WrestleDream

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AEW WrestleDream
Promotions All Elite Wrestling
First event 2023

AEW WrestleDream is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Established 2023, it is held annually in October, as a memorial show to New Japan Pro-Wrestling founder Antonio Inoki. The name of the event is a reference to Inoki, who AEW President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Khan dubbed "wrestling's greatest dreamer".

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History

On October 1, 2022 (September 30 in Eastern Time), Antonio Inoki, the founder of the Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), died. [1] Prior to his death, the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) began a working partnership with NJPW in early 2021. [2] This resulted in the annual co-promoted event, AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, which was first held in June 2022. [3]

In April 2023, AEW filed to trademark "AEW WrestleDream". [4] During the All In media scrum on August 27, AEW president Tony Khan officially announced that AEW would hold a pay-per-view (PPV) event titled WrestleDream, which would be held in honor of Inoki, who was someone Khan looked up to in the professional wrestling industry. The event was scheduled to take place on October 1, 2023—the one-year anniversary of Inoki's passing—at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, marking AEW's first PPV to be held in the state of Washington. [5] The name of the event refers to Inoki, who Khan called "wrestling's greatest dreamer". [6] Despite not being a co-promoted event with NJPW, the event saw the participation of NJPW wrestlers Satoshi Kojima, [7] TMDK (Bad Dude Tito, Mikey Nicholls, and Shane Haste), [8] Katsuyori Shibata, [9] Zack Sabre Jr., [10] and Will Ospreay, [11] as well as Inoki's former student Josh Barnett. [12]

A second WrestleDream event to be held on October 12, 2024 in Tacoma, Washington was announced on April 11. [13]

Events

#Event [14] DateCityVenueMain EventRef.
1 WrestleDream (2023) October 1, 2023 Seattle, Washington Climate Pledge Arena Christian Cage (c) vs. Darby Allin in a Two out of three falls match for the AEW TNT Championship [15]
2 WrestleDream (2024) October 12, 2024 Tacoma, Washington Tacoma Dome TBA [13]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

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