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AEW is headed back to Los Angeles, but not where they’ve been previously.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp had confirmed with AEW sources as well as those close to the former Staples Center in LA that the company was set to appear in the arena in Q1 2024. Today, AEW confirmed that they will be at the Crypto.com arena on March 9 for AEW Revolution. It will be the first time the company has run the venue

Previously, AEW has run events at the Kia Forum, and this will be their first event at the Staples Center. Those close to the situation say that the venue had an exclusivity agreement with WWE, but that WWE has opted to go with Intuit Dome for Raw on Netflix. 

There was at least one source at the venue that Fightful spoke with that said that it rubbed them the wrong way that WWE switched venues, and were happy that AEW quickly announced their PPV after WWE's Intuit Dome announcement for WWE Raw. One longtime Staples/Crypto Arena source pointed to a situation 15 years ago when they allowed WWE to book the arena on days notice when Pepsi Arena in Denver asked WWE to move due to a playoff game.

The AEW Revolution-Staples Center show has been on the books for well over a month.

AEW also announced a three-night Hammerstein Ballroom stay for ROH, Collision and Dynamite. They'll be filming the week before Christmas so that talent and staff won't need to travel the week of Christmas.

The company is also running a number of more intimate venues in the new year. For example, AEW previously ran the very large Yum Center in Louisville. The Yum Center is a near-NBA sized venue, while Broadbent is scaled much smaller, about a third of the seating. They're also moving from the home of the Phoenix Suns, the Footprint Center, to the much more intimate Arizona Financial Theatre.

Not all cities are seeing this change, however.

The company is also running a new venue in Oceanside, California at Frontwave Arena. They're hitting Knoxville for the first time in the Knoxville Coliseum, and Clarksville, TN, which just hosted an NXT PLE this year. So the company is going to a number of new venues.

Of note is that after December 21, there are only three Saturday Collision tapings through March 12. There's one Thursday edition, and it will be taped with Dynamite four times. This is able to happen more as Rampage is now effectively off of the company's TV filming slate.