Holiday Bash (2021) | |||
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
Date | December 22, 2021 (aired December 22, 2021 and December 25, 2021) | ||
City | Greensboro, North Carolina | ||
Venue | Greensboro Coliseum | ||
Attendance | 5,600[1] | ||
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The 2021 Holiday Bash was the second annual Holiday Bash professional wrestling Christmas television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on December 22, 2021, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The two-part event was broadcast on TNT as special episodes of AEW's weekly television programs, Wednesday Night Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage. Dynamite aired live while Rampage aired on tape delay on December 25 at 9pm ET as a special Saturday night episode, which was moved back from its usual Friday night 10pm ET slot because of TNT's traditional holiday marathon showing of A Christmas Story.
The Dynamite broadcast is notable for the AEW debut of Kyle O'Reilly, who previously wrestled on WWE's NXT brand. O'Reilly reunited with Adam Cole and Bobby Fish, the original three members of The Undisputed Era in NXT. It was also the first time that Sting and CM Punk main evented an AEW event; the two teamed with Darby Allin and defeated The Pinnacle (MJF and FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler)). In the main event of the Rampage broadcast, Cody Rhodes defeated Sammy Guevara to win the AEW TNT Championship for a record third time.