Globe Life Field to host AEW in 2025

Article posted by Coliseum, August 21^st, 2024

Image: Globe Life Field (Facebook)

All Elite Wrestling is heading to the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas next year.

Spectrum News said This will be the first time an AEW pay-per-view event has ever been held in Texas, and the first-ever professional wrestling event ever held at Globe Life Field.

The event will take place at Globe Life Field on Saturday, July 12, 2025, and air live on pay-per-view.

The 40,300-capacity Globe Life Field is a retractable roof stadium in Arlington, Texas, US. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. It is located just South of the 48,114-capacity Choctaw Stadium, the Rangers’ former home ballpark.

Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company owns the naming rights for the ballpark through 2048.

All Elite Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida (US). It is considered the second largest wrestling promotion in the United States behind the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

Founded by General Manager (GM) and Head of Creative Tony Khan in 2019, the AEW offers an alternative to mainstream wrestling, with a roster of world-class talent that is injecting new spirit, freshness and energy into the industry.

In addition to AEW: All In Texas, a series of events in Arlington are being planned leading up to the event. Additional details will be announced in the near future.

Arlington Mayor Jim Ross said, “We are thrilled for Arlington to partner with All Elite Wrestling for their biggest event of 2025,” said. “Fans from around the world will converge on our beautiful city to be part of AEW: All In Texas, delivering a significant economic windfall to the region.”

This year, AEW: All In London takes place Sunday, August 25, live from Wembley Stadium in London.

‘AEW: All In London at Wembley Stadium’ marks AEW’s first show outside of North America, and the first time that professional wrestling will take center stage at Wembley Stadium in more than 30 years.

Khan said, “The UK is one of the most important markets in professional wrestling, and the AEW is coming in hot as the number one wrestling company in the United Kingdom on television.

“We want our debut in London to be epic in scale, and there’s no better venue than the Wembley Stadium to deliver what I know will be one of the greatest events in AEW’s history. This April also marks 100 years of Warner Bros. and 100 years of Wembley Stadium – it’s a fitting time to come together for ‘AEW: All In London at Wembley Stadium’.”

AEW has seen tremendous growth in TV viewership in the United Kingdom, with AEW programing serving as the highest ratings driver for men aged 16-34 on ITV4 since the start of 2022.

The AEW reached 2.8 million men on ITV platforms in 2022 and began 2023 by increasing that reach by another 45 percent among men aged 16-34.

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