AEW All Out is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Established in 2019, it is held annually in September, having originally taken place during Labor Day weekend until 2024. The inaugural event is considered a spiritual successor to the independently produced All In in 2018, which served as a catalyst to the formation of AEW in January 2019. It is one of AEW’s “Big Five” events, along with All In, Double or Nothing, Full Gear, and Revolution.
With the exception of the 2020 event, All Out was held annually in the Chicago metropolitan area until 2025. The 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024 events were held at the Now Arena (formerly Sears Centre Arena) in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the same venue that hosted the inaugural All In, with the 2023 event held at Chicago’s United Center. The 2020 event was held at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida. The 2024 event was the first to not be held during Labor Day weekend, and it also returned the event to Saturday for the first time since 2020. The 2025 event was the first All Out to take place outside of the Chicago area, and subsequently the United States, as it was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
On September 1, 2018, an independent wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event was held called All In, which took place in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, Illinois at the former Sears Centre Arena—renamed to Now Arena in 2020. The event was organized by members of The Elite and it was a catalyst to the formation of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on January 1, 2019. The Elite became executive vice presidents of AEW, which scheduled a spiritual successor to All In called All Out, with the inaugural All Out PPV taking place on August 31, 2019, at the same venue as All In. The event was named “All Out” as the “All In” name was owned by Ring of Honor (ROH) at the time and AEW president Tony Khan wanted to avoid a lawsuit—Khan would later purchase ROH in March 2022 and later revived All In as an annual AEW PPV.
The inaugural All Out drew a sold-out crowd of 10,500 and sold out within about 15 minutes of tickets going on sale. It featured ten matches, including two on the Buy-In pre-show, and aired on traditional PPV outlets as well as B/R Live in North America and FITE TV internationally. In the main event, Chris Jericho defeated “Hangman” Adam Page to become the inaugural AEW World Champion. Other prominent matches included the Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix) defeating The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) in a ladder match to retain the AAA World Tag Team Championship, Pac defeating Kenny Omega by referee stoppage, and Cody defeating Shawn Spears. Nyla Rose won a 21-woman Casino Battle Royale on the pre-show, while Riho defeated Hikaru Shida on the main card; the two advanced to face each other for the inaugural AEW Women’s World Championship on the premiere episode of Dynamite on October 2, 2019. The Women’s World Championship belt was also unveiled at the event. Critics generally praised the show, with particular acclaim for the ladder match.
A second All Out was then held on September 5, 2020, establishing the event as an annual Labor Day weekend PPV for the promotion. This second event was originally to be held at the same venue, but was instead held at AEW’s home base of Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida. The 2021 event was held on September 5, returning to the inaugural event’s venue. While All Out had traditionally been held at the Now Arena, the 2023 event moved All Out to Chicago’s United Center.
The 2024 event was scheduled for Sunday, September 1, 2024, returning the event to the Now Arena. However, on May 21, AEW announced that All Out would instead take place at the Now Arena a week later on Saturday, September 7, in turn marking the first All Out to not be held during Labor Day weekend. This change came in response to criticism of the 2023 event being held only one week after All In. This subsequently returned the event to Saturday for the first time since 2020.
Although Double or Nothing was considered AEW’s marquee event, AEW referee Aubrey Edwards referred to All Out as AEW’s premier event on an episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast. AEW President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Khan later referred to All Out as being one of the promotion’s “Big Four” PPVs, their four biggest shows of the year produced quarterly, along with Double or Nothing, Full Gear, and Revolution. With All In becoming one of AEW’s annual events in 2023, it supplanted Double or Nothing as AEW’s marquee event, and overall biggest event of the year, with the previous “big four” plus All In becoming the “big five”.
On May 20, 2025, the Toronto Sun reported that the 2025 All Out would be held at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, September 20, 2025, thus breaking AEW’s tradition of hosting the event in the Chicago metropolitan area, subsequently marking the first All Out held outside the United States. This was also AEW’s first PPV event available to livestream on HBO Max, with subscribers getting a discount (US$39.99 instead of US$49.99 on other platforms).
