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All Elite Wrestling, LLC
All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
Company typePrivate
IndustryProfessional wrestling
Sports entertainment
FoundedNovember 5, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-11-05)[1]
FoundersTony Khan
Shahid Khan
Headquarters
Jacksonville, Florida
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Tony Khan
(President)
Cody
(Executive Vice President)
Matt Jackson
(Executive Vice President)
Nick Jackson
(Executive Vice President)
Brandi Rhodes
(Chief Brand Officer)

All Elite Wrestling, LLC,[2] d/b/a All Elite Wrestling (AEW), is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. The promotion was founded by American football and Soccer executive and entrepreneur Tony Khan alongside his father Shahid Khan who is the lead investor[3][4]. Professional wrestlers Cody as well as Matt and Nick Jackson, collectively known as The Elite, are the company's inaugural contracted talents. The three are slated to serve as both in-ring performers and executive vice presidents for the promotion.

History

In May 2013, a professional wrestling stable was formed in the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) called Bullet Club.[5][6] The Young Bucks and Cody joined the stable in 2013 and 2016, respectively.[7][8][9][10][11] Over the years, the stable's members and leadership evolved and from that emerged a sub-group of the stable known as The Elite, who officially formed in January 2016 after Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks turned on their leader A.J. Styles, for Omega to become the new leader of the stable.[12][13][14] Later in September 2018, Cody and The Young Bucks promoted and held a professional wrestling event called All In, which sold out in 30 minutes and became the most attended professional wrestling show in the United States not affiliated with WWE or WCW since 1993, with the show drawing 11,263 people to the event.[15][16][17][18] The event was acclaimed, and it led to much online speculation that Cody and The Young Bucks would expand their ambitions and create their own professional wrestling promotion or do second All In event and even certain people in the televison industry were very impressed with show itself.[19][20] Founding members of The Elite, Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks were eventually joined by Cody, Marty Scurll and Hangman Page in October 2018, who joined The Elite following a storyline which saw The Elite break away from Bullet Club and become its own standalone stable.[21]

On November 5, 2018, several trademarks were filed in Jacksonville, Florida that indicated the launch of All Elite Wrestling. Names filed for trademark included: All Elite Wrestling, AEW All Out, All Out, AEW, Double or Nothing, Tuesday Night Dynamite, AEW Double or Nothing, and several logos.[1][22][23] On December 14, 2018, The Elite alongside SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) left Ring of Honor (ROH).[24] The official announcement of AEW's creation came on January 1, 2019, when Cody, The Young Bucks and Hangman Page officially revealed the promotion on Twitter, which was built up to via a countdown clock during their YouTube channel Being the Elite which expired on 2019's New Year's Day at midnight Pacific Time.[25] On the same day, Rhodes and The Young Bucks announced Double or Nothing, AEW's inaugural event, on Being the Elite. On January 2, 2019, The Elite officially signed with the promotion, with Cody and The Young Bucks serving as AEW's executive vice presidents, while entrepreneur and football executive Tony Khan was announced as the president of the company.[26][27] Khan was reported to be backing the promotion with an initial $100 million investment.[28] Brandi Rhodes was announced as the company's chief brand officer on January 3, 2019.[29] On January 8, 2018, press conference was held in Jacksonville, where a partnership with Oriental Wrestling Entertainment was announced.[30][31]

Events

Event Date Location Venue Main event
Double or Nothing May 25, 2019 Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand Garden Arena TBA
TBA TBA Jacksonville, Florida TBA TBA

Personnel

Male wrestlers

Ring name Real name Notes
CIMA[31] Nobuhiko Oshima Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
Chris Jericho
Christopher Daniels[32] Daniel Covell
Cody[30] Cody Runnels Rhodes Executive Vice President
Producer
El Lindaman Yuga Hayashi Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
Frankie Kazarian[32] Frank Gerdelman
Hangman Page[33] Stevie Woltz
Matt Jackson[33] Matthew Massie Executive Vice President
Nick Jackson[33] Nicholas Massie Executive Vice President
PAC
Scorpio Sky[32] Schuyler Andrews
T-Hawk Takuya Onodera Signed to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
[[PAC {{{last}}}|PAC {{{last}}}]] Benjamin Satterley
[[Chris Jericho {{{last}}}|Chris Jericho {{{last}}}]] Christoper Keith Irvine

Female wrestlers

Ring name Real name Notes
Brandi Rhodes[33] Brandi Runnels Valet of Cody
Chief Brand Officer
Dr. Britt Baker[34] Brittany Baker

Backstage personnel

Ring name Real name Notes
Billy Gunn[35] Monty Sopp Producer
B.J. Whitmer[36] Benjamin Whitmer Producer
Dana Massie[34] Dana Massie Merchandise department
Shahid Khan[37] Shahid Khan Investor
Tony Khan[30] Tony Khan President

References

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