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2019 in professional wrestling describes the current year's events in the world of professional wrestling.

Calendar of notable live events

January

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
1 CMLL Sin Piedad Mexico City, Mexico Caristico defeated Ultimo Guerrero
4 NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13[1] Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Kenny Omega (c) in a Singles match to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship[2]
5 NWA NWA New Years Clash Clarksville, Tennessee Nick Aldis (c) defeated James Storm in a Singles match to retain the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship
6 Impact Wrestling Homecoming Nashville, Tennessee Johnny Impact (c) defeated Brian Cage in a Singles match to retain the Impact World Championship
6 CMLL Reyes Del Aire Mexico City, Mexico Caristico, Dragon Lee and Volador Jr. defeated La Sangre Dinamita (Forastero and Sansón) and Ultimo Guerrero by DQ
12 WWE (NXT UK) NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool Blackpool, Lancashire, England Pete Dunne (c) defeated Joe Coffey in a Singles match to retain the WWE United Kingdom Championship Debut of the NXT UK Tag Team Championship
13 ROH Honor Reigns Supreme Concord, North Carolina Jay Lethal (c) defeated Dalton Castle in a Singles match to retain the ROH World Championship
18 CMLL
NJPW 		Fantastica Mania
(Tokyo shows) 		Tokyo, Japan Dragon Lee and Místico defeated Nueva Generacion Dinamitas (Cuatrero and Sansón) in a CMLL Family Tag Tournament Final Match
20 Dragon Lee and Místico defeated Los Guerreros Laguneros (Gran Guerrero and Último Guerrero)
21 Volador Jr. defeated Carístico
24 ROH Road To G1 Supercard Texas Dallas, Texas Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham defeated Mark Haskins and Tracy Williams
25 Houston, Texas Lifeblood (Bandido, Juice Robinson, David Finlay, Mark Haskins and Tracy Williams) (with Tenille Dashwood) defeated Bully Ray, Shane Taylor, Silas Young and The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)
26 San Antonio, Texas Villain Enterprises (Brody King and PCO) defeated Lifeblood (David Finlay and Juice Robinson) to win 2019 Tag Wars
26-27 WWE Worlds Collide Tournament Phoenix, Arizona Velveteen Dream defeated Tyler Bate in a tournament final match
26 WWE (NXT) NXT TakeOver: Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona Tommaso Ciampa (c) defeated Aleister Black in a Singles match to retain the NXT Championship
27 WWE Royal Rumble Phoenix, Arizona Seth Rollins won by last eliminating Braun Strowman in a 30-man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania 35 Becky Lynch won the women's Royal Rumble match and chose to challenge Ronda Rousey for the Raw Women's Championship at WrestleMania 35.
Seth Rollins chose to challenge Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship at WrestleMania 35.
30 NJPW The New Beginning USA Los Angeles, California Lifeblood (Juice Robinson and Tracy Williams) defeated Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero and Beretta)
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

February

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
1 NJPW The New Beginning USA Charlotte, North Carolina Juice Robinson (c) defeated Beretta to retain the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship
2 Nashville, Tennessee Lifeblood (Juice Robinson, David Finlay and Tracy Williams) defeated Chaos (Beretta, Chuckie T. and Rocky Romero)
2 NJPW The New Beginning in Sapporo Sapporo, Japan Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale and Jay White) defeated Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi
3 Tetsuya Naito (c) defeated Taichi to retain the IWGP Intercontinental Championship
3 WWE (NXT) Halftime Heat Orlando, Florida Aleister Black, Ricochet and Velveteen Dream defeated Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa and Adam Cole[3]
10 ROH Bound By Honor Miami, Florida The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) defeated Jonathan Gresham, Jay Lethal, and Rush
11 NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka Osaka, Japan Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) in a Singles match to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
15 CMLL Universal Championship Mexico City, Mexico El Terrible defeated Niebla Roja in the finals to win the CMLL Universal Championship
17 WWE Elimination Chamber Houston, Texas Daniel Bryan (c) defeated Kofi Kingston, Randy Orton, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, and Samoa Joe in the Elimination Chamber match to retain the WWE Championship First event to feature the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, new title for women's tag team division in WWE.
22 ROH
NJPW 		Honor Rising: Japan 2019 Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Jay Lethal defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia)
23 The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) (c) defeated Lifeblood (Juice Robinson and David Finlay) to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

March

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
2 MLW Intimidation Games Chicago, Illinois Tom Lawlor (c) defeated Low Ki for MLW World Heavyweight Championship
6 NJPW 47th Anniversary Event Tokyo Japan IWGP Heavyweight Champion Jay White vs NEVER Openweight Champion Will Ospreay
10 WWE Fastlane Cleveland, Ohio
15 ROH ROH 17th Anniversary Show Sunrise Manor, Nevada Jay Lethal (c) vs Matt Taven for ROH World Championship
15 CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2019) Mexico City, Mexico
16 AAA Rey de Reyes Puebla, Puebla
31 ROH Road To G1 Supercard Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

April

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
4 MLW Rise of the Renegades
Impact Wrestling United We Stand (2019) Rahway, New Jersey
5 WWE (NXT) NXT TakeOver: New York Brooklyn, New York
MLW Battle Riot II 40-man Battle Riot
6 ROH
NJPW 		G1 Supercard[4] New York City, New York Jay White (c) vs winner of New Japan Cup 2019 for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship First non-WWE event to sell out Madison Square Garden
7 WWE WrestleMania 35 East Rutherford, New Jersey
14 ROH Masters Of The Craft (2019) Columbus, Ohio
27 NWA
ROH 		Crockett Cup Concord, North Carolina
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

May

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
3 NJPW Wrestling Dontaku (2019) Fukuoka, Japan
4
8 ROH
NJPW 		ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds 2019 Buffalo, New York
9 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 Grand Rapids, Michigan
12 Chicago, Illinois
25 AEW Double or Nothing Las Vegas, Nevada AEW debut show
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

June

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
1 ROH State Of The Art 2019 Kent, Washington
2 Portland, Oregon
9 NJPW Dominion 6.9 in Osaka Jo Hall Osaka, Japan
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

July

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
6 NJPW G1 Special in Dallas Dallas, Texas
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

August

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
3 AAA Triplemanía XXVII Mexico City
10 WWE (NXT) NXT TakeOver Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 WWE SummerSlam (2019) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

November

Date Promotion(s) Event Location Main Event Notes
23 WWE (NXT) NXT TakeOver Rosemont, Illinois
24 WWE Survivor Series (2019) Rosemont, Illinois
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

Accomplishments and tournaments

CMLL

Accomplishment Winner Date won Notes
Reyes Del Aire Titan January 6, 2019
Universal Champion El Terrible February 15, 2019

WWE

Accomplishment Winner Date won Notes
NXT UK Tag Team Championship tournament Zack Gibson and James Drake January 12, 2019
WWE Worlds Collide Tournament Velveteen Dream January 26-27, 2019
Royal Rumble (Women) Becky Lynch January 27, 2019
Royal Rumble (Men) Seth Rollins January 27, 2019

NWA

Accomplishment Winner Date won Notes
Crockett Cup April 27, 2019

Title changes

CMLL

CMLL World Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Último Guerrero
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
CMLL World Middleweight Championship
Incoming champion – El Cuatrero
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
CMLL World Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Los Ingobernables (Rush and El Terrible)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Esfinge and Tritón
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
CMLL World Trios Championship
Incoming champions – Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia, Gran Guerrero and Último Guerrero)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
CMLL World Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Marcela
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Stuka Jr.
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship
Incoming champion – Carístico
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship
Incoming champion – Volador Jr.
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
Occidente Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Star Black
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

Impact Wrestling

Impact Global Championship
Incoming champion – Johnny Impact
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
Impact X Division Championship
Incoming champion – Vacant
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 6 Rich Swann Homecoming This was an Ultimate X match also involving Ethan Page, Jake Crist, and Trey Miguel.
Impact Knockouts Championship
Incoming champion – Tessa Blanchard
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 6 Taya Valkyrie Homecoming Gail Kim served as special guest referee.
Impact World Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – The Latin American Xchange (Ortiz and Santana)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 13 The Lucha Bros
(Pentagon Jr. and Fenix) 		Impact! Will air on tape delay

IWRG

IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Mr. Electro[5]
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship
Incoming champion – Vacant
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Championship
Incoming champion – Imposible
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Rokambole Jr. and Villano V Jr.
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship
Incoming champions – La Dinastía de la Muerte (Negro Navarro, Trauma I and Trauma II)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship
Incoming champion – Cerebro Negro
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Junior de Juniors Championship
Incoming champion – El Hijo de Canis Lupus
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Rey del Aire Championship
Incoming champion – Dragón Bane
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
IWRG Rey del Ring Championship
Incoming champion – Emperador Azteca
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
Distrito Federal Trios Championship
Incoming champions – Los Comandos Elite (Oficial Rayan, Oficial Spector and Oficial Liderk)[6]
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide

AAA Mega Championship
Incoming champion – Fénix
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
AAA World Cruiserweight Championship
Incoming champion – Sammy Guevara
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
February 16 Laredo Kid AAA Conquista Total
AAA World Mini-Estrella Championship
Incoming champion – Mini Psycho Clown
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
AAA Latin American Championship
Incoming champion – Drago
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
AAA Reina de Reinas Championship
Incoming champion – Lady Shani
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
AAA World Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – El Texano Jr. and Rey Escorpión
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Big Mami and Niño Hamburguesa
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
AAA World Trios Championship
Incoming champions – El Hijo del Vikingo, Laredo Kid and Myzteziz Jr.
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

MLW

MLW World Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Low Ki
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
February 2 Tom Lawlor Superfight
MLW World Tag Team Championship
Incoming champion – Lucha Brothers (Penta el 0M and Rey Fénix)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
February 2 The Hart Foundation
(Teddy Hart and Davey Boy Smith Jr.)		 Superfight
MLW World Middleweight Championship
Incoming champions – Teddy Hart
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

NJPW

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Kenny Omega
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Hiroshi Tanahashi Wrestle Kingdom 13
IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Incoming champion – Chris Jericho
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Tetsuya Naito Wrestle Kingdom 13 No disqualification match
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Cody
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Juice Robinson Wrestle Kingdom 13
IWGP Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Los Ingobernables de Japon
(Sanada and Evil)		 Wrestle Kingdom 13 This was a three-way match, also involving The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson).
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Kushida
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Taiji Ishimori Wrestle Kingdom 13
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Los Ingobernables de Japon
(Bushi and Shingo Takagi)		 Wrestle Kingdom 13 This was a three-way match, also involving Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh, accompanied by Rocky Romero).
NEVER Openweight Championship
Incoming champion – Kota Ibushi
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 4 Will Ospreay Wrestle Kingdom 13
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Bullet Club OG (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Taiji Ishimori)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

NWA

NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Nick Aldis
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NWA World Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Jazz
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NWA National Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Willie Mack
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

ROH

ROH World Championship
Incoming champion – Jay Lethal
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
ROH World Television Championship
Incoming champion – Jeff Cobb
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
ROH World Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan, and Vinny Marseglia)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
Women of Honor Championship
Incoming champion – Kelly Klein
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

The Crash Lucha Libre

The Crash Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion – Willie Mack
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
The Crash Cruiserweight Championship
Incoming champion – Bandido
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
The Crash Junior Championship
Incoming champion – Xperia
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
The Crash Tag Team Championship
Incoming champion – Vacant
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
The Crash Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Tessa Blanchard
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

WWE

  – Raw
  – SmackDown
  – Unbranded
  – 205 Live
  – NXT
  – NXT UK

Raw/SmackDown/205 Live

WWE Universal Championship
Incoming champion – Brock Lesnar
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
WWE Championship
Incoming champion – Daniel Bryan
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
WWE Intercontinental Championship
Incoming champion – Dean Ambrose
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 14 Bobby Lashley Monday Night Raw Triple threat match, also involving Seth Rollins.
February 17 Finn Bálor Elimination Chamber This was a 2-on-1 handicap match, featuring Lio Rush as Lashley's partner. Bálor pinned Rush to win Lashley's title.
WWE United States Championship
Incoming champion – Rusev
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 27 Shinsuke Nakamura Royal Rumble
January 29 R-Truth SmackDown Live
WWE Raw Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Ronda Rousey
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Asuka
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – Bobby Roode and Chad Gable
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
February 11 The Revival
(Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson) 		Monday Night Raw
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – The Bar (Cesaro and Sheamus)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 27 The Miz and Shane McMahon Royal Rumble
February 17 The Usos
(Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) 		Elimination Chamber
WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – N/A
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
February 17 The Boss 'N' Hug Connection
(Bayley and Sasha Banks) 		Elimination Chamber This was a tag team Elimination Chamber match to determine the inaugural champions, featuring Nia Jax and Tamina and The Riott Squad (represented by Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan) from Raw and Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose, The IIconics (Billie Kay and Peyton Royce), and Naomi and Carmella from SmackDown. Bayley and Banks won the match with lastly eliminating Rose and Deville.
WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Incoming champion – Buddy Murphy
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)

NXT

NXT Championship
Incoming champion – Tommaso Ciampa
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NXT North American Championship
Incoming champion – Ricochet
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 26 Johnny Gargano NXT TakeOver: Phoenix
January 30 Velveteen Dream NXT Aired on tape delay on February 20.
NXT Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Shayna Baszler
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NXT Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong)
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 26 War Raiders
(Hanson and Rowe) 		NXT TakeOver: Phoenix

NXT UK

WWE United Kingdom Championship
Incoming champion – Pete Dunne
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
NXT UK Women's Championship
Incoming champion – Rhea Ripley
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 12 Toni Storm NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool
NXT UK Tag Team Championship
Incoming champions – N/A
Date Winner Event/Show Note(s)
January 12 Zack Gibson and James Drake NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool Defeated Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.

Awards and honors

WWE

WWE Hall of Fame

Main article: WWE Hall of Fame
Category Inductee
Group D-Generation X (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chyna, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and X-Pac)[7]

Retirement

Deaths

Pedro Morales

See also

References

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  2. ^ "NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13 Results". Wrestling Inc. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  3. ^ "WWE to counter-program Super Bowl LIII halftime show with six-man tag-team bout". 28 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  4. ^ York, Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza 10001 New; N, NY United States 40° 45' 1 818"; Maps, 73° 59' 36 3804" W. See map: Google (2018-08-07). "4/6/19 - G1 Supercard - New York, NY". www.rohwrestling.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16. {{cite web}}: |first3= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Lizarraga, Alfonso (December 19, 2016). "Rumbo a su aniversario treinta y nueve IWRG tiene nuevo campeón completo". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  6. ^ "El Estado de México tiene nuevos campeones de tríos". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). December 11, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  7. ^ Solowrestling (2019-02-18). "D-Generation X, primer nominado al WWE Hall Of Fame 2019". www.solowrestling.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  8. ^ "Takashi Iizuka to retire next month". WON/F4W - WWE news, Pro Wrestling News, WWE Results, UFC News, UFC results. 6 January 2019.
  9. ^ Fekete, Bob (January 2, 2019). "'MEAN' GENE OKERLUND DEAD: WWE HALL OF FAMER PASSES AWAY AT 76". Newsweek. New York City: Newsweek, Inc. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  10. ^ "Alexis Smirnoff / Michel 'Le Justice' Dubois dies". canoe.com.
  11. ^ Les Thornton dead at 84
  12. ^ "Pedro Morales, Legendary Former WWE Champion, Has Died". 12 February 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
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