AEW Files Lawsuit Against TrillerTV For Overdue Payments

All Elite Wrestling have filed a lawsuit against TrillerTV and the streaming platform's parent company, Triller Group, Inc., alleging that TrillerTV owes AEW just under $5 million in unpaid revenue from AEW pay-per-view sales and the AEW Plus subscription service. It is alleged that Triller Group, instead of paying AEW the money owed, have used the revenue to fund other businesses, including a social media platform that never took off.

The lawsuit, filed on April 29 in Duval County Court in Florida, also alleges breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and tortious interference, with the last allegation aimed solely at Triller Group.

The lawsuit obtained by POST Wrestling states: "[Triller Group Inc.'s] strategy of robbing revenues generated by TrillerTV's distribution of AEW content to cover other of Defendants’ operating expenses (much of which was spent on the social media platform endeavor) negatively impacted its relationship with and payments owed to AEW."

AEW and TrillerTV - which was previously known as FITE - began working together in 2019 and the lawsuit notes the partnership mostly functioned well "aside from some slow payments" until 2024, which was the same year that TrillerTV was merged into Triller Group.

Following the merger, AEW alleges that Triller "could (and did) use the revenues Flipps [TrillerTV/FITE] generated from its distribution of AEW content to pay for other operational expenses."

Furthermore, AEW have alleged that TrillerTV exploited the gap between the point of sale and when AEW was due to be paid by the streaming platform, with the pro wrestling promotion claiming they sent written demands for payment to Triller in January and March 2025. TrillerTV, according to AEW, paid just a fraction of the money owed to All Elite Wrestling on March 1, 2025.

As of April 2026, a legal demand letter from AEW claimed the promotion was owed $4.988 million from TrillerTV, with that amount accruing interest of 2 per cent per month in accordance with a contract between the organisations.

Court documents have also revealed the net revenue split between AEW and TrillerTV for AEW pay-per-views was 75 per cent in favour of AEW from United States pay-per-view sales and 65 per cent in favour of AEW for international pay-per-view buys. That split was put together in mid-2019, with it being a 50/50 split before that.

For the AEW Plus subscription service, AEW received 60 per cent of net revenue, while Triller received the remaining 40 per cent. Money from AEW was key to Triller's finances, however, with an SEC filing noting that AEW content generated 24 per cent of all Triller Group revenue in 2024.

Triller Group CEO Wing-Fai Ng issued the following statement to POST Wrestling: "We take these reports seriously and are reviewing the legal matter thoroughly. At this time, Triller Group Inc. has no comment."

All Elite Wrestling are not the only pro wrestling promotion owed money by TrillerTV, however. A source close to Cultaholic has revealed that a raft of smaller independent promotions across the TrillerTV platform are still awaiting overdue payments. A small handful of promotions have received money owed, but the rest are still awaiting payments as high as five figures.

When exactly promotions can expect those payments is unknown as TrillerTV have faced financial difficulties for several months. Those financial difficulties were behind the launch of the MyAEW streaming platform by All Elite Wrestling in March 2026, and it was announced in April that AEW Plus had been discontinued, with AEW and ROH pay-per-views also no longer available to purchase on TrillerTV.

Such are the financial issues that TrillerTV have actually filed a lawsuit against their own parent company in Triller Group. Flipps Media, a corporate entity underlying TrillerTV, told the Delaware Chancery Court that the company cannot pay its debts but the organisation is unable to declare bankruptcy due to lacking a board of directors. Within the lawsuit, Flipps have asked the court to declare its officers as the board of directors so Flipps can consider bankruptcy. The lawsuit also alleges that TrillerTV has been abandoned by Triller Group.

Despite the financial issues, TrillerTV continues to operate and a number of events are listed to air on the streaming platform.