All Elite Wrestling The Story so Far and What is Next?

All Elite Wrestling 
The Story so Far and What is Next?

From AEW Wrestling

There has been so much announced for All Elite Wrestling this past week, new signees, New Matches announced and conformed for Double or Noting and talking of Double or Nothing a ticket pre sale announced and dates for when Tickets for Double or Nothing will go on sale.

Lets look at some of the different elements in All Elite Wrestling how it is coming together and what else might be needed going forward

Ownership



Picture credit - BBC Shalid Khan (left and Tony Khan (right)

AEW is owned and founded by Shalid Khan and is run by his son Tony Khan. The Khan family own American football team Jacksonville Jaguars and Tony Khan holds the position of Senior Vice President, Football Technology & Analytics. The Khan Family also own Fulham Football club in English Premier League. 

Tony Khan is a massive Wrestling fan, who has extensive knowledge of wrestling and used to trade tapes in the 1990's.

Tony Khan has said interviews that he is a fan of Chris Jericho and that he watched ECW when he was younger. 

I have watched interviews with Tony Khan and in my opinion I feel he is very knowledgeable and engaging and he is keeping expectations in perspective and seems like he really wants to make an investment in wrestling and improve wrestling landscape and change it for the better. 

Tony Khan has also regularly gives  to a number of fund raisers and charities for a number of different causes, he gives back to the community both from himself and via the clubs and organisations that he owns. 

Picture Credit - @tonykhan

Directorship of AEW

Cody Rhodes - Executive Vice President
Nick Jackson - Executive Vice President
Matt Jackson - Executive Vice President
Kenny Omega - Executive Vice President
Brandi Rhodes - Chief Brand Officer
Billy Gunn - Backstage Producer
BJ Whitimer - Backstage Producer
Christopher Daniels - Head to Talent Relations
Dana Massie - Chief Merchandise Officer
Chris Harrington -Vice President of Business Strategy

Roster

Photo Credit - AEW Wrestling

Even more additions were made this past week with Kenny Omega being announced as a full time Wrestler and also and Executive Producer in addition to his in ring duties completing the leadership model for All Elite Wrestling.

Pentagon and Fenix were also announced to have joined the company as were The Best Friends Barretta and Chukie T, plus a partnership with AAA Mexican Luchador promotions was announced which will see AAA appear on AEW shows, plus AEW have the already announced OWE promotion from China announced as another partnership promotion. 

Male Roster

Male wrestlers

• Cody Rhodes
• The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)
• Chris Jericho
• Kenny Omega
• “Hangman” Adam Page
• Christopher Daniels
• Frankie Kazarian
• Scorpio Sky
• Joey Janela
• Maxwell Jacob Friedman
• PAC
• Cima
• El Lindaman
• T-Hawk
• Takehiro Yamamura
• Jungle Boy
• Pentagon
• Fenix
• Jimmy Havoc
• Chuck Taylor
• Trent Baretta
• Sammy Guevara
• Sonny Kiss

Female wrestlers

• Brandi Rhodes
• Britt Baker
• Penelope Ford
• Aja Kong
• Yuka Sakazaki
• Kylie Rae

Watch the most recent AEW Event Las Vegas Pool Party by Clicking the video below 

Upcoming Event - Double or Nothing

Picture Credit - All Elite Wrestling

The First event for All Elite Wrestling is Double or Nothing to be held in Las Vegas at The MGM Grand Arena on 25th May 2019 

Rumoured matches so far are

AEW World Title 
Adam Page vs PAC

Kenny Omega vs Chris Jericho 

Young Bucks vs Pentagon and Fenix

SCU (Chris Daniels, Kaz and Scorpio Sky) vs Cima and ????? and ????

What's Next for All Elite Wrestling? 

The way they want to present wrestling - a Ranking system?

There was a lot of talk at the press conference in Jackonsville that All Elite want to use some kind of ranking system for their wrestlers on the show.

Nick Jackson and Cody mentioned recently that it was a concept they were still working on but said that they felt it would be integral to the shows and be backed up with statistics that can be presented on screen or by the commentators as they are talking about matches.

The ranking system could be achieved in many ways, It could be split into different groups Heavyweight, Tag Team, Cruiserweight Ladies and in its simplest form if you get a win you get 1 point and a loss equals 0 points and the person at the top of their group 2 weeks before the event gets the number one contendership.

Another system that could be used is one similar that is used in English Football (Soccer) that you keep the same ranking system as above but with the following changes you have

3 Points for a win
1 Point for a draw 
0 points for a loss

Two Weeks before the PPV the league stops and the 2 people that finished top n that division then face each other in a umber one contender match the winner of that then goes on to face the champion at the PPV. You could also changed this so if 3 people were on the same points you could have a triple threat number one contendership or even a 4 way contendership match if 4 people ended on the same points 

As an example in the Women's division you have the women's league and it finished like this 

Britt Baker - 12 Points
Asa Kong - 12 Points
Brandi Rhodes - 10 Points 
Yuka Sakazaki  - 8 points 
Nyla Rose - 6 Points 
Kylie Ray - 4 points

As they are on 12 points each your number one contender match is 

Britt Baker vs Asa Kong

The Winner then faces Penelope Ford (Hypothetical AEW Women's Champ)

AEW TV Deal 

This is purely my opinion but I think and feel that the next for All Elite Wrestling as an announcement of a television deal in USA. 

Who this will be with and when this might be airing hasn't been revealed yet but I think its the next logical step for the company so they can support their Pay Per View Events with content and help build more intrigue for the matches on those events and also support the ranking system we discussed above.

Being a resident of the UK I am also hoping for a UK TV deal or a way to watch via online if a UK deal cannot be reached at this time, as I want to witness the fantastic action that AEW is sure to provide.

Thanks for Reading 

@jon422002
Jonathan Orchard