Next weekend, WWE and AEW will engage in another programming battle, as the former company hosts World Collide and the latter presents All Out. On July 6, AEW announced that All Out on September 26 from the NOW Arena in Chicago. 10 days later WWE revealed that it will be going up against AEW’s show With the WWE x AAA Worlds Collide event taking place in the same area on the same day.
Some figures in the wrestling world have embraced counterprogramming. AEW commentator Jim Ross, on the other hand, is strongly against it in this case.
“I think I know their motivation for having an event that day in that city that just checks those three boxes in AEW,” Ross said. “Grilling JR”. “I think everyone should contribute to the growth of our profession, I really do, but it will never happen because too many people in the wrestling business are too ignorant to see that. Everyone can help each other. It doesn’t matter who goes out of business.
“I’m for wrestling fans,” he continued. “I watch a lot of wrestling right now because I’m not traveling to any big deals. So if their motivation was to entertain the fans, have a big house and put on a great show, then I’m all for it. But that was not the motive. Lots of coincidences.”
WWE x AAA Worlds Collide, which takes place at the Allstate Arena, will feature talent like WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio, The Judgment Day’s Roxanne Perez, AAA Mega Champion El Grande Americano and Chicago native CM Punk. AEW All Out, meanwhile, will be headlined by Will Osprey vs. John Moxley in an AEW World Championship match. A three-way ladder match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship has also been confirmed.
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