AEW All In News: More on Paid Attendance, CM Punk & Jack Perry Backstage Incident Update, More News

More on AEW’s Record Breaking Paid Attendance for All In

As noted before, AEW recently announced that this past Sunday’s All In event at Wembley Stadium in London, England broke the record for largest paid attendance for a wrestling event in wrestling history at 81,035.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources confirmed that AEW’s announced number for All In was the 100% legitimate paid attendance for the event. Unlike how WWE announces attendances for their events, Johnson reported that AEW did not include comp tickets or visitors or anyone else beyond paid tickets fans for their official announcement. The reason reportedly was due to AEW not wanting there to be any over-inflation of the number. During the post-show media scrum, Tony Khan stated that the total attendance for the event was around 90,000 when including comps and others.

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More on CM Punk & Jack Perry Backstage Incident at AEW All In

As noted before, CM Punk and Jack Perry were involved in a backstage physical altercation incident at this past Sunday’s AEW All In event at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Following the incident, AEW suspended both Punk and Perry over the incident.

In regards to Punk threatening to quit the company and AEW officials scrambling for a new potential opener for All In, Brian Alvarez reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Live that AEW officials went up to the Young Bucks and FTR and asked them if they were able to have their match open the show on a short notice. Both the Young Bucks and FTR responded stating they wouldn’t be able to which led to AEW officials next asking the Golden Elite and Bullet Club Gold & Konosuke Takeshita if they were able to do so. Alvarez reported that the Golden Elite and BCG & Takeshita stated that they could do it if needed.

In regards to Punk’s status for AEW’s All Out 2023 event this Sunday, Alvarez reported that his sources within Warner Bros Discovery stated that they had been told by AEW officials that Punk would not be working at their upcoming event and confirmed that he had been suspended.

In regards to Punk’s new suspension from AEW, Haus of Wrestling’s Nick Hausman reported that his sources stated that Fightful’s report about Punk being directly informed by AEW officials of his suspension was not true. Instead AEW officials reportedly directly contacted Punk’s lawyer who then informed Punk of his suspension.

In regards to Perry’s suspension, PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Perry will not be in attendance at tonight’s Dynamite show in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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AEW All In News & Notes

A recent episode of Being The Elite focused on AEW’s All In event this past Sunday at Wembley Stadium.

AEW recently released an official highlight reel video for their All In event.

Post Wrestling’s John Pollock reported that AEW talent and staff were among those who were impacted by serious flight-related issues for their flights out of the United Kingdom this past Monday. This issue was stated to have been caused by a “technical issue” from the National Air Traffic Service that resulted in many flights being grounded and travel being restricted until the glitch in the system was resolved.

In a recent Instagram Stories post, Nick Jackson praised Adam Cole, MJF, FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler), Darby Allin, Sting, Will Ospreay, Eddie Kingson, Hikaru Shida, Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta), and Orange Cassidy for their work in AEW that helped led to All In become a big success for the company. Jackson also praised Cody Rhodes for his importance with the original All In event that helped lead to AEW’s event.

Besides Nick Jackson, MJF also praised those behind-the-scenes in AEW for their work that also helped led to All In to become a big success for the company. MJF stated “ALL IN simply doesn’t happen without (that mark) TK, our production team, medical, coaches, props department, social media team, ring crew, camera men, merch team, makeup team, taylors, Travel Team, security team, seamstresses, ring announcers, Legal department, commentators, referees, and everyone in between. Make sure to thank them as much as you thank the wrestlers. But obviously and most importantly, thank me again because I deserve it. #BetterThanYouBayBay“

Will Ospreay recently reflected on Twitter about getting the honor to compete at AEW’s All In event this past Sunday. Ospreay stated “The gratitude I have for you all that have followed my career throughout this crazy journey is genuinely overwhelming. Last night you & AEW truly changed my life. Honoured not only to represent my family, NJPW but represent British wrestling at Wembley Stadium. Thank you so much.“

Santana recently commented on Twitter about why nobody should care about CM Punk’s most recent backstage incident and instead everyone should care more about this past Sunday being one of the best days ever for professional wrestling. Santana stated “Who gives a damn about who fought with who…Stop allowing that to drown out the fact that pro wrestling had one of the most amazing days EVER! Grow tf up.“