2007 in professional wrestling

These promotions held notable events in 2007. == Calendar of notable shows==

January February March April May June July August September October November December ==Notable incidents==

• June 22–24 – Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide == Accomplishments and tournaments ==

AAA AAA Hall of Fame Ring of Honor TNA TNA Year End Awards WWE was the first person to win the Royal Rumble match from the #30th entrant in 2007 WWE Hall of Fame ==Awards and honors==

and 2007 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Wrestler of the Year, John Cena held the WWE Championship throughout 2007 and won in the main event of every single PPV (excluding Royal Rumble) until Unforgiven in September Pro Wrestling Illustrated Wrestling Observer Newsletter Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards == Title changes ==

AAA NJPW ROH TNA WWE : – Raw : – SmackDown : - ECW Raw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, and a tag team championship for male wrestlers. ECW only had a world championship. SmackDown also had a title for their cruiserweight wrestlers. There was only one women's championship and it was exclusive to Raw. ==Births==

• November 29 – Azusa Inaba ==Debuts==

• Uncertain debut date :*Pentagon Jr. :*Brittany Force :*Rey Fenix • February 17 – Lince Dorado • February 18 – Salon (NEO) • March 13 – Sanada • May 18 - Arez (wrestler) • July 29 – Rush • September 8 – Buddy Matthews • September 16 – Kazumi Shimouma • October 13 – Aki Shizuku • October 14 – Satoshi Kajiwara • December 9 – Pinky Mayuka • December 29 – Masato Inaba ==Retirements==

• Robbie Rage (1995–2007) • Rebecca DiPietro (October 17, 2006 – March 22, 2007) • Chris Kanyon (April 5, 1992 – April 5, 2007) (First retirement, returned to wrestling in 2009) • King Kong Bundy (1981-May 12, 2007) • Trinity (2002 – June 22, 2007) • Dusty Rhodes (1967–July 22, 2007) (Returned for a match in 2010) • Monty Brown (2000 – September 19, 2007) • Maven Huffman (2001 – October 5, 2007) (first retirement, returned in 2015 until retiring in 2016) • Mr. Wrestling II (1955 – October 13, 2007) • Bob Backlund (1973–December 10, 2007) (First retirement, returned to wrestling in 2009 and wrestled his last match in 2018) ==Deaths==

• January 4 – Cowboy Lang, 56 • January 19 – Bam Bam Bigelow, 45 • February 3 - Charly Robinson, 81 • February 17 – Mike Awesome, 42 • March 6 • Bad News Brown, 63 • Ray "Thunder" Stern, 74 • March 8 – Black Shadow, 85 • March 10 – Ernie Ladd, 68 • March 13 – Arnold Skaaland, 82 • March 18 – Ángel Azteca, 43 • March 28 – Abe Coleman, 101 • May 7 – Sonny Myers, 83 • June 2 – Sandy Barr, 69 • June 15 – Sherri Martel, 49 • June 22 • Nancy Benoit, 43 • Biff Wellington, 42 • June 24 – Chris Benoit, 40 • November 25 – Angel of Death, 54 ==See also==