Quite recently the professional wrestling world has got to witness the inception of a new and completely different sort of wrestling promotion names “All Elite Wrestling”. Established in the year 2019 itself, the brand has been launched by renowned Entrepreneurs Shahid Khan, who is the lead investor of the brand. Moreover, his son Tony is going to act like a president and the CEO of the company.
On the other side, names like Cody, Matt and Nick Jackson have been inducted as the brand’s initially contracted superstars coming with the “Elite” brand. All the three professionals would be serving as the executive vice presidents and the in-ring performers along with their other partner Kenny Omega.
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History And Background Of All Elite Wrestling
It all started with a controversial comment by famous professional wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer who said that the famous wrestling promotion Ring of honor has not been able to sell even 10000 tickets in the process. This was something which didn’t go well with the professional wrestlers Cody, Matt and Nick Jackson and they came up with their independent professional wrestling event named “All” in the year 2018.
While all the three partners were known wrestlers in the Ring of Honor event, this came as a big surprise for most of the people in the wrestling promotional events. Still, to everyone’s surprise, the event got sold out in a span of only 30 minutes and got attended by the largest audience ever witnessed in a non-WWE event in the United States of America. Not only did the event impressed the critics, but it was also been ascertained that all the three superstars would keep on going with their ambitions in the same direction. That’s how “All elite wrestling” came into the picture in the year 2019.
How The “All Elite Wrestling” Came Into Picture
It was earlier been assumed on November 5, 2018, that the “All Elite wrestling “ will be coming into the picture as the applications for several trademarks like All Elite Wrestling, AEW all out, AEW, All out, Double or nothing, Tuesday night dynamite and so on. Eventually, in December 2018, all three professional wrestlers left ROH (Ring of honor) and the official announcement of the AEW came into existence on January 1, 2019, during a web series named, being the elite.
The same web series also announced the upcoming episodes of “Double or nothing” which has been quoted as the inaugural show for the All elite wrestling event. Later, on January 2, 2019, all the three professional wrestlers signed with the brand as the competitors and also the chief executive vice presidents of the much talked about event. Moreover, let’s take a look at the fall of events in the context of the establishment of the “All elite wrestling” from there on.
- Billionaire’s son-father duo, Tony and Shahid Khan were announced as the CEO and the president of the promotional event respectively on Jan 2, 2019.
- Brandi Rhodes, wife of Cody Rhodes has been declared as the chief brand officer of the promotion on the very next day.
- On January 8, the brand held a press conference at the TIAA bank field where the names of all the performers and the respective teams were announced
- Some of the famous names were Chris Jericho, Chris Daniels, Scorpio sky, Frankie Kazarian, Dr. Britt Baker, Adam page, Joey Janela and Pac.
- An association with the famous Chinese wrestling promotion (Oriental Wrestling Entertainment) was also been announced during the event.
- On February 7th, another press conference has been held where the tickets for the inaugural event “Double or Nothing” got released.
- There was also an announcement regarding the official joining of Kenny Omega as the Fourth executive vice president and an in-ring performer in the event.
- Signings of some new names in the wrestling world like Penta El zero, Rey Fenix, Chuck Taylor, and Trent Beretta was also been announced.
- A Partnership with the famous Mexican wrestling promotions Lucha Libre AAA worldwide was also been declared during the event.
Main Events Of The “All Elite Wrestling”
Double Or Nothing
This would be the inaugural event of the brand “All elite wrestling which will be held at MGM Grand Garden arena of Las Vegas city on May 25, 2019. Moreover, all of the major stars and new signings will be apart of the inaugural event and this would certainly lay down the foundation of the future for this most talked about wrestling promotion event. On the other side, the second show in the same context would be held at the Ocean center of the Daytona Beach Florida on June 29, 2019.
It must be noted that no official announcement has been made in regards to the main events of both the shows and it is still to be seen which performers would be a part of the same in the coming future.
Fight For The Fallen
The next show in the “ All Elite wrestling “ would come with the name of “ Fight for the fallen” and would be held at the Daily’s place in Jacksonville, Florida on July 13, 2019. Just like the previous two events, there are no details yet available for the main events of this show as well.
Wrestlers which Are A Part Of the Roster Of The “All elite wrestling”
There will be a number of wrestling stars who will be a part of this new and exciting professional wrestling event and we have divided the same into two different categories of Male and female.
Male Wrestlers
The Male contingent would include some of the biggest names in the wrestling world like “ Hangman” Adam page, Brandon Cutler, Chris Jericho, Chris Daniels, Chuck Taylor, Cima, Cody Rhodes, Frankie Kazarian, Jimmy Havoc, Joey Janela, Jungle Boy aka Jack Perry, Kenny Omega, Kip Sabian, Matt Jackson, Max Friedman, Rey Fenix, Scorpio sky and so on.
Female Wrestlers
On the other side, there will be some of the most renowned female wrestlers who will be the part of the show namely Aja Kong, Allie, Bea Priestly, Brandi Rhodes, Dr. Britt Baker, Kylie Rae, Nyla Rose, Penelope ford, Saddie Gibbs and Yuka Sakazaki
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