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All Elite Wrestling pay-per-view event

The 2025 WrestleDream is an ongoing professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It will be the third annual WrestleDream and takes place on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. This is AEW’s second PPV event held at the venue, after Dynasty in April 2024, and the first WrestleDream to take place outside of the U.S. state of Washington. The annual event is a memorial for New Japan Pro-Wrestling founder Antonio Inoki.

Production

Background

WrestleDream is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced every October by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2023. The event is held in honor of Antonio Inoki, the founder of AEW’s Japanese partner promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), who died in October 2022.^[1][2] The name of the event is a reference to Inoki, who AEW owner Tony Khan called “wrestling’s greatest dreamer”.^[3] The 2025 event will also be held as a tribute to Lou Thesz and wrestling in St. Louis.^[4]

On July 21, 2025, AEW announced that the third WrestleDream would take place on October 18, 2025, at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri.^[5] This will mark the promotion’s second PPV event to take place at the venue, following Dynasty in April 2024, as well as the first WrestleDream to take place outside of the U.S. state of Washington. Tickets for WrestleDream went on sale July 28.^[6]

Broadcast

WrestleDream will be broadcast on multiple platforms worldwide. In the United States, the event will stream on HBO Max, Prime Video, Fubo, PPV.com, and YouTube. HBO Max subscribers can access the event priced at $39.99, compared to $49.99 on other platforms.^[7][8] It will also air on Prime Video in Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and on YouTube in Canada, South Korea, France, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Pay-per-view events are also available via traditional cable and satellite providers, including DirecTV, Sling TV, and Dish Network, in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Select international markets will have access through TrillerTV and PPV.com.

Following the October 15 episodes of Dynamite and Collision, TNT and HBO Max aired Countdown to WrestleDream. The Saturday Tailgate Brawl pre-show will take place at 7:00 p.m. ET, simulcast on HBO Max and TNT.

Storylines

WrestleDream features professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines.^[9] Storylines are produced on AEW’s weekly television programs, AEW Dynamite and AEW Collision.

At Dynamite: Grand Slam on September 25, 2024, Jon Moxley defeated Darby Allin for Allin’s AEW World Championship opportunity at the 2024 WrestleDream. At Rampage: New Year’s Smash on December 27, 2024, Moxley and the Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Marina Shafir, Pac, and Wheeler Yuta) attacked Allin and threw him down a stairwell, taking him out of action for several months. Allin would make his return at All In: Texas on July 12, 2025, repelling from the ceiling and helping fend off the Death Riders during Moxley’s AEW World Championship defense in the main event, which he lost to “Hangman” Adam Page. At Forbidden Door on August 24, Allin took part in a Lights Out Steel Cage match, in a team captained by Will Ospreay and they would defeat the opposing team featuring Castagnoli and captained by Moxley. At All Out on September 20, 2025, Allin was defeated by Moxley in a coffin match when returning Death Riders member, Pac, attacked Allin and cost him the victory. Later that same night, Allin emerged from the coffin backstage and attacked Moxley with a steel pipe, zipped him up inside of a body bag, and lit the body bag containing Moxley on fire. On the following Dynamite on September 24, Allin, armed with a flamethrower, confronted Jon Moxley and challenged him to an “I Quit” match for WrestleDream, and the match was made official.^[10]

During the Dynamite 6th Anniversary Show on October 1, 2025, AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page teamed with two-thirds of the AEW World Trios Champions The Opps (Samoa Joe and Powerhouse Hobbs) to defeat the Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Daniel Garcia) in a trios match. Following the match, an argument ensued between Page and Joe, with Joe accusing Page of stealing his tag-in and trying to show him up during the match. Joe then vehemently stated that Page has never beaten him in the past, before striking Page in the face. This led to Page challenging Joe to a match at WrestleDream for Page’s World Championship, which Joe accepted.^[11][12]

At All Out on September 20, 2025, Kris Statlander won the AEW Women’s World Champion in a four-way match by pinning then champion “Timeless” Toni Storm, winning the title for the first time in her career. During the Dynamite 6th Anniversary Show on October 1, Storm challenged Statlander to a singles match for the title, which Statlander accepted for WrestleDream.^[11]

Results

No.	Matches*	Stipulations
1P	Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia, and Pac) defeated Roderick Strong and The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, and Tomohiro Ishii) by pinfall	Eight-man tag team match[13]
2PF	FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (with Stokely) vs. JetSpeed (“Speedball” Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight)	Tag team match[13]
3PF	Eddie Kingston and Hook vs. TBA	Tag team match[13]
4PF	Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale vs. Divine Vanity (Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford)	Tag team match[13]
5	Darby Allin vs. Jon Moxley	“I Quit” match[14]
6	“Hangman” Adam Page (c) vs. Samoa Joe	Singles match for the AEW World Championship[12]
7	Kris Statlander (c) vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm	Singles match for the AEW Women’s World Championship[15]
8	Jurassic Express (Jack Perry and Luchasaurus) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)	Tag team match[16] The winners receive a $500,000 cash prize.
9	Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Mark Briscoe	Singles match for the AEW TNT Championship[17]
10	Brodido (Bandido and Brody King) (c) vs. Don Callis Family (Kazuchika Okada and Konosuke Takeshita) (with Don Callis)	Tag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship[18]
11	Jamie Hayter vs. Thekla	Singles match[19]
12	The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, and MVP) vs. The Demand (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, and Toa Liona)	Tornado Trios match[20]
13	Mercedes Moné (TBS) vs. TBA (TBA)	Winner Takes All match for the AEW TBS Championship and the challenger’s championship[21] This will be an open challenge, which may be answered by any champion in the world.
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match P  – the match was broadcast on the pre-show PF  – the match will be broadcast on the pre-show *Card subject to change

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