New Year's Smash (2023)
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Promotion All Elite Wrestling | | ||
| Date | December 27, 2023 (aired December 27 and 29, 2023) | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | Addition Financial Arena | ||
| Attendance | 5,729 | ||
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The 2023 New Year's Smash was the fourth New Year's Smash professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The two-part event took place on December 27, 2023, at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida, encompassing AEW's weekly television programs, Wednesday Night Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage. Dynamite aired live on TBS while Rampage aired on tape delay on December 29 on TNT.
Seven matches were contested at the event, four of which aired live on Dynamite with the other three taped for Rampage. In the main event of the Dynamite broadcast,
trios match
.
Production
Background
Storylines
New Year's Smash featured
professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines, written by AEW's writers.[3] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision
.
On the November 11 episode of Collision, AEW president
three-way match in the Gold League Final. Additionally, due to Bryan Danielson and Claudio Castagnoli's time limit draw on Collision: Holiday Bash, that kept Danielson ahead in points to face Eddie Kingston in the Blue League Final.[5]
Results
Night 1
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Night 2
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Notes
- ^ At the time of this match, the identities of the team members were unknown, but they were revealed as Matt Taven and Mike Bennett at Worlds End on December 30.
- ^ Samoa Joe was originally scheduled to team with MJF to defend the title in place of an injured Adam Cole, but Joe appeared to have been attacked by The Devil's Masked Men before the match, which was later revealed to have been a ruse as Joe attacked MJF after the match.
References
- Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
- ^ Varsallone, Jim (December 26, 2023). "AEW in Orlando for the holidays with a big gift: Swerve Strickland vs. Jon Moxley vs. Jay White". Miami Herald. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
- Discovery Communications. Archivedfrom the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ Murphy, Don (November 11, 2023). "AEW Collision results (11/11): Murphy's review of Sting, Darby Allin, and Adam Copeland vs. Lance Archer, Vincent, and Dutch, Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart, Daniel Garcia vs. Andrade El Idolo". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ Powell, Jason (December 20, 2023). "AEW Dynamite results (12/20): Powell's live review of Jon Moxley vs. Jay White, Swerve Strickland vs. Rush, and Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Lethal in Continental Classic matches". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
- ^ Powell, Jason (December 27, 2023). "AEW Dynamite results (12/27): Powell's live review of Swerve Strickland vs. Jon Moxley vs. Jay White, and Bryan Danielson and Eddie Kingston in Continental Classic semifinal matches". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
- ^ Murphy, Don (December 29, 2023). "AEW Rampage results (12/29): Murphy's review of Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara, Wheeler Yuta vs. Matt Sydal for the ROH Pure Title, Orange Cassidy, Rocky Romero, and Trent Beretta vs. Top Flight and Action Andretti". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 30, 2023.