's main event saw
Chris Jericho become the first
AEW World Champion On September 1, 2018, an
independent wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event was held called
All In, which took place in the
Chicago suburb of
Hoffman Estates, Illinois at the former Sears Centre Arena—renamed to
Now Arena in 2020. The event was organized by members of
The Elite and it was a catalyst to the formation of
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on January 1, 2019. The Elite became executive vice presidents of AEW, which scheduled a
spiritual successor to All In called All Out, with the
inaugural All Out PPV taking place on August 31, 2019, at the same venue as All In. The event was named "All Out" as the "All In" name was owned by
Ring of Honor (ROH) at the time and AEW president
Tony Khan wanted to avoid a lawsuit—Khan would later purchase ROH in March 2022 and later revived
All In as an annual AEW PPV. A
second All Out was then held on September 5, 2020, establishing the event as an annual
Labor Day weekend PPV for the promotion—this second event was originally to be held at the same venue, but was instead held at AEW's home base of
Daily's Place in
Jacksonville, Florida, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic that began in mid-March that year. AEW resumed live touring in July 2021 and the
2021 event was held on September 5, returning to the inaugural event's venue, thus marking AEW's first PPV to be held outside of Daily's Place since the COVID-19 pandemic began. While All Out had traditionally been held at the Now Arena, the
2023 event moved All Out to Chicago's
United Center. However, on May 21, AEW announced that All Out would instead take place at the Now Arena a week later on Saturday, September 7, in turn marking the first All Out to not be held during Labor Day weekend. This change came in response to criticism of the 2023 event being held only one week after
All In. This subsequently returned the event to Saturday for the first time since 2020. Although
Double or Nothing was considered AEW's marquee event, AEW referee
Aubrey Edwards referred to All Out as AEW's premier event on an episode of the
AEW Unrestricted podcast. AEW President and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Khan later referred to All Out as being one of the promotion's "Big Four" PPVs, their four biggest shows of the year produced quarterly, along with Double or Nothing,
Full Gear, and
Revolution. With All In becoming one of AEW's annual events in 2023, it supplanted Double or Nothing as AEW's marquee event, and overall biggest event of the year, with the previous "big four" plus All In becoming the "big five". On May 20, 2025, the
Toronto Sun reported that the
2025 All Out would be held at the
Scotiabank Arena in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, September 20, 2025, thus breaking AEW's tradition of hosting the event in the
Chicago metropolitan area, subsequently marking the first All Out held outside the United States. This was also AEW's first PPV event available to livestream on
HBO Max, with subscribers getting a discount (US$39.99 instead of US$49.99 on other platforms). == Events ==