AEW Holiday Bash

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AEW Holiday Bash
AEW Holiday Bash logo for Dynamite
PromotionsAll Elite Wrestling
First event2020

AEW Holiday Bash is an annual professional wrestling television special produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Established in 2020, the event airs in December as one of AEW's Christmas-themed broadcasts. The inaugural event aired as a special episode of the promotion's flagship weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite. In 2021, the event expanded to two nights, with the second night airing as a special episode of Friday Night Rampage. In 2023, the event added a third night, airing as a special episode of Saturday Night Collision. In 2024, the event returned to a two-night format on Dynamite and Rampage and then Dynamite and Collision in 2025 after Rampage's cancellation at the end of 2024.

History

On December 9, 2020, the American professional wrestling company All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced that the December 23 episode of their flagship television program, Dynamite, would be a special episode titled Holiday Bash, broadcast on TNT. The Christmas television special was taped on December 17 at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

AEW resumed live touring in July 2021. On December 7 that year, AEW President Tony Khan confirmed that Holiday Bash would return, expanding to a two-part event. The first part aired live on December 22 for Dynamite while the second part aired on tape delay on Christmas Day as a special episode of Rampage—AEW's secondary television program that began airing in August 2021 on TNT. The event took place at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. While Rampage usually aired on Fridays, for the Holiday Bash special, it was pushed back to Saturday night because of TNT's traditional Christmas Eve marathon showing of A Christmas Story.[2]

The 2022 event retained the two-part format, but this time with Rampage airing in its normal Friday night time slot as there was not a broadcasting conflict like the previous year. This was also the first Holiday Bash to air on TBS as Dynamite moved to the channel earlier that year in January.[3] The 2023 event then expanded Holiday Bash to a three-part special, also encompassing Collision, AEW's third television program that launched in June 2023 on TNT, airing on Saturdays.[4] The 2024 event reduced it back to Dynamite and Rampage due to Collision airing as a different special that week called Christmas Collision.[5]

Following the cancellation of Rampage at the end of 2024, the 2025 event will air as Dynamite and Collision. The event will take place on December 17 and air on December 17 and 20. The December 17 broadcast will be three hours, consisting of a two-hour Dynamite immediately followed by a one-hour Collision, simulcast on TBS and HBO Max, and then another one-hour Collision airing on tape delay on December 20, simulcast on TNT and HBO Max. This marks the first Holiday Bash to take place outside the United States, as it will be held in Manchester, England. It also marks the first Holiday Bash to stream on HBO Max following AEW's updated deal with Warner Bros. Discovery that began earlier that year in January.[6]

Events

# Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref.
1 Holiday Bash (2020) Dynamite
December 17, 2020
(aired December 23)		 Jacksonville, Florida Daily's Place The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c) vs. The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship [7]
2 Holiday Bash (2021) Dynamite
December 22, 2021		 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum Sting, CM Punk, and Darby Allin vs. The Pinnacle (MJF, Cash Wheeler, and Dax Harwood) [8]
Rampage
December 22, 2021
(aired December 25)		 Sammy Guevara (c) vs. Cody Rhodes for the AEW TNT Championship
3 Holiday Bash (2022) Dynamite
December 21, 2022		 San Antonio, Texas Freeman Coliseum Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women's World Championship [9]
Rampage
December 21, 2022
(aired December 23)		 Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett vs. Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn
4 Holiday Bash (2023) Dynamite
December 20, 2023		 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Paycom Center Jon Moxley vs. Jay White in a Continental Classic Gold League match [10]
Rampage
December 20, 2023
(aired December 22)		 El Hijo del Vikingo (c) vs. Black Taurus for the AAA Mega Championship [11]
Collision
December 23, 2023		 San Antonio, Texas Frost Bank Center Andrade El Idolo vs. Eddie Kingston in a Continental Classic Blue League match [12]
5 Holiday Bash (2024) Dynamite
December 18, 2024		 Washington, D.C. Entertainment & Sports Arena Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Pac, and Wheeler Yuta) vs. "Hangman" Adam Page, Jay White, and Orange Cassidy [5]
Rampage
December 18, 2024
(aired December 20)		 Brody King vs. Komander in a Continental Classic Gold League match
6 Holiday Bash (2025)[a] Dynamite and Collision
December 17, 2025		 Manchester, England Co-op Live TBA [13][6]
TBA
Collision
December 17, 2025
(airing December 20)		 TBA
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  1. ↑ The special will consist of a two-hour episode of Dynamite and two one-hour episodes of Collision. The December 17 broadcast will be three hours, encompassing Dynamite and a one-hour Collision, with another one-hour Collision airing on December 20.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rose, Bryan (December 9, 2020). "AEW ANNOUNCES HOLIDAY BASH, NEW YEAR'S SMASH SPECIAL EVENTS". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  2. ↑ Nason, Josh (December 8, 2021). "AEW HOLIDAY BASH SET FOR BOTH DYNAMITE, CHRISTMAS NIGHT RAMPAGE". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  3. ↑ Nason, Josh (October 12, 2022). "AEW announces dates & locations for Winter is Coming, Holiday Bash". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  4. ↑ Rose, Bryan (December 16, 2023). "Trios Championship match announced for next week's AEW Collision Holiday Bash". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  5. 1 2 "AEW: Dynamite/Rampage Washington, DC DECEMBER 18, 2024". All Elite Wrestling. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  6. 1 2 Powell, Jason (December 11, 2025). "AEW Dynamite and Collision preview: The three-hour Holiday Bash block". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 11, 2025.
  7. ↑ Beaston, Erik. "AEW Dynamite Holiday Bash Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights". Bleacher Report.
  8. ↑ "Christmas Party And New Matches Announced For AEW Dynamite Holiday Bash".
  9. ↑ Nason, Josh (October 12, 2022). "AEW announces dates & locations for Winter is Coming, Holiday Bash". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  10. ↑ Powell, Jason (December 20, 2023). "AEW Dynamite results (12/20): Powell's live review of Jon Moxley vs. Jay White, Swerve Strickland vs. Rush, and Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Lethal in Continental Classic matches". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
  11. ↑ Murphy, Don (December 22, 2023). "AEW Rampage results (12/22): Murphy's review of Orange Cassidy vs. Rocky Romero for the AEW International Title, El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Black Taurus for the AAA Mega Title, Matt and Jeff Hardy vs. The Kingdom". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  12. ↑ Powell, Jason (December 23, 2023). "AEW Collision results (12/23): Powell's live review of Bryan Danielson vs. Brody King, Eddie Kingston vs. Daniel Garcia, and Andrade El Idolo vs. Claudio Castagnoli in Continental Classic matches". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  13. ↑ Manolo Has Pizzazz (November 25, 2025). "AEW reveals Winter is Coming date and other holiday specials". Cageside Seats. Retrieved November 27, 2025.