Winter Is Coming (2023)

The 2023 Winter Is Coming was the fourth annual Winter Is Coming professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event took place on December 13 and 16, 2023. While the prior three events only aired as a special episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite, the 2023 event expanded Winter Is Coming to a three-part special, also encompassing Friday Night Rampage and Saturday Night Collision. Dynamite aired live on December 13 on TBS and was held at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, while Rampage was taped that same night and aired on tape delay on December 15 on TNT. Collision aired live on December 16 on TNT and was held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the same location as the 2021 and 2022 events.

A total of 17 matches were contested across the three broadcasts; six aired live on Dynamite with four taped for Rampage, and then seven aired live on Collision. In the main event of the Dynamite broadcast, Jon Moxley defeated Swerve Strickland in a Gold League match of the AEW Continental Classic tournament. The event also saw a special appearance by members of the Von Erich family (Kevin and his sons Marshall and Ross), with Marshall and Ross having their AEW debut match on the Rampage broadcast. In the main event of the Rampage broadcast, Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin) and Action Andretti defeated Komander, El Hijo del Vikingo, and Penta El Zero Miedo. In the main event of the Collision broadcast, Bryan Danielson defeated Brody King in a Blue League match of the AEW Continental Classic tournament.

Background
Winter Is Coming is an annual professional wrestling television special held in December by 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, which also includes AEW broadcast partners TBS and TNT.

On October 4, 2023, it was originally announced that the fourth Winter Is Coming would be held on December 13, 2023, at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. From 2020 to 2022, Winter Is Coming only aired as a special episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite. For the 2023 event, it was expanded to a three-part special, also encompassing Friday Night Rampage and Saturday Night Collision. Dynamite aired live on TBS on December 13 with Rampage taped that same night and aired on tape delay on December 15 on TNT. Collision aired live on December 16 on TNT and was held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the location of the prior two Winter Is Coming events.

During the December 6 episode of Dynamite, it was announced that Kevin Von Erich and his sons Marshall and Ross, members of the Von Erich family of professional wrestlers from Texas, would be making a special appearance on the Dynamite broadcast of Winter Is Coming, marking their debut appearance in AEW. This came a week before the US theatrical release of the film, The Iron Claw, a biopic about the Von Erich family.

Storylines
Winter Is Coming featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines, written by AEW's writers. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Collision, and Rampage.