With the WWE annual Royal Rumble match taking place this Sunday, it got me to thinking about how it may serve AEW well to play host to some sort of specialty event that the company can call their own. Obviously you have the WWE with the Royal Rumble, King of the Ring, and Mae Young Classic; while NXT plays host to the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. You had TNA with the World X-Cup event and WCW Slamboree was originally an event to both induct legends into the WCW hall of fame as well feature legends participating in matches.
Personally, I would love to see AEW host some event of this magnitude on an annual basis, such as an original tournament concept of some sort with the finals taking place at a PPV; you could even bring in various outside talents if deals with the likes of ROH, NJPW, NWA, MLW, etc. can be worked out at some point. Thoughts? Ideas?
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