2024 in professional wrestling

2024 in professional wrestling describes the current year's events in the world of professional wrestling.

List of promotions
These promotions are holding events throughout 2024.

Notable events

 * January 2 – WWE NXT in the United Kingdom returned to the WWE Network after airing on TNT Sports since January 2020.
 * January 5 – Impact Plus relaunched as TNA+ and distributed by Endeavor Streaming.
 * January 13 – Impact Wrestling reverted to its original Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) name, beginning with Hard To Kill (TNA had been renamed to Impact in 2017); at the event, Nic Nemeth, A. J. Francis, and Ash by Elegance made their TNA debuts, while DeAngelo Williams made his TNA return.
 * January 23 – Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was appointed to the board of directors of TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of WWE. Additionally, WWE announced that in the United States, WWE Raw would move to Netflix in January 2025, leaving linear television for the first time since its inception in January 1993 and after airing on the USA Network since October 2005, while outside of the US, it and WWE's other programs would also move to the streaming platform, which will officially close down the WWE Network worldwide.
 * January 26 – Following a sexual allegations lawsuit, Vince McMahon resigned from TKO Group Holdings and WWE as a whole.
 * January 27 –
 * At WWE's Royal Rumble event, Naomi, Liv Morgan, and Andrade made their WWE returns, while Jade Cargill made her WWE in-ring debut.
 * On AEW Collision, Serena Deeb wrestled her first match in 15 months after a hiatus following several seizures.
 * February 4 – Bushiroad terminates the contract of World Wonder Ring Stardom founder and executive producer Rossy Ogawa following accusations of poaching talent from the promotion.
 * February 6 – NWA Powerrr premiered on The CW's streaming app after airing solely on YouTube since January 2023. Older episodes of Powerrr had previously been uploaded to The CW app in November 2023.
 * February 7 – Anthem Sports & Entertainment President Anthony Cicone was appointed President of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), replacing Scott D'Amore, whose contract was terminated.
 * March 6 – Kazuchika Okada officially signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), making his first appearance as an AEW roster member on AEW Dynamite.
 * March 13 – Mercedes Moné officially signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), debuting at AEW Dynamite: Big Business.
 * March 16 – On AEW Collision, Kyle O'Reilly wrestled his first match in two years after undergoing neck surgery.
 * August 1 – Ganbare Pro-Wrestling became independent from CyberFight.
 * April 3 – WWE Speed premiered on X.
 * April 6 –
 * Giulia officially signed with WWE, first shown in the crowd at NXT Stand & Deliver.
 * During night one of WrestleMania XL, Sami Zayn defeated Gunther to become the WWE Intercontinental Champion, thus ending the latter's 666-day reign as champion; Zayn became the first man to pin Gunther in a one-on-one match since the latter debuted on the main roster on April 8, 2022.
 * April 7 – During night two of WrestleMania XL, Cody Rhodes defeated Roman Reigns to become the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, thus ending the latter's 1,316-day reign as world champion; Rhodes became the first man to pin Reigns in a one-on-one match since December 2019 and also became the first Rhodes family member to hold a world championship in WWE.
 * April 10 – During AEW Dynamite, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) released on-air surveillance footage of the backstage altercation between CM Punk and Jack Perry that took place at the 2023 All In event.
 * April 12 – On WWE SmackDown, Tama Tonga officially debuted for WWE, aligning himself with The Bloodline stable.
 * April 15 – Rossy Ogawa officially announced his new promotion, Dream Star Fighting Marigold.
 * April 20 – Mike Santana, Sami Callihan, and "Broken" Matt Hardy made their TNA returns at Rebellion.
 * April 21 – At Dynasty, Jack Perry returned to AEW, marking his first AEW appearance since the 2023 All In event.
 * April 22 – New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) acquires Bushiroad Fight, parent company of World Wonder Ring Stardom, renaming it Stardom Co. Ltd. as a subsidiary of NJPW, effective June 28.
 * May 4 – At Backlash France, Tanga Loa, Tama Tonga's half-brother returned to WWE, aligning himself with The Bloodline stable.
 * May 6 – United Japan Pro-wrestling (UJPW), an alliance of Japanese wrestling promotions, held its first event, the 2024 All Together.
 * May 20 – Marigold held its first event, Fields Forever.
 * June 14 – At Against All Odds, WWE NXT wrestler Tatum Paxley made her TNA in-ring debut, and Jeff Hardy made his return to TNA.
 * June 17 – At the end of WWE Raw, The Wyatt Sicks stable made their debut.
 * June 18 – TNA wrestler Joe Hendry made his NXT in-ring debut.
 * June 21 – On WWE SmackDown, Jacob Fatu made his WWE debut, aligning himself with The Bloodline stable.
 * June 28 – New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) merger with World Wonder Ring Stardom was finalized, making Stardom a subsidiary of NJPW.
 * July 6 – During WWE's Money in the Bank, John Cena announced that 2025 would be his final year as an in-ring performer before he retires.
 * September 13 – WWE SmackDown will return to USA Network after airing on Fox since October 2019.
 * September TBC – World of Sport Wrestling will be revived and return to taping after six years.
 * October 1 – WWE NXT in the United States will premiere on The CW after airing on the USA Network since September 2019.

CF

 * – DDT Pro-Wrestling
 * – Pro Wrestling Noah
 * – Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
 * – Ganbare Pro-Wrestling

WWE

 * – Raw
 * – SmackDown
 * – NXT
 * – Unbranded

Raw and SmackDown
Raw and SmackDown each exclusively have a men's world championship, a women's world championship, a secondary men's championship, and a men's tag team championship.

NXT
NXT exclusively has a primary championship, a secondary championship, a specialty championship, and a tag team championship for men, as well as a primary championship and a secondary championship for women.

Unbranded
These titles are non-exclusive, available to wrestlers from all three of WWE's brands.

Debuts

 * January 6 – Ezekiel Balogun (NXT)
 * February 17 – Josh Black (NXT)
 * February 25 – Kaisei Takechi (Dramatic Dream Team)
 * March 17 – Tsubasa Suzuki (Dramatic Dream Team)
 * March 30 – Tamyra Mensah-Stock and Rian
 * April 20 – Anthony Luke (NXT)
 * May 18 – Derrian Gobourne (NXT)
 * June 11 – Minami Komomo (Marigold)
 * June 18 – Daiki Nagai (NJPW) and Masatora Yasuda (NJPW)
 * July 14 – Kirari Wakana (Ice Ribbon)

Retirements

 * February 5 – Michael Elgin
 * February 7 – Yukio Sakaguchi
 * February 22 – Bobby Roode
 * March 3 – Sting
 * March 23 – Alex Coughlin
 * July 13 – Akitoshi Saito
 * TBA – Nao Kakuta
 * TBA – Kaz Hayashi

Deaths

 * January 19 – Killa Zilla (born 1989)
 * January 20 – Francisco Ciatso (born 1975)
 * January 22 – Mongolian Mauler (born 1961)
 * January 23 – Ice Train (born 1967)
 * February 1 – Asahi (born 2002)
 * February 10 – Chris Markoff (born 1938)
 * February 23 – Anthony Gaines (born 1993)
 * February 26 – Ole Anderson (born 1942)
 * February 28 – Virgil (born 1951)
 * February 29 – Butcher Vachon (born 1937)
 * March 10 – Yutaka Yoshie (born 1974)
 * March 13 – Jackie Crockett (born 1948)
 * April 6 – James Thurber (born 1952)
 * March 29 – Silver Cat (born 1970)
 * April 7
 * Silento Rodriguez (born 1933)
 * Al Zinck (born 1933)
 * April 10 – Akebono Tarō (born 1969)
 * April 11 – Tony Jones (born 1971)
 * April 15 – Mervyn "Big Mac" McKie (born 1941)
 * April 29 – Billy Reil (born 1979)
 * May 8 – Jesse Scott (born 1981)
 * May 10 – Bob Bruggers (born 1944)
 * May 15 – Reggie Rage (born 1989)
 * May 18 – Pequeño Nitro (born 1984)
 * May 20 – Bad Bones (born 1984)
 * June 2 – Larry Santo (born 1961)
 * June 3 – Jermaine Robinson (born 1974)
 * June 5 – El Signo (born 1954)
 * June 15 – James Castle (born 1988)
 * June 16 – Scott Henson (born 1984)
 * June 25 – Sika Anoa‘i (born 1945)
 * June 26 – Louie Tillet (born 1934)