2025 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world ofprofessional wrestling.

These promotions held events throughout 2025.

• January 1 –
  • Fight for the Fallen special ofAEW Dynamite beganAll Elite Wrestling's (AEW) new media rights deal withWarner Bros. Discovery (WBD), whereDynamite,AEW Collision, and othertelevision specials would besimulcast on their respective TV channels (TBS andTNT) and WBD's streaming platformMax.
  • WWE Network nearly worldwide shut down, withWWE content moved toNetflix in international markets where WWE Network was still available. A select few territories maintained the WWE Network throughout 2025 due to pre-existing contracts. Most of these transitioned to Netflix on January 1, 2026, with only Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland still on the Network in 2026 for an undetermined period of time, while Sub-Saharan Africa and Japan remain onSuperSport andAbema, respectively.
• January 3 –WWE SmackDown expanded to three hours for the first time since its inception.
• January 6 –WWE Raw premiered onNetflix after airing on theUSA Network since 2005, also marking the first time in the show's history in which it did not air onlinear television. Also for the first time and due to the advantage of the streaming platform over set runtimes on cable, the show became flexible, with WWE Chief Content OfficerPaul "Triple H" Levesque stating the average runtime would be around 2.5 hours.
• January 16 –WWE andTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced a multi-year partnership, allowing more opportunities for wrestlers from WWE'sNXT brand to perform at TNA events and vice versa. An agreement between the two companies began in January 2024, which saw various wrestlers from each company appearing and performing on the other's shows.
• February 12 – Carlos Silva was appointed President ofTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), after the resignation of Anthony Cicone.
• February 15 –Grand Slam Australia andGlobal Wars Australia wereAll Elite Wrestling (AEW) andRing of Honor's (ROH) first events in Australia, respectively; AEW's event aired ontape delay later that same day in the United States while ROH's event aired on tape delay on February 17.
• February 16 –WWE LFG premiered onA&E.
• March 1 – AtWWE Elimination Chamber,John Cena turned heel for the first time since 2003.
• March 5 –WWE Evolve, a relaunch of the defunctEvolve promotion underWWE as theEvolve brand, premiered onTubi in the United States andYouTube internationally.
• March 9 – After winning theAEW International Championship atRevolution,Kenny Omega became recognized asAll Elite Wrestling's (AEW) firstGrand Slam Champion, after previously holding theAEW World Championship,AEW World Tag Team Championship, andAEW World Trios Championship.
• April 16 – TheSpring BreakThru special ofAEW Dynamite was the program's 289th episode, making it the longest-running prime time weekly pro-wrestling program inTurner Sports history, surpassing the formerWorld Championship Wrestling'sMonday Nitro, which had a total of 288 episodes.
• April 19 –WWE announced their acquisition ofLucha Libre AAA Worldwide, and the return ofWWE Worlds Collide involving AAA.
• April 28 –Mayu Iwatani announced her departure fromWorld Wonder Ring Stardom, later signing withDream Star Fighting Marigold on May 1.
• April 30 –Hulk Hogan,Eric Bischoff, andfreestyle wrestling trainer Israel "Izzy" Martinez announced the formation ofReal American Freestyle (RAF), an unscripted freestyle wrestling league that launched on August 30.^[7]
• May 25 –Trick Williams became the firstWWE-contracted wrestler to hold aTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) title by defeatingJoe Hendry for theTNA World Championship atNXT Battleground.
• July 4 –WWE SmackDown returned to two hours after airing for three hours since January 3.
• July 6 –Tiger Mask officially announced that 2026 would be his final year as an in-ring performer, retiring in June of that year.
• July 9 –WWE Speed aired its final episode. No official statement was made regarding the future of the series, but on August 24, it was confirmed that the program's championships would be defended onWWE'sNXT brand going forward, effectively confirming that the series had been quietly cancelled.
• July 12 –All In: Texas wasAll Elite Wrestling's (AEW) first event in aMajor League Baseball stadium and the first professional wrestling event held atGlobe Life Field. During the main event,Darby Allin made his AEW return for the first time since 2024 after taking a hiatus to successfully climbMount Everest.
• July 20 –NXT Women's ChampionJacy Jayne became the first wrestler to simultaneously hold titles in bothWWE andTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) by defeatingMasha Slamovich for theTNA Knockouts World Championship atSlammiversary.
• July 24 –Hulk Hogan died at the age of 71 as a result of acardiac arrest.
• July 29 –
  • NWA Powerrr premiered onThe Roku Channel in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, after streaming onX since October 2024.
  • WWE: Unreal premiered onNetflix, a docuseries going behind-the-scenes of variousWWE events.
• August 2 and 3 – First two-nightWWE SummerSlam.
• August 3 – At the conclusion of Night 2 ofSummerSlam,Brock Lesnar made hisWWE return for the first time sinceSummerSlam in 2023 after being on hiatus due to being named in theVince McMahon sex trafficking scandal.
• August 24 – TheAll Elite Wrestling andNew Japan Pro-Wrestling cross-promoted event,Forbidden Door, brokeThe O2 Arena's attendance record for a professional wrestling event.
• August 31 –Clash in Paris wasWWE's final main rosterpay-per-view andlivestreaming event to air onPeacock, which had exclusive distribution rights toWWE Network content in the United States since March 2021. Peacock will maintainNXT's livestreaming events until at least March 2026, as well as other content, such asSaturday Night's Main Event, for the next several years.
• September 5 – OnWWE SmackDown,AJ Lee made her return toWWE for the first time since initially retiring from in-ring competition on April 3, 2015.
• September 12 –WWE announced thatWrestleMania 43 in 2027 would be held inSaudi Arabia, marking the first-everWrestleMania to be held outside ofNorth America.
• September 20 –
  • All Out wasAll Elite Wrestling's firstpay-per-view event available to livestream onHBO Max, with subscribers getting a discount (US$39.99 as opposed to US$49.99).
  • Wrestlepalooza wasWWE's first main rosterpay-per-view andlivestreaming event to air onESPN'sdirect-to-consumer streaming service in the United States (this changeover was originally slated to begin withWrestleMania 42 in April 2026).
• September 24 –All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced the establishment of theAEW Women's World Tag Team Championship.
• October 7 – A special episode ofWWE NXT aired titledNXT vs. TNA Showdown (originally titled Invasion), which featured wrestlers fromTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) facing off againstNXT wrestlers for promotional supremacy, marking the first "invasion" angle sinceWWE acquiredWorld Championship Wrestling in 2001. At the event,The Hardys (Matt Hardy andJeff Hardy) became the first TNA-contracted wrestlers to holdWWE titles by defeatingDarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin) for theNXT Tag Team Championship.
• October 10 – DuringWWE'sCrown Jewel Kickoff event,AJ Styles officially announced that 2026 would be his final year as an in-ring performer, retiring at the end of that year.
• October 15 –WWE Evolve aired its firsttelevision special titled "Succession", which was taped on September 23 and aired ontape delay.
• November 8 –Deadlock Pro-Wrestling announced the company would be going on an indefinite hiatus in 2026, with4th Anniversary being its last ever show in the United States.
• November 10 – DuringWWE Raw,John Cena defeatedDominik Mysterio to win theWWE Intercontinental Championship for the first time, thus simultaneously completing theWWE Triple Crown andWWE Grand Slam.
• November 13 – DuringTNA Impact!,JDC officially announced that he would retire in 2026 following January'sGenesis event.
• November 14 –WWE SmackDown was announced to return to three hours on January 2, 2026, after reverting to two hours on July 4, 2025.
• December 2 –TNA Wrestling andAMC Networks announced a multi-year television deal to air TNA's flagship weekly television series,TNA Impact! on Thursday nights, beginning January 15, 2026, marking TNA's return to a major cable television channel for the first time since 2014.
• December 13 – AtWWE'sSaturday Night's Main Event XLII: John Cena's Final Match,John Cenatapped out toGunther in the former'sretirement match, marking the first time that Cena had tapped out since2004 toKurt Angle.
• December 24 – AtAll Elite Wrestling's (AEW)Dynamite on 34th Street special, which wastaped on December 20,Bandido became only the second wrestler to win theAEW Dynamite Diamond Ring since its inception in 2019;MJF had won it every year from 2019 to 2024 but was excluded from the 2025 event.