Countdown To 2026 w/Don Tony (New Year's Eve 12/31/25)

The Don Tony Show

DTD Entertainment LLC

Wrestling, Sports, Comedy

4.0 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Don Tony and our great pro wrestling family said adios to 2025 and welcomed in 2026! DT and The Family talked everything wrestling from WWE, NXT, AEW and TNA. We reminisced a bit about 2025 and made some interesting predictions for 2026: Who wins Royal Rumble. Who wins Elimination Chamber. When will TKO sell WWE to Saudi Arabia. How Chris Jericho's WWE return could look. Will Austin Theory end up being a mole. Why the fans will turn on Maxxine Dupri. Which Champions will lose their Championships as early as RAW on Netflix 1st Anniversary Show. And will Cody Rhodes lose the Undisputed WWE Championship well before WrestleMania. That plus much more, including a heartfelt tribute to our dear friend, Kevin Castle. DTKC 4 Life. A sincere thank you to everyone who stopped by to hang out during the live stream. And a sincere thank you to everyone who supports our shows weekly. 2025 had some great moments. But it also had some flat-out awful moments. But for many of us, pro wrestling was and still is a great escape each week. We hope 2026 is a better year not just for wrestling, but for every one of us personally. Happy New Year and all the best in 2026. 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0:00.0	It's now time for The Sit Down with Don Tony.
0:07.3	The Sit Down, where Don Tony talks one-on-one with his followers about the world of pro wrestling, pop culture, and so much more.
0:17.7	The Sit Down with Don Tony.
0:21.1	And now, your host, Don Tony.
0:25.2	Don Tony.
0:28.4	Happy New Year.
0:30.0	Well, not yet.
0:31.2	We have an hour, 49 minutes, and 15 seconds.
0:36.6	But we give the middle finger to 2025 and hope, hope,
0:42.8	that 2026 is better.
0:45.9	Why do I get to feel that 2026 is going to be worse?
0:49.8	How could it get worse?
0:51.3	I mean, if you really think about it.
0:53.3	And listen, in the world of pro wrestling, let's be honest, not everything sucked.
0:59.9	There was quite a lot of good shit in 2025.
1:02.7	We're being honest, you know, there was some good stuff.
1:05.8	It's just that the good was good.
1:09.4	The great was great. But the bad was bowling shoe ugly.
1:15.4	You know what I mean?
1:16.2	Like you could tolerate a little bit of the bad, but when shit was bad, it was bad.
1:21.6	And I think that's what stood out more than anything about this year.
1:26.1	You know, it's just, and we didn't even talk about real life yet, obviously.
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