2017 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.
List of notable promotions
These promotions held notable events in 2017.
Calendar of notable shows
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Notable events
Tournaments and accomplishments
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA)
All Japan Pro-Wrestling (AJPW)
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)
Pro Wrestling Noah
Ring of Honor
TNA/Impact/GFW
WWE
Title changes
AAA
TNA/Impact/GFW
NJPW
ROH
The Crash Lucha Libre
WWE
â Raw
â SmackDown
â NXT
Raw and SmackDown
Raw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, a women's championship, and a male tag team championship. Raw also had a championship for their cruiserweight wrestlers.
NXT
Awards and honors
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
WWE
WWE Hall of Fame
NXT Year-End Awards
The award winners were announced on on January 27, 2018.
Debuts
Retirements
- Kyoko Kimura (July 20, 2003 â January 22, 2017)
- Rosa Mendes (November 2006 â February 13, 2017)
- Kellie Skater (2007 â February 25, 2017)
- Barry Darsow (1983-2001, 2007-2017)
- Sachie Abe (May 2, 1996 â April 2, 2017)
- Akebono TarÃ
 (March 31, 2005 - April 11, 2017)
- Ricardo Rodriguez (August 11, 2006 â May 5, 2017)
- Shelly Martinez (December 2000 â May 17, 2017)
- Tyson Kidd (July 23, 1995 â June 29, 2017)
- Velvet Sky (2003 â July 6, 2017) (return in ROH in 2019)
- Bob Armstrong (1960 â July 13, 2017) (returned for a match in 2019)
- Mark Henry (September 20, 1996 â August 2, 2017)
- Eva Marie (July 1, 2013 â August 4, 2017) (return in WWE in 2021)
- Sid Eudy (1987 â August 5, 2017)
- Bill Eadie (December 15, 1972 â August 12, 2017)
- Big Van Vader (1985-August 26, 2017)
- Danny Havoc (July 30, 2005 â September 9, 2017) (returned to wrestling in 2019 until his death in 2020)
- Terry Funk (1965-September 23, 2017)
- Atsushi Onita (April 14, 1974 â October 31, 2017)
- Manami Toyota (August 5, 1987 â November 3, 2017)
- Candice Michelle (November 15, 2004 â December 2, 2017) (full retirement, through full inactive since 2009)
- Dai Suzuki (November 28, 2014 â December 13, 2017)
- Great Kabuki (October 31, 1964 â December 22, 2017)
Deaths
- January 9 â Timothy Well, 55
- January 15 â Jimmy Snuka, 73
- January 25 â Jun Izumida, 51
- February 2 â Tom Drake, 86
- February 10 â Bob Sweetan, 76
- February 11 â Chavo Guerrero Sr., 68
- February 16 â George Steele, 79
- February 17 â Nicole Bass, 52
- February 18 â Ivan Koloff, 74
- February 21 â Bruiser Bedlam, 53
- March 7 â Ron Bass, 68
- March 13 â Dennis Stamp, 70
- April 8
- JoaquÃÂn Roldán, 63
- Fishman, 66
- April 10 â Larry Sharpe, 65
- April 17 â Rosey, 47
- April 20- Katsuji Ueda, 71
- April 28 â Brazo de Oro, 57
- May 7 â Gran Apache, 58
- May 16 â Doug Somers, 65
- June 8 - Ron Starr, 66
- June 17 â Buddy Wayne, 50
- June 23 â Mr. Pogo, 66
- July 2 â Smith Hart, 68
- July 3 â Joe Robinson, 90
- July 6 â Diane Von Hoffman, 55
- July 11 â Buddy Wolfe, 76
- August 16 - Don Nakaya Nielsen, 58
- September 14 â Otto Wanz, 74
- September 17
- Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, 72
- Rey Celestial, 22
- October 3 â Lance Russell, 91
- October 15 â Burrhead Jones, 80
- October 20 â Stan Kowalski, 91
- November 5 - Tokyo Joe (Joe Daigo), 75
- November 8:
- Eddy Steinblock, 61
- Tugboat Taylor, 71
- December 9 â Tom Zenk, 59
- December 17 - Rubén Pato Soria, 75
See also
References