Winter Is Coming (2024)


The 2024 Winter Is Coming was a three-part professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling. It was the fifth annual Winter Is Coming event and took place on December 11 and 12, 2024, at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri and the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri, respectively, encompassing the broadcasts of Wednesday Night Dynamite, Friday Night Rampage, and Saturday Night Collision. Dynamite aired live on December 11 on TBS, Rampage was taped the same night and aired on tape delay on December 13 on TNT, while Collision was taped on December 12 and aired on tape delay on December 14, also on TNT. All totaled, 16 matches aired over the three shows.

Production

Background

Winter Is Coming is an annual professional wrestling television special held in December by All Elite Wrestling since 2020. The title "Winter Is Coming" is derived from Game of Thrones, a television series from HBO, which is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, which also includes AEW broadcast partners TBS and TNT. On November 16, 2024, it was announced that the fifth Winter Is Coming would be held on December 11, 2024, at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri and air live as Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS. It was later revealed that like the prior year, the special would also encompass Friday Night Rampage, which was taped on December 11 after Dynamites live broadcast and aired on tape delay on December 13 on TNT, and Saturday Night Collision, which was taped on December 12 at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri and will air on tape delay on December 14, also on TNT.

Storylines

Winter Is Coming features professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision.