# AEW Holiday Bash

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 specials. The inaugural 2020 event aired as a special episode of the promotion's flagship weekly television program, Wednesday Night Dynamite, while the 2021 event expanded the special to two nights, with the second part airing as a special episode of Friday Night Rampage. The 2023 event then expanded the special to three nights, with the third part airing as a special episode of Saturday Night Collision. The 2024 event went back to Dynamite and Rampage due to Collision airing as a different special that week.

## History

On December 9, 2020, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced that the December 23 episode of their flagship television program, Dynamite, would be a special episode titled Holiday Bash. 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. The event took place at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. While Rampage usually airs 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. The 2023 event then expanded Holiday Bash to a three-part special, also encompassing Saturday Night Collision, AEW's third television program that launched in June 2023. The 2024 event reduced it back to Dynamite and Rampage due to Collision airing as a different special that week called Christmas Collision.

## Events

| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
| 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 |
| 2 | Holiday Bash (2021) | Night 1: Dynamite – December 22, 2021 | Greensboro, North Carolina | Greensboro Coliseum | Sting, CM Punk, and Darby Allin vs. The Pinnacle (MJF, Cash Wheeler, and Dax Harwood) |
| 2 | Holiday Bash (2021) | Night 2: Rampage – December 22, 2021 (aired December 25) | Greensboro, North Carolina | Greensboro Coliseum | Sammy Guevara (c) vs. Cody Rhodes for the AEW TNT Championship |
| 3 | Holiday Bash (2022) | Night 1: Dynamite – December 21, 2022 | Freeman Coliseum | San Antonio, Texas | Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women's World Championship |
| 3 | Holiday Bash (2022) | Night 2: Rampage – December 21, 2022 (aired December 23) | Freeman Coliseum | San Antonio, Texas | Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett vs. Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn |
| 4 | Holiday Bash (2023) | Night 1: Dynamite – December 20, 2023 | Paycom Center | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Jon Moxley vs. Jay White in a Gold League match of the Continental Classic tournament |
| 4 | Holiday Bash (2023) | Night 2: Rampage – December 20, 2023 (aired December 22) | Paycom Center | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | El Hijo del Vikingo (c) vs. Black Taurus for the AAA Mega Championship |
| 4 | Holiday Bash (2023) | Night 3: Collision – December 23, 2023 | Frost Bank Center | San Antonio, Texas | Andrade El Idolo vs. Eddie Kingston in a Blue League match of the Continental Classic tournament |
| 5 | Holiday Bash (2024) | Night 1: 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 | Holiday Bash (2024) | Night 2: Rampage – December 18, 2024 (aired December 20) | Washington, D.C. | Entertainment & Sports Arena | Brody King vs. Komander in a Gold League match of the Continental Classic tournament |
| (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match |||||||