AEW Winter is Coming

AEW Winter Is Coming is a professional wrestling television special episode produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event will take place at Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C. on December 15, 2021. It will broadcast on TNT as a special of AEW's weekly television program, Dynamite.

Background
On the November 17, 2021 episode of Dynamite, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced that the December 15 episode would be titled "Winter Is Coming". They also revealed that every AEW Championship would be on the line that night as Miro would defend the AEW World Championship against the winner of the AEW Championship Tournament while Jungle Boy and Brian Pillman Jr would defend their AEW World Tag Team Championships and Scarlett defending her AEW TNT Championship. They also announced that the first-ever AEW Women's World Champion would be crowned that same night as well. On the November 24, 2021 episode of Dynamite the AEW Women's World Championship was officially unveiled by Tony Khan who would go on to reveal that at Winter is Coming a Six Pack Challenge would take place to crown the first-ever champion with Tay Conti, Skye Blue, Scarlett, Mia Yim, Chelsea Green and Indi Hartwell being named as the participants.

The episode's title "Winter Is Coming" is derived from Game of Thrones, a television series from HBO, which is part of the WarnerMedia subsidiary of AT&T, which also includes AEW broadcast partner TNT. The phrase was the title of the pilot episode of Game of Thrones as well as the motto (or "Words") of House Stark of Winter fell. The use of the title was approved by WarnerMedia officials, as WarnerMedia has used Dynamite to promote HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties.

Storylines
Winter Is Coming will feature professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly show Dynamite.