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Matt Hardy’s AEW run has been a weird one. Debuting in the promotion’s first show without fans during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hardy began Broken, had that idea squashed by Tony Khan, who is notoriously not a fan of supernatural angels, and then bounced around from gimmick to gimmick – literally – looking for something that […]

When news broke that Jon Moxley had signed a new deal with AEW that would keep him under contract through 2027, it was met with almost universal acclaim. A three-time champion who has risen to the occasion every time AEW has called his number, Moxley was reportedly working without a contract heading into All Out, […]

Though he hasn’t wrestled a match since February, when Goldberg talks on professional wrestling, be that WWE, NXT, or otherwise, folks tend to listen… and then write about it afterward. A lightning rod for controversy who remains vehemently hated by the one and only Bret “The Hitman” Hart, Goldberg is one of the legacy acts […]

After a tough start to the 2022 NFL season, the Indianapolis Colts are making a change under center, giving Matt Ryan a permanent seat on the bench in favor of 2021 sixth-round pick Sam Ehlinger. Though the Colts are far from out of it at this point in the season, sitting within striking distance of […]

After entering the 2022 NCAA season without much hype one way or another, the Bruins turned more than a few heads of UCLA football fans with their impressive 6-0 start. The offense looked good, the defense did too, and quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson, one of the best-kept secrets of the Pac-12, suddenly found himself a household […]

Willow Nightingale has been a member of the extended AEW Galaxy for roughly 18 months when she initially debuted with the promotion as enhancement talent at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville all the way back in April of 2021, and yet, she didn’t officially become “All Elite” until Friday, October 21st, when she was officially signed […]

For a time during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cinematic match was all the rage in professional wrestling. The Undertaker took his last ride in the Boneyard Match, AEW ran a pair of Stampedes in TIAA Bank Stadium Field, and even NXT got in on the fun when Dexter Lumis wrestled Cameron Grimes […]

Welp, it’s official: the Fightin’ Philadelphia Phillies are going to the World Series. After a decade away form the playoffs, the South Philly kids re-tooled at the trade deadline, put it all together down the stretch, and ultimately sent the San Diego Padres home from the big dance in order to punch their own ticket […]

Jon Moxley has a problem; after winning the AEW World Championship for the third time since January of 2020 at Grand Slam, the top dog in the Blackpool Combat Club is running out of opponents. Sure, there’s always MJF, who already has a match booked for Full Gear in Newark, New Jersey, in November, but […]

The Denver Broncos’ season is not going particularly well. They’ve lost three straight games and four of their last six, suffered through a string of misfires under first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett, and haven’t exactly gotten the most out of their new $245 million quarterback Russell Wilson, especially now that he’s out for the foreseeable […]

Paul “Triple H” Levesque has righted many of the booking wrongs his Father-in-Law, Vince McMahon, decided to put upon the WWE Universe. He brought back about a dozen superstars from Bray Wyatt to Hit Row, Johny Gargano, Karrion Kross, The Good Brothers, and even the future members of Damage CTRL, brought prolonged wrestling matches back […]

To paraphrase the great Bill Murray, NXT Halloween Havoc came, it saw, and it kicked some you-know-what during a spooking two and a half hours broadcast live from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. There were surprises, there were shenanigans, and Shawn Michaels put together a show that had as many nameless druids as […]

Oregon Football fans have to be stoked with the Ducks’ efforts in Week 8. After watching the national media hype up their former head coach, Chip Kelly, for his UCLA squad’s undefeated efforts through the first six weeks of the 2022 NCAA season, going so far as to give the Bruins an edge over the […]

Folks, NXT Halloween Havoc is officially over; belts changed hands, feuds were finished – or at least progressed – and in the end, the NXT Universe was left with a crop of winners and losers. But who, you may ask, was the biggest winner of them all? Was it Wes Lee, who secured his first […]

Bron Breakker is NXT’s biggest contradiction; he’s the brand’s most prolific star and a relative newcomer to wrestling, having only wrestled 47 matches in NXT and in general. Sure, he’s wrestled in big-time bouts, beaten many of the best stars to make their way through the brand, and is a freakin’ Steiner, for crying out […]

Some matches are full-on classics; they have perfect pacing, hit all of the right spots, and transcend even a perfect grade on the way to something even more special. NXT has multiple matches of this caliber, with Adam Cole, Tyler Bate, and/or WALTER/GUNTHER featured prominently in many of them, and will likely continue to have […]

As Vic Joseph and Booker T mentioned multiple times com commentary before, during, and even after their scheduled bout at NXT Halloween Havoc, the match between Julius Creed and Damon Kemp wasn’t going to be about suplexes, arm drags, or even chokeholds. Granted, those moves may or may not have been utilized in the match, […]

Outside of the ring, Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade are friends, as the latter dished to Sean Ross Sapp in a Kayfabe-breaking interview ahead of NXT Halloween Havoc, but when the bell rings, and the television cameras go live, that changes in a hurry. Arguably the two most important developmental superstars in the WWE Universe, […]

Grayson Waller and Apollo Crews don’t like each other; they’ve engaged in a feud on NXT television for the better part of a month that resulted in an eye injury in the former that, by his own admission, has still clouded Crews’ vision, even Chucky – the horror doll, not Finster – couldn’t broker a […]

As the dynamic duo of Booker T and Vic Joseph pointed out multiple times on commentary, Wes Lee hasn’t exactly had the best year as a member of NXT. His long-time partner, Nash Carter-now Zachary Wentz, whom he’s been tagging with since 2018 as The Rascalz on the indies and MSK in NXT, was released […]

After a disastrous run on RAW that began nice enough but rapidly fell apart thanks to his son’s decision to abandon his family legacy for a run with Rhea Ripley and the rest of Judgement Day, Rey Mysterio is able to have a fresh start – at the tender age of 47 – back on […]

When NXT officially opens up its Halloween Havoc “Premium Live Event” on Peacock, there are a ton of interesting storylines to follow; will Bron Breakker keep his belt in a triple-threat that also features Ilja Dragunov and JD McDonagh? Or how about the bout between Mandy Rose and Alba Fyre? Will Rose finally drop her […]

After going down 21-10 with five minutes left to go in the third quarter, Dabo Swinney took a chance that, at least at the time, felt like it could re-shape the face of Clemson Football forever. After watching his quarterback, DJ Uiagalelei, throw two interceptions and lose a fumble in his 30th appearance for the […]

Though he isn’t technically in the NBA just yet, Victor Wembanyama-Mania has already started to hit the association hard, with more than a few teams willing to risk it all Philadelphia 76ers-style in the hopes of securing the supremely talented French big man as the focal point of their franchise moving forward. Unfortunately, Adam Silver […]

After weeks of anticipation, WWE is bringing back Halloween Havoc as a right-proper “Premium Live Event” for NXT. They’ve booked Shotzi to come down to Orlando as a special host for the event, secured an 8 pm Saturday start for the show on Peacock as opposed to two hours on a Wednesday with normal commercial […]

After becoming a fixture of AEW television and a notable favorite of Saraya, Willow Nightingale has officially become a member of Tony Khan’s company, earning a full-time contract and an “Is All Elite” graphic after defeating Lela Gray in the ring on a live edition of Rampage broadcast, for some reason, from Daily’s Place in […]

NJPW goofed up when it comes to the Good Brothers. After agreeing to a handshake deal to keep the duo of Doc-now-Luke Gallows and “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson around through Wrestle Kingdom in January and even giving the latter the NEVER Open Weight Championship for his efforts, the company watched on in horror as they […]

Though he’s yet to wrestle a match back in WWE, no performer, not Roman Reigns, not The Elite, not even CM Punk, has garnered more interest, let alone social media interactions, than Bray Wyatt. He blew the roof off of the Wells Fargo Center with a not-so-surprising return at the end of Extreme Rules, drew […]

After weeks and weeks of radio silence, where every tweet, rumor, and word spoken on commentary was heavily scrutinized, Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer has released a bold, definitive piece of reporting on his website, suggesting that AEW and CM Punk are nearing a contract buyout, with the lone hold up coming from the […]

With NXT’s Halloween Havoc right around the corner, Shawn Michaels got on a conference call with reporters to discuss the shape of his little corner of the WWE Universe and the big plans he has for the WCW-stolen “Premium Live Event” moving forward. “I really feel like this is gonna be, from an NXT standpoint, […]

When the San Francisco 49ers traded four draft picks to the Carolina Panthers for Christian McCaffrey, it set a new standard that could influence deals moving forward. Though Carolina GM Scott Fitterer didn’t secure a first-round pick for their All-Pro back, which has long been the gold standard for a player of such caliber – […]

The Carolina Panthers’ loss is the San Francisco 49ers’ gain, as, for the low-low price of a second, third, fourth, and fifth-round pick, Christian McCaffrey, only the third player to join the thousand-thousand club, has turned in his black and blue jersey for red and gold. This move, understandably, has fans in the Bay Area […]

Though nothing in the WWE Universe is ever truly over, especially when someone like Bray Wyatt is involved, it’s hard to imagine fans turning on the former Universal Champion any time soon, especially after the incredible combination scavenger hunt/roller coaster ride that brought him back to the promotion as part of the now-infamous White Rabbit […]

WWE has a thing for odd-couple tag teams. From Kane and Daniel Bryan, to Steven Austin and Dude Love, and, most relevant to this story, Owen Hart and Yokozuna, Vince McMahon might not have been the biggest fan of tag teams unless they were thrown together for you-know-whats and giggles. While these teams had varying […]

Welp, it’s official: Ace Steel has been fired from AEW. That’s right, after taking part in a massive backstage brawl after All Out that saw Nick Jackson get hit in the face with a steel chair, Kenny Omega suffer a brutal bitemark on his arm that was still visible weeks later when he made appearances […]

In May of 2021, EC3 wanted to Free The Narrative. Initially named after his desire to pursue a new vision of what professional wrestling could be outside of the rigid structure of WWE, the show turned into two, and eventually, after a name change, and the independent debut of Adam Scherr, Control Your Narrative the […]

When the Good Brothers, “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson and Doc-now-Luke Gallows showed up on RAW as backup for A.J. Styles versus fellow former Bullet Club leader Finn Balor, it not only sent shockwaves through the WWE Universe but the professional wrestling world as a whole. Though their in-ring time in Impact Wrestling had come […]

Bret “The Hitman” Hart is only 65 years old. Though it’s been more than a decade since the WWE Hall of Famer stepped foot in a wrestling ring ready to rumble, wrestling a tag match alongside John Cena versus Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez on a 2011 episode of RAW, there are a number […]

On paper, Tony Khan did a bang-up job of building up towards his big-time, high-stakes main event of Tuesday Night AEW Dynamite between Jon Moxley and “Hangman” Adam Page. He had the Cowboys win the Grand Slam Golden Ticket Battle Royal to decide on a new number one contender, gave the duo television time to […]