# AEW Winter Is Coming

AEW Winter Is Coming is an annual professional wrestling television special produced every December by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2020. The event's title is a reference to the motto in Game of Thrones, as well as its eponymous television episode. The show is distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of AEW's broadcast partners, TNT and TBS. The event originally only aired as a special episode of the promotion's flagship weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite, but the 2023 event expanded the show to a three-part special, also encompassing Friday Night Rampage and Saturday Night Collision.

## History

On the November 18, 2020, episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced that the December 2 episode would be a special episode titled "Winter Is Coming". The phrase was the title of the pilot episode of the Game of Thrones television series, as well as the motto (or "Words") of House Stark of Winterfell in the series. The use of the title was approved by WarnerMedia officials, as WarnerMedia has used Dynamite to promote HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties. The event was notable for the debut of former World Championship Wrestling (WCW) legend Sting in AEW, which was his first appearance on TNT in over 19 years since he defeated Ric Flair on the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro in March 2001. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida.
On the November 19, 2021, episode of Friday Night Rampage, it was announced that a second Winter Is Coming would air as the December 15 episode of Dynamite. This established Winter Is Coming as an annual December television special of Dynamite. With AEW's return to live touring in July 2021, this second event was held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.
The third Winter Is Coming was held as the December 14, 2022, episode of Dynamite. It was also confirmed that the event would return to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. This was the first Winter Is Coming to air on TNT's sister channel, TBS, after Dynamite moved to the channel earlier in January that year. The fourth Winter Is Coming was originally scheduled to just be held on December 13, 2023. However, in addition to Dynamite on TBS on December 13 in Arlington at the College Park Center, the 2023 event was expanded to a three-part special, also encompassing the broadcasts of Friday Night Rampage and Saturday Night Collision, both on TNT. Rampage was taped after the live broadcast of Dynamite and aired on tape delay on December 15, with Collision airing live on December 16 and held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland.
The fifth Winter Is Coming will be held as the December 11, 13, and 14, 2024, episodes of Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision, respectively, The Dynamite episode took place live on December 11 at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, airing on TBS. Rampage was taped on December 11 after Dynamite's live broadcast and aired on tape delay on December 13 on TNT, while Collision was taped on December 12 at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri and aired on tape delay on December 14, also on TNT. This marked the first Winter Is Coming to be held outside of Texas since the original 2020 event.

## Events

| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
| 1 | Winter Is Coming (2020) | Dynamite: December 2, 2020 | Jacksonville, Florida | Daily's Place | Jon Moxley (c) vs. Kenny Omega for the AEW World Championship |
| 2 | Winter Is Coming (2021) | Dynamite: December 15, 2021 | Garland, Texas | Curtis Culwell Center | MJF vs. Dante Martin for the AEW Dynamite Diamond Ring |
| 3 | Winter Is Coming (2022) | Dynamite: December 14, 2022 | Garland, Texas | Curtis Culwell Center | MJF (c) vs. Ricky Starks in a Winner Takes All match for the AEW World Championship and AEW Dynamite Diamond Ring |
| 4 | Winter Is Coming (2023) | Night 1: Dynamite – December 13, 2023 | Arlington, Texas | College Park Center | Jon Moxley vs. Swerve Strickland in a Gold League match of the Continental Classic tournament |
| 4 | Winter Is Coming (2023) | Night 2: Rampage – December 13, 2023 (aired December 15) | Arlington, Texas | College Park Center | Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin) and Action Andretti vs. Komander, El Hijo del Vikingo, and Penta El Zero Miedo |
| 4 | Winter Is Coming (2023) | Night 3: Collision – December 16, 2023 | Garland, Texas | Curtis Culwell Center | Bryan Danielson vs. Brody King in a Blue League match of the Continental Classic tournament |
| 5 | Winter Is Coming (2024) | Night 1: Dynamite – December 11, 2024 | Kansas City, Missouri | T-Mobile Center | Mariah May (c) vs. Mina Shirakawa for the AEW Women's World Championship |
| 5 | Winter Is Coming (2024) | Night 2: Rampage – December 11, 2024 (aired December 13) | Kansas City, Missouri | T-Mobile Center | Powerhouse Hobbs and Mark Davis vs. The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita and Lance Archer) |
| 5 | Winter Is Coming (2024) | Night 3: Collision – December 12, 2024 (aired December 14) | St Louis, Missouri | Chaifetz Arena | Kyle Fletcher vs. Mark Briscoe in a Blue League match of the Continental Classic tournament |
| (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match |||||||