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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 […]

As Cody Rhodes continues his one-man media tour ahead of his match with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39, it was only a matter of time before the second-generation WWE Superstar brought up John Cena, the defining superstar of the last generation who effectively handed off the baton to the “Tribal Chief” over the past half-decade. […]

When Mandy Rose was fired from WWE, it threw the future of Toxic Attraction – the faction and the tag team – into disarray. Sure, theoretically, the duo of Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin could have continued on as if nothing happened, but after being pegged as a trio destined for a spot on either […]

When Super Bowl 57 came to an end, the Kanas City Chiefs celebrated on the field, while the members of the Philadelphia Eagles walked back to the locker room to change out of their uniforms, give consolations, and ultimately fly back to the City of Brotherly Love once their media obligations came to an end. […]

Over the course of the 2022 NFL season, the Philadelphia Eagles won every single game Jalen Hurts finished out with an RTG of 95 or higher… at least until Super Bowl 57, where QB1 finished off the game with an RTG of 103.4 but still ended up on the wrong side of the final score. […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are not Super Bowl 57 champions*. Why, you may ask, is there an asterisk at the end of that sentence? Well, because for so many fans of the Eagles and of just football in general, one single play at the end of the game will forever define what was an otherwise incredibly […]

After having a DeVonta Smith catch overturned due to a lack of possession, the Philadelphia Eagles found themselves in a very similar situation in the third quarter of Super Bowl 57, when Dallas Goedert, the team’s rapidly-ascending tight end, caught a pass of his own right on the sidelines to convert a third down and […]

At this point, Roman Reigns’ legacy as one of the greatest champions in WWE history is more or less cemented, right? He’s held the Universal title for longer than anyone else, with his current reign nearly 700 days longer than any other wrestler in history, according to Cagematch, and his 26 successful defenses becoming more […]

Ah the Super Bowl, an event that typically has very little to do with WWE, professional wrestling, or any sport other than football, but every now and again, the two words collide in a way that is not only fun to watch but elevates both products immensely. Case and point, Super Bowl 57, where, between […]

After securing a win alongside Raquel Rodriguez in a make-shift tag team match against Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville, Liv Morgan and her partner went to the back for an interview with Megan Morant for the WWE SmackDown LowDown. Asked about what it will be like to go from teammates to enemies in a little […]

Karrion Kross is a fan of professional wrestling. While the WWE Superstar is always down to play the heel on television, using his size, his trickery, and Scarlett, to torment the likes of Drew McIntyre and Rey Mysterio, but when he’s off camera, the 37-year-old New York Native is more than willing to put over […]

After spending weeks trying to get back on the right side of Bobby Lashley and then accompanying the seemingly re-formed duo of Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin down to the ring on RAW, it really seems like MVP is looking to get back into the Hurt Business business. While such a reunion likely won’t happen […]

While Tony Khan doesn’t always plaster his face on television in the same way as other professional wrestling promoters, at his heart, he’s a showman. The second-generation sports owner has built up a true contender to WWE in AEW, has broken through the “forbidden door” – under case – to bring inter-brand wrestling to the […]

After being called out repeatedly by Swerve Strickland over the past few weeks, Dustin Rhodes finally addressed the elephant in the room via a firey promo defined by his fight to retain the honor of the Rhodes name. “Yeah, he’s crossing the line, right?” Rhodes asked. “Swerve listen, you can talk about me all you […]

After wrestling his first AEW match against Jay Lethal on what would have been his brother Jay’s 39th birthday, Mark Briscoe was riding high. Booked for a segment with Lexy Nair on Rampage, Briscoe was ready to make an announcement about his future within Tony Khan’s companies. “Lexy I’m feeling good,” Briscoe said. “I’m feeling […]

After miraculously reuniting on SmackDown to successfully defend their tag team titles against Ricochet and Braun Strowman, Jimmy and Jey of The Usos were riding high. The duo walked to the back together, celebrated their win together, and everything seemed hunky dory, at least until Jimmy asked his brother if he’s “in or out” of […]

Heading into the Royal Rumble, no one had more to gain within the WWE Universe than LA Knight. If “The Megastar” could somehow go over Bray Wyatt after weeks of doing free advertisements for MTN Dew, it would fully remove the Maximum Male Models from fans memories and establish a new main event talent worthy […]

After watching his twin, Jey Uso, walk out of the Royal Rumble after Roman Reigns turned on Sami Zayn at the end of the main event, Jimmy Uso was unsure what was going to happen next for his tag team, The Usos. Would the duo stick together, overcome their differences, and remain a team either […]

WWE fans, it’s official: after six or so weeks away, “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey is officially back on Friday Night SmackDown. That’s right, after dropping her strap to Charlotte Flair to close out 2022, Rousey was summoned into action by Natalya, who was having words with Shayna Baszler about being nothing but a “Ronda Rousey Clone” […]