What is AEW's 'Wrestlemania'?

[clifford]

Do you think AEW has what they consider its biggest show of the year, like WWF/E and Wrestlemania, NWA/WCW and Starrcade, TNA/Impact and Bound for Glory?

Double or Nothing was their first ever event while All Out has its connections to the All In ppv and the birth of AEW as a company.

Or do you see them as equal, and with no event that AEW run seemingly bigger than any other?

OR do you think there is a show that AEW thinks of as its biggest show of the year, but isn't DON or All Out?

[sunnytaker]

while not providing anything helpful for the thread i do recall tony khan coming out and saying what PPV he considers their wrestlemania a while back...except i can;t remember which one it was... i want to say double or nothing but aren;t positive

[Fake Jesus]

There isn't one, nor does there have to be with four PPVs.

[anglarite]

A better question would be "What is WWE's All Out?"

[Square]

I never get the need for the "Wrestlemania equivelent" because doing so you're teaching casual fans to only really pay attention to that one event because thats the big one, thats the important one. Whereas with every PPV is important you are allowing casuals to jump on at any point

[smokinvokoun86]

Pretty much equal. Full Gear will come and that will be a stacked card with a huge amount of hype as well. That’s what’s makes four PPVs a year feel special. You could in theory have four Wrestlemanias a year instead of only one.

If you NEED to have an answer it would have to be either All Out, because it’s the show that’s based on All In, and that show was the inspiration for AEW. Or Double or Nothing, which was the very first official AEW show.

[Push R Truth]

It's an interesting conundrum. If all the shows are "special", then quite quickly none of them are. You can't have everything special. That's not how special works.

If one of them is bigger than the others you risk having them feel inferior.


The simple fact that a PPV is called "All Out" implies that it's probably the #1 show. Because it's going all out. I'm glad I'm not the one in charge.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

I can't tell if All Out is intended to be the top show, or if it just feels that way because the name sounds like it would be AEW's top show.

I do feel like every PPV card has been an earnest attempt to put on the best show possible with a good build and memorable storylines. To the extent that AEW falters, it feels like the sort of honest fumble that wrestling will always have. There are certainly matches that are happening to pad time out to the next PPV (Omega vs. Orange vs. Pac comes to mind), but I cannot imagine AEW (in its current state) treating any of the four as a stop along the way to the next.

[Bad Moon]

It's Full Gear. I know that sounds counter-intuitive because it's only the fifth PPV they did overall, but it's the first show they built and promoted as a consequence off of weekly TV. For all the shows before that, you had basically had to pay to see if this new promotion was any good at all, but you could watch the build to Full Gear for free and then make an informed decision on whether or not you wanted to pay for the resolution.

[Deleted]

Doesn't feel like they have one. Feels like these are more like Royal Rumbles if that make any sense. They're huge ppvs but nothing feels like it's leagues above everything else to the point where they book everything around them to me.

[bob]

I was actually wondering this myself a few days ago --- and I don't they have their one giant PPV a year

every one of their PPVs are on even footing to me

[salz4life]

I'll say it again..... eventually, AEW is going to have a Wrestle Kingdom type show that will involve other companies. I think it will be a couple years at least and it won't be as big as NJPW, at least for now (then), but I think it's coming.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Sept 7, 2021 9:49:09 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

It's an interesting conundrum. If all the shows are "special", then quite quickly none of them are. You can't have everything special. That's not how special works.

I don't think that logic tracks at all, because they run so few PPVs a year and it's not that "everything" is special because the weekly TV is the usually un-special stuff building toward all of this. This is the sort of thing only wrestling fans ever see in this light because they've been conditioned to see X show as the biggest and mosterest by what's really just advertising gimmicks. It's not logic that ever gets applied to a book series. If you build each PPV up as a climax to stories and you make them important enough, they can absolutely all be special, because storytelling tools trump promotional gimmicks any day.

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They're all on equal footing... and considering their TV Product just basically sold out a 14K seat arena and a currently record breaking for them 17k seat arena... the PPV's aren't even the only huge events from the product.

[pippen94]

Doesn't need one