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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 Rampage's cancellation at the end of 2024.
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] The 2024 event reduced it back to Dynamite and Rampage due to Collision airing as a different special that week called Christmas Collision.[5]
Following the cancellation of Rampage at the end of 2024, the 2025 event will air as Dynamite and Collision. The event will take place on December 17 and air on December 17 and 20. The December 17 broadcast will be 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 airing on tape delay on December 20, simulcast on TNT and HBO Max. This marks the first Holiday Bash to take place outside the United States, as it will be held in Manchester, England. It also marks 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.[6]
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