AEW New Year's Smash
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| Promotions | All Elite Wrestling |
| First event | January 2021 |
AEW New Year's Smash is an annual professional wrestling television special produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Established in 2021, the event is held around New Year's. The original January 2021 event aired as two back-to-back special episodes of AEW's flagship program, Wednesday Night Dynamite. The second event, which aired in December 2021, took place in the same week, first as an episode of Dynamite, then as a special episode of Friday Night Rampage, with the events in 2022 and 2023 retaining this format. The 2024 event featured only Rampage due to Dynamite airing as a different special that week.
The Dynamite broadcast for the December 2021 event was the final Dynamite to air on TNT before the show moved to TNT's sister channel TBS; Rampage remained on TNT. The 2024 event was the final episode of Rampage due to the program's cancellation.