“Shout-Out to My Sister”: Cody Rhodes Gives His ‘AEW Friends’ Their Flowers as They Fill 90,000 Seats Thanks to His Sister’s Genius

AEW’s biggest PPV ever ‘All In’ is all set to take place on 27th August at the Wembley Stadium in London. This will be AEW’s first ever wrestling event at a football stadium. Wembley Stadium has a capacity of 90,000 seats out of which 81,636 tickets have already been sold out. This in itself has broken the attendance record set by WrestleMania 32 with 80,709 tickets sold for that event.

And recently Cody Rhodes who organized the first ‘All In’ in 2018 expressed his joy and pride in the success his brainchild has achieved in recent times.

Cody Rhodes is super proud of The Young Bucks and his sister for making ‘All In’  a world-class event

And to think that all of this began just with the enthusiasm of 3 wrestlers who had an undying love for the sport of pro wrestling. After leaving WWE in 2016 and wrestling on the independent circuit for 2 years, Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks, Nick and Matt Jackson along with help from Ring Of Honor organised the first ‘All In’ event in 2018.

Back then, there was no AEW. ‘All In’ was just an independent professional wrestling pay-per-view. It included wrestlers from NJPW, ROH, Impact Wrestling, NWA, Lucha Libre AAA World Wide and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. So basically all the who’s who of the wrestling business were participating in the event except the WWE.

The total attendance back then was 11,263, which was still a huge number for an independent PPV. And recently Cody Rhodes took part in an AMA (ask me anything) on the subreddit SquaredCircle. There he was asked whether he would watch his baby product ‘All In’ on the 27th. He said he will be working that day but he was super proud of everyone. He even thanked his sister Teil Runnels for coming up with the name of the event.

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He said, “I will be working that day, but I am very happy for the guys and girls competing out there. I am proud of Matt/Nick for taking our creation to another level. Also shout out to my Sister, Teil, who named the event and Joe Koff at ROH for helping us and allowing us the chance to do it ourselves.”

The success of this independent PPV led to the formation of AEW.

AEW began as a result of Cody Rhodes talking to Tony Khan about creating a sequel to ‘All In’

After the initial success of ‘All In’, reports came out that WWE offered contracts to Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks. But they all refused them. They knew deep down that they could create something even bigger with their pure love for wrestling.

And so they did, with the help of Tony Khan who knew Cody Rhodes. Khan was also a big pro wrestling fan. After getting a lot of positive feedback, Cody and The Young Bucks wanted to do another PPV.

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They were already in talks with Tony Khan to invest in their upcoming PPV. That later got converted into what we today know as All Elite Wrestling. All 3 of them were made the Executive Vice Presidents of AEW and Tony Khan became the CEO.