New Year's Smash (January 2021)

AEW New Year's Smash
Promotional poster for Night 1 featuring various AEW wrestlers
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
DateJanuary 6–7, 2021
(aired January 6, 2021 and January 13, 2021)
CityJacksonville, Florida
VenueDaily's Place
Attendance
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The January 2021 New Year's Smash was the inaugural New Year's Smash professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The two-part event took place on January 6 and 7, 2021, at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida and was broadcast on TNT as special episodes of AEW's weekly television program, Dynamite. Night 1 aired live on January 6, while Night 2 was taped on January 7 and aired on tape delay on January 13. The event was originally supposed to begin on December 30, 2020, and end on January 6, 2021, but was postponed by a week due to the death of AEW wrestler Brodie Lee; the December 30 episode was instead held as a memorial event for Lee.

In the main event of night one, Kenny Omega defeated Rey Fénix to retain the AEW World Championship. In night two's main event, Darby Allin defeated Brian Cage to retain the AEW TNT Championship.

  1. ^ a b Observer Staff (January 8, 2021). "January 13, 2021 Observer Newsletter: More on the death of Brodie Lee, Tokyo Dome, more". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved January 8, 2021.