AEW's biggest show of the year, All In: London, hits Wembley Stadium this Saturday

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HeartbreakKid92

All Elite Wrestling returns to Wembley Stadium in London this Saturday, August 30, for All In: London, the promotion's fourth annual All In event and by far its biggest show of the year. The card already includes a Casino Gauntlet Match, where the winner earns a future opportunity to challenge for the AEW World Championship, along with a multi team defense of the AEW World Trios Championship still being finalized in the days leading up to the show.

Mercedes Moné is set to face Willow Nightingale in one of the marquee women's matches on the card, and Moné has been vocal in recent interviews about where she thinks AEW's women's division stacks up against the rest of the wrestling world heading into the show. Elsewhere on the roster, Chris Jericho recently opened up on Wrestling Observer Radio about turning down a potential WWE return specifically to stay with AEW, giving some insight into how the promotion is positioning itself as a long term home for established stars rather than just a stopover.

The build to All In has also been shadowed by injury news, with Eddie Kingston ruled out of his scheduled Continental Cup quarterfinal after failing to receive medical clearance, forcing Daniel Garcia into a play in match to take his spot against Claudio Castagnoli. Julia Hart's run in the Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix also wrapped up recently, adding another storyline thread for AEW's international partnerships heading into the London show.

The bigger context around this event is a ratings battle playing out weekly between AEW and WWE, with AEW Dynamite reportedly seeing a viewership decline in the demo numbers for its August 19 episode. A stadium show at Wembley, historically AEW's strongest crowd atmosphere of the year given how the original All In event in 2018 essentially kickstarted the promotion's entire existence, gives Tony Khan's company a real opportunity to generate a positive news cycle regardless of how the weekly numbers have been trending lately

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Amber84

A stadium show in London still carries so much weight for AEW specifically because of how directly tied the original 2018 All In was to the company's own origin story. That's a level of symbolic weight WWE's own stadium shows just don't really carry in quite the same way

Odd Arrow

The Bayley situation lurking in the background of all this AEW coverage is fascinating given the timing. Her WWE deal reportedly expiring right as AEW is putting on its biggest show of the year creates an obvious opportunity for AEW to make a real splash signing if she actually becomes available. She's accomplished essentially everything there is to accomplish in WWE at this point in her career. A fresh start in a different promotion, with a different creative team building new stories around her, would be a genuinely interesting next chapter for someone at that stage
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