State College will play host to All Elite Wrestling this fall as the promotion brings “Collision” to the Bryce Jordan Center at 6 p.m. on Sept. 16. AEW Collision airs live each Saturday night on TNT and is one of AEW’s three weekly television programs.
Tickets go on sale July 21.
AEW, the primary domestic challenger of WWE, will bring the first televised live wrestling show to the Bryce Jordan Center since 2007, when the WWE taped an episode of Monday Night Raw there. Previously the WWE had hosted live television events at the Bryce Jordan Center off and on throughout the 1990s and early 2000s topping out with 15,000 fans in attendance for at least two of those events. The WWE has also regularly hosted house show events as recently as 2022, but those events are not part of the televised storylines.
As for AEW, the promotion will showcase the likes of CM Punk among others, and this particular show would likely see an appearance by AEW star and Penn State alumna Britt Baker.
Baker is not traditionally a member of the Collision roster but it seems unlikely that the Pittsburgh native and Penn State product would fail to make an appearance. Penn State football will play earlier that day in Illinois, limiting the likelihood of any potential Penn State affiliated crossovers during the event, although if the Nittany Lions return in time from an 11 a.m. central kick, a surprise appearance might not be entirely out of the question.
