Winter Is Coming (2025)

The 2025 Winter Is Coming was a two-part professional wrestling television special produced by the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the sixth annual Winter Is Coming and took place on December 10 and 13, 2025, at the Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia, United States, and the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, respectively, encompassing the respective broadcasts of Wednesday Night Dynamite and Saturday Night Collision. Dynamite aired live on TBS on December 10 while Collision aired live on TNT on December 13, with both programs simulcast on HBO Max, marking the first Winter Is Coming to stream on HBO Max.

Ten matches were contested at the event, evenly divided between the two broadcasts; the second night also had three additional dark matches taped for a special one-night only episode of Dark titled "Stocking Stiffer". In the main event of Dynamite, Samoa Joe defeated Eddie Kingston to retain the AEW World Championship. This broadcast also saw the crowning of the inaugural AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions, in which The Babes of Wrath (Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale) defeated Timeless Love Bombs ("Timeless" Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) in a tournament final. In the main event of Collision, Mark Briscoe defeated Daniel Garcia to retain the AEW TNT Championship. This broadcast also marked the first edition of the event to be held outside the United States.

Production

Background

Winter Is Coming is an annual professional wrestling television special held in December by the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2020. The title "Winter Is Coming" is derived from Game of Thrones, a television series from HBO, which is part of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which also includes AEW broadcast partners TBS and TNT.

On November 24, 2025, it was announced that the sixth Winter Is Coming would be held on December 10, 2025, at the Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia and air live as Wednesday Night Dynamite, simulcast on TBS and HBO Max. It was later revealed that the special would also encompass Saturday Night Collision, held at Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom on December 13, simulcast live on TNT and HBO Max. The Collision broadcast marked the first Winter Is Coming special to be held outside the United States. This also reduced Winter Is Coming to a two-part special as the prior two years had aired in three parts including Friday Night Rampage, which was canceled at the end of 2024. This also marked the first Winter Is Coming to stream on HBO Max, following AEW's updated broadcast deal with WBD that began earlier that year in January. Just prior to the live taping of Collision, AEW president Tony Khan announced a one-night only return of AEW's former YouTube program Dark as a special holiday episode titled "Stocking Stuffer", with three dark matches taped after the live broadcast for the special that aired on December 16.

Storylines

Winter Is Coming featured 10 professional wrestling matches, evenly divided across its two broadcasts, that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision.

Results

Inaugural AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship Tournament

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