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This is a list of various things that took place in 2018.

Significant events[]

January

February

March

  • 5 - Hillbilly Jim is announced as being inducted into the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame on Monday Night Raw.
  • 8 - Abbey Laith is released from WWE NXT.
  • 14 - The WWE renames the Fabulous Moolah Memorial Women's Battle Royal, to take place at WrestleMania 34, to the WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal after allegations surface about Moolah's past, including her monopolization of women's wrestling in North America (prior to the late 1980s), taking other wrestler's pay, sexual exploitation of women she was training and mentoring, her legitimacy in training female wrestlers and her own wrestling style. After a Change.org petition quickly gathered 10,000 signatures demanding the change and a statement from snack food giant Snickers (primary sponsor of WrestleMania 34) strongly condemning the WWE's decision to honor Moolah in light of the allegations, the WWE agreed to remove Moolah from the match name.
  • 19 - Mark Henry is announced as being inducted into the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame on Monday Night Raw.
  • 20 - UK National promotion 5 Star Wrestling was disbanded, cancelling a national TV contract.

April

  • 4 - Former WWE personality Johnny Valiant is killed when he is struck by a passing vehicle as he was crossing a road in Ross Township (a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Police treated the incident as an accident.
  • 10 - The documentary André the Giant, a biography on the life of said wrestler, premieres on the HBO cable network. The movie, produced by Janine Marmot and Bill Simmons, focuses on André's life with gigantism, his professional wrestling career and forays into mainstream entertainment, and also includes interviews with those who worked with André in wrestling, along with media and entertainment personalities, and family members.
  • 17 - Smackdown General Manager Paige confirms team Absolution is officially disbanded. This was due to Paige's retirement from in-ring competition as well as teammates Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville both being drafted to Raw after the 2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up.

June

  • 12 - Ring of Honor announces plans for a supercard, featuring talent from ROH and New Japan Pro Wrestling, to take place at Madison Square Garden at some point in 2019. The event is nearly scrapped one week later due to attempted interference by WWE to block ROH from getting into MSG, which WWE has long considered its home arena and with which it had an exclusivity agreement which barred other wrestling promotions from holding events at MSG, but after further negotiations between all involved parties, the way is cleared for ROH to hold its MSG supershow

July

  • 12 - The Ring of Honor/New Japan Madison Square Garden supershow, dubbed the ROH-NJPW G1 Supercard 2019, is officially announced to take place on April 6, 2019 during WrestleMania weekend. This marks the first time since November 14, 1960 that a wrestling show not presented by a McMahon-owned promotion will be held at MSG
  • 23 - WWE Evolution, the first-ever WWE pay-per-view event comprised entirely of women's matches, is announced on that evening's Monday Night Raw. The event is scheduled for October 28 at the Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York.

August

  • 10 - Tickets for the G1 Supercard sell out within ten minutes of going on sale to the public

October

November

December

  • - WWE offers recent employee Jake Atlas a wrestling tryout.

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Retirements[]

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Title changes[]

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.

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