AEW are working on the idea of a show in Canada.
Since its debut, AEW has had all of their events based out of the United States, flirting with the idea of an event in Japan at a later date after the success of Forbidden Door. One market AEW will look to corner the market on will be their Canadian debut.
In this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer talked about AEW’s process for planning a Canadian event. An AEW show in Toronto would be expected to sell out.
“AEW has at least started work on the idea of a Canada debut in Toronto. It’s not yet known when and what arena they would run. If the debut would be a Saturday night PPV in November, they may want to take the chance of Rogers Centre, the former Skydome. I don’t think they could get 50,000 but people in the market tell me they believe they could get 30,000, but more likely they’d play it safe and run Scotiabank Arena.”
“There is also the issue of their American fan base traveling to Canada and whether those restrictions will change to having it be relatively simple like it would have been pre-pandemic if they are going for a stadium show since much of their PPV audience is a traveling audience. A PPV there would theoretically sellout any arena they have.”
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Time will tell when AEW will make their way north for their Canadian debut, but the fans in Canada will certainly be waiting when they do.
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