Jul 6, 5:45 PM
AEW announces All Out’s return to Chicago with a CM Punk-coded graphic
Cageside Seats • AEW
The initial reaction wrestling fans online had to Tony Khan’s announcement that AEW All Out is returning to the greater Chicago area this year was expressed by both Cagesiders who shared the news in The Feed today (July 6, 2026). Essentially, it’s “why does TK keeping running the same towns?” In addition to that Sat., Sept. 26 event, the question can also be applied to today’s announcement of Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor PPV for Philadelphia on Fri., Aug. 21. As GM05 did: All Out has been held in Hoffman Estates, Illinois all but twice in AEW’s existence 2020’s pandemic era show and last year’s in Toronto. That includes 2022 edition that was followed by CM Punk’s media scrum pipe bomb and the Brawl Out fight that included Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, and Ace Steel. But that’s not the reason we mentioned Punk when this announcement first hit in the Cageside “offices” (it’s not solely “for clicks”, either*). The logo for All Out 2026 is based on the Chicago flag, but for moder