NXT: New Year's Evil (2021)

The 2021 NXT: New Year's Evil was the inaugural NXT: New Year's Evil professional wrestling television special produced by WWE, and second New Year's Evil overall. It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division. The event took place on January 6, 2021, at the Capitol Wrestling Center, hosted at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, and it aired live as a special episode of WWE's weekly television series NXT on the USA Network. This was the first WWE event to have a New Year's theme since the New Year's Revolution pay-per-view in 2007, and was the first New Year's Evil branded event since the former World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) Monday Nitro on December 27, 1999; WWE acquired WCW in 2001. The show was hosted by NXT wrestler Dexter Lumis.

Six matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Finn Bálor defeated Kyle O'Reilly to retain the NXT Championship. In other prominent matches, Santos Escobar defeated Gran Metalik to retain the NXT Cruiserweight Championship, Raquel González defeated Rhea Ripley in a Last Woman Standing match, and in the opening bout, Karrion Kross defeated Damian Priest.