WrestleDream (2024)

The 2024 WrestleDream was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the second annual WrestleDream and took place on October 12, 2024, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. Like with the previous year's event, the show was held in honor of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) founder Antonio Inoki, who died on October 1, 2022.

Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including four on the "Zero Hour" pre-show; the "Zero Hour" pre-show also included a memorial ceremony for Antonio with his grandsons Naoto and Hirota Inoki. In the main event, Jon Moxley defeated Bryan Danielson by technical submission to win the AEW World Championship, ending Danielson's full-time professional wrestling career. In other prominent matches, Konosuke Takeshita defeated previous champion Will Ospreay and Ricochet in a three-way match to win the AEW International Championship and in the opening bout, Jay White defeated "Hangman" Adam Page. The event was also notable for the returns of Adam Cole, MJF, and Swerve Strickland.

Production

Background

On October 1, 2022 (September 30 in Eastern Time), Antonio Inoki, the founder of the Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), died. Prior to his death, the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) began a working partnership with NJPW in early 2021. This resulted in the annual co-promoted event, AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, which was first held in June 2022.