2009 in professional wrestling

2009 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.

List of notable promotions
These promotions held notable events in 2009.

WWE

 * – Raw
 * – SmackDown
 * - ECW

Raw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, a women's championship, and a male tag team championship until their respective tag team titles became shared across all the brands. ECW only had a world championship.

Debuts

 * Unknown month – Tony Deppen
 * April – Bray Wyatt
 * April 29 – Kazumasa Yoshida (Big Japan)
 * June 27 – Kengo
 * July 17 – Cedric Alexander
 * July 18 – Powerhouse Hobbs and Michio Kageyama
 * August 1 – Trey Miguel
 * August 15 – Big Cass
 * August 17 – Apollo Crews/Uhaa Nation
 * August 22 – Mia Yim
 * August 23 – Soma Takao
 * September – Aksana
 * September 3 – Naomi
 * September 6 – Toru Sugiura
 * September 20 – Aoi Ishibashi (NEO Ladies)
 * September 21 – Takumi Tsukamoto
 * September 26
 * Robert Dreissker
 * Tamina Snuka
 * October – Aaron Solo
 * October 4 – Saya
 * November 21 – Tristan Archer
 * November 23 – Akito
 * November 27 – Alexander James
 * December 6 – Alex Windsor
 * December 12 - Flamita
 * December 17 – Big E

Retirements

 * Lena Yada (January 4, 2008 – 2009)
 * One Man Gang (1977-2009)
 * Mike Shaw (1980-2009)
 * Doug Basham (1993–2009)
 * John Layfield (1992 – April 6, 2009) (moved to color commentator, later returned to compete at Royal Rumble 2014)
 * David Flair (1999-May 15, 2009)
 * Candice Michelle (November 15, 2004 – June 19, 2009) (although she had been fully inactive from in-ring competition since 2009, she announced her full retirement in December 2017)
 * Sharmell (1998 – October 18, 2009)
 * Jamie Noble (1995 – November 10, 2009) (semi-retired)
 * Jon Heidenreich (2001 – November 28, 2009)
 * Christy Hemme (July 15, 2004 – December 16, 2009) (moved to ring announcer)
 * Azumi Hyuga (December 4, 1994 – December 27, 2009)

Deaths

 * January 13 – Cousin Junior, 48
 * January 16 – Paul E. Normous, 33
 * February 2 - Jim Wilson (wrestler), 66
 * March 2 - Robert Bruce (wrestler), 65
 * March 4 – Yvon Cormier, 70
 * March 13 – Test, 33
 * March 22
 * Steve Doll, 48
 * Abismo Negro, 37
 * April 28 – Buddy Rose, 56
 * May 8 – Cynthia Peretti, 60
 * May 28 - John Tolos, 78
 * June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, 46
 * June 22 – Billy Red Lyons, 77
 * July 5 - Waldo Von Erich, 75
 * July 22 - Damian Steele, 33/34
 * August 5 – Al Tomko, 77
 * August 12 - Karl Von Hess, 90
 * August 27 - Shota Chochishvili, 59
 * September 6 - Butcher Brannigan, 61
 * September 10 - Kerry Brown (wrestler), 51
 * October 14 – Lou Albano, 76
 * October 18 - Ryuma Go, 53
 * November 12 - Orig Williams, 78
 * November 25 – Adam Firestorm, 32
 * December 4 – Umaga, 36
 * December 29 - Dr. Death Steve Williams, 49