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Are You Pro Or Con AEW Moving All In From London To Texas? | Question Of The Day

Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day! One of the biggest news stories of the week was Tony Khan announcing that next year, AEW All In won’t be at Wembley Stadium, but rather, Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. All In will return to London in 2026, but this deal with the Arlington Sports […]

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Are You Pro Or Con AEW Moving All In From London To Texas? | Question Of The Day

Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day!

One of the biggest news stories of the week was Tony Khan announcing that next year, AEW All In won’t be at Wembley Stadium, but rather, Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. All In will return to London in 2026, but this deal with the Arlington Sports Commission has clearly swayed this decision in a big way to get a major pay-per-view, rather than just Ring of Honor events and AEW Collision.

My question for you today is “Are you for, against, or indifferent to this move? Should All In have stayed a Wembley show? Does it not matter at all? Is this a good thing to switch it up?”

Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.

As far as my answer…

It’ll sound ridiculous coming from me, as I’m the one asking the question, but I personally do not care.

I hadn’t planned to make a trip to London to see this next year where this would get in the way, nor would this make it any easier, as I wouldn’t fly to Texas for it, either. I live in New York City, and I haven’t even gone to Arthur Ashe or anything like that.

So long as the crowd is hot and the matches are good, that’s all that I really care about as a viewer watching from home. Assuming I’ll even be alive by next July—and the way 2024 has beaten me down, who knows if that’ll even be true—the only difference I’ll see is graphics with a Texas flair instead of the UK aesthetics.

Of course, that does mean there’s a chance this just gets booked like a more normal card, too. After all, part of what makes it easier to sell out a show in Wembley Stadium is that AEW doesn’t just travel there frequently, so there’s a sense of urgency. If you’re in the area and you don’t go to THAT show, you might not get another opportunity. Whereas Texas, big deal? Go to the next one.

That also means any European talent who would be more heavily featured for being in the London show won’t get that special treatment. It wasn’t a guarantee that that would happen (look at PAC) but it did clearly have some influence on a few things so far. There isn’t as much of a special feature location-based sensibility when it comes to doing a show in Texas, in comparison. It’s not like Tony Khan is going to have to book around all the Texan talent.

To me, the bigger story is that TK once again made this out to be “one of the most important announcements in the history of AEW”—and, as per usual, I feel like that’s overselling it. He’s done that less lately than he was doing a year or so ago, but it still feels like I keep hearing this “oh my god, ground-breaking incoming announcement that will change the world of professional wrestling as we know it and shatter your brain” type of hype, only for it to be something that WWE would have Michael Cole casually announce on Raw to coincide with an earlier press release.

Granted, WWE is guilty of this from time to time, too. I don’t quite understand why we’re getting these “kickoff” press conferences so much lately, for instance, nor do I think we need three hour pre-shows for any purpose. But they don’t tend to hype them up as monumental game-changing announcements in the same way. To me, this is not much bigger of a story than if they announced AEW Revolution 2025 was going to be in Milwaukee or that AEW Dynasty will be in California. That New Japan, CMLL, AEW crossover show in January that will follow Wrestle Kingdom, for example, is a FAR bigger announcement, in my mind.

By this point, I guess I have to just assume any future announcement from Tony Khan that he hypes up as being huge is just going to be something relatively normal, and that the hyperbole over how gigantic this All In: Texas event is will be going on any time it’s brought up for the next year, only for it to be a normal event with around 15 matches that have good to great in-ring action and goes on about an hour longer than it needs to, like every other AEW event.

Cool for the people in the Arlington area, though. Get your tickets. Wrestling events are always more fun live.

What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!

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