2007 in professional wrestling

2007 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling championship.

List of notable promotions
These promotions held notable events in 2007.

Notable incidents

 * June 22–24 – Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide

WWE

 * – Raw
 * – SmackDown
 * - ECW

Raw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, and a tag team championship for male wrestlers. ECW only had a world championship. SmackDown also had a title for their cruiserweight wrestlers. There was only one women's championship and it was exclusive to Raw.

Debuts

 * Uncertain debut date
 * Brittany Force


 * Pentagon Jr.
 * February 17 - Lince Dorado
 * February 18 - Salon (NEO)
 * March 13 - Sanada
 * July 29 - Rush
 * September 8 - Buddy Matthews
 * September 16 - Kazumi Shimouma
 * December 9 - Pinky Mayuka
 * December 29 – Masato Inaba

Retirements

 * Robbie Rage (1995–2007 )
 * Rebecca DiPietro (October 17, 2006 – March 22, 2007)
 * Chris Kanyon (April 5, 1992 – April 5, 2007) (First retirement, returned to wrestling in 2009)
 * King Kong Bundy (1981-May 12, 2007)
 * Trinity (2002 – June 22, 2007)
 * Dusty Rhodes (1967–July 22,2007) (Returned for a match in 2010)
 * Monty Brown (2000 – September 19, 2007)
 * Maven Huffman (2001 – October 5, 2007) (first retirement, returned in 2015 until retiring in 2016)
 * Mr. Wrestling II (1955 – October 13, 2007)
 * Bob Backlund (1973–December 10, 2007) (First retirement, returned to wrestling in 2009 and wrestled his last match in 2018)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Cowboy Lang, 56
 * January 6 – Yvon Durelle, 77
 * January 9 – Cocoa Samoa, 61
 * January 19 – Bam Bam Bigelow, 45
 * February 17 – Mike Awesome, 42
 * March 6
 * Bad News Brown, 63
 * Ray "Thunder" Stern, 74
 * March 8 – Black Shadow, 85
 * March 10 – Ernie Ladd, 68
 * March 13 – Arnold Skaaland, 82
 * March 18 – Ángel Azteca, 43
 * March 28 – Abe Coleman, 101
 * May 7 – Sonny Myers, 83
 * June 2 – Sandy Barr, 69
 * June 15 – Sherri Martel, 49
 * June 22
 * Nancy Benoit, 43
 * Biff Wellington, 42
 * June 24 – Chris Benoit, 40
 * July 15 - Devil Bhudakhan, 32
 * July 18 – John Kronus, 38
 * July 23 – Tor Kamata, 70
 * July 23 - Ronnie P. Gossett, 63
 * July 28 – Karl Gotch, 82
 * August 11 – Bronko Lubich, 81
 * August 13 – Crush, 43
 * August 16 – Dewey Robertson, 68
 * August 29 - Iron Mike Steele, 52
 * August 31 – Karloff Lagarde, 79
 * September 7 – Billy Darnell, 81
 * September 10 – Enrique Torres, 85
 * October 2 - Sean Evans (wrestler), 36
 * November 2 – The Fabulous Moolah, 84
 * November 25 – Angel of Death, 54