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 Rampages 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.
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.
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. 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. The 2024 event reduced it back to Dynamite and Rampage due to Collision airing as a different special that week called Christmas Collision.
Following the cancellation of Rampage at the end of 2024, the 2025 event was broadcast as Dynamite and Collision. The event took place on December 17 and aired on December 17 and 20. The December 17 broadcast was 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 aired on tape delay on December 20, simulcast on TNT and HBO Max. This marked the first Holiday Bash to take place outside the United States, as it was held in Manchester, England. It also marked 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.
Events #EventDateCity VenueMain eventRef.1Holiday Bash (2020)DynamiteDecember 17, 2020Jacksonville, FloridaDaily's PlaceThe Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c) vs. The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship2Holiday Bash (2021)DynamiteDecember 22, 2021Greensboro, North CarolinaGreensboro ColiseumSting, CM Punk, and Darby Allin vs. The Pinnacle (MJF, Cash Wheeler, and Dax Harwood)RampageDecember 22, 2021Sammy Guevara (c) vs. Cody Rhodes for the AEW TNT Championship3Holiday Bash (2022)DynamiteDecember 21, 2022San Antonio, TexasFreeman ColiseumJamie Hayter (c) vs. Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women's World ChampionshipRampageDecember 21, 2022Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett vs. Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn4Holiday Bash (2023)DynamiteDecember 20, 2023Oklahoma City, OklahomaPaycom CenterJon Moxley vs. Jay White in a Continental Classic Gold League matchRampageDecember 20, 2023El Hijo del Vikingo (c) vs. Black Taurus for the AAA Mega ChampionshipCollisionDecember 23, 2023San Antonio, TexasFrost Bank CenterAndrade El Idolo vs. Eddie Kingston in a Continental Classic Blue League match5Holiday Bash (2024)DynamiteDecember 18, 2024Washington, D.C.Entertainment & Sports ArenaDeath Riders (Jon Moxley, Pac, and Wheeler Yuta) vs. "Hangman" Adam Page, Jay White, and Orange CassidyRampageDecember 18, 2024Brody King vs. Komander in a Continental Classic Gold League match6Holiday Bash (2025)DynamiteDecember 17, 2025Manchester, EnglandCo-op LiveDynamite Diamond Battle RoyaleCollisionDecember 17, 2025FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (c) vs. Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn) for the AEW World Tag Team ChampionshipCollisionDecember 17, 2025Kevin Knight vs. Kazuchika Okada in a Continental Classic Gold League match
See also List of AEW Dynamite special episodes List of AEW Rampage special episodes List of AEW Collision special episodes List of All Elite Wrestling special events List of All Elite Wrestling pay-per-view events
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