More has come to light about the WWE Tribute To The Troops event after the promotion opted not to film its annual show this year.

This year marks the first time since the show’s launch in 2003 that WWE has not filmed a Tribute To The Troops special broadcast.

On “Wrestling Observer Radio,” Dave Meltzer shared that the future of the show is uncertain, especially given the change of management this year. He said,

“No more. It’s done. Obviously, the year being up, I think in the last month people were kind of asking when they’re taping it. It just was not being taped. They had too many other things going on. I don’t know if it’s done for good, but this is the first year that they haven’t done anything with that.

“I think that in 2019 I believe they didn’t do a television show, but they still did events and they still taped stuff. But this year, nothing. It was a Vince McMahon thing, and it’s not Vince’s company anymore. It’s not something that you’re going to advertise that we’re not doing this anymore, but it quietly went away this year.”

WWE hosted Tribute To The Troops from military bases from 2003 to 2009 before hosting shows domestically in the U.S. from 2010 onwards.

In 2023, the December 8, edition of SmackDown was a special episode with a Tribute To The Troops theme attached.

The idea of the event is credited to WWE Hall of Famer John ‘Bradshaw’ Layfield, who pitched the idea to Vince McMahon in 2003.