2026 in professional wrestling: Difference between revisions

Overview of the events of 2026 in professional wrestling

2026 in professional wrestling describes the current year’s events in the world of professional wrestling.

These promotions held events throughout 2025.

Calendar of notable shows

January

Date	Promotion(s)	Event	Location	Venue	Main Event	Notes
1	CF:	The New Year	Tokyo, Japan	Nippon Budokan	Yoshiki Inamura (c) vs. Ozawa for the GHC Heavyweight Championship
3	GCW	One Night Only	Berwyn, Illinois	Berwyn Eagles Club
4	NJPW	Wrestle Kingdom 20	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo Dome	Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada	Featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi‘s retirement match
5		New Year Dash!!		Nippon Budokan	Knock Out Brothers (Oskar and Yuto-Ice) (c) vs. TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. and Ryohei Oiwa) for the IWGP World Tag Team Championship
	WWE:	1 Year Anniversary of Raw’s Netflix Premiere	New York City, New York	Barclays Center	CM Punk (c) vs. Bron Breakker for the World Heavyweight Championship	Celebration of the 1 Year Anniversary of RAW’s premiere on Netflix.
6	WWE:	New Year’s Evil	Orlando, Florida	WWE Performance Center	Oba Femi (c) vs. Leon Slater for the NXT Championship	Airing as a special episode of NXT.
14	AEW	Maximum Carnage	Phoenix, Arizona	Arizona Financial Theatre		Airing as a special episode of AEW Dynamite.
						Airing on tape delay on January 17 as a special episode of AEW Collision.
17	TNA	Genesis	Garland, Texas	Curtis Culwell Center	JDC vs. Eddie Edwards	Featuring JDC‘s retirement match
	GCW	Code Of the Streets	Dallas, Texas	Gilley’s Dallas
18		Crime Wave	Wichita, Kansas	WAVE
	NJPW	Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVII ~ Aoyi Transition ~	Sakura, Japan	Sakura Civic Gymnasium
24	WWE:	Saturday Night’s Main Event XLIII	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Bell Centre
29	MLW	Battle Riot VIII	Kissimmee, Florida	Osceola Heritage Park Events Center	40-man Battle Riot match
31	WWE:	Royal Rumble	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Kingdom Arena	30-man Royal Rumble match
	GCW	Crushed Up	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Harrah’s Philadelphia
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

February

March

April

August

September

Notable events

Accomplishments and tournaments

Title changes

AAA

AEW

CF

  – DDT Pro-Wrestling

  – Pro Wrestling Noah

  – Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling

Noah

CMLL

NJPW

Marigold

MLW

Progress

RevPro

ROH

Stardom

TNA

WWE

  – Raw

  – SmackDown

  – NXT

  – Evolve

  – Unbranded

Raw and SmackDown

Raw and SmackDown each exclusively have a world and secondary championship for both the men and women, as well as a tag team championship for men.

NXT

NXT exclusively has a primary and secondary championship for both the men and women, as well as a specialty and tag team championship for men.

Awards and honors

Debuts

Retirements

Deaths

See also

References

Debuts

Retirements

Deaths

See also

Notes