Worlds End (2024)

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Worlds End
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
DateDecember 28, 2024
City Orlando, Florida
Venue Addition Financial Arena
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The 2024 Worlds End is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It will be the second Worlds End event and will take place on December 28, 2024, at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida.

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Production

Background

On October 25, 2023, it was reported that the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) had filed to trademark the name "Worlds End". [1] Later that same night on Dynamite , AEW announced that it would hold a pay-per-view (PPV) event titled Worlds End on Saturday, December 30, 2023, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, marking the company's first PPV to be held in the state of New York. [2] On April 11, 2024, AEW announced that the second Worlds End event would take place on December 28, 2024, at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida, thus establishing Worlds End as an annual PPV. [3] [4]

Storylines

Worlds End will feature professional wrestling matches that are the result of pre-existing feuds and storylines, with results being predetermined by AEW's writers. Storylines are produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Collision , and Rampage . [5]

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