Tag: AEW on TNT

AEW heading to Charlotte, North Carolina for week six of TV

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AEW is heading to Charlotte, North Carolina for week six of their television series.

On this week’s Being the Elite, it was announced that week six of AEW on TNT will take place at Bojangles’ Coliseum in Charlotte on Wednesday, November 6. The announcement was made by Tony Schiavone, with Schiavone officially announcing that he’s joined AEW. Schiavone will also continue to work with MLW.

Tickets for week six of AEW TV will go on sale at noon Eastern time on Friday, September 6.

The updated list of venues for the first six weeks of AEW TV is listed below:

  • Week one (October 2): Capital One Arena, Washington D.C.
  • Week two (October 9): Agganis Arena, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Week three (October 16): The Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Week four (October 23): Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Week five (October 30): Charleston Coliseum, Charleston, West Virginia
  • Week six (November 6): Bojangles’ Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina

AEW will air live on TNT on Wednesdays from 8-10 p.m. Eastern time.

Tag Team Champions to be crowned on week five of AEW on TNT

Posted on by Joseph Currier

AEW has confirmed when their first-ever Tag Team Champions will be crowned.

The finals of the promotion’s Tag Team title tournament will take place on week five of AEW on TNT. The Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, West Virginia is hosting the episode on Wednesday, October 30.

The full list of teams for the Tag title tournament has yet to be revealed. Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) are facing The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) at All Out on August 31, with the winning team getting a first-round bye.

A first-round match between The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) and Private Party (Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy) has been announced for week two of AEW TV.

The semifinals of the Tag Team title tournament will be held on AEW’s fourth TV episode.

AEW has also announced that Chris Jericho will be in action at the Charleston show. Jericho vs. Hangman Page at All Out will determine the first AEW World Champion.

Tickets for episodes four and five of AEW TV are going on sale this Friday at noon Eastern time. Episode four is taking place at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 23.

Tag title tournament semifinals set for week four of AEW on TNT

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Though details about their Tag Team title tournament are still sparse, AEW has revealed when the semifinals will be taking place.

The semifinals of the AEW Tag Team title tournament will be held at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, October 23. That’s week four of AEW television.

Tickets for weeks four and five of AEW TV are going on sale this Friday at noon Eastern time. The Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, West Virginia is hosting week five on October 30.

Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) are facing The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) at All Out on August 31, with the winning team getting a first-round bye in the Tag Team title tournament.

The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) will face Private Party (Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy) in the first round of the tournament at week two of AEW TV in Boston, Massachusetts on October 9.

AEW will air live on TNT on Wednesdays from 8-10 p.m. Eastern time. It’ll be going head-to-head with NXT on the USA Network, which premieres two weeks before AEW TV begins.

WOR clip: Dave Meltzer talks possibility of NXT to USA Network

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NXT may soon be headed to cable television.

During today’s episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer brought up that he had gotten word that NXT may be moving to the USA Network. According to Meltzer, there has been talk of NXT either moving to FS1 or USA, with the latter being the current candidate. An announcement regarding NXT’s future is expected to be made soon.

Meltzer and Garrett Gonzales went into further detail about what this would mean for future NXT television tapings. Meltzer mentioned that the plan is for the show to be two hours, airing head-to-head with AEW’s television series on TNT on Wednesdays every week. The premiere date for NXT on USA could also come before October 2, which is when AEW debuts on TNT.

Meltzer noted that there would be a live component to NXT on USA, though whether it would be live every week or every other week have both been discussed.

You can listen to the clip from today’s episode of WOR below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESbGQwefrJc

AEW sells out Boston and Philadelphia TNT events

Posted on by Josh Nason

Continuing their string of recent sellouts, All Elite Wrestling sold out both their Boston, MA, and Philadelphia, PA, TNT events in roughly an hour Friday.

The approximately 4500 seats available at Boston University’s Agganis Arena sold out in 57 minutes and would have done so faster had the online sales process not slowed down, according to our Dave Meltzer. The Wednesday, October 9th Boston show will be the promotion’s second live TV show on TNT and will feature Jon Moxley vs. Shawn Spears and the Young Bucks vs. Private Party.

The Wednesday, October 16th Philadelphia show, held at Temple University’s Liacouras Center, sold out approximately 7700 seats in just over an hour. 6500 of those tickets were sold in just 45 minutes. The third TNT show will feature both World title defenses for the men and women.

The success follows a quick sellout for AEW’s debut on TNT on Wednesday, October 2nd, in Washington, DC, at the Capital One Arena. 

AEW has yet to announce any dates past Philadelphia, but are expected to soon.

Update: AEW sells out tickets for TV debut

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Update —

Cody Rhodes tweeted that tickets have sold out: “SOLD OUT Thank you all so very much. (Do not give up hope on being there live though, we should be lifting potential camera/production holds as we get closer to the event. Keep checking at AEWTIX.com )”

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On Friday, AEW fought through Ticketmaster issues and sold more than 9,200 tickets over two hours for their Wednesday, October 2nd TNT debut at the Capital One Center in Washington, DC.

The ticketing giant had some major issues where, for the first 90 minutes, prospective buyers were either told no tickets were available or tickets would be shown as available and then people would get messages that someone had beaten them to buying them. 

As a result, there were reports of an immediate sellout because people weren’t able to buy anything. All tickets on the opposite side of the hard camera were sold, so it will look full on television even if no more seats are sold, which obviously won’t be the case. 

Over the last several minutes, we’re told TicketMaster’s issues were cleared up and people have been able to order, but the question is how many people that were initially turned away are aware of this.