2017 in professional wrestling

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

• September 1 – CyberAgent purchased DDT Pro-Wrestling, which also included Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, with CyberAgent becoming their parent company.
• December 7 – Alexa Bliss vs. Sasha Banks during a WWE Live tour is the first women's match contested in the Middle East, and specifically, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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

– Raw

– SmackDown

– 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

• January 3 – Great-O-Khan
• January 15 – Miyuki Takase
• January 17 – Yuya Aoki
• February 18 – Jack Morris
• February 25 – Soma Watanabe
• March 4 – Satsuki Totoro
• March 5 – Hikari Shimizu
• March 26 – Kakeru Sekiguchi
• April 9 – Hanan
• April 15
• Grayson Waller
• Leo Isaka
• April 6 – Manami
• April 13 – Shota Umino
• April 16 – Itsuki Aoki
• April 22 – 1 Called Manders
• April 29 – Takato Nakano
• May 4 – Koju Takeda
• May 7 – Debbie Keitel
• May 26 – Will Kroos
• May 27 – Lena Kross
• May 28 – Takahiro Katori
• June 11
• Hina
• Rina
• Ibuki Hoshi
• June 18 – Thekla
• June 21 – Alec Price
• June 25 – Miku Aono
• July 1 – Charles Mason
• July 2 – Shoki Kitamura
• July 14 – Yukio Naya
• July 16 – Tyson Maeguchi
• July 27 – Adam Priest
• August 5
• Alexxis Falcon
• Liam Gray
• August 18 – Matt Vandagriff
• August 20 – Yuki Iino
• August 26 – Yuki Kamifuku
• September 15 – Sae
• September 16 – Rising Hayato
• September 17 – Adrian Alanis
• September 29 – Leyla Hirsch
• October 13 – Towa Iwasaki
• October 15 – Ayame Sasamura
• October 19 – Rick Boogs
• October 29 – Giulia
• October 31 – Yuna Mizumori
• November 7 – Megan Bayne
• November 12 – Takumi Baba
• November 13 –
• November 30 – Lee Johnson (wrestler)
• December – Callum Newman
• December 3 – Jay Joshua
• December 8 – Oji Shiiba
• December 24 – Himeka Arita

Retirements

• Kyoko Kimura (July 20, 2003 – January 22, 2017)
• Rosa Mendes (November 2006 – February 13, 2017)
• Kellie Skater (2007 – February 25, 2017)
• Barry Darsow (1983-2001, 2007-2017)
• Sachie Abe (May 2, 1996 – April 2, 2017)
• Akebono Tarō (March 31, 2005 - April 11, 2017)
• Ricardo Rodriguez (August 11, 2006 – May 5, 2017)
• Shelly Martinez (December 2000 – May 17, 2017)
• Tyson Kidd (July 23, 1995 – June 29, 2017)
• Velvet Sky (2003 – July 6, 2017) (return in ROH in 2019)
• Bob Armstrong (1960 – July 13, 2017) (returned for a match in 2019)
• Mark Henry (September 20, 1996 – August 2, 2017)
• Eva Marie (July 1, 2013 – August 4, 2017) (return in WWE in 2021)
• Sid Eudy (1987 – August 5, 2017)
• Bill Eadie (December 15, 1972 – August 12, 2017)
• Big Van Vader (1985-August 26, 2017)
• Danny Havoc (July 30, 2005 – September 9, 2017) (returned to wrestling in 2019 until his death in 2020)
• Terry Funk (1965-September 23, 2017)
• Atsushi Onita (April 14, 1974 – October 31, 2017)
• Manami Toyota (August 5, 1987 – November 3, 2017)
• Candice Michelle (November 15, 2004 – December 2, 2017) (full retirement, through full inactive since 2009)
• Dai Suzuki (November 28, 2014 – December 13, 2017)
• Great Kabuki (October 31, 1964 – December 22, 2017)

Deaths

• January 9 – Timothy Well, 55
• January 15 – Jimmy Snuka, 73
• January 25 – Jun Izumida, 51
• February 2 – Tom Drake, 86
• February 10 – Bob Sweetan, 76
• February 11 – Chavo Guerrero Sr., 68
• February 16 – George Steele, 79
• February 17 – Nicole Bass, 52
• February 18 – Ivan Koloff, 74
• February 21 – Bruiser Bedlam, 53
• March 7 – Ron Bass, 68
• March 13 – Dennis Stamp, 70
• April 8
• Joaquín Roldán, 63
• Fishman, 66
• April 10 – Larry Sharpe, 65
• April 17 – Rosey, 47
• April 20- Katsuji Ueda, 71
• April 28 – Brazo de Oro, 57
• May 7 – Gran Apache, 58
• May 16 – Doug Somers, 65
• June 8 - Ron Starr, 66
• June 17 – Buddy Wayne, 50
• June 23 – Mr. Pogo, 66
• July 2 – Smith Hart, 68
• July 3 – Joe Robinson, 90
• July 6 – Diane Von Hoffman, 55
• July 11 – Buddy Wolfe, 76
• August 16 - Don Nakaya Nielsen, 58
• September 14 – Otto Wanz, 74
• September 17
• Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, 72
• Rey Celestial, 22
• October 3 – Lance Russell, 91
• October 15 – Burrhead Jones, 80
• October 20 – Stan Kowalski, 91
• November 5 - Tokyo Joe (Joe Daigo), 75
• November 8:
• Eddy Steinblock, 61
• Tugboat Taylor, 71
• December 9 – Tom Zenk, 59
• December 17 - Rubén Pato Soria, 75

See also

• List of GFW events and specials
• List of MLW events
• List of NJPW pay-per-view events
• List of Impact Wrestling pay-per-view events
• List of ROH pay-per-view events
• List of WWE Network events
• List of WWE pay-per-view events

References