2015 in professional wrestling

2015 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.

List of notable promotions
These promotions held notable events in 2015.

Notable events

 * August 31 – WWE Performance Center shooting

Debuts

 * Date unknown – Alex Coughlin (NJPW)
 * January 31 – Baliyan Akki
 * February 13 – Kuma Arashi
 * February 28 – Hyper Misao
 * March 8 – Senza Volto
 * April 4 – Akam and Ace Austin
 * April 30 – Kazumi Kikuta
 * May 2 – Delmi Exo
 * May 6 – Flip Gordon
 * May 7 – Nia Jax
 * May 17 – Fuminori Abe
 * May 31
 * Maika Ozaki
 * Nao Kakuta
 * Natsupoi
 * Saori Anou
 * Tae Honma
 * June 6 – Cole Radrick
 * June 25 – Liv Morgan
 * July 12 – Mika Iwata
 * August 23
 * Mao
 * Mizuki Watase
 * August 25
 * Mandy Rose
 * Sara Lee
 * August 29 – Francesco Akira
 * September 6 – Shu Asakawa
 * September 11 – Kaito Ishida
 * September 26 – Jeet Rama (NXT)
 * October 24 – Otis
 * November 1 – Ayato Yoshida
 * December 22 – Nodoka Tenma
 * December 30 – Sonya Deville

Retirements

 * Brazo de Oro (1975–2015)
 * Road Dogg (1986-2015, became a WWE producer)
 * Mikey Whipwreck (1994–2015)
 * AJ Lee (September 29, 2007 – April 3, 2015)
 * Tomoka Nakagawa (September 19, 2004 – April 12, 2015)
 * Takeshi Morishima (March 22, 1998 – April 21, 2015)
 * El Matematico (1968-May 17, 2015)
 * Johnny Saint (1958-June 13, 2015)
 * David Otunga (May 29, 2009 - July 5, 2015) (became a color commentator)
 * Serena Deeb (March 2005 - July 10, 2015) (returned in 2017 for the inaugural Mae Young Classic)
 * Traci Brooks (2001 – July 18, 2015)
 * Layla (August 16, 2006 – July 29, 2015)
 * Jimmy Snuka (1968	– September 2015)
 * Portia Perez (December 2003 – October 11, 2015)
 * Ezekiel Jackson (June 27, 2007 – October 18, 2015)
 * Mio Shirai (March 4, 2007 – September 20, 2015)
 * Genichiro Tenryu (November 13, 1976 – November 15, 2015)
 * Kid Kash (1990 – December 2015)
 * Act Yasukawa (February 5, 2012 – December 23, 2015)
 * Neko Nitta (March 2, 2011 – December 31, 2015)

Deaths

 * January 7 – Tim Arson, 38
 * January 13 - Brutus Malumba, 92
 * January 27 – Larry Winters, 58
 * February 9 – Drew McDonald, 59
 * February 10 – Daniel Brand, 79
 * February 13 - Tony Charles, 79
 * February 14 - Wim Ruska, 74
 * March 4 – Iwao Horiuchi, 73
 * March 20 – Cincinnati Red, 40
 * March 21 – Perro Aguayo, Jr., 35
 * April 5 – Steve Rickard, 85
 * April 21 - Ron Wright, 76
 * April 27 – Verne Gagne, 89
 * April 28 - Ashura Hara, 68
 * June 1:
 * Tommy Rogers, 54
 * Mike Lane, 82
 * June 11 – Dusty Rhodes, 69
 * June 21 – Cora Combs, 92
 * June 22 – Buddy Landel, 52
 * July 1 – Curly Moe, 53
 * July 9 - Samoan Joe, 66
 * July 31 – Roddy Piper, 61
 * November 8 - Don Fargo, 84
 * November 14 – Nick Bockwinkel, 80
 * November 26 - Tommy Gilbert, 75
 * November 28 - Stan Holek, 82
 * December 5 – Hack Meyers, 41
 * December 16 – Lizmark, 64
 * December 21 – Emmanuel Yarbrough, 51