All Elite Wrestling will start streaming on Max in January

Welcome to the streaming epoch of the wrestling wars. WWE’s flagship play show, Raw, is ditching cablegram and headed for Netflix successful January. And today, Warner Bros. Discovery and All Elite Wrestling announced a multi-year rights extension that volition bring AEW contented to Max starting in... you guessed it... January 2025. The quality was archetypal reported by Variety.

Tony Khan’s institution volition summation a important beingness connected the fashionable streaming service. Episodes of AEW’s play shows, Dynamite and Collision, volition simulcast connected Max connected Wednesday and Saturday nights successful summation to airing connected TBS and TNT, respectively. Past episodes volition besides beryllium disposable to ticker connected demand.

AEW’s TV programming has aired connected WBD networks from the precise start, truthful the migration to Max has been a agelong clip coming.

“This hold continues the contented of iconic wrestling events broadcast connected TBS and TNT, portion besides establishing a caller bequest for AEW done play unrecorded streams connected Max for years to come,” Khan said successful a statement.

Also opening adjacent year, AEW’s pay-per-view events volition beryllium offered to Max subscribers astatine a discounted rate. That’s a notable quality from WWE’s existent exemplary successful the US, which lets fans watercourse premium unrecorded events arsenic portion of a modular Peacock subscription without paying thing extra. But it seems AEW isn’t acceptable to springiness up the gross it brings successful from standalone lawsuit purchases. It’s not yet known what the discount volition be; AEW says much details volition beryllium shared “in the coming months.”

Until now, AEW fans person had to acquisition pay-per-views from a hodgepodge of lesser-known services including Bleacher Report and TrillerTV — oregon straight from a cablegram / outer provider. Recently, YouTube besides began offering the events. But with the caller arrangement, AEW says “all selling and promotions of those PPV events [will be] exclusively centered connected Max.”

The caller rights deal, which totals astir $150 cardinal per twelvemonth according to Variety’s sources, is yet different illustration of the request that streamers person for unrecorded sports and sports adjacent content. Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing to motorboat Venu Sports, which has been dubbed the eventual sports streaming service with partners Disney and Fox aboriginal this twelvemonth for $42.99 per month.