2026 in professional wrestling

These promotions are holding events throughout 2026.

• January 1 –
  • In the United States, the majority of WWE's archival content on Peacock was moved to Netflix, with Peacock maintaining NXT's livestreaming events until March 15 and the Saturday Night's Main Event specials and replays of recent episodes of WWE SmackDown until at least 2029, as well as exclusive documentaries.
  • Many of the select few countries that were still on the WWE Network in 2025 transitioned to Netflix, with only Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland still on the WWE Network until April 1, while Sub-Saharan Africa and Japan remain on SuperSport and Abema, respectively.
• January 2 – WWE SmackDown returned to three hours after airing for two hours since July 4, 2025.
• January 4 –
  • At New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 20, IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji defeated IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita in a Winner Takes All match. Subsequently, Tsuji reintroduced the IWGP Heavyweight Championship—which had been retired in 2021 and succeeded by the World Heavyweight—to replace the World Heavyweight, retroactively merging the lineages of both titles as one, with all former IWGP World Heavyweight Champions recognized as former IWGP Heavyweight Champions. The IWGP Intercontinental Championship history—which had been unified with the Heavyweight in 2021 and also retired to create the World Heavyweight—would also later be amended with all former World Heavyweight Champions also recognized as former Intercontinental Champions, with Tsuji recognized as its final holder.
  • Also at Wrestle Kingdom 20, Hiroshi Tanahashi lost to Kazuchika Okada, ending his 25-year professional wrestling career.
• January 6 – Backstage during New Japan Pro-Wrestling's New Year Dash, Yota Tsuji announced that Bullet Club would be dissolved going forward, marking the end of the stable after 12 years.
• January 8 – WWE Main Event premiered on YouTube in the United States, after streaming on Peacock since 2021.
• January 15 – TNA iMPACT! premiered on AMC and AMC+, after airing on AXS TV since October 2019, TNA+ since January 2024, and New England Sports Network since January 2025.
• January 31 – At WWE's Royal Rumble, AJ Styles lost to Gunther via technical submission, ending his 27-year professional wrestling career.
• March 9 – Outside of the United States and Canada, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), in partnership with Kiswe, launched MyAEW, an over-the-top streaming service and digital television network, hosting all episodes of AEW's programs and all pay-per-view (PPV) events, live and on-demand, as well as hosting the archive for all prior programs and PPVs. It also hosts the archive for Ring of Honor.
• March 15 – In the United States, NXT's livestreaming events were removed from Peacock following the expiration of that portion of WWE's contract with NBCUniversal. NXT's next livestreaming event, Stand & Deliver, aired on YouTube on April 4, with NXT's livestreaming events subsequently going to The CW starting with The Great American Bash.
• March 31 – The New Japan Pro-Wrestling Board of Directors transferred all shares of Stardom, which had operated under the trade name Stardom Co., Ltd. since their acquisition in April 2024, back to their parent company Bushiroad.
• April 1 – The standalone WWE Network permanently shut down in its last remaining countries—Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland—which transitioned to Netflix, bringing a complete end to the service after 12 years.
• April 28 – WWE announced that beginning with The Great American Bash, NXT's livestreaming events would begin airing on The CW in the United States under a multi-year agreement that includes 20 livestreaming events. CW had already been airing the weekly NXT program since October 2024.
• May 1 – NWA Powerrr premiered on Comet, after airing on The Roku Channel since July 2025. This put the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) back on over-the-air television for the first time in over 30 years.