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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | SmackDown | ||
| Date | January 5, 2024 | ||
| City | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Venue | Rogers Arena | ||
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The 2024 New Year's Revolution (marketed as SmackDown: New Year's Revolution) was the fourth New Year's Revolution professional wrestling event produced by WWE, and the first to air as a television special. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown brand division. The event took place on January 5, 2024, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and aired as a special episode of Friday Night SmackDown on Fox. The broadcast concluded WWE's week-long programming of New Year's-themed shows called New Year's Knockout Week. New Year's Revolution was previously held as a Raw-exclusive pay-per-view event from 2005 to 2007, in turn marking the first SmackDown-branded New Year's Revolution as well as the first to broadcast on any outlet since the 2007 event; a series of eight WWE Live shows titled the New Year's Revolution Tour was held in early 2020, but these were dual-branded non-televised events.
Four matches were contested during the live broadcast. In the main event, a triple threat match between Randy Orton, LA Knight, and AJ Styles was held to determine who would challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble; however, the match ended in a no contest after The Bloodline (Reigns, Jimmy Uso, and Solo Sikoa) attacked all three competitors. As a result, Reigns was instead scheduled to defend the title against the three in a fatal four-way match at the Royal Rumble. In another prominent match, which opened the show, Kevin Owens defeated Santos Escobar in the finals of a tournament to earn a match against Logan Paul for the United States Championship at the Royal Rumble. The broadcast also marked the return of Authors of Pain (Akam and Rezar with manager Paul Ellering); their last WWE televised appearance was in March 2020 before being released in September that year.