AEW World’s End

AEW World’s End is a pro-wrestling PPV event that took place on Saturday, December 30, 2023. It was organized by All Elite Wrestling. The 2023 edition of the event was the first time a World’s End event is taking place in the promotion. It will take place live from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Long Island. This was the first PPV by AEW to take place in New York.

AEW World’s End Results

AEW World Championship Match - MJF vs. Samoa Joe

MJF defeated Samoa Joe in September to retain his AEW World Championship. During that match, MJF’s tag team partner Adam Cole came out to help him but ended up injuring his leg. This made him unable to defend his ROH Tag Team Championship at Full Gear. Joe offered MJF to be his tag team partner to defend the title in exchange for a shot at the AEW World Championship.

While MJF was reluctant at first, he eventually agreed. The two stars managed to retain the ROH World Tag Championship at AEW Full Gear. However, MJF got injured during the match. Three days later, at Dynamite, MJF gave Joe his shot at the title but Joe declined. He wanted to face a healthy MJF and instead proposed a match at World’s End, which MJF accepted.

AEW Continental Classic Final

The winner of the Blue League and Gold League will be known on the December 27 episode of Dynamite when they defeat the second-best wrestler in their league. Then, the two wrestlers will compete at World’s End for the inaugural AEW Continental Championship. Also on the line will be the ROH World Television Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Champion. Thus, the winner of the match at World’s End will be known as the first-ever AEW Triple Crown Champion.

AEW World’s End History

On October 25, 2023, it was reported that All Elite Wrestling had filed a trademark for World’s End as a PPV name. The same night, on Dynamite, AEW announced that the first edition of World’s End will take place on December 30, 2023. Since the inception of AEW, Full Gear has been its final pay-per-view event of the year. The event always takes place in the third week of November. Thus, so far, AEW did not have a PPV event in December. AEW World’s End was the first AEW PPV to take place in December and the first to take place in a year after Full Gear.

AEW Continental Classic Tournament

Brief of the Tournament and the Participants

AEW announced that the World’s End will feature the final of its first-ever Continental Classic tournament. The Continental Classic tournament is a round robin tournament between 12 wrestlers divided into two leagues - the Blue League and the Gold League. Each wrestler will wrestle five matches to end the league.

The tournament started on the November 22, 2023, episode of Dynamite and will take place across Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision, the three weekly television programs by AEW. The top two wrestlers of the league will compete in the league finals on the December 27 episode of Dynamite. The winners of their respective leagues will compete in the Continental Classic final at AEW World’s End.

Eddie Kingston finally won the tournament by defeating Jon Moxley in the final.

Tournament Prize - the AEW Triple Crown Championship

The winner of the AEW Continental Classic Tournament will be crowned the first-ever AEW Continental Champion. At the same time, Eddie Kingston is a part of the tournament. He is the current ROH World Television Champion and NJPW Strong Openweight Champion. He announced that he would be defending his both titles in the tournament. Thus, the winner of the tournament will eventually get all the three titles. These will eventually be unified and the winner of the tournament will become the AEW Triple Crown Champion - the Champion of AEW, ROH and NJPW.

Tournament Rules

• Round Robin format, every wrestler gets to face every other wrestler in their group.

• Two group blocks, Blue and Gold League, with six wrestlers each; Each wrestler competes in five matches in the league.

• There is a 20-minute time limit for each match.

• Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss. If the match crosses the time limit, it counts as a draw.

• No one is allowed at ringside. One point may be deducted if anyone does that.

AEW World’s End Date, Time and Tickets

AEW World’s End will take place on Saturday, December 30, 2023. It will take place on Saturday and the Collision of that week will move one night earlier to Fridays. The start timings of World’s End in different countries might be as follows:

• USA: 8 PM ET / 5 P.M. PT (Saturday, December 30)

• India: 5:30 A.M. IST (Sunday, December 31)

• Australia: 11 A.M. AEDT (Sunday, December 31)

• United Kingdom / Ireland: 1 A.M. BST (Sunday, December 31)

• Japan: 9 A.M. (Sunday, December 31)

• Saudi Arabia: 3 A.M (Sunday, December 31)

The tickets for the event went live on November 3, 2023, on AEW’s official website.

AEW World’s End Stadium

AEW World’s End will take place at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Long Island. Long Island is the hometown of the current AEW World Champion MJF. The Nassau Veteran Memorial is a multi-purpose indoor stadium built between 1969 and 1972. It has since been expanded thrice in 1976, 1983 and 2017. It was constructed at a cost of $32 Million which converts roughly to $255 Million in terms of 2023 Dollars.

Speaking of the stadium capacity, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum can hold around 13000 to 15000 fans for a concert and can hold more than 10000 fans for a professional wrestling event. It has been the home to many RAW and SmackDown events by WWE. Most popularly, it was the home to WWE Evolution 2018, the only PPV event by WWE where only female wrestlers performed. At that event, around 11000 fans showed up at the Coliseum.