AEW All In is on course to become one of the biggest wrestling events in history.
On August 27th AEW will head to the United Kingdom for the first time and they’re doing it in a big way. The promotion is heading to Wembley Stadium for what will be the first wrestling event held at the famous venue since SummerSlam in 1992.
Despite no matches being announced for the event, ticket sales are closing in on 80,000. Another question surrounds how fans who aren’t inside the stadium will be able to watch the event. Despite it being reported that AEW All In will be on pay-per-view, there’s been no official confirmation.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer described the situation around the broadcast as “weird.”
“I know that there’s no indication as far as from [official sources]. I know that Brandon Thurston got the word from Direct TV that they are carrying it. We of course got the word from Comcast. It is supposed to be secret, it has not been officially announced, maybe Tony will announce it on Wednesday.
“It’s a weird one because there must have been another plan. If was just going to be another pay-per-view, why did he say whenever it was brought up that I can’t reveal it because of my partnership with WBD, we have to reveal it together? It’s just a pay-per-view, what’s there to hide? You know what I mean?”
Meltzer went on to discuss the card for the show, and the fact that no matches have been announced despite the event being arguably the biggest in company history.
“They haven’t really built anything that big. I mean, I suppose they have a card, but it’s not even obvious what the card is, and we are less than a month away. This is like WrestleMania or should be, and you know, you know the WrestleMania matches months ahead. And by the time it is a month away, you know the card, even if it is not announced.
“It doesn’t bother me that nothing is announced, we still have 4 episodes of Dynamite and 4 episodes of Collision to announce matches, and that is plenty of time for a pay-per-view. But usually, when it comes to a Tony Khan pay-per-view, one of the issues is that you have two of them [PPVs] and I don’t know the matches for either of them.
“Obviously Luchasaurus and Darby, right? We know that one, and that’s in Chicago. I guess whatever The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega will do will be built on tomorrow’s show. Jericho and Ospreay, I don’t know how you get to that. The earliest that Ospreay could come is the 16th, as he has the G1, so that will be a late announcement.”
On the August 2nd episode of Dynamite, MJF and Adam Cole signed a contract for a AEW World Championship match at All In.
How Many Tickets Has AEW All In Sold?
With regard to ticket sales, Meltzer noted that the show is on course to become the highest-selling wrestling event in history.
“Tomorrow or Wednesday could be the day that they top WrestleMania 3, which would put them at number 4 on the all time list. They will still be behind WrestleMania 32 in Dallas, they will still be behind the Kola Kowriani and Jim Londos match in Athens in 1934, and they’ll be behind the Wembley Stadium show in 1992 with Bret Hart and Davey Boy Smith Jr.
“It is virtually a lock that they will beat all of them the way that tickets have moved the past couple of days. It was 77,500, so 80,000 is happening. It’s pretty safe to say that if you are at 77,500, and you got a month to go, you are going to hit 80,000. So aside from the shows in Korea, this will be the largest recorded crowd for a pro-wrestling event of all time, and may break the record before they announce the first match.”
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