Fight for the Fallen | |||
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
Date | January 1, 2025 | ||
City | Asheville, North Carolina | ||
Venue | Harrah's Cherokee Center | ||
Tagline(s) | Mother of all simulcasts [1] | ||
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The 2025 Fight for the Fallen is an upcoming professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It will be the sixth Fight for the Fallen charity event and will be held on New Year's Day on January 1, 2025, at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina and will air live as a special episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS in the United States as well as the streaming service Max globally. This will be the company's first event to be simulcast on television and Max, with all future AEW television programs to be simulcast on Max. This will be the first Fight for the Fallen since August 2023 and the first to air as only a one-night event since 2021. The event will help support victims of Hurricane Helene, which greatly affected the Asheville area in September 2024.
Fight for the Fallen is a professional wrestling charity event held by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2019—it was originally held in July but moved to August in 2023. An event was not held in 2024, but on November 19 that year, AEW announced that the sixth Fight for the Fallen would be held on New Year's Day on January 1, 2025, and broadcast live as a special episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS in the United States. Additionally, the television special will air on the streaming service Max, marking AEW's first program to simulcast on television and Max, with all of AEW's television programs to be simulcast on Max going forward. The event will be held at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina and will benefit victims of Hurricane Helene, which greatly affected the Asheville area in September 2024. [2]
Fight for the Fallen will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines, written by AEW's writers. [3] Storylines are produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage , and Collision . [1]
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