Wrestle Dynasty
Promotional poster featuring various NJPW, AEW, CMLL, ROH, and Stardom wrestlers
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro-Wrestling All Elite Wrestling Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Ring of Honor World Wonder Ring Stardom
Date	January 5, 2025
City	Tokyo,Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Attendance	16,300[1]
Tagline	Two Days to Move the World (Japanese:世界を動かに日間,Hepburn:Sekai o ugokasu ni kakan)
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous NJPW: Wrestle Kingdom 19 AEW: Worlds End CMLL: Sin Salida ROH: Final Battle Stardom New Year Dream Next → NJPW: New Year Dash!! AEW: Revolution CMLL: Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ROH: Supercard of Honor Stardom Supreme Fight

Wrestle Dynasty was aprofessional wrestlingpay-per-view (PPV)event co-produced by the JapanesepromotionsNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) andWorld Wonder Ring Stardom, the American promotionsAll Elite Wrestling (AEW) andRing of Honor (ROH), and the Mexican promotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). It took place on January 5, 2025, at theTokyo Dome inTokyo,Japan, the night after NJPW'sWrestle Kingdom 19.

Twelve matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show. In the event's final match, which was promoted as part of a double main event,Zack Sabre Jr. defeatedRicochet to retain theIWGP World Heavyweight Championship. In the other main event,Kenny Omega defeatedGabe Kidd in what was Omega's first match for over a year due todiverticulitis. In other prominent matches,The Young Bucks (Nicholas Jackson andMatthew Jackson) defeatedUnited Empire (Great-O-Khan andJeff Cobb) andLos Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito andHiromu Takahashi) to win the vacantIWGP World Tag Team Championship, andMercedes Moné defeatedMina Shirakawa in aWinner Takes All match for both theNJPW Strong Women's Championship and theRevPro Undisputed British Women's Championship.

Since 1992, the Japaneseprofessional wrestling promotionNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) has heldan annual show on January 4 at theTokyo Dome, aprofessional baseballstadium inTokyo, Japan; since 2007, the event has been known asWrestle Kingdom, and has since become the largest professional wrestling event in Japan.^[2] Between 2019 and 2022, NJPW also held a second Wrestle Kingdom show at the Tokyo Dome on January 5. In 2025, the January 5 Tokyo Dome show will be branded as "Wrestle Dynasty". NJPW also holds theNew Year Dash!! event in Tokyo on the day after Wrestle Kingdom; in 2025, New Year Dash!! will be held on January 6, the day after Wrestle Dynasty.^[3]

In February 2021, the American professional wrestling promotionAll Elite Wrestling (AEW) started a partnership with NJPW.^[4] Since then, both AEW and NJPW have had their wrestlers appear at each other's events.^[5] The working relationship resulted in the creation ofAEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, an annual co-promotedpay-per-view (PPV) event held inNorth America.^[6] AEW and NJPW also have working partnerships with the Mexican promotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL): CMLL and NJPW have had a working relationship since 2009 and have co-produced theFantastica Mania series of events since 2011;^[7] and CMLL and AEW entered into a working relationship in October 2023.^[8]

In 2019, NJPW's parent companyBushiroad acquired thejoshi promotionWorld Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom);^[9] Stardom would later become a fully-fledged subsidiary of NJPW in 2024.^[10] In 2022, AEW ownerTony Khan acquiredRing of Honor (ROH) from their previous owner,Sinclair Broadcast Group;^[11] prior to the acquisition, ROH also had a long working relationship with NJPW, including co-producing theWar of the Worlds andGlobal Wars events in North America andHonor Rising events in Japan.

On August 22, 2020, NJPW planned to hold an event under the name of Wrestle Dynasty atMadison Square Garden inNew York City; due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the event was postponed to 2021, and later cancelled.^[12] After the2022 Forbidden Door event, then NJPW President Takami Ohbari expressed interest in the next event being held in Japan; Tony Khan said that he was open to the idea of AEW wrestlers performing in Japan, but said that such an event would not be titled "Forbidden Door".^[13] Prior to the2024 Forbidden Door event, Khan expressed interest in a co-promoted show in Japan, but was non-committal over whether the event would be an iteration of Forbidden Door or a new event entirely.^[14]

On June 30, 2024, during Forbidden Door, Wrestle Dynasty was announced for January 5, 2025, in the Tokyo Dome, to be co-produced by AEW, NJPW, CMLL, ROH, and Stardom.^[15][16] Wrestle Dynasty will mark the first AEW PPV event to be held in Japan, the third AEW PPV event held outside North America (following the2023 and2024All In events, which were both held atWembley Stadium inLondon, England), and AEW's first event to be held in a professional baseball stadium.

Wrestle Dynasty featuredprofessional wrestling matches that were the results of pre-existing feuds andstorylines, with results being predetermined by the bookers of the co-producing promotions.^[17] Storylines were produced on the weekly programs,Dynamite,Collision,Rampage,Honor Club TV, andSuper Viernes; as well as at other AEW, CMLL, NJPW, ROH, and Stardom events.

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• Events at Tokyo Dome
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