Tony Khan Explains Why AEW Are Running Wembley Stadium Instead Of Craven Cottage For UK Debut

Tony Khan explains why AEW’s UK debut will not take place at Craven Cottage, the home stadium of Fulham.

Khan owns Fulham, and as such many fans expected the first AEW event in the UK to take place there, however, AEW announced All In for August 27th in Wembley Stadium and have already sold almost 70,000 tickets for the event.

Speaking to TalkWRESTLING, Tony explained why Wembley was chosen over Craven Cottage.

“Those are two of my favorite places in the world. Craven Cottage is literally a home to me. I would love to do any big event in Craven Cottage. Wembley offered several things that we just couldn’t possibly do at the Cottage. In this case, the load in, logistically at Craven Cottage was going to be pretty much impossible. It would have been really hard to make it a big scale event there based on how challenging it would be load set, the ring, and all the elements for a big wrestling show into Craven Cottage. The Cottage was built in 1879. We’ve done a lot of renovation, to say the least, on the riverside in recent years, but Wembley offered us a less challenging load in, and also the ability to sell many times more tickets. We’ve already sold twice as many tickets as we could have sold at Craven Cottage. I really wish that would have come off, but Wembley is also one of my favorite places in the world. This is, to be honest, my first choice of where to do the show, at Wembley Stadium,” 

Tony Khan

There have yet to be any matches added to AEW All In, but with three months to go, there may not be one announced for quite some time. Any further updates on AEW All In will be reported by Bodyslam.net as the news breaks.

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