60 free AEW trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
All Elite Wrestling went from a phone-screen reveal on a YouTube show to a $2 billion promotion selling out Wembley Stadium in under five years. This quiz covers that whole run: the 2018 All In show that proved the market existed, the January 2019 launch, the first Double or Nothing at the MGM Grand, the Wednesday Night Wars against NXT, the pandemic shows at Daily's Place, the ROH purchase, Brawl Out, Collision and the record-breaking London pay-per-views. Expect questions on every era of the AEW World Championship from Jericho to Danielson, the women's and tag divisions, TNT and TBS title history, signature match types like Blood and Guts and Stadium Stampede, and the wrestlers themselves: real names, hometowns, gimmicks, big debuts and retirements. It opens with questions any Dynamite viewer can handle and finishes with facts only people who read the Observer will know. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo or run it as the wrestling round at your next trivia night.
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Q 01In which US city is All Elite Wrestling headquartered?
Jacksonville, Florida
The Khan family's NFL stadium complex, including the Daily's Place amphitheater, doubled as AEW's home base during the pandemic.
Q 02Who founded All Elite Wrestling in 2019 and became its president and CEO?
Tony Khan
Tony Khan's father Shahid, co-owner of the Jaguars and Fulham F.C., was reported to be the promotion's lead investor.
Q 03AEW's creation was announced at midnight on January 1, 2019, in which YouTube series?
Being the Elite
Hangman Page simply looked at his phone to reveal the AEW logo; Double or Nothing was announced on Cody's and the Jacksons' phones in the same episode.
Q 04The 2018 independent wrestling show All In, which drew 10,000+ fans, was held in a suburb of which city?
Chicago
Held at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, it drew 11,263 people, the largest non-WWE/WCW US crowd since 1993.
Q 05How quickly did tickets for the 2018 All In sell out, despite only one match being announced?
Under 30 minutes
Cody and the Jackson brothers staged the show partly in answer to Dave Meltzer's claim that ROH couldn't sell 10,000 tickets.
Q 06AEW's first pay-per-view, Double or Nothing, was held on May 25, 2019, at which venue?
MGM Grand Garden Arena
The show, in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, is also where the AEW World Championship belt was first unveiled.
Q 07Under what ring name had Jon Moxley, surprise debutant at the first Double or Nothing, wrestled in WWE?
Dean Ambrose
He attacked both men from the main event that night and went on to win the world title at Revolution 2020.
Q 08Which wrestling legend unveiled the AEW World Championship belt at Double or Nothing 2019?
Bret Hart
Hart's ceremony was interrupted by MJF, then Jungle Boy, then Hangman Page in an angle that set up the inaugural title match.
Q 09Who became the inaugural AEW World Champion in the main event of All Out on August 31, 2019?
Chris Jericho
Jericho then formed the Inner Circle with Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana and Ortiz on the first episode of Dynamite.
Q 10AEW Dynamite premiered on October 2, 2019, on which cable network?
TNT
The debut averaged 1.409 million viewers, the biggest TV debut on the network in five years, and kicked off the Wednesday Night Wars against NXT.
Q 11Dynamite's 2019 launch went head-to-head with which WWE brand on Wednesday nights?
NXT
Dynamite won the first night with 1.409 million viewers to NXT's 891,000 and doubled it in the 18–49 demo.
Q 12Who was AEW's first Women's World Champion, crowned on the debut episode of Dynamite?
Riho
The belt itself had been unveiled at All Out a month earlier, with both title-match participants decided at that show.
Q 13Which team won a tournament to become the first AEW World Tag Team Champions in October 2019?
SoCal Uncensored
Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky won it; the tournament had been announced in June 2019, six months after AEW was founded.
Q 21Which wrestler did NOT make their AEW debut at All Out 2021, CM Punk's first match in seven years?
Wardlow
Wardlow had been in AEW since 2019 as MJF's bodyguard; Minoru Suzuki also debuted that night.
Q 22Which venue hosts AEW Grand Slam, its first show held entirely inside a stadium and its New York City debut?
Arthur Ashe
The 2021 debut drew over 20,000 fans, making it AEW's most-attended event to that point.
Q 23Who beat Kenny Omega in the main event of Full Gear 2021 to win the AEW World Championship?
Hangman Adam Page
The match capped a two-year story that began when Page lost the inaugural title match to Jericho.
Q 14Which AEW executive vice president was the inaugural TNT Champion in 2020?
Cody Rhodes
Cody had teased a television title in September 2019, a month before Dynamite launched.
Q 15The main event of Full Gear 2019 saw Jon Moxley beat Kenny Omega in what kind of unsanctioned match?
Lights Out
The two would later meet in an Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch at Revolution 2021, whose finale famously fizzled.
Q 16AEW's pandemic shows ran from Daily's Place, an amphitheater next to which NFL team's stadium?
Jacksonville Jaguars
Florida's governor deemed AEW an essential business in April 2020, and the 2020 Double or Nothing main event was shot inside the stadium itself.
Q 17AEW's first WarGames-style match in 2020 was billed under what name, because WWE owns the WarGames trademark?
Blood and Guts
The double-ring cage match was created by Dusty Rhodes, father of one of AEW's founding executive vice presidents.
Q 18Sting's 2020 AEW debut was his first TNT appearance since beating whom on WCW's final Monday-night show in 2001?
Ric Flair
He then wrestled his first match in over five years at Revolution 2021, a tag team win at the age of 61.
Q 19Which manager's interference helped Kenny Omega beat Jon Moxley for the AEW title in 2020?
Don Callis
The win turned Omega heel and he walked out of the arena with the belt, later billed as the year's biggest WTF moment.
Q 20What is wrestler Britt Baker's profession outside the ring?
Dentist
Hence the "D.M.D." she uses on television: Doctor of Dental Medicine.
Q 24In January 2022, Dynamite moved from TNT to which sister channel?
TBS
TNT had picked up NHL rights; it kept Rampage and the Battle of the Belts specials instead.
Q 25In March 2022, AEW's owner announced he had bought which promotion from Sinclair Broadcast Group?
Ring of Honor
The purchase included the tape library and the All In trademark, which AEW revived for Wembley in 2023.
Q 26The first Forbidden Door pay-per-view, in June 2022, was co-promoted by AEW and which Japanese company?
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
It ran at the United Center, the first wrestling PPV there since WCW's Spring Stampede in 2000.
Q 27What did fans nickname the backstage fight between CM Punk and the Elite after All Out 2022?
Brawl Out
Everyone involved was suspended; Punk was stripped of the world title and the Elite of the trios titles.
Q 28Whose brass knuckles helped MJF beat Jon Moxley for the AEW World title at Full Gear 2022?
William Regal
He soon unveiled a custom Burberry-patterned belt he called the Triple-B, the "Big Burberry Belt".
Q 29AEW's third weekly TV show, Collision, premiered on which night of the week in June 2023?
Saturday
Its first episode featured CM Punk's return and Luchasaurus winning the TNT title.
Q 30AEW's 2023 video game, developed by former WWE 2K studio Yuke's, is called what?
AEW Fight Forever
Published by THQ Nordic in June 2023, it was praised for arcade-style gameplay and criticized for thin modes and presentation.