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The Wrestling Yearbook is the sport’s foremost book of record, faithfully chronicling decades of tradition and evolution. The 530-page 2025 edition is the sixth annual yearbook covering the facts, stats and happenings of modern wrestling. Our goal is to ensure that the rich history of our great sport is meticulously chronicled and lives on eternally via the written word. The Wrestling Yearbook 2025 features several new features that all fans and collectors will love, including: Wrestling Video Games - Every wrestling video game every released reviewed and rated Complete Results - Full annual results, including television, PPV and house shows, for every major promotion, including WWE, AEW, TNA, NJPW, ROH and now for the first time AAA and CMLL Expanded Sections - More stats, facts, records, Wrestlers In Movies, bio information, tons of new tournaments, Mexican titles and more Inside The Ropes 50 - The full 2025 Men's and Women's Inside The Ropes 50 articles from Inside The Ropes Magazine Improved Formatting to make each section easier to use. In addition, the book features the usual annual features: The biggest news stories of the year Comprehensive television ratings Title histories for all major active promotions An expanded facts, stats and records section looking at the history of wrestling authority figures, oldest wrestlers, longest gap between title reigns, Royal Rumble records, WrestleMania firsts and stats, and much more. Over 700 wrestler bios, featuring career records, title histories, statistics and magazine rankings history Extensive tournament records for all major promotions At-a-glace five-star match guides from Dave Meltzer and The Wrestling Yearbook Comprehensive listings of newsletter and magazine award winners, magazine ranking list history, and Halls of Fame. Our famous Historical Shows section, expanded once again, featuring results from over 3,000 worldwide cards from the 1900s through to 2025, ratings for hundreds of major car