ARLINGTON, Texas — All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced Thursday that it will host the 2025 edition of its annual, tentpole "All In" pay-per-view event at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
The main event itself will take place on July 12, with additional events set to occur at other Arlington venues in the build-up to it.
Given that the Texas Rangers' home boasts a capacity of 40,300 attendees, this newly announced AEW event promises to be the largest United States-hosted event in the wrestling promotion's five-year history.
"This is a huge, huge day for us, and be assured that AEW All In on July 12, 2025, is going to be one of the most important nights in Texas pro wrestling history," AEW Owner and CEO Tony Khan said during a press conference Thursday.
Arlington Mayor Jim Ross said the city is excited to see AEW come here, particularly after their recent partnership with AEW for the "All In Summer Series."
"From a kid of an 87-year-old man who is the world's biggest wrestling fan, he will tell you that AEW is the new superstar of wrestling," Ross said.
The announcement comes after AEW has intentionally carved out a large presence in North Texas over the past few years.
AEW is currently closing out a month-long residency at the Esports Stadium down the road in Arlington, where they will have hosted six shows in five weeks from July to August -- including five tapings of its weekly AEW Collision television program, as well as a pay-per-view program from its sister Ring of Honor promotion.
Each of these shows has drawn packed houses with loud fans, calling back to the 1980s heyday of weekly wrestling at the Dallas Sportatorium.
AEW itself has never previously held a pay-per-view event in North Texas, despite the company's numerous appearances here. The promotion's biggest shows in North Texas prior to this just-announced event would be its annual "AEW Dynamite" special "Winter is Coming", as well as several pay-per-view events from Ring of Honor, which is the smaller promotion of AEW -- both of which are owned by second-generation billionaire Tony Khan, whose family owns the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Although AEW has never done a venue of this size in America before, Khan said its experiences internationally, and knowing how loyal and fierce Texas wrestling fans are, that Globe Life Field is the perfect place for AEW to host its first stadium show in the U.S.
"I can tell you that this is a memory that will live forever in the minds of wrestling fans all over the world," Khan said. "AEW is on in 150 countries now. So people are going to be talking about this everywhere for many, many years to come."
AEW will also host another series of events in Arlington leading up to "All In: Texas" next year, much like the series of shows at Esports Stadium this year, but Tony Khan said he couldn't get into specifics as to when or where exactly those events would be.
Khan was also unable to talk about whether "Winter is Coming" would be in DFW again this year.
With hot crowds that keep coming back to these shows every year, many wrestling observers have speculated that North Texas was due for a pay-per-view from the company.
Turns out, they were right.
"All In" will be AEW's largest show in the U.S. up to this point -- but not its largest show overall. Last August, AEW hosted a show called All In at Wembley Stadium in London, and it will return to that famous, 90,000-capacity soccer stadium to host another U.K. show in just a few weeks.
The largest show AEW has previously held in the U.S. prior to this coming Globe Life Field show is its annual "Grand Slam" edition of "Dynamite", which has been hosted at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York, every September. Arthur Ashe Stadium, a tennis venue that serves as the center court for the U.S. Open each year, can hold more than 20,000 people -- but that's still just half of Globe Life Field's capacity.
"All In 2025" will also be the first pro wrestling show to ever be held at Globe Life Field. Although the Rangers' current baseball stadium is only four years old, its previous home field -- now known as Choctaw Stadium -- never held a pro wrestling show, either.
This will not, however, be the first pro wrestling show hosted at a baseball stadium, as there have been plenty of those before. Most recently, WWE has previously held its annual Royal Rumble pay-per-view event at Tropicana Field in Tampa, home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It has also held a Royal Rumble at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. In its previous incarnation as WWF, the company also ran major shows at Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets, dating back to the early '70s.
In addition to being the home of the Texas Rangers, Globe Life Field recently hosted the 2024 MLB All-Star Game and, in 2020, served as the neutral mid-pandemic host to the World Series. Beyond baseball, the stadium has also hosted rodeo events and regularly served as a concert venue since its 2020 opening.