Will Ospreay wants on the card when AEW presents All In from Wembley Stadium on August 27.
The 29-year-old told Dark Puroresu Flowsion recently that he is hopeful there will be an opportunity for him to perform on the show.
Ospreay said:
“Im a guy that pops in. All the love in the world to all those & its amazing crew. I hope there is an opportunity as 1 of the guys that flys the flag for everywhere I go. To do that would finally make my dad proud”
Ospreay has been out of action since a shoulder injury caused him to withdraw from the New Japan Cup last month. However, NJPW recently announced he’ll participate in a four-person single-elimination tournament to determine Kenny Omega’s next challenger for the IWGP United States Championship.
The first match in the tournament will see Lance Archer and Juice Robinson face off at Collision in Philadelphia on Sunday. Ospreay will then wrestle Hiroshi Tanahashi at Resurgence in Long Beach, California on Sunday, May 21. The winners will wrestle each other in the finals at Dominion in Osaka-Jo Hall on Sunday, June 4.
The winner of that match will challenge Omega on a date that has yet to be determined.
Dax Harwood has a dream match in mind for AEW All In from Wembley Stadium.
Harwood and Cash Wheeler told Uproxx recently that if the promotion wants to sell 50,000 tickets to the show then CM Punk & FTR vs. The Elite should be on the marquee.
Wheeler said:
I love that we’re going to Wembley because even if it’s not completely to the brim full, 50-, 60-, 70,000, whatever it ends up being, that’s huge for this company. As a company that’s only a couple years into its existence, you can’t play it safe all the time. The roster right now is so deep, why not go for it?”
Harwood added:
“CM Punk and FTR versus the Elite,” he said. “That’s gotta be it, right? If you want to sell 50,000 tickets and take this company to the next level, that’s it, that’s me dreaming. That’s the dream match. That six-man tag in Wembley Stadium could help launch AEW to the next level.”
Our own Dave Meltzer reported last month that Tony Khan made the decision to bring Punk back and a plan on reconciliation was agreed upon. However, it is unknown if Punk’s Instagram comments that were critical of his program with Jon Moxley caused any changes to these plans. Punk has been out of action with a torn triceps since All Out last September.
FTR defeated Austin and Colten Gunn on Dynamite last week to win the AEW World Tag Team titles for a second time. The match carried a stipulation that had FTR lost, they would have to leave AEW. In the lead-up to the match, Harwood said that the pair’s AEW contracts were set to expire in April. With the win, it appears FTR is staying with AEW and they say their relationship with Tony Khan factored into their decision.
“I think that Tony gets Dax and Cash, FTR, better than Vince,” Harwood says. “I think he understands that we are average, everyday human beings that just caught on with the fans because they can relate to us, because we’re either family men or just regular human beings. We just enjoy physicality and we enjoy fighting, and I think that they can live their lives through us. (Vince has) a business track record that proves that he is obviously very intelligent to the business, but I think he thinks he knows what the Revival was better than we did. That’s why he came up with all those cartoon costumes he gave us. In contrast, Tony understands that no one knows who we are better than us, and no one can display our characters or show our characteristics better than we can.”
Wheeler added:
“The conversations we have with Tony, the relationship we have with Tony compared to [Triple H] or Vince, we get along well with both those guys over there. Vince, to our faces anyway, was always very respectful, respected our work. Same with Hunter. But with Tony, I feel like we can have open, honest discussions with him about how we feel, where we think we need to change something or pivot. And I know that he’s receptive to it.”
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including Tony Khan’s big announcement about Wembley Stadium, what we know and don’t know about the time and date, AEW Dynamite with the debut of Jay White and more, when the WWE sale came to be, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
AEW’s London, England, debut has finally been revealed as the company will head overseas for the first-ever AEW All In — their first event outside North America.
However, the Sunday, August 27th event isn’t simply an arena show but a stadium show at the famed Wembley Stadium in what AEW head Tony Khan said will be one of the “biggest shows in the history of the company.”
The news was Khan’s promised big announcement and he was flanked by new signee Nigel McGuinness and Adam Cole as he made it in a pre-taped segment.
During the announcement and subsequent press release, All In never announced as a pay-per-view. With the following weekend (Labor Day in the U.S.) traditionally being when they hold their All Out pay-per-view, it’s unknown if that will still be the case.
Khan talked about how five years ago, the original All In was the biggest indie event of all time put on by “four pioneers” in Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes.
When fans think of Wembley Stadium, the famous 1992 WWE SummerSlam in the old version of the venue immediately comes to mind — the company’s first-ever UK stadium show at that point.
WWE will be holding this July’s Money in the Bank at London’s O2 Arena.
#AEW’s highly anticipated UK debut will take place at the iconic @wembleystadium on Sunday, August 27!
