AEW President Tony Khan addresses All Out 2025 being moved to an earlier start time

While speaking at a media call to promote the 2025 All Out PPV event, AEW President Tony Khan addressed All Out 2025 being moved to an earlier start time to avoid going head-to-head with WWE Wrestlepalooza…

“I am very excited for the opportunity to have this show this Saturday afternoon. I thought it was the vision for our fans. We’ve had great success with the last few AEW pay-per-views. AEW Forbidden Door with the early start time—that came from us starting at prime time in London and delivering the pay-per-view early in the US. That show did very well for Forbidden Door. And then we had some of our best pay-per-view numbers ever for AEW All In, which set some great business milestones for us. It was our most bought pay-per-view ever on Amazon, and it was a huge success and our biggest live crowd ever in North America for AEW All In in Texas, again with that afternoon start time. So, I think we can make it three great shows and three very successful shows in a row. And I can already tell you this show is going to be a very successful business venture. I think it’s also going to be a great wrestling show and keep this run of great AEW pay-per-views going this Saturday afternoon.

I think it was the right decision for the fans to put the time here, and also for us being in the pay-per-view business, to continue this run of great shows and make these adjustments based on the wrestling landscape and also based on our metrics. We thought this would be our best chance to deliver our best numbers while still delivering the great show to the fans. That is a must for me, and a lot of the fans like this setup better. Clearly, it’s worked very well for us and I think it’s going to work very well for us this Saturday afternoon for AEW All Out.”