tabloid Bleeding Cool may be unhappy with the current direction of pro wrestling clickbait and are looking for a way out of their contracts to jump ship to AEW, an offhand comment from Dan Seltzer's Wrasslin Examiner podcast reposted from behind its paywall on Reddit and then stolen from there[...]

Perhaps, however, Undertaker isn't quite ready to hang up the hat and trenchcoat he left in the middle of the ring after being defeated by Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 33 in 2017. And if The Undertaker is looking for new opportunities, could he show up in the newly formed All Elite Wrestling? Speculating on whether wrestlers[...]

Without putting on a single match, AEW has sent shockwaves throughout the pro wrestling industry, signing talent such as Chris Jericho to big money deals that has apparently raised eyebrows amongst wrestlers at WWE, in turn resulting in WWE attempting to lock down its talent with multi-year deals With the (possibly worked) announcement that Dean Ambrose[...]

For once, Ambrose's recent jobbing may have a reason behind it, as the former champion is rumored to be on his way out of the company.

For years, pro wrestling fans have clammored for the days of "The Monday Night Wars," when legit competition between wrestling companies brought out some of the best ("Stone Cold" Steve Austin!!!!), worst (David Arquette as WCW Champion?!?!), and bizarre (Mae Young gave birth to a…hand?!?!) in the battle for top of the pro wrestling food[...]

"This is the day that AEW starts Right here, right now, in Jacksonville And MAy 25th in LAs Vegas at the MGM Grand, Double or Nothing, I'm gonna be there Are you gonna be there?" "It starts now, and it starts forever," Jericho concluded "I'm not here to just change the world AEW is not here[...]

After Janella took care of MJF, he announced that he and Ford had signed with AEW as well before commandeering the jaguar's t-shirt cannon and firing merchandise into the crowd. Afterward, Hangman Page joined the rally. "The thought occurred to me that today was my first day on the job, and I already knew on that plane[...]

According to Rhodes, wrestlers will be very well paid in AEW Additionally, wins and losses will matter more than they ever have before, and finally, the promotion won't try to control who the fans cheer and boo, an obvious shot at WWE Rhodes then brought his fellow co-founders and EVPs, the Young Bucks, onstage. "We don't[...]