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When Sami Zayn took the ring for the final segment of the final SmackDown before the Elimination Chamber, the WWE Universe assembled in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was beyond ready to welcome back their hometown hero. Earning basically every cheer in the books, with fans singing along to “The Underdog from the Underground’s” vintage theme song […]

As WWE fans watched the go-home edition of SmackDown, which featured an incredible interaction between Quebec hometown hero Sami Zayn and a fabulous Montreal crowd, NBA fans were treated to an incredible feat of athleticism by a Superstar of their own, The Miz. Taking part in the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game, Miz found his team […]

After spending a decade in WWE working all over the card as one of the promotion’s “Four Horsewomen of the Women’s Revolution,” Mercedes Moné is looking to go out on her own and fully establish herself as one of the best wrestlers in the world today. With a match forthcoming against fellow former WWE standout […]

When Hit Row, Top Dolla, Ashante “Thee” Adonnis, and B-Fab, walked down to the ring and began to rap for the crowd in Montreal, Ontario, Canada, it was not met very fondly by the WWE Universe. Booed nearly out of the building as Michael Cole and Wade Barrett attempted to make the most of a […]

When Swerve Strickland took the ring against Dustin Rhodes, it wasn’t solely about adding a notch to his win-loss record in AEW. Sure, Strickland would happily add a fifth win to his record in 2023, but after weeks of talking down the “nepo babies” who had everything handed to them in AEW, Swerve was more […]

Speaking with Mark Henry about his white-hot streak in AEW on Rampage, with 18 straight wins and the coveted title of All-Atlantic Championship, Orange Cassidy was just getting ready to give an in-depth, soul-spilling interview with the “Strongest Man on Earth” when who but Wheeler Yuta appeared from… wherever they were, to rain on his […]

Whether you like it or not, Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks, collectively known as The Elite, love to have some fun in the AEW ring. Sure, they’ve all taken part in legitimate five-star bangers, with The Bucks wrestling an absolutely incredible effort against FTR at Full Gear 2020 and Omega holding the honors of […]

After losing his “Loser Leaves Japan” match to Hikuleo at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s New Beginning in Osaka, Jay White finds himself one of the hottest would-be free agents in all of professional wrestling. AEW clearly has a horse in the game, as “Switchblade” wrestled one heck of a match at Forbidden Door in his […]

Though WrestleMania 39 is more than a month away, Cody Rhodes has already turned his eyes to the future to a degree and has discussed, at least a little bit, some of the matches he’d like to work on once he becomes the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion. One of those feuds is against GUNTHER, the […]

MJF did not want to appear on the penultimate AEW Dynamite of the month of February. If he had his way, he’d likely be hanging out with his fiance on Statin Island looking at new blue Camaros, but alas, Tony Khan wrote it into his contract that he had to appear, so, ever the professional […]

Though she hasn’t been an active wrestler since 2018, there are few professional wrestlers who are as popular in 2023 as Nikki Bella. She’s a reality television star, a member of the Barmageddon team, and when she somehow finds time, she’s a pretty prolific Instagram Live user, where she talks all things professional wrestling, Nikki […]

In order to prepare for her match with KAIRI at Battle in the Valley, Mercedes Moné has been spending her time in the New Japan Pro Wrestling LA Dojo, where she’s been training under head trainers KUSHIDA – of NJPW, AEW, and Impact fame – and Fred Rosser, who is currently the second-ever NJPW STRONG […]

After officially signing with AEW following his second-straight win on Dynamite, Mark Briscoe caught up with Lexi Nair in the back to discuss his plans in the promotion. “Miss Lexi, I feel wonderful, Briscoe said. “And, if my math adds up correctly, that would make me 2-0 in AEW, but hold on real quick, let […]

After eight months away from the ring, Adam Cole is (almost) back in AEW. Though he hasn’t worked a match for Tony Khan’s company since Forbidden Door and doesn’t yet have a match booked moving forward, Cole knows as well as anyone that Revolution is just around the corner and that the fans who will […]

When Mark Briscoe booked his first match on AEW Dynamite, it was a beautiful, borderline-unthinkable occurrence. After he and his brother, Jay Briscoe, were effectively blackballed from television by Warner Bros. Discovery for past offensive tweets, landing a tribute match dedicated to the older Briscoe’s memory was universally viewed as a win by fans of […]

When AEW announced that “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry was scheduled to face off against Brian Cage on AEW Dynamite, fans knew they were in for a good match, as every time the duo have wrestled before in AEW or otherwise, it was a very good “David vs. Goliath”-style showdown but few expected the bout to […]

After a month away, Wardlow returned to AEW television with one thing and one thing only on his mind: revenge. After having his TNT Championship taken without being pinned in a “Triple Threat” match at Full Gear that also featured Powerhouse Hobbs, Wardlow was bested once more by the “Samoan Submission Machine” at New Year’s […]

Though the next Tony Khan-produced Pay-Per-View is Revolution, where AEW will descend on San Francisco, California, for what’s shaping up to be a very good but very long show, the re-launch of Ring on Honor television presents a necessity for storylines to begin forming ahead of Supercard of Honor, which is scheduled to take place […]

WrestleMania is where professional wrestlers bring out all of the stops to cement their legacies into WWE history. Fans have seen shocking debuts, musicians performing their favorite superstar’s songs, and even a tank and Terminators for good measure too, and as the shows get bigger, so too will the efforts of wrestlers to stand out. […]

With Revolution right around the corner, Tony Khan has been doing the rounds on professional wrestling media to talk all things AEW. Naturally, considering the current state of the company, one performer Khan has been fielding questions about is MJF, the current AEW World Champion, and maybe a murder, depending on the results of the […]

If you just started watching WWE in 2022, especially at or just after WrestleMania 38, you’d think Bianca Belair has long been one of the company’s biggest stars. Nicknamed the “EST of WWE” for a reason, Belair won 77.4 percent of her matches in 2022, has gone on to win 80 percent of her matches […]

New Japan Pro Wrestling found itself in a no-win situation heading into New Beginning in Osaka. With a “Loser Leave Japan” match booked between “Switchblade” Jay White, the leader of Bullet Club and former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, and Hikuleo, the 6-foot-8, 264-pound son of the legendary Haku who, along with his brothers Tama Tonga […]

If it’s a holiday, WWE fans can more or less expect Dominik Mysterio and Rhea Ripley to have something up their collective sleeve to try to rain on Rey Mysterio’s day. Now granted, their schemes don’t always work, as Mysterio famously landed in prison on Christmas because of a failed trick on his “deadbeat dad,” […]

After announcing an open challenge on the previous edition of NXT, Wes Lee’s ultimate foe on Valentine’s Day came into a bit of contention when the duo of Tony D’Angelo and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo were physically jumped by Dijak and jumped in line by Von Wagner, who tried to beat Lee but ultimately failed in […]

After being called out on the previous edition of NXT for not having friends by Katana Chance and Kayden Carter, Roxanne Perez came to the Performance Center correct on Valentine’s Day, with WCW/Sendai Girls/NXT UK legend Meiko Satomura in toe as her tag team partner for a good old fashioned mettle-testing match with the former […]

Bron Breakker is more or less set for a match with Carmelo Hayes at Stand and Deliver on WrestleMania weekend. Now sure, technically, something interesting could happen, like Paul “Triple H” Levesque kicking the match to the main WrestleMania 39 card in order to put the “Second Generation Steiner” and the “A-Champ” in front of […]

Though he technically lost to Bron Breakker in 2023, twice actually, at New Year’s Evil and Vengeance Day, for some reason, Grayson Waller blames it all on Shawn Michaels, NXT’s head of creative, who booked him in both bouts. After getting in HBK’s face after Vengeance Day during the media scrum that resulted in a […]

After setting the professional wrestling world on fire with her shocking betrayal of Gigi Dolin on a special edition of Ding Dong, Hello!, NXT fans the world over waited with bated breath to see how Jacy Jayne, the former member of Toxic Attraction, would justify her actions moving forward. Would Jayne apologize? Would she double […]

“D*mn y’all. I kinda miss wrestling.” – with these six words, Dax Harwood of FTR drew incredible speculation from fans across the professional wrestling world, with fans of AEW and even WWE wondering if there was some hidden message woven into the 7-star champion’s words. Asked about the tweet read around the world by Matt […]

While fans may not like it, The Gunns are AEW World Tag Team Champions, and needless to say, they’re probably the least popular champions in the promotion’s short but storied history. The defeated The Acclaimed with trickery, upon cheating, upon cheap shots, the crowd booed the duo, Colten Gunn and Austin Gunn, out of the […]

Though he was long gone from AEW at the time, having already re-debuted in WWE at WrestleMania 38 and even wrestled his now-signature Hell in a Cell match against Seth Rollins, more than a few fans wanted to know what Cody Rhodes, the blue-eyed revolutionary who helped to spearhead All In nearly half a decade […]

As the WWE fans were preparing to change the channel during a Baron Corbin interview, who but Sami Zayn emerged from the crowd to demand an audience with Cody Rhodes on RAW. When “The American Nightmare” emerged from the back, greeting Zayn with his signature greeting, “so what do you want to talk about?” everyone’s […]

Heading into RAW, it looked like Bianca Belair was in for a relatively easy night. Sure, she might have to come out, say hello to the Brooklyn crowd, talk up the excitement surrounding Elimination Chamber and maybe even work a match for the fans against some performer looking to test their mettle against the “EST […]

After putting on a show during the previous edition of RAW, Brock Lesnar rolled up to Brooklyn Monday night looking to see his presumed Elimination Chamber opponent, Bobby Lashley, sign a WWE contract to make the match official. He walked down to the ring to join Adam Pearce – who had a very active evening […]

Booked for a segment on MizTV, Seth Rollins was excited to greet the fans in Brooklyn and talk about almost anything involving the WWE Universe. Unfortunately, Miz decided that he pretty much exclusively wanted to talk about the one man Rollins didn’t want to talk about, Logan Paul. “Come on Miz, the find folks of […]

After working through much of the best talents SmackDown has to offer, GUNTHER was afforded a chance to sit back and watch as four WWE performers, Rey Mysterio, Santos Escobar, Karrion Kross, and Madcap Moss, took part in a four-way match to decide on the next number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship. The winner? […]

After interrupting Paul Heyman’s SmackDown-opening segment with a barrier-jumping promo that got seemingly the entire WWE Universe behind him and then having a word with Jey Uso back by the busses that maybe signifies that The Bloodline isn’t as tightly knit as Roman Reigns would like, Megan Morant of the SmackDown LowDown caught up with […]

When RAW came on the air, who but Becky Lynch – and Adam Pearce – stood in the middle of the ring with a message to deliver to the entire WWE Universe after securing a huge steel cage win over Bayley the previous week. “The Man has come around to Brooklyn,” Lynch said. “So that […]

Before Santos Escobar was Santos Escobar, the SmackDown star and leader of Legado Del Fantasma, he was known as El Hijo del Fantasma, a moniker given to the second-generation luchador because he is quite literally the son of El Fantasma, the long-time luchador who wrestled began working matches in the 1970s and still wrestles the […]