# AEW Fyter Fest

AEW Fyter Fest is an annual professional wrestling event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event was established by the promotion in 2019 and is held during the summer; the first event was held in June but moved to July in 2020 and then August in 2023. Since 2020, Fyter Fest has been held as a multi-part television special. The name, slogan, and logo of the event are a parody of the fraudulent Fyre Festival.
The inaugural 2019 event was held as a special event, while the 2020 and 2021 events were held as a two-part special of AEW's weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite. In 2022, the event was expanded to being broadcast as a four-part special, encompassing the two-week broadcasts of Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage. It was then reduced to a three-part event in 2023, spanning AEW's three weekly shows of the week, including Saturday Night Collision.
The inaugural event was held in co-sponsorship with Community Effort Orlando (CEO) at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. It aired for free on B/R Live in North America and on pay-per-view (PPV) internationally. The second event was planned to air on PPV from the United Kingdom, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it took place at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida, which began the event's annual broadcast as special episodes of the company's weekly television programs.

## History

The inaugural Fyter Fest event took place on June 29, 2019, at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida in co-sponsorship between All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Community Effort Orlando (CEO). It was AEW's second-ever event and was held as part of CEO's fighting game event that year. This inaugural event aired for free on B/R Live in North America and on pay-per-view (PPV) internationally. The name, slogan, and logo were a parody of the fraudulent Fyre Festival. It was also the second wrestling event to be co-sponsored by CEO, after the previous year's New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event, CEOxNJPW: When Worlds Collide. Both the NJPW and AEW events with CEO came as a result of Kenny Omega, a former prominent wrestler of NJPW who became a wrestler and Executive Vice President of AEW following the founding of the latter in January 2019.
A second event was held in 2020, though was produced by AEW alone. AEW had originally planned to host this second event at Wembley Arena in London, England, United Kingdom in June that year; it would have been the promotion's United Kingdom debut. However, the event was moved to Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in March that year. This second event was also originally to air on PPV but was changed to being a two-part special of AEW's weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite; the first part aired live on July 1 while the second part was pre-recorded on July 2 and aired on tape delay on July 8.
The 2021 event was announced to also be held as a two-part special of Dynamite. With AEW's return to live touring during the pandemic, the two nights took place in two different Texas markets as the second event of AEW's "Welcome Back" tour. The first night was held on July 14, 2021, at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, Texas (Austin market) with the second night airing on July 21, 2021, from the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth market).
The 2022 event was expanded to be held as a four-part television special, encompassing the two-week broadcasts of Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage—AEW's secondary television program that began airing in August 2021. The July 13 episode of Dynamite was notable for a match between Jake Hager of the Jericho Appreciation Society and Claudio Castagnoli of the Blackpool Combat Club; both men previously wrestled for WWE as Jack Swagger and Cesaro, respectively, as a tag team named The Real Americans.
On August 11, 2023, AEW president Tony Khan announced that the fifth Fyter Fest would be held during the go-home week for that year's All In, moving the event to August. The 2023 event was reduced to a three-part event and encompassed the August 23 episode of Dynamite, the August 25 episode of Rampage, and the August 26 episode of Collision, the latter a third program that launched in June and airs on Saturdays.

## Events

| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
| 1 | Fyter Fest (2019) | June 29, 2019 | Daytona Beach, Florida | Ocean Center | Jon Moxley vs. Joey Janela in a non-sanctioned match |
| 2 | Fyter Fest (2020) | Night 1: Dynamite – July 1, 2020 | Jacksonville, Florida | Daily's Place | Kenny Omega and "Hangman" Adam Page (c) vs. Best Friends (Trent and Chuck Taylor) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship |
| 2 | Fyter Fest (2020) | Night 2: Dynamite – July 2, 2020 (aired July 8) | Jacksonville, Florida | Daily's Place | Chris Jericho vs. Orange Cassidy |
| 3 | Fyter Fest (2021) | Night 1: Dynamite – July 14, 2021 | Cedar Park, Texas | H-E-B Center at Cedar Park | Darby Allin vs. Ethan Page in a Coffin match |
| 3 | Fyter Fest (2021) | Night 2: Dynamite – July 21, 2021 | Garland, Texas | Curtis Culwell Center | Jon Moxley (c) vs. Lance Archer in a Texas Death match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship |
| 4 | Fyter Fest (2022) | Night 1: Dynamite – July 13, 2022 | Savannah, Georgia | Enmarket Arena | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c) vs. Team Taz (Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs) vs. Swerve in Our Glory (Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) in a Three-way tag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship |
| 4 | Fyter Fest (2022) | Night 2: Rampage – July 13, 2022 (aired July 15) | Savannah, Georgia | Enmarket Arena | The Lucha Brothers (Penta Oscuro and Rey Fénix) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) |
| 4 | Fyter Fest (2022) | Night 3: Dynamite – July 20, 2022 | Duluth, Georgia | Gas South Arena | Eddie Kingston vs. Chris Jericho in a Discovery Channel Shark Week Barbed Wire Everywhere Deathmatch The rest of the Jericho Appreciation Society were suspended outside the ring in a shark cage. |
| 4 | Fyter Fest (2022) | Night 4: Rampage – July 20, 2022 (aired July 22) | Duluth, Georgia | Gas South Arena | Jay Lethal vs. Christopher Daniels |
| 5 | Fyter Fest (2023) | Night 1: Dynamite – August 23, 2023 | Duluth, Georgia | Gas South Arena | Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) (c) vs. The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) for the ROH World Tag Team Championship |
| 5 | Fyter Fest (2023) | Night 2: Rampage – August 19, 2023 (aired August 25) | Lexington, Kentucky | Rupp Arena | The Outcasts (Saraya and Toni Storm) vs. Hikaru Shida and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. |
| 5 | Fyter Fest (2023) | Night 3: Collision – August 23, 2023 (aired August 26) | Duluth, Georgia | Gas South Arena | Darby Allin, Sting, Hook, and CM Punk vs. Mogul Embassy (Brian Cage and Swerve Strickland), Jay White, and Luchasaurus |
| (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match |||||||