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After over a year on the main roster, LA Knight is finally starting to pick up steam, with the “Megastar” set to wrestle on his third-ever WWE Premium Live Event following his promising, if not ultimately disappointing, effort in the Money in the Bank Men’s Ladder match and a disastrous debut in the Mountain Dew […]

When Kevin Owens re-signed with WWE in 2021 after seemingly receiving very strong interest from AEW to revisit his Kevin Steen character from the indies, it left fans of The Fed feeling very excited about the prospects of the “Prizefighter” closing out his career on RAW or SmackDown. Sure, Owens wasn’t used nearly as strongly […]

When Trish Stratus made her surprise return on February 27th, 2023, to help her long-time friend Lita and new-time friend Becky Lynch solve their Damage CTRL problems, it felt like it was only a matter of time before the WWE Hall of Famer would eventually turn on her babyface pals and go into business for […]

With SummerSlam officially less than a week away, Brock Lesnar and Cody Rhodes were afforded one final chance to discuss their forthcoming match in Detroit, Michigan; a match Corey Graves officially labeled a rubber match of their feud on commentary. Soon, all of the backstage brawls will have been fought, all the promos will be […]

After watching Logan Paul talk up the crowd in his final RAW appearance before SummerSlam, Ricochet made his way to the ring like a galavanting hero to inform the “Maverick” just how he feels heading into the biggest show of the summer. “Wait, wait, wait, wait Logan, what’s going on, man?” Ricochet asked as the […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation featuring matches on RAW, beatdowns in NXT, and a successful title defense at Money in the Bank, Seth Rollins will finally get his third and potentially final singles match of the year against Finn Balor at SummerSlam in Detroit, Michigan on August 5th. Soon fans will see if the […]

How do you make Shayna Baszler, a borderline career heel who repeatedly discusses her enjoyment of inflicting pain and punishment on other performers via her expansive collection of submission maneuvers, a babyface? Do you give her a superhero gimmick like Nikki ASH? Have her take sympathy one an underdog and form a new tag team? […]

Four years after landing his breakout role Fezco in HBO’s Euphoria, Angus Cloud has tragically passed away at the age of 25, his family shared, as initially reported by TMZ. A native of Oakland, California, who actually went to school with his future Euphoria co-star Zendaya, Cloud parlayed his small-screen success into a career that […]

Who is the GOAT of WWE? Is it the longest-reigning world champion in the promotion’s history, Bruno Sammartino? How about the man who turned the WWF from a regional promotion to the world leader in sports entertainment, Hulk Hogan? Could it be the greatest character Vince McMahon and company ever came up with, the Undertaker? […]

Who runs the game in the WWE Universe? Well, if you ask the man born Shaun Ricker, he’ll tell you it’s none other than LA Knight, the character he’s been playing since making the leap to the WWE main roster, but does he? Does he really? While fans would desperately like for that to be […]

Though he refused to acknowledge it at the time, except, of course, in the most subtle, meta way possible, Cody Rhodes has slowly but surely trickled out information about what brought him from AEW to WWE back in 2022 and what his heel run could have been had he stuck it out in the promotion […]

When Bianca Belair found herself booked for a tag team match with Charlotte Flair on SmackDown, it put the “EST of WWE” in a precarious situation. On one hand, Belair has been dying to recapture her RAW Women’s Championship – now the WWE Women’s Championship – since she lost the title to Asuka at Night […]

As crazy as it may sound, Dominik Mysterio is on a pretty prolific run in the WWE Universe right now as the NXT North American Champion. Winning the title on NXT television on July 18th, the second-generation WWE Superstar has successfully defended his title twice, once on SmackDown versus Butch and against on RAW versus […]

Though it may not often seem like it, Drew McIntyre actually has a great deal of respect for Gunther. Two members of the Intercontinental Championship fraternity, a group that features 184 different title reigns since the belt was introduced in 1979, including three by the strap’s lone female holder, Chyna, Gunther has helped to elevate […]

Cody Rhodes is a professional wrestler in WWE. Now granted, it certainly feels like he does a whole lot more than just that, as he does a ton of media for the company, makes charity appearances for Make-A-Wish and others, and even runs a wrestling academy on the side with his former AEW coworker QT […]

Whether they wrestle one more match, 100 more matches, or never wrestle again, Ilja Dragunov and Gunther will forever be linked for one reason and one reason alone: NXT UK. Working on one of the most criminally overlooked brands in the WWE Universe, Dragunov, and Gunther – then wrestling as Walter – went to absolute […]

In professional wrestling like in life, nobody stays at the top forever; even the greatest WWE Superstars will eventually start to show their age, and in their place, young stars like Grayson Waller who are hungry to establish their own legacy will make their main roster debuts in the hopes of taking one of those […]

The Street Profits haven’t won a match on WWE television since all the way back on May 19th. Since then, they’ve wrestled all of two matches, taking Ls to The Brawling Brutes in the SmackDown Tag Team #1 Contenders Gauntlet and then again to Pretty Deadly in singles action one week later. Is this the […]

After initially making his bones as a heel on the WWE main roster alongside his fellow Legado del Fantasma faction mates Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro, Santos Escobar has found himself working babyface as a member of Rey Mysterio‘s LWO and is reaping the benefits of that partnership almost immediately, as the son of […]

After challenging his uncle Roman Reigns to “Tribal Combat” at SummerSlam, Jey Uso was eager to address the WWE Universe in the opening segment of SmackDown. Soon, fans in New Orleans would know exactly what Uso had planned for the fans in Detroit, he’d explain why winning the match means so much to him, and […]

After a week of anticipation and literally decades of preparation, Santos Escobar was finally afforded a chance to wrestle his lifelong idol and current LWO faction-mate Rey Mysterio for a spot in a United States Championship match versus Austin Theory. Finally, fans would know if the apprentice was about to become the master and if […]

After trying to establish NXT as its own brand with its own Superstars and its own championship ecosystem under the 2.0 moniker, Shawn Michaels has decided to turn back the clock and take a different approach to developmental, looking back on the days when Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were on top of the black […]

If there’s one thing Hulk Hogan knows a thing or two about, it’s professional wrestling. A borderline-unflappable member of the WWE Mount Rushmore, Hogan was the biggest star during the most important period of WWE history, and while he moved over to WCW during the mid-90s when “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was running the ship […]

After being drafted onto RAW two years ago, shortly after signing with WWE on an NIL deal, Gable Steveson is finally set to make his WWE debut at NXT’s The Great American Bash, where he will wrestle Baron Corbin in what is shaping up to very fun effort for the fans in Austin, Texas and […]

With 1,926 professional wrestling matches and counting on his resume, 1532 in WWE, 394 in AEW, and other promotions around the world, Cody Rhodes has wrestled almost every top-tier professional wrestler on the planet right now. He’s wrestled AEW’s top guys like Kenny Omega, Sammy Guevara, Chris Jericho, and his brother Dustin in his first-ever […]

Though it feels like they’ve been teaming up forever as members of the WWE Universe, Chad Gable and Otis only began working together in 2020, when the former incorporated his own wrestling school, the Alpha Academy, and named the former member of Heavy Machinery as his new top pupil. Over their shared tenure together, Gable […]

Though Grayson Waller has wrestled exactly two matches on the main roster in WWE, three if you count house shows, the 0-3 Superstar had title matches on his mind when he stopped by the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, going so far as to name off some very famous people that he would like in […]

When every other match is in the books at SummerSlam, fans from Booker T to you and me will be afforded a chance to see something they’ve wanted to see since all the way back in 2021, the rubber match between Jey Uso and Roman Reigns, this time held under Tribal Combat rules, in the […]

As crazy as it sounds, it has officially been over a year since the three members of New Day, Xavier Woods, Big E, and Kofi Kingston, were on television together. While all three performers in the faction have continued to find success since, with Kingston and Woods winning the NXT Tag Team Championship belts late […]

Things have been going pretty well for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson since he started beefing with Grayson Waller on Twitter; he captured a ton of goodwill by donating seven figures to SAG-AFTRA, the largest donation to the union in history, landed a “record-breaking payment” for his upcoming movie, Red One, and remains incredibly popular in […]

If you’ve seen a commercial advertising for the new Peacock documentary American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes, you might recall seeing Kevin Owens declare, “Vince McMahon flew to his house to get him back, not many people can say they did that.” Now, for savvy wrestling fans, this conversation was common knowledge, as let’s just say […]

For months and months, Rey Mysterio refused to mix it up in the ring with his son Dominik Mysterio, sticking to his moral code that a father should never hit their child… at least until he didn’t. That’s right, after Mysterio got particularly rude with his mother and sister in the lead-up to WrestleMania 39, […]

LA Knight finds himself in a very interesting spot in the WWE Universe. On one hand, he’s arguably the most over babyface on SmackDown, which, considering Jey Uso also calls the Blue Brand home, is a pretty significant compliment, and while he isn’t pushed like, say, Seth Rollins or Cody Rhodes, he remains one of […]

When Cody Rhodes came up short versus Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39, the 80,000-plus fans at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, were at a loss for words. Now sure, some fans were stoked on the continued dominance of the “Tribal Chief,” with more than a few shouting out “We the 1s” as they exited the […]

What do LeBron James and Gable Steveson have in common? Well, besides being Olympic gold medalists, both decided to go on television during a pivotal period in their lives in order to publically announce their “Decision” on what to do next in their careers. For James, the show was broadcast on ESPN, and while there […]

When Cody Rhodes returned to WWE, it was to wrestle Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 38. On paper, the pairing was perfect; Rhodes has desperately wanted to be an old-school Hulk Hogan-style babyface for years now, and he was tasked with standing opposite a man so comically committed to being a villain he would routinely rip […]

Dominik Mysterio has had a very busy week in the WWE Universe. After taking a loss to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a match with his fellow The Judgment Day partner in crime, Damian Priest on RAW, Mysterio became the 15th Superstar to hold the North American Champion under this current lineage and was […]

While Seth Rollins has been a professional wrestling fan for as long as he can remember, getting into the sport at the tender age of 18 and grinding his way to the very tippy top of the industry, for the kid from Davenport, Iowa, there’s another athlete he looked up to as a child that […]

When did Cody Rhodes know he was leaving AEW to return to the WWE Universe? Did he go through the flaming table versus Andrade in Georgia? Or how about when he won the TNT Championship at the 2021 Holiday Bash? When he suited up as Fuego II to wrestle a dark match as Too Fast […]