AEW Fyter Fest is an annual

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event produced by

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(AEW). The event was established by the

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in 2019 and is held during the summer; the first event was held in June but moved to July in 2020. The name, slogan, and logo of the event are a parody of the fraudulent

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. The inaugural

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event was held as a special event, while the

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and

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events were held as a two-part special of AEW's weekly television program, '' Wednesday Night Dynamite''. In

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, the event was expanded to being broadcast as a four-part special, encompassing the two-week broadcasts of ''Dynamite'' and '' Friday Night Rampage''. The inaugural event was held in co-sponsorship with

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(CEO) at the

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in Daytona Beach, Florida. It aired for free on

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in North America and on pay-per-view (PPV) internationally. The second event was planned to air on PPV from the United Kingdom, but due to the

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, it took place at

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, which began the event's annual broadcast as special episodes of the company's weekly television programs.

History

The inaugural Fyter Fest event took place on June 29, 2019, at the

in Daytona Beach, Florida in co-sponsorship between

(AEW) and

(CEO). It was AEW's second-ever event and was held as part of CEO's fighting game event that year. This inaugural event aired for free on

in North America and on pay-per-view (PPV) internationally. The name, slogan, and logo were a parody of the fraudulent

. It was also the second wrestling event to be co-sponsored by CEO, after the previous year's

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(NJPW) event, CEOxNJPW: When Worlds Collide. Both the NJPW and AEW events with CEO came as a result of

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, a former prominent wrestler of NJPW who became a wrestler and Executive Vice President of AEW following the founding of the latter in January 2019. A second event was held in 2020, though was produced by AEW alone. AEW had originally planned to host this second event at

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in June that year; it would have been the promotion's United Kingdom debut. However, the event was moved to

due to the

, which began in March that year. This second event was also originally to air on PPV but was changed to being a two-part special of AEW's weekly television program, '' Wednesday Night Dynamite''; the first part aired live on July 1 while the second part was pre-recorded on July 2 and aired on tape delay on July 8. The 2021 event was announced to also be held as a two-part special of ''Dynamite''. With AEW's return to live touring during the pandemic, the two nights took place in two different Texas markets as the second event of AEW's "Welcome Back" tour. The first night was held on July 14, 2021, at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in

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( Austin market) with the second night airing on July 21, 2021, from the

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( Dallas–Fort Worth market). The 2022 event was expanded to be held as a four-part television special, encompassing the two-week broadcasts of ''Dynamite'' and '' Friday Night Rampage''—AEW's secondary television program that began airing in August 2021. The July 13 episode of ''Dynamite'' was notable for a match between

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of the

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and

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of the

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; both men previously wrestled for

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as Jack Swagger and Cesaro, respectively, as a tag team named The Real Americans.

Events

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References

External links

All Elite Wrestling Official website
{{All Elite Wrestling events, Fyter Fest Recurring events established in 2019

History

Events

See also

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