AEW sues TrillerTV over nearly $5 million in alleged unpaid revenue
AEW has filed a lawsuit against TrillerTV and its parent company.
As first reported by POST Wrestling on Monday, AEW has filed a lawsuit against TrillerTV and its parent company, Triller Group, Inc., alleging that the streaming platform owes the wrestling company nearly $5 million in overdue payments.
The alleged overdue payments stem from AEW pay-per-view events that aired on TrillerTV and from subscriptions to AEW Plus.
According to court documents obtained by POST, AEW attorneys wrote in the lawsuit, “[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 lawsuit filed weeks after Flipps Media suit against Triller Group, Inc.
The lawsuit filed by AEW comes weeks after a separate Delaware lawsuit filed on April 13 by Flipps Media, Inc., the company that operates TrillerTV, against Triller Group, Inc. and other related Triller entities. In that filing, Flipps claimed Triller Group had abandoned the company and left it without a functioning board of directors.
A section of that lawsuit reads: “Flipps initiated this action because it is insolvent, cannot protect value for its creditors, and will soon cease being a going concern unless it its board causes it to promptly action. Flipps, however, has been without a board since October 2024 when its directors resigned and, as a result of Defendant Triller Group, Inc.’s (“TGI”) abandonment, it cannot install replacement directors without intervention by this Court. As of the filing of this Complaint, Flipps has been without directors for nearly eighteen (18) months.”
Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.