AEW Spring BreakThru
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| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
| Date | April 16 and 17, 2025 | ||
| City | Boston, Massachusetts | ||
| Venue | MGM Music Hall at Fenway | ||
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Spring BreakThru is an upcoming two-part professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It will take place on April 16 and 17, 2025, at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, encompassing the broadcasts of Wednesday Night Dynamite and a special Thursday airing of Collision, the latter being preempted from its usual Saturday night time slot to avoid counterprogramming against Night 1 of WWE's WrestleMania 41. Both programs will air live, with Dynamite on April 16 on TBS in the United States and Collision on April 17 on TNT, also in the United States, with both shows also simulcast on the streaming service Max. The April 16 broadcast will be the 289th episode of Dynamite, making it the longest-running prime time weekly pro-wrestling program in Turner Sports history, surpassing the former World Championship Wrestling's Monday Nitro, which had 288 episodes.
Production
[edit]Background
[edit]AEW Dynamite, also referred to as Wednesday Night Dynamite, is the flagship weekly professional wrestling television program of the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It has aired on Ted Turner founded channels and networks since its inception, premiering on TNT on October 2, 2019,[1] before moving to TNT's sister channel TBS on January 5, 2022.[2] AEW Collision, also known as Saturday Night Collision, is AEW's secondary program that premiered in June 2023 on TNT. Since January 1, 2025, both programs have been simulcast on their respective TV channels and the streaming service Max. TNT, TBS, and Max are all owned and distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery.[3]
On March 8, 2025, AEW filed to trademark "Spring BreakThru".[4] On March 23, the company announced that Spring BreakThru would be a television special that would take place at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts.[5] It was originally announced to only air as a special episode of Dynamite on April 16, but on March 28, it was announced that Spring BreakThru would be a two-part special that would also encompass a special episode of Collision on Thursday, April 17. Both programs will air live on their respective nights and channels, with Collision being preempted from its usual Saturday night time slot to avoid counterprogramming against Night 1 of WWE's WrestleMania 41.[6] The April 16 broadcast will be the 289th episode of Dynamite, making it the longest-running prime time weekly pro-wrestling program in Turner Sports history, surpassing the former World Championship Wrestling's Monday Nitro, which had a total of 288 episodes that aired on TNT from September 1995 to March 2001.[5]
Storylines
[edit]Spring BreakThru will feature professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.[7] Storylines are produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ Maglio, Tony (October 3, 2019). "TNT's 'All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite' Debut Buries USA Network's 'NXT' in Ratings". The Wrap. The Wrap. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ "AEW Dynamite moving to TBS on January 5, Rampage staying on TNT". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. September 23, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (October 2, 2024). "AEW to Stream on Max Following New Multi-Year Rights Deal With Warner Bros. Discovery". Variety. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (March 8, 2025). "AEW Files To Trademark 'AEW Spring Breakthru'". Fightful. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
- ^ a b Russell, Skylar (March 23, 2025). "AEW Dynamite Spring BreakThru Announced For April 16". Fightful. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
- ^ Renner, Ethan (March 28, 2025). "AEW Collision to air live on Thursday, April 17". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved March 28, 2025.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ^ "AEW Dynamite: Cincinnati". All Elite Wrestling. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
- ^ "AEW Collision: Cincinnati". All Elite Wrestling. Retrieved December 27, 2024.