How to Watch Professional Wrestling in 2025 (If You Live in the United States)
Wrestling is better than ever. It's also spread across an increasingly fractured media landscape. Here's how to watch in 2025.
I mentioned in my 2024 recap that I thought 2024 was one of the best wrestling years ever. Most major promotions are doing pretty well or even better, and these promotions are more accessible than ever. It can get confusing to keep track of, so here’s a helpful guide on where to watch some major wrestling promotions. If I didn’t include your favorite on here, I’m sorry - this list is not meant to include absolutely everything!
United States
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Business is booming for the market leader in the industry. They also recently signed new TV deals for all of their major shows, so things might be a little different if you’re getting back into the flow of things.
WWE Monday Night Raw is the flagship show, and it airs every Monday at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern on Netflix. Unlike their cable TV days, there’s no set runtime for Raw. Based on what we’ve seen these days, it usually runs between 2.5 to 3 hours. The stream does have commercials, even on the ad-free Netflix plan. A selection of backlog episodes of Raw are also up on the platform, but it’s unclear if they plan on adding everything.
WWE NXT, WWE’s developmental show, airs every Tuesday at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern on The CW, and runs for two hours. The channel is free to watch as long as you have some type of TV service. You can find the CW-era archives (starting from October of 2024) on the CW’s site. Unfortunately the backlog does not appear to be available anywhere at this time.
WWE Friday Night Smackdown airs every Friday at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern on USA Network. The show currently runs for 3 hours, but according to head of creative Triple H on the Pat McAfee show, it will switch back to 2 hours at some point. While Smackdown historically has not been important as Raw, they’ve done a great job at stacking the show with some of the promotion’s biggest stars lately. You can find an archive of past Smackdown episodes on Peacock with a subscription, but you have to wait a month after they air on TV to see them.
WWE Premium Live Events, including Wrestlemania, the Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and every other premium live show, airs on Peacock, free to watch with a membership. This includes NXT premium live events, and past PLEs. The ad tier of Peacock does include commercials on these streams, however they are usually placed in between matches. The ad-free tier replaces the commercials with WWE related promotional materials.
All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
After what seemed like decades of rumors, AEW finally inked a new streaming deal with Max. While the promotion may not be hitting the attendance and rating heights they did a few years ago, they are still firmly the number 2 promotion in the US and regularly offer compelling stories and match of the year candidates.
AEW Dynamite is the company’s most important show and airs simultaneously on TBS and Max every Wednesday night at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern. The show runs for two hours. Dynamite episodes are available for replay on Max immediately after they air. The service also offers past episodes of the show (for now, mostly 2019 - the promotion’s first year), the end of 2024, and any new episodes that have aired this year. More will be added in the future. It’s worth noting that like WWE Raw, you will still get ads even on the ad-free Max plan.
Max is 9.99/month with ads, 16.99 for the ad-free tier, and 20.99 for the ultimate ad-free tier, which includes 4k streaming.
AEW Collision is AEW’s second weekly show and also airs on TBS and Max every Saturday night at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern. Collision isn’t as important as Dynamite generally, but they’ve done a solid job this year of making Collision feel like more of a 1b show to Dynamite’s 1a. Back episodes of Collision from the end of 2024, and any new episodes that air, can be found on Max.
AEW Pay Per Views can be found on a variety of services, including Triller, PPV.com, YouTube, and more, with Amazon and Max allegedly offering streams of the show later this year. AEW’s PPVs do have a 50 dollar price tag, although word is there will be a discount once they end up on Max. You can find an archive of AEW’s 2019 PPVs on Max, free with a subscription (with more to be added later).
Ring of Honor was purchased by AEW owner Tony Khan a few years ago and is under the AEW umbrella. It acts as a mix of developmental and a place for those in AEW to get more opportunities to wrestle. Ring of Honor’s weekly TV show airs at 4pm Pacific/7PM Eastern on Honor Club, the promotion’s official streaming service, alongside PPVs a few times a year, which are also included in the service. Honor Club costs 9.99/month.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
TNA has been through some hard times over the years, but things appear to be on the up and up. WWE recently announced an official partnership with the promotion, so you may see some NXT stars show up on TNA and vice versa.
TNA Wrestling presents iMPACT is the company’s weekly show and it airs every Thursday at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern on AXS. AXS is offered with some cable TV packages. The easier way (and cheaper way, if you don’t want to buy cable) to watch the episodes are through their subscription platform, TNA+, which offers a simulcast of the show in addition to live specials and the promotion’s backlog at the cost of 9.99/month.
TNA Pay Per Views can be purchased from a variety of places, including Triller and TNA+ and generally cost 40 dollars (even with a the monthly tier of TNA+). If you are a big fan of the promotion and want to get everything, including live streams of the PPVs, you can sign up for an annual membership of TNA+ (219.99/year)
Major League Wrestling (MLW)
MLW has their own weekly TV show, MLW Fusion, which airs at 5pm pacific/8pm eastern on beIN Sports. It’s also available with a subscription to Triller TV+ (7.99/month) and a monthly subscription to their YouTube channel (also 7.99)
MLW premium live events are free to stream on their YouTube page as well.
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
Billy Corgan’s promotion airs their weekly show, NWA Powerrr, every Thursday at 3:05pm Pacific/6:05pm Eastern exclusively on the promotion’s X account.
US Independent Wrestling
There is a large amount of independent wrestling out there, so this is by no means exhaustive. Unlike the major American promotions, independent promotions do not generally have weekly TV but instead have live events around a few times a month.
Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), a promotion that markets itself generally as a hardcore wrestling promotion and has events across the world, streams their events on TrillerTV+ for 7.99 a month.
Deadlock Pro Wrestling (DPW), a more recent upstart started by the owners of fan favorite podcast Deadlock, has their own streaming service Deadlock On Demand for 14.99 a month. Deadlock events can also be found on Wrestle Universe (more on that later).
Defy Wrestling, based out of Seattle, offers their content on British promotion Progress Wrestling’s streaming service Demand Progress Plus for approximately 10 dollars a month.
Prestige Wrestling, based out of Portland and running shows on the west coast, streams their events live on their YouTube page.
Japan
New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)
NJPW had a rough year in 2024, losing multiple eventers, but the promotion is on an upswing and centering itself more and more around its young stars.
Unlike the major US wrestling promotions, most Japanese promotions do not have regularly scheduled weekly TV. NJPW does “tours” in which a number of “Road To” events - smaller shows - are scheduled leading up to a bigger show.
All of it can be found on their streaming service, NJPW World, which costs 9.99 a month. The promotion also does US shows once every 1-2 months throughout the year under the banner NJPW Strong - also available on World.
World Wonder Ring Stardom
Stardom’s 2024 was marked by low lows (towards the beginning of the year) after a very public poaching scandal and the highest of highs (at the end of the year) when they sold out their biggest show. It’s very much one of the better promotions in the world heading into 2025, in my humble opinion.
Stardom offers their own streaming service called Stardom World where many of the minor shows are streamed with a membership. The biggest shows are streamed via PPV on Stagecrowd for approximately 30 dollars (depending on current yen to USD exchange rates).
Dramatic Dream Team (DDT), Dream Star Fighting Marigold, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), Pro Wrestling NOAH, Sendai Girls…and More
Why am I lumping so many promotions together? Because Wrestle-Universe is one of the best value propositions in all of wrestling. For 1298 yen (approximately $8.40 at time of writing) you get most shows from the above promotions, and more.
There’s a high probability you’ll find something you like here. TJPW was my favorite promotion of 2025.
It’s worth noting that some promotions, such as Marigold and NOAH, still run PPVs for their biggest shows. Marigold’s are available on W-U, while NOAH’s are on the external platform Abema Live.
All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW)
All Japan Pro Wrestling can be watched on the promotion’s streaming service AJPW.tv for 900 yen a month ($5.81 at time of writing).
Mexico
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
Do you want to check out the best lucha libre that Mexico has to offer? You probably want to watch CMLL. If you’re a fan of AEW and/or NJPW, CMLL is a partner of both. They also partner with MLW.
CMLL runs three weekly shows. The most important one is their Friday show, which airs at 6:30pm Pacific/9:30pm Eastern.
CMLL is available with a paid membership on YouTube, but the pricing situation is a bit confusing:
Free users get CMLL’s Tuesday shows live.
At 8.99 a month (the “Fan Super Estrella” level) you get the Friday show, but on a delay, and the Tuesday show.
At 24.99 a month (“Fan Campeon Mundial” level) you get most episodes of the Friday show live, and perks from the previous tier.
At 34.99 a month (“Fan Leyenda” level), you get every single Friday show streaming live, including special events (like the promotion’s anniversary show - it’s biggest show), and it’s Saturday show, in addition to all previous levels.
Lucha Libre AAA
The best way to watch AAA in 2025 is via their YouTube channel, where they post episodes of their TV show.
AAA’s biggest shows are their TripleMania PPVs, which air live on Triller for 25 dollars each.
Rest of the World
Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro)
British promotion RevPro has made a name for itself as a place to see great matches and the best in British talent. They’re closely associated with AEW, NJPW, and CMLL, so you’ll also see stars from those companies on occasion.
RevPro shows can be seen on the promotion’s streaming service, RevPro on Demand, for 9.49 a month or 89.99 annually.