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After helping to announce that two acts from NXT, the NXT Woman’s Champion Indi Hartwell and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions, Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn, were heading to RAW and SmackDown, respectively, in the WWE Draft, Road Dogg headed to the back to discuss the matter further with Megan Morant for a WWE […]

After watching Paul “Triple H” Levesque announce Bianca Belair as the third pick in the WWE Draft, with “The Est of WWE” heading to SmackDown in the first true twist of the proceedings, the current RAW Women’s Champion called into SmackDown to deliver a message to the WWE Universe and may have let it slip […]

After officially being drafted to SmackDown in the WWE Draft, and providing fans of the Blue Brand with the first whiff of their unique brand of smoke in a win over lWo and Ricochet/Braun Strowman, the Street Profits, Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, were feeling good. Though it’s been a minute since they were regularly […]

And then there were four; after working through the first three rounds of the WWE Draft, with 12 acts finding their way to either RAW or SmackDown, Shawn Michaels and Road Dogg came out to make the final four selections of the WWE Draft and helped to announce where four more acts, including some love […]

With eight picks in the books for the WWE Draft, including the RAW Women’s Champion, Bianca Belair, heading to SmackDown, and the Intercontinental Champion, Gunther, heading to RAW alongside the rest of Imperium, JBL and Teddy Long were tasked with announcing the picks in Round 3 and providing – spoiler alert – seven performers with […]

After watching Paul “Triple H” Levesque announce the first four picks in the 2023 WWE Draft, with Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman, Solo Sikoa, and Bianca Belair heading to SmackDown and Cody Rhodes and Becky Lynch staying put on RAW, WWE took a page from the WWE’s playbook and brought in special guests to announce the […]

After breaking down the festivities of the 2023 running of the WWE Draft, Paul “Triple H” Levesque announced the four picks in the first round, which saw six performers find their new homes. First came Roman Reigns, who, unsurprisingly, was selected first overall by the SamckDown brand alongside The Bloodline, Solo Sikoa, and Paul Heyman. […]

As the WWE Universe prepares for the 2023 Draft, where Roman Reigns’ fate will be decided, and the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship will find its brand home, fans, pundits, and wrestlers alike have discussed the forthcoming brand split and how the company has handled the effective desolation of the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, even […]

As WWE prepares to take on a lawsuit from former writer Britney Abrahams regarding toxic working conditions, racism, and wrongful termination, another former writer, Dave Schilling, decided to sit down with Jeremy Lambert & Joel Pearl for their In The Weeds show to discuss his own time in the trenches for WWE and provide his […]

While the mainstream sports world is currently enthralled by the NFL Draft, with Round 1 featuring tons of intriguing angles and Night 2 set to take place at the same time as SmackDown and Rampage, the WWE Universe is preparing for a draft of their own, with Night 1 set for the final Friday of […]

After landing Devon Witherspoon with the fifth overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, Pete Carroll knew he’d selected a special player; someone who could impact the game in a similar way to another player he coach back in his days at USC: Troy Polamalu. … wait what? Why is Carroll comparing Witherspoon, a perimeter […]

After swapping spots in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft with the New York Jets as part of the Aaron Rodgers trade, fans of the Green Bay Packers waited with bated breath to see how their favorite team would use the 13th overall pick. Would they use it on Will Levis, the Kentucky […]

After months of anticipation, the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft is officially finished; 31 collegiate standouts have found out where they will be playing their professional ball, all the while instantly becoming millionaires thanks to the NFL’s first-round pay structure. From Alamaba’s Bryce Young at pick one to Felix Anudike-Uzomah from Kansas State […]

After watching their fellow teams go wide receiver crazy in the back half of the 2023 NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings may have landed the best of them all in Jordan Addison, the former Pittsburgh Panthers Biletnikoff Award winner who finished out his collegiate career as a member of the USC Trojans. A smart, savvy […]

After heaving speculation, dozens of Bijan Robinson mock drafts, and last-second smokescreens involving Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Howie Roseman and the Philadelphia Eagles stuck to their guns, stuck to their traditional team-building strategy, and traded up one spot with the Chicago Bears – for the low, low price of pick 10 and a […]

When Paul “Triple H” Levesque announced the christening of a brand new WWE World Heavyweight Championship, it effectively shut the door on anyone ending Roman Reigns’ Universal Championship reign before it would reach the 1,000-day mark at the end of May. Now granted, to some, this decision was met about as well as The Usos […]

Nia Jax hasn’t been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in November of 2021. A three-time champion, once with the Raw Women’s Title and twice with the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship as a partner of Shayna Baszler, the cousin of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson rapidly established herself as one […]

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin knows more about professional wrestling than 99 percent of fans will forget; he’s wrestled all over the world, taken part in some of the biggest bouts of all time, and near-singlehandedly launched a WWE revolution that garnered some of the biggest rating numbers the company has ever seen or will ever […]

Folks, it’s official: Roderick Strong is #AllElite, leaving WWE and NXT to rejoin his Undisputed Era partner Adam Cole on Dynamite. That’s right after unsuccessfully lobbying for his release from WWE for what felt like years, first when the rest of Undisputed Era left the brand and then when he was working with The Creed […]

When Rey Mysterio not only linked up with Legado Del Fantasma but did so under the Latino World Order moniker, or lWo for short, it earned a massive pop from fans from across the professional wrestling world. Suddenly, after months of ugly, lopsided efforts where Mysterio was outnumbered by his son Dominik Mysterio and the […]

At Backlash in Puerto Rico, Zelina Vega has a chance to make WWE history. Taking the ring in front of her friends, family, and fellow countrymen against “The Eradicator” of The Judgement Day, Rhea “Bloody” Ripley, the do-it-all wrestler/manager/commentator, has a chance to become the first-ever Puerto Rican woman to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship […]

With Backlash headed to Puerto Rico for a weekend of Bad Bunny-approved fun in the sun in the Atlantic Ocean-based American territory, the fine folks over at The Bump wanted to provide the WWE Universe with some history of the territory to help contextualize the significance of the show. But who, you may ask, would […]

In what has become an increasingly common occurrence over the past year, Vince McMahon and WWE as a whole have been sued by a disgruntled former writer for “alleged discrimination and retaliation” against a Black female writer for “offensively racist and stereotypical jargon” used in the scripts for Black wrestlers including Bianca Belair and Apollo […]

After being thrown into an impromptu match with Bron Breakker at NXT Spring Breakin’, Andre Chase knew he was in for one of the toughest tests of his NXT career. Win, and he might just set the bedrock for the biggest W of his career, dating back all the way to his time on the […]

Heading into NXT’s Spring Breakin’, Pretty Deadly, and The Family, Tony D’Angelo, and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, had a pretty big bone to pick. The two teams clearly didn’t like each other, and after the Boss and Underboss of NXT decided to kidnap Kit Wilson following an alleyway beatdown in Orlando, feelings reached a fever-pitch heading […]

Lita has been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in 2000, when she debuted on SmackDown in March following a short-yet-sweet tenure in ECW in 1999. Since her debut, she’s wrestled 328 matches for The Fed, won four singles championships, and became a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, […]

Heading into the final SmackDown before the WWE Draft, Xavier Woods was feeling pretty darn good about himself. He’d secured a major win over LA Knight on the previous edition, was booked for his first-ever shot at the Intercontinental Championship, and found himself three seconds away from earning his first-ever singles title as a member […]

When WrestleMania 39 came and went without so much as a cameo from “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, fans wondered why the “Rattlesnake” opted against making his return to the ring at “The Showcase of the Immortals.” Was he too busy with his new television “Stone Cold Takes on America?” Could he not get in shape […]

With All In II officially on the books for Wembley Stadium this July, wrestlers from inside the company and from around the world alike have been evaluating the AEW landscape in the hopes of working their way onto the card and into a match at what’s shaking up to be a historically significant card. Some, […]

With the WWE Draft rapidly approaching, stars from RAW, SmackDown, and even NXT have begun to look at the landscape of the promotion they cash checks from in order to predict where they will land moving forward. With Paul “Triple H” Levesque already announcing that Roman Reigns will have his titles merged on whatever brand […]

When Triple H took over WWE creative from his father-in-law, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, he found himself in a precarious situation. After spending the better part of half a decade building up the brand’s developmental system, filling out the Performance Center in Orlando with a potent combination of NIL athletes and indie darlings, Levesque found […]

After unsuccessfully requesting their release from WWE, the Grizzled Young Veterans, aka Jagger Reid and Rip Fowler of The Schism/The Diad, have finally addressed their future on NXT and beyond, as they noted on social media. “As of today, WWE has denied my request for my release,” Reid, aka James Drake, wrote. “I want to […]

After taking care of business against Damage CTRL in an impromptu trio match on Monday Night RAW, Bianca Belair was feeling pretty good hanging out with her tag team partners, Liv Morgan, and Raquel Rodriguez. All three women secured wins over prospective challengers for their straps, and for Belair, specifically, she got valuable reps against […]

When WWE announced that Seth Rollins was going to be wrestling Omos at Backlash in Puerto Rico, it was largely met with confusion, including from the former WWE Champion himself. There was no build-up to the feud, no previous interactions that signaled bad blood one way or another, or even an inkling that MVP wanted […]

After securing a six-man tag win over Legado Del Fantasma alongside his brothers, Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa, Jey Uso was riding high. He was on the phone with another member of The Bloodline, either Roman Reigns or Paul Heyman, celebrating the win, he was ordering some mahi mahi with extra soy sauce, and he […]

Where, oh where, has Becky Lynch been on RAW? It’s a worthwhile question to ask, as, after losing the WWE Tag Team Championship belt on RAW and then being double-crossed by Trish Stratus in the ring, fans haven’t seen heads or tails of the seven-time champion. Heading to the back in the hopes of finding […]

After nearly 400 days as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, Roman Reigns’ reign is over… at least kind of. That’s right, after teasing a “major announcement” for RAW on social media, Paul “Triple H” Levesque walked down to the ring to thunderous applause from the Chicagoland crowd and proceeded to announce that, after nearly 1,000 […]

With the final RAW before the WWE draft officially booked for Chicago, fans expected plenty of interesting angles and even more intriguing goings on, but one thing fans didn’t get to see was a backstage interaction that might just be the most interesting and intriguing storyline of them all: CM Punk being backstage at the […]

With the WWE draft rapidly approaching, Elias was afforded a chance to address his future in the WWE Universe and whether or not he would like to roll into the forthcoming proceedings as a solo act or as part of a tag team with his sort of friend Rick Boogs. Elias, to his credit, put […]