The 2025 event will be held as a one-night special of Saturday Night Collision on TNT, which will subsequently be the first Homecoming to simulcast on the streaming service Max.
Additionally, although AEW returned to Daily's Place for episodes of their television programs in December of 2021, March and October of 2022, and April of 2024, though these were not held as "Homecoming" specials.
On January 1, 2020, AEW held a special episode of its weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite on TNT, at Daily's Place titled Homecoming, in reference to the venue.
[14] AEW returned to Daily's Place in late April 2024 for episodes of Dynamite, Rampage, and its third program, Saturday Night Collision (which premiered on TNT in June 2023), but these were not held as Homecoming specials.
The event marked the promotion's return to its home base of Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida, following the company's debut at the venue during Fight for the Fallen in July the previous year.
It was held on New Year's Day on January 1, 2020, and was broadcast on TNT as a special episode of AEW's weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite.
It was held on August 4, 2021, and was broadcast on TNT as a special episode of AEW's weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite.
The event marked the company's return to its home venue of Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida for the first time since October 2022, although it was the first Homecoming special since 2021.
[28][29] The event also paid tribute to Mr. Brodie Lee, an AEW wrestler and leader of The Dark Order who was a prominent figure during the company's time at Daily's Place during the COVID-19 pandemic from March to October 2020 before his death that December.