10 Ways AEW Has ALREADY Made Wrestling History

Since being announced all the way back on the 1 January 2019 episode of Being the Elite, All Elite Wrestling has been sending shockwaves through the wrestling world, drawing comparisons to WCW as the next big competitor to Vince McMahon's spawling behemoth, World Wrestling Entertainment.

Recently celebrating its third birthday, AEW could be seen as being in its infancy, had it not already had such a huge impact on the industry, making monumental waves from the off.

The company still has its critics, and Vince's sports entertainment juggernaut still makes an exorbitant level of revenue, however, as an alternative form of professional wrestling entertainment, AEW is undoubtedly a major player. And nobody can deny its seismic entries in the annals of wrestling history.

While there will undeniably be more historic events that one could point to, here are a select ten examples of Tony Khan and co's most notable achievements...

Before you exclaim "this wasn't an AEW event", consider firstly that everybody knows that, then also consider that everybody also knows that this was an essential milestone towards the official creation of AEW, and should be recognised as the spiritual beginning of the promotion.

Following a comment made by Dave Meltzer that Ring of Honor could not sell 10,000 tickets for a wrestling event, Cody Rhodes and the non-WWE wrestling world en masse set out to prove him wrong.

On 1 September 2018, Rhodes, the Young Bucks, and Kenny Omega, eventual EVPs of AEW, were joined by future AEW signings and wrestlers from every corner of the wrestling landscape for the event, which was held in association with ROH.

Future AEW signees included the current AEW World Champion "Hangman" Adam Page, Penta El Zero Miedo, Rey Fénix, all three members of SoCal Uncensored, then ROH World Champion Jay Lethal, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, and current AEW Women's Champion Dr. Britt Baker.

Add to this list Kazuchika Okada, Rey Mysterio, and Arrow star Stephen Amell, and it's clear to see how All In became a draw that would sell out in 30 minutes, garnering an attendance of 11,263 people, and making it the largest audience for a professional wrestling show in the United States not affiliated with WWE or WCW for 25 years.