10 Things That Must Be On The AEW Streaming Service

When Cody Rhodes accepted Dave Meltzer’s challenge to sell 10,000 tickets for a non-WWE live event, we didn’t know we would essentially be getting a Trojan horse full of Tony Khan’s masterplans. Of course, the show featured many of AEW’s future major players. Not just The Elite, but also then relative unknowns like Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. and MJF. There were also big stars from NJPW, like Kota Ibushi and Kazuchika Okada, and even Rey Mysterio competed in the night’s main event.

A celebration of wrestling and a massive success on its own terms, All In also proved something of a test case, demonstrating that there was a massive audience for wrestling beyond the sports entertainment stylings purveyed by the market leaders in Stamford. The night remains in AEW’s DNA, with PPV titles Double Or Nothing and All Out serving as direct references to where it all started.

Tony Khan had a blueprint for success, a group of ambitious, superlative wrestlers who shared his vision, and with All In he had a proof of concept. The only thing he didn’t have was the rights to the All In footage. Those rights were owned by Ring Of Honor, but as of March this year, that ceased to be a problem. When Tony purchased ROH, the rights to All In came with it, leaving no barrier to Khan putting the show on his own streaming service and cementing it as AEW’s Big Bang moment.