Grand Slam Australia

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Grand Slam Australia
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Promotion All Elite Wrestling
DateFebruary 15, 2025
City Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Venue Suncorp Stadium
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Grand Slam Australia is an upcoming 2025 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It will be the fifth annual Grand Slam event and first to air live on pay-per-view. It will take place on February 15, 2025, at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, marking AEW's first event in Australia. Initially from 2019 till 2024, Grand Slam was held as a two-part television special at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City in late September, thus this event will subsequently break tradition.

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Production

Background

Grand Slam is an annual professional wrestling event produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2021. From its inception until 2024, the event was traditionally held in late September at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in the New York City borough of Queens. It also originally aired as a two-part television special that encompassed the broadcasts of Wednesday Night Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage , although in 2024, it changed to Dynamite and Saturday Night Collision . [1] [2] [3]

During All In on August 25, 2024, AEW announced that the fifth Grand Slam would take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025. Additionally, the 2025 event was announced to be broadcast via pay-per-view (PPV), in turn reducing it to one night, and be held at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, marking AEW's first event in Australia, with the event subsequently branded as Grand Slam Australia. [4] This announcement came shortly after AEW president Tony Khan confirmed that the company were scouting Australian venues to potentially hold an event in the country in 2025. [5]

Storylines

Grand Slam Australia will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Storylines are produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision. [6]

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