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After being drafted onto SmackDown following a successful tenure in developmental capped off with an NXT Women’s World Championship win over Kiana James and Fallon Henley, the Unholy Union, Alba Fyre, and Isla Dawn haven’t really done much on the main roster, with just one squash match against enhancement talent to their credit. Fortunately, that’s […]

After amassing his 21st-straight victory at WrestleMania XXIX over CM Punk, fans openly wondered who would topple The Undertaker and finally put his historic Streak to an end. Year after year, fans would clamor to see who would draw “The Deadman” for a match at The Showcase of the Immortals, and year after year, fans […]

Though he’s widely remembered for his time in WWE and, before that, WCW, there was a time in the late 2000s when Booker T was working his magic as a member of TNA alongside fellow legacy wrestlers like Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner, Sting, and pretty much every other wrestler who was featured on the cover […]

In WWE, like in life, there’s nothing worse than a bad nickname. While some, like Seth Rollins, have been able to overcome a bad moniker, with “Freakin’” arguably the worse nickname imaginable, others haven’t been so lucky, with Roman Reigns famously being showered with dog food by Baron Corbin in what would be the final […]

Seth Rollins is a lot of things; he’s a “Visionary,” he’s a “Revolutionary,” and he’s the first and current WWE World Heavyweight Champion, having won the strap at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia. But is Rollins underrated? In the humble opinion of Mick Foley, the answer to that question is a responding yes, as, […]

What would Paul Heyman have been without Brock Lesnar? What would Brock Lesnar have been without Paul Heyman? Though there have been “Paul Heyman guys” in the past, double-digit “Paul Heyman guys” to be exact, and Lesnar has had multiple segments of his career without the ECW owner by his side, the duo have been […]

Though Hulk Hogan is maybe best known for his feuds with Andre The Giant, The Iron Sheik, and “Macho Man” Randy Savage during the golden age of WWE – aka WWF – one of the performers who still holds a grudge with him to this very day is none other than Bret Hart, the Canadian […]

After securing a big-time Money in the Bank qualifying match win over Mustafa Ali, Santos Escobar was riding high, so much so that he was literally examining ladders in the backstage area to give himself an edge for the forthcoming match in London. Taking part in a WWE Digital Exclusive segment with Megan Morant, Escobar […]

Grayson Waller has been a member of the SmackDown roster for roughly a month, and yet, it’s hard to really judge his tenure one way or another. He’s wrestled exactly zero matches, taken part in some backstage segment work, and held two editions of The Grayson Waller Effect, one with AJ Styles and another with […]

Promised an appearance by Jey Uso to discuss his standing in The Bloodline moving forward on the second edition of SmackDown since Night of Champions, the WWE Universe didn’t have to wait long to hear from the younger Uso brother to speak his mind, as Paul Heyman and Solo Sikoa began the show in the […]

After watching Jey Uso get offered the word, the United States Championship, and a spot as the Tribal Chief-in-training as the right-hand man of Roman Reigns, Sami Zayn decided to pull aside Rikishi’s second-born son to give him a counterpoint before he decided to turn his back on his twin once and for all. Though […]

After winning – some might say stealing – the RAW Women’s Championship from Bianca Belair at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia, Asuka was set to upgrade her strap from the familiar red and gold belt fans have come to know and love thanks to champions like Becky Lynch and Bayley to a brand new […]

Few people in the world today know more about professional wrestling than Paul Heyman, “The Wiseman” of The Bloodline and the special counsel to none other than “The Tribal Chief,” Roman Reigns. A 30-year pro of the business, with experience running one of the most legendary promotions of all time in ECW and managing some […]

After months of anticipation and verbal feuds on and off of official WWE platforms, Seth Rollins and Logan Paul finally got to mix it up in the ring at WrestleMania 39 for more than a few seconds in the Royal Rumble, or at the end of an Elimination Chamber match at its namesake Premium Live […]

As farewell wishes flood in from all corners of the professional wrestling world upon the news that The Iron Sheik had passed away, fans waited with bated breath to see how his former promotion would eulogize the man who took the WWF Championship off of Bob Backlund and eventually lost the strap to Hulk Hogan […]

One day removed from the news that The Iron Sheik, aka Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, had passed away at the age of 80 – or 81, depending on who you ask – his biggest, grandest, and most long-lasting rival in the professional wrestling ring, WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan, took to Instagram to eulogize […]

Though the duo are best known for their time on the hardwood, Paul “Triple H” Levesque hopes that one day, fans will remember the Cavinder Twins, Haley and Hana, with the words “WWE Superstars” in front of their moniker. Officially making their NXT debut at the end of the battle royal to decide on the […]

Though Seth Rollins has only been the WWE World Heavyweight Champion since the last Saturday in May, he somehow has the exact same number of successful title defenses as WWE’s other top champion, Roman Reigns, since March, and has just one fewer world championship wins than “The Tribal Chief” this year despite his strap being […]

Though Zelina Vega didn’t leave Puerto Rico as the SmackDown Women’s Champion at the end of Backlash, she accomplished the next best thing: becoming a certified legend on her familial home island. Taking the ring against Rhea Ripley wearing a Puerto Rican flag dropped across her wingspan, Vega received an incredible reaction from the crowd […]

In professional wrestling, like in all other sports, most fans don’t know the name of a referee unless they do something very good or something very bad – just ask former WWE stalwart Earl Hebner. Fortunately, one of the few referees who achieved name recognition for the right reasons is none other than Mike Chioda, […]

During their heyday, there wasn’t a faction in WWE, especially in NXT, that was putting on more five-star matches than The Undisputed Era, the union of Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong, and Bobby Fish, who came together in developmental in 2017 and worked together more or less continuously until the spring of 2021, when […]

When Roman Reigns returned to WWE in August of 2020, he wasn’t the same old “Big Dog” fans had come to know and despise, instead opting to become a leaner, meaner, more aggressive “Tribal Chief” with none other than Paul Heyman walking by his side. Together, the pairing formed one of the most dominant factions […]

After besting three opponents in the co-main event of Double or Nothing and then lamenting the fact that he’s running out of viable challengers in AEW, MJF marched down to the ring on Dynamite to discuss his summer plans before WWE can enter into “The Bidding War of 2024,” but unfortunately wasn’t able to get […]

Claudio Castagnoli – then known as Cesaro – was a very friendly man during his run in WWE. A member of not one, not two, but three factions, working alongside Sheamus in the Bar, with Zeb Colter and Jack Swagger in the Real Americans – a funny faction for a man from Switzerland – and […]

When Santos Escobar signed with WWE in 2019, it wasn’t met with incredible fanfare from the general RAW and SmackDown-viewing masses. Sure, Escobar, then known as El Hijo de Fantasma, was a known commodity on the indies, working great matches for Lucha Libre AAA, Lucha Underground, and Impact Wrestling, among others, but he wasn’t a […]

LA Knight took the hard road to WWE stardom. Initially signing with the promotion in 2013 after a decade on the indies working for promotions like NWA and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, Knight was let go in 2014 and had to rebuild his value in TNA, Impact, NWA, and beyond under the Eli Drake moniker. […]

Though Kurt Angle hasn’t wrestled a match since all the way back in 2019, when he was famously pinned by Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35 – a fact the former King brought up during his return to NXT on Tuesday – every few months, someone either asks the “Olympic Hero” about the prospects of coming […]

As Money in the Bank 2023 rapidly approaches, the WWE Univers has begun to evaluate which performers have a chance to hit it big and who will fall down the ladder both physically and metaphorically. In 2022, Liv Morgan was lucky enough to score the briefcase in Las Vegas and parlayed the contract inside into […]

Before Paul “Triple H” Levesque had Nikki Cross throw the 24/7 Championship in the trash on an episode of RAW, effectively leaving the title where most folks felt the belt had been booked into, there was the Hardcore Title, a belt so extreme that it had to be defended 24/7 even in the airport if […]

When WWE announced that Shawn Michaels had booked a battle royal to decide on the first challenger for Tiffany Stratton’s NXT Women’s Championship and that ex-24/7 Champion Dana Brooke was joining performers like Thea Hail, Roxanne Perez, and Cora Jade, fans debated who was going to become the new title contender. Fortunately, HBK didn’t take […]

After watching Baron Corbin run the show in the opening segment of NXT to explain his decision to pull WWE double duty on SmackDown and NXT, Mustafa Ali was afforded a chance to discuss his own developmental return with McKenzie Mitchell, and needless to say, it was much less aggressive. “I mean, I’m free agent […]

When Baron Corbin emerged from the back to throwdown Carmelo Hayes and hold up his NXT World Championship, it left fans wondering what the heck was going on in Orlando. Now granted, WWE did make it abundantly clear what was going on during the 2023 WWE Draft, informing fans that free agents like Von Wagner, […]

After watching Baron Corbin and Ilja Dragunov have a proverbial war of words on the microphone in the lead-up to what appears to be an extended stay in developmental for the man who was formerly friends with JBL, Bron Breakker decided to insert himself into the action and beat “Unbesiegbar” to a pulp, leaving him […]

After being drafted onto the main roster following the longest Women’s Tag Team Championship reign in WWE history, regardless of the belt or brand, Kayden Carter and Katana Chance got their first chance at main roster championship gold on RAW, taking on the dynamic duo of Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler for the WWE Women’s […]

When Shinsuke Nakamura secured his spot in the Money in the Bank Ladder match, he did so at the expense of Bronson Reed, who wound up losing his first-ever match on RAW without much fanfare. So naturally, Reed decided to pay back that milestone by absolutely cutting into Nakamura’s match with Ricochet on RAW and […]

Monday Night RAW was a bit of a mixed bag for Imperium. On one hand, Gunther secured a massive, Premium Live Event-caliber match with Kevin Owens that could have main evented any card on any night in any promotion around the world, but his buddies, Ludwig Kaiser and Giovani Vinci, weren’t so lucky, as they […]

When it comes to professional wrestling, Booker T has an incredibly interesting perspective. A two-time WWE Hall of Famer who also runs his own promotion/professional wrestling school, Reality of Wrestling, and works as a commentator for NXT, there are very few aspects of the industry that Booker hasn’t had his hands in, making his insight […]

Logan Paul has been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in 2021, when he served as a guest of Sami Zayn during his conspiracy documentary angle that felt like it happened a decade ago. Since then, he’s wrestled in five matches, going 2-3 in the proceedings, and even earned a […]

The “forbidden door” between WWE and AEW has largely been one way, with just Cody Rhodes, Gigi Dollin, and Blair Davenport taking their talents to Titan Towers versus about a quarter of Tony Khan’s roster having wrestled for Vince McMahon’s promotion at one point or another. Fortunately, with William Regal back in place and the […]