Swerve Strickland claimed in an interview on the Queenzflip
YouTube channel that AEW is “about to get on FOX,” becoming
the first person from the company to acknowledge the rumors
that have been floating around for the past several weeks.

The new AEW media rights deal is not exclusive to just
Warner Bros. Discovery and AEW shopped around other networks
for a different show as well. Rumors started to float that
the proposed show, tentatively titled Shockwave, was going
on a FOX channel, although it’s thought to be FS1 rather
than the main FOX channel which Smackdown was on.

“We’re about to move,” the former AEW World champion said.
“We’re about to get on FOX. Smackdown is leaving FOX, and
then we’re taking FOX, TNT, TBS… we got all three of them
things.”

AEW filed paperwork to trademark the term AEW Shockwave on
September 6 under the goods and services description of
entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests, live
professional wrestling, production of professional wrestling
evens and production and distribution of ongoing TV programs
in the field of professional wrestling.