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 Brisbane Entertainment Centre
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Grand Slam Australia is an upcoming 2025 professional wrestling television special produced by the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It will be the fifth annual Grand Slam event and will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland; it was originally scheduled to be held at the city's Suncorp Stadium. The special will be simulcast on TNT and Max in the United States, airing in place of AEW's regular Saturday program, Collision . This marks AEW's first event in Australia and breaks Grand Slam's tradition of being held as a two-part television special at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City in late September.

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Production

Background

Grand Slam is an annual professional wrestling television special 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 special—from 2021 to 2023, it encompassed the broadcasts of Wednesday Night Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage , while in 2024, it aired as Dynamite and Saturday Night Collision . [1] [2] [3]

During All In on August 25, 2024, AEW announced that the fifth Grand Slam would be moved up towards the beginning of the year, taking place on Saturday, February 15, 2025. Additionally, the 2025 event was announced to be broadcast as a one-night event 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 venues to potentially hold an event in Australia in 2025. [5] The Suncorp Stadium was originally slated to host the event, [4] but on November 25, it was reported that AEW would be moving Grand Slam, citing low ticket sales. [6] [7] The new venue was subsequently confirmed as the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. [8]

It was originally believed that Grand Slam Australia would be broadcast as a pay-per-view (PPV) event. However, during the January 15, 2025, episode of Dynamite, it was confirmed that the event would air on February 15 as a standalone television special, simulcast on TNT and Max on tape delay that night in place of Collision. [9] AEW had also announced that the show would air at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET); however, due to a scheduling conflict with TNT's NBA All-Star Weekend coverage at that time, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that Grand Slam would air after the NBA's conclusion, [10] which was later confirmed. [11] In a media event for Full Gear in November 2024, Khan stated that due to the time difference of the show occurring at 5:30 p.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time (2:30 a.m. ET), it presented a challenge to air the event via PPV, as many fans in the United States would have likely not watched it live. [12]

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 and Collision. [13]

On the July 10, 2024, episode of Dynamite, Mariah May, protégé of then-AEW Women's World Champion "Timeless" Toni Storm, won the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament to earn a title shot against Storm. Immediately after winning the tournament, May turned on Storm and then defeated her at All In for the title. After losing the title, Storm went on hiatus for nearly four months. She returned on December 11 at Dynamite: Winter is Coming as her old "Rockstar" persona and acted as if she had just made her AEW debut. At Dynamite: Maximum Carnage, Storm won a Casino Gauntlet match to earn a title shot against May. At Collision: Homecoming on January 25, 2025, during a face-to-face with May, Storm revealed that her "Rockstar" act was all a ruse and that she had been "Timeless" the entire time.

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Mariah May (c) vs. "Timeless" Toni Storm Singles match for the AEW Women's World Championship [14]
2 Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega vs. The Don Callis Family (Kyle Fletcher and Konosuke Takeshita) Tag team match [15]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change

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