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2024 All Elite Wrestling pay-per-view event From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2024 WrestleDream was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the second annual WrestleDream and took place on October 12, 2024, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. Like with the previous year's event, the show was held in honor of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) founder Antonio Inoki, who died on October 1, 2022.
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
Date | October 12, 2024 | ||
City | Tacoma, Washington | ||
Venue | Tacoma Dome | ||
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Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including four on the "Zero Hour" pre-show; the "Zero Hour" pre-show also included a memorial ceremony for Antonio with his grandsons Naoto and Hirota Inoki. In the main event, Jon Moxley defeated Bryan Danielson by technical submission to win the AEW World Championship, ending Danielson's full-time professional wrestling career. In other prominent matches, Konosuke Takeshita defeated previous champion Will Ospreay and Ricochet in a three-way match to win the AEW International Championship and in the opening bout, Jay White defeated "Hangman" Adam Page. The event was also notable for the returns of Adam Cole, MJF, and Swerve Strickland.
On October 1, 2022 (September 30 in Eastern Time), Antonio Inoki, the founder of the Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), died.[1] Prior to his death, the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) began a working partnership with NJPW in early 2021.[2] This resulted in the annual co-promoted event, AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, which was first held in June 2022.[3]
The inaugural WrestleDream event took place on October 1, 2023—the one-year anniversary of Inoki's passing—at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, marking AEW's first PPV to be held in the state of Washington.[4] The name of the event was a reference to Inoki, who AEW promoter Tony Khan called "wrestling's greatest dreamer".[5] On April 11, 2024, AEW announced that the second WrestleDream would take place on October 12, 2024, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, thus establishing WrestleDream as an annual PPV event.[6][7]
Role | Name |
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Commentators | Excalibur (Pre-show and PPV) |
Tony Schiavone (Pre-show and PPV) | |
Nigel McGuinness (Pre-show and PPV) | |
Jim Ross (last 2 matches) | |
Don Callis (International Title match) | |
Spanish Commentators | Carlos Cabrera |
Alvaro Riojas | |
Ariel Levy | |
Ring announcers | Justin Roberts |
Arkady Aura (Zero Hour and PPV) | |
Referees | Aubrey Edwards |
Bryce Remsburg | |
Mike Posey | |
Paul Turner | |
Rick Knox | |
Stephon Smith | |
Interviewer | Alicia Atout |
Pre-show hosts | Renee Paquette |
RJ City | |
Jeff Jarrett | |
Chuck Taylor | |
Nyla Rose |
WrestleDream featured 13 professional wrestling matches, including four on the pre-show, that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines.[8] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision.
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