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This week should prove to be the highest profile week in the history of All Elite Wrestling. The promotion is all but guaranteed to sell out in the area of 19,000 tickets at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium in Flushing, Queens, NY, becoming the first promotion to ever run the venerated Stadium but also outdraw WWE in the New York City market. No other promotion - not WCW, not Ring of Honor, no one can lay claim to that accomplishment.
One would think there will be a ton of local NYC media spotlighting the promotion. Locally, there are already some unique marketing including sidewalk art promoting the Dynamite Grand Slam day and time on TNT.
What is interesting, especially as a New Yorker, is hearing from so many fans who haven't gone to a live show in a long time and even family members and friends who barely ever had a passing interest in pro wrestling, who are attending the show. AEW has grabbed the interest of those who had previously dismissed pro wrestling as something they used to love and brought them back into the fold and has even attracted those who were never even passing fans to begin with and made them interested enough to purchase tickets. That is something special, especially when they are already outlapping WWE ticket sales for each promotion's respective debut at the UBS Arena in Long Island. New York has always been a market that reacts to an "event", something that is worth their time. AEW is certainly being seen as just that. The ball is in their court and having a great show this week will be another massive feather in their cap after after the recent talent acquisitions and sellouts in Newark and Chicago.
Scheduled for Wednesday Night's Dynamite Grand Slam:
*AEW Champion Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson for the first time ever.
*AEW Women's Champion Dr. Britt Baker vs. Ruby Soho.
*CM Punk interview.
*MJF vs. Brian Pillman.
*Cody Rhodes vs. Malakai Black.
Scheduled for Friday's AEW Rampage Grand Slam, which will be taped Wednesday after Dynamite goes off the air:
*Lights Out Match: Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston vs. Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer.
*CM Punk vs. Will Hobbs.
*FTR vs. Sting & Darby Allin.
*Christian Cage & Jurrasic Express vs. Young Bucks & Adam Cole.
*Chris Jericho & Jake Hager vs. Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky.
*AEW Tag Team Champions The Lucha Brothers & Santana & Ortiz vs. The Butcher & The Blade & Private Party.
*Anna Jay vs. Penelope Ford.
AEW will tape material for Dark before they go live on the air on TNT at 7 PM EST.
Scheduled for tonight's edition of AEW Dark - Elevation:
*Thunder Rosa vs. Kaia McKenna.
*The Gunn Club vs. LSG & Anthony Bennett & Ray Jaz.
*The Dark Order Battles: 10 and Alan Angels with Alex Reynolds and John Silver vs. Colt Cabana & Evil Uno.
*Orange Cassidy vs. Mike Verna
*Private Party vs. Teddy Goodz & Jorge Santi.
*Hikaru Shida vs. Masha Slamovich.
*Sonny Kiss vs. Joey Janela - This was EXCELLENT and well worth watching.
*Santana & Ortiz vs. Avery Good and JT Dunn.
*Dustin Rhodes vs.QT Marshall.
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