AEW: Tony Khan Gives Update on Upcoming Major AEW Announcements, Update on AEW’s Plans for Stadium Event in Texas in 2025, More News

Tony Khan Provides Update on Upcoming “Most Important Announcements” in AEW History

As noted before, AEW CEO Tony Khan recently revealed that the most important announcements in AEW history will be made soon. One of the announcements was revealed to be related to AEW’s talks for a new media rights deal.

Khan recently provided an update on Twitter stating that these “most important” announcements in AEW history are ahead.

Thank you all who watch AEW as we approach indelible times in our history with #AEWAllIn London @wembleystadium August 25,
+ the most important announcements in AEW history ahead!

Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite will be great this week!
See you 8pm ET/7pm CT
This Wednesday on TBS!

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) August 12, 2024

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Update on AEW’s Plans for Stadium Event In Texas in 2025

As noted before, AEW is currently rumored to be working on plans to hold a major stadium event next year in the Dallas and Arlington area in Texas.

Figthtful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW officials are currently considering the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas as the most likely location for their potential new stadium event.

This stadium is the current home of MLB team Texas Rangers and has a maximum capacity of 40,300 for baseball games and over 43,000 for entertainment events.

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AEW News & Notes

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW officials currently have plans to “load up” the upcoming Casino Gauntlet match at this month’s All In 2024 event. It was reported that several “interesting names” will be involved in the match which features the winner earning a future shot at the AEW World Championship.

This past Friday’s AEW Rampage show was notable for Rampage surpassing the lifetime number of episodes of WCW’s Thunder television series. This past Friday’s show was the 157th episode of Rampage while Thunder in its entirely spanned for 156 episodes in total.

Swerve Strickland recently released his newest music album, titled Motion Sickness, on Spotify.

As noted before, Ruby Soho has been absent from AEW since this past April due to her and Angelo Parker currently expecting the birth of their first child. Soho and Parker recently shared several maternity photos on Twitter.

The Young Bucks recently reflected on Twitter about their upcoming AEW World Tag Team Championship match against The Acclaimed at this Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show and the reports of them currently being on a limited dates deal with AEW. The Young Bucks stated “Going to continue the greatest tag title run in @AEW history when we successfully defend our titles against The Acclaimed on one of our very limited dates, this Wednesday on #AEWDynamite!“

As noted before, the July 10th AEW Dynamite show in Calgary, Canada featured Mariah May turning heel on “Timeless” Toni Storm and attacked both Storm and Luther. In a recent virtual fan signing event for Highspots Superstore, Storm provided an update on Luther’s “injury” status. Storm stated “All this money is going to be contributed towards my butler, Luther, who is currently going through some kind of transplant surgery following his terrible fall off the stage some time ago. I haven’t checked on him in a long time, but this is all for him. I’ve heard it was an awful, terrible transplant surgery that Luther’s had to go through. He’s really been going through it. I don’t know what kind of transplant it is. It could really be anything.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, AEW is currently considering plans for British indies wrestlers Michael Oku and Amira to make a potential appearance at their All In 2024 event later this month in London, England. In a recent interview with Stephanie Chase, Oku confirmed that he has been in recent talks with AEW for their All In 2024 event. Oku stated “I’m trying to find the right way to answer this. I think that’s the most I can confirm, is that there’s been contact made, which obviously makes sense. I wrestled Will earlier in the year in front of Tony Khan. I got to meet Tony Khan and have a conversation with him there at the venue as it happened. This match happens with MJF, they’ve posted my promo on their channels. They’re promoting this, so there’s been contact to allow these things to happen with AEW, so there’s been contact of what we can potentially do in the future. I’ll leave it there.” Oku also gave his thoughts about his ideal situation for an AEW appearance. Oku stated “Wembley Stadium. In my head, I was like, it would be cool if I won this title. They have a non-title, they don’t need the title, and I wrestle someone for the title at Wembley Stadium. But I would love to have a step-up from last year. It was cool to experience being around all the boys and girls in the back, to do something, to be involved and have some kind of role in the show, but I feel like I’ve made enough of a name of myself in this country that if a big show’s happening in this country and there’s enough of a crossover with the AEW fans, at least the UK fans, that there would be some interest to see me do something, if it’s small, but a wrestling capacity, as Michael Oku, as me the wrestler on the show. So hey, there’s a Casino Gauntlet as well. There could be surprises there, and I would be very happy if my music as well plays. That’ll be very cool if my music plays at Wembley Stadium.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Stephanie Chase, Deonna Purrazzo gave her thoughts about her decision to not return to WWE and join with AEW instead. Purrazzo stated “I did. It kind of came down to a few weeks before I was a free agent of talking to everybody. Talking to Triple H and William Regal. I talked to, obviously, Tony Khan. Trying to figure out what the best decision for me was going to be. I felt, ultimately, back before I went to NXT the first time, I was supposed to be on All In. I was supposed to be doing all these great things, going back to Japan. I gave all of that up to go to NXT. It didn’t work out. I was very bitter about that, but it just didn’t work out. I learned a lot about myself. I was hesitant to go back into that situation knowing how I was treated. Wanting to avoid that at all costs. I felt like there wasn’t trust there for me to squander this really great opportunity that I knew was there for AEW. Who knows, in hindsight, had I not gone to NXT, had I been at All In, I could have been at AEW from the beginning, maybe. I could’ve been here for five-and-a-half to six years. I was really worried that I would be giving up something really great for something that I already knew the potential outcome of.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)