All Elite Wrestling (AEW) reached a new level on Sunday at All In.
To start the company’s biggest show of the year, the seven-team AEW World Trios Championship match started in the Buy In and bled into the first minutes of the main show. The teams kept pouring into the ring after a few minutes when finally it was time for the wildcard entrants.
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Austin Creed and Kofi pictured at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 10, 2025. (WWE via Getty Images)
Swerve Strickland came out of the back first to get the crowd at Wembley Stadium in London on their feet. Then, music from two new men played.
Kofi and Austin Creed came out as a tag team now known as The New Level. It was their first appearance in AEW since they hit the pro wrestling industry’s free-agent market. It also marked the latest marquee signing for AEW, bolstering the company’s tag team division even more.
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Ex-WWE star formerly known as Xavier Woods looks on at Xcel Energy Center on July 29, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (WWE via Getty Images)
In the match, champions Adam Page, Bandido and Brody King lasted as long as they could before getting thrown out of the ring and eliminated from title contention. Kyle O’Reilly, Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong and Gabe Kidd, Clark Connors and David Finlay were eliminated slowly as were Colten and Austin Gunn and Jay White.
It came down to Strickland, Kofi and Creed and Claudio Castagnoli, Pac and Kidd. Kofi was on the verge of being eliminated but his feet never touched the ground. Prince Nana came over to help Kofi out and kept him in the match.
Strickland, Kofi and Creed took advantage of the help and took care of the rest of their opponents and won the AEW Trios Championship. Kofi and Creed were known as Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods in WWE before they departed. They were tag team champions multiple times with the company.
AEW owner Tony Khan later announced that Kofi and Creed officially joined the promotion.
Swerve Strickland looks on at AEW Dynamite. (Lee South/AEW)
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It was the second title change in the first two hours of All In as Persephone defeated Maya World to win the TBS Championship earlier in the show.
