New Year's Smash (2022)

**New Year's Smash (2022)** was a two-part professional wrestling show made by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on December 28, 2022 at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado. The event aired as special episodes of _Dynamite_ and _Rampage_ respectively. It was the third New Year's Smash event held by AEW.

The main event of _Dynamite_ saw Samoa Joe defeat Wardlow to keep his AEW TNT Championship. Joe choked Wardlow out with the Rear Naked Choke and the referee stopped the match, giving Joe the victory. The main event of _Rampage_ saw Swerve Strickland defeat Wheeler Yuta. While the referee had their back turned, Strickland hit Yuta with a low blow and then a _JML Driver_ for the pinfall victory.

### _Dynamite_ (aired live December 28)

|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**No.**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Matches**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Stipulations**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Times**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Bryan Danielson defeated Ethan Page (with Stokely Hathaway)|Singles match|17:39||||||
|Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli) (with Wheeler Yuta) defeated Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin)|Tag team match|13:55||||||
|Hook defeated Baylum Lynx by submission|Singles match|0:51||||||
|The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) (with Michael Nakazawa and Brandon Cutler) defeated Death Triangle (Pac, Penta El Zero Miedo, and Rey Fénix) (with Alex Abrahantes)|Falls Count Anywhere Six-man tag team match (This was the sixth match in a Best of Seven Series for the AEW World Trios Championship (Series tied 3–3)|16:02||||||
|TayJay A.S. (Tay Melo and Anna Jay A.S.) defeated Willow Nightingale and Ruby Soho|Tag team match|5:03||||||
|Samoa Joe (c) defeated Wardlow|Singles match for the AEW TNT Championship|10:48||||||
|colspan="4" align="center"|(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match|||||||

### _Rampage_ (aired December 30)

|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**No.**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Matches**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Stipulations**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Times**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Orange Cassidy (c) (with Danhausen) defeated Trent Beretta (with Chuck Taylor)|Singles match for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship|11:20||||||
|Kip Sabian (with Penelope Ford) defeated Atiba|Singles match|1:20||||||
|Jade Cargill (c) (with The Baddies (Leila Grey and Red Velvet)) defeated Kiera Hogan|Singles match for the AEW TBS Championship|7:30||||||
|Swerve Strickland (with Mogul Affiliates (Parker Boudreaux and Granden Goetzman)) defeated Wheeler Yuta|Singles match|12:50||||||
|colspan="4" align="center"|(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match|||||||

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: New Year's Smash (2022)
- **promotion**: All Elite Wrestling
- **date**: December 28, 2022
- **date aired**: December 28 and 30, 2022
- **venue**: 1stBank Center
- **city**: Broomfield, Colorado, Broomfield, Colorado
- **lastevent2**: New Year's Smash (December 2021)
- **nextevent2**: New Year's Smash (2023)
- **event2**: List of AEW Dynamite special episodes, _AEW Dynamite_ and List of AEW Rampage special episodes, _Rampage_ special episodes
- **lastevent3**: Holiday Bash (2022)
- **nextevent3**: Blood & Guts (2023), Blood & Guts/Royal Rampage (2023)