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After being announced as a participant in the Ultimate X Match at Impact’s Slammiversary Pay-Per-View, Jack Evans, one half of the former AEW tag team The Hybrid2, has been removed from the contest “out of an abundance of caution” and will instead be replaced by Andrew “The Giant” Everett, who some fans might recall from […]

Will Ospreay has a lot going for himself heading into AEW‘s Forbidden Door. He won the IWGP USA Heavyweight Championship at NJPW Dominion, has been booked like an absolute star on AEW television, and, with his Forbidden Door opponent, Orange Cassidy, officially set, he can finally start to prepare for what should be one of […]

AEW‘s Hardy Brothers have had a difficult week. What started as anticipation for a three-way ladder match for the Tag Team Title on Dynamite turned into sad news as Jeff Hardy was arrested Monday morning for a DUI. The Hardys were taken off the ladder match – a match The Young Bucks ended up winning […]

That’s one heck of a consolation prize, AEW fans. After being held out of Forbidden Door due to the poor relationship between CMLL and NJPW, Rey Fenix took to the Lucha Libre AAA ring for Triplemanía XXX – the premier event of the AAA calendar that is weirdly enough split over three individual nights in […]

The AEW mid-card is absolutely loaded. It has former champions, promising young upstarts, and a performer by the name of Wardlow who has openly declared his desire to run through whoever gets in his way in the relentless pursuit of the TNT Championship. And yet, just because AEW has more performers than spots doesn’t mean […]

It all started off simply enough; after seeing a fan hold up a Sasha Banks sign during the Raquel Gonzalez-Shayna Bayzler match to show support for the former multi-time champion, who may or may not have been released from the promotions, WWE opted to photoshop it out of the picture they posted on social media, […]

Who will Jay White, the current IWGP World Champion, wrestle at the AEW/New Japan Pro Wrestling co-promoted Pay-Per-View Forbidden Door? Well, we know who it won’t be, as after being called out on Dynamite, White declared that neither “Hangman” Adam Page nor Adam Cole will be afforded a chance at his championship belt, suggesting that […]

Ah, Lio Rush; does any other wrestler in AEW or otherwise draw such passionate reactions when their name is invoked? … oh yeah, a lot of them do. … When Rush made his debut in AEW, it was a big deal. He initially debuted as the Joker in the Casino Battle Royale at Double or […]

On May 29th, 2022, Matt and Jeff Hardy took the ring for their first major Pay-Per-View match together since 2017, where they took on The Young Bucks at AEW’s Double or Nothing. While the match wasn’t perfect, and Jeff was reportedly knockdown out early in the match, leading to a performance that some considered strange, […]

Still riding high off his Double or Nothing win over “Smart” Mark Sterling and Tony Neese alongside fellow Hookhausen member Danhausen, Hook has yet to face another opponent on either AEW Dynamite or Rampage. Now granted, it’s not like Hook has been skirting opponents or anything; he’s been on Rampage consistently ever since and even […]

Contrary to popular belief, Willow Nightingale is not a member of AEW, at least not on a full-time basis. No, despite having wrestled in 14 matches for the promotion dating all the way back to April of 2021, including three wins on AEW Dark Elevation, a spot in the Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament qualifying […]

When news broke that Andrade El Idolo, Rush, and the Lucha Brothers were unable to perform at AEW‘s Forbidden Door due to tensions between AAA and NJPW, it put a minor damper on what is expected to be one of the most entertaining cross-promotional events, nay, Pay-Per-Views of the year. Gone were the Los Ingobernables […]

The AEW roster is stacked right now. With more than 100 wrestlers under contract right now, plus plenty more like Bear Country who perform in the company regularly but aren’t listed on the official roster page, Tony Khan could conceivably roll with his current roster for the foreseeable future without changing a thing and continue […]

Well, with Forbidden Door ever approaching, and now that New Japan Pro Wrestling Dominion has concluded, there has been plenty of new match announcements on AEW programming, with the most recent bringing on an interesting stipulation. If you’ve been keeping up as of late, Best Friends/Roppongi Vice has been in a pretty violent feud with […]

When Riddle took the WWE ring to face off against Roman Reigns, the odds of securing a win weren’t particularly good. Reigns was in the middle of a title run for the ages, and while his work schedule has contracted, considering he’s quite literally beaten the majority of the WWE roster, there’s a reason why […]

There was a time when Shayna Baszler was untouchable. She was the WWE‘s big baddie in the Woman’s division, and even Becky Lynch struggled to contest with the MMA performer with a pension for inflicting pain on her opponents. Unfortunately, at least for Baszler, those days are apparently firmly in the past, as the “Queen […]

On the previous edition of WWE’s SmackDown, Drew McIntyre and Sheamus earned double disqualifications to end their match. Now normally, this wouldn’t be a big deal; many a match on WWE TV ends without the 1-2-3, and only a few folks have a problem with it. No, the problem with this particular ending was that […]

After a tumultuous few days for Vince McMahon and WWE amid allegations of misconduct that are currently being investigated, it was announced that Mr. McMahon himself would be on tonight’s episode of Smackdown, despite temporarily stepping down from his position as CEO and Chairman. What could come of this, the WWE Universe wondered? Since Vince […]

Madcap Moss has been stuck with Happy Corbin on WWE TV for too long. Initially aligning with the former King following his big-time lucky break in Las Vegas – after months of living in SmackDown production trucks and eating canned foods he opened by banging them off the ground no less- Moss gradually lost interest […]

When news broke that Vince McMahon, fresh off his decision to step down as the Chairman and CEO, was going to address the WWE Universe on SmackDown, it instantly made the show a must-watch viewing experience for fans lapsed and hardcore alike. Would McMahon address the allegations levied against him head-on and apologize for fostering […]

In the days since the Wall Street Journal reported on Vince McMahon’s $3 million hush-money payment to a former employee, seemingly the entirety of the WWE Universe has been thrown out of wack. Folks have debated over whether or not McMahon will ultimately lose his job, if the company will be put up for sale, […]

When Excaliber hurried through the AEW Rampage card at lightning speed while calling the Tag Team Championship ladder match featuring his PWG buddies, the Young Bucks and Jurassic Express, one bout stood out for an unknown name featured in the copy. A talking segment from Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee? Considering how the Casion Battle […]

When news broke that the Hardy Brothers had been removed from the AEW Tag Team Championship ladder match due to Jeff’s DUI arrest-influenced suspension, it sent the entire match into flux, at least in the minds of fans who were deeply looking forward to seeing what could have ushered in the final major title run […]

On Tuesday’s edition of NXT, Tony D’Angelo, the most made man in WWE, as some might say, gave his buddies Troy “Two Dimes” Donovan and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo a pair of shiny new gold watches as a sort of predictive award for the next accomplishment he wants to achieve in The Fed: Championship gold. The […]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, Tony Khan did it; after hinting at beef between the Best Friends/CHAOS collective and the United Empire in both AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, the booking tandem of Gedo and TK have officially pulled the trigger one what might just be the most exciting match of […]

On Wednesday night, Raj Giri, the founder of Wrestling Inc. and Fight Line, took to Twitter to share some rumors he’s been hearing from his sources: Sasha Banks, the five-time RAW Woman’s Champion, one-time Smackdown Champion, and three-time Tag Team Champion has been released by WWE. Though the rumors haven’t been confirmed–as even Sean Ross […]

It happened; it finally happened: After months and months of anticipation, Christian Cage has finally turned on his now-former mentee Jungle Boy after his Jurassic Express tag team lost their titles to The Young Bucks in the main event of AEW Dynamite. The match, which was initially booked to be a three-way but worked just […]

By Adam Page’s own admission, he didn’t take into account that Kazuchika Okada, the then-IWGP World Champion he called out on the previous week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, could have lost the belt before Forbidden Door. He’s been out of New Japan Pro Wrestling for quite some time now, and, despite being very online, he […]

As the All-Atlantic Championship tournament plots along towards its inevitable conclusion, a four-way bout at Forbidden Door to decide the inaugural winner of AEW‘s newest championship, one of the more intriguing contests in Round 1 made its way onto Dynamite for the fans in attendance both in the arena and watching from home, Miro versus […]

When it was announced that Jon Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi would take the ring together for a non-wrestling segment on AEW Dynamite, fans had to know that Tony Khan had something up his sleeve. Oh boy oh boy, as it turns out, “something up his sleeve” was a serious understatement. The segment started off relatively […]

Well, as it turns out, not even 20 men, albeit security professionals, can top AEW‘s “The Wardog” himself, Wardlow. That’s right, in one of the weirdest stipulation matches you’ll ever see, “Smart” Mark Sterling lined up twenty security guards that Wardlow had reportedly injured in one way or another and had them attempt to pin […]

As Chris Jericho’s match versus former Inner Circle member Ortz started to divulge into an utterly chaotic bout between the Jericho Appreciation Society, the Blackpool Combat Club, and Eddie Kington in the open match of AEW Dynamite, it looked like the match could be anyone’s game and thus, could have resulted in either competitor losing […]

Who will Will Ospreay wrestle at Forbidden Door? This has been a question plaguing wrestling fans since the leader of the United Empire made his debut on AEW television on Dynamite and will likely continue to do so until Tony Khan, Excalibur, or an on-roster talent officially makes an announcement one way or another. Though […]

Jurassic Express have been the AEW Tag Team Champions since January 5th, 2022, when they defeated the Lucha Brothers on an episode of Dynamite from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, to end their 122-day run. Though the decision to put the straps on a boy and his dinosaur were largely met with positive […]

When AEW announced the christening of a new title belt, the All-Atlantic Championship, on Wednesday, June 8th’s edition of Dynamite, it left more questions than answered. The way the belt was introduced was clunky, with a surprisingly swift two-round tournament set to start mere moments later in the broadcast to decide the eventual winner at […]

With Money in the Bank mere weeks away, Vince McMahon is in the news for a different monetary transaction, as, according to multiple reports, the owner of WWE is under investigation for paying out over $3 million in hush-money payments related to an intra-office affair. The news, initially broken by the Wall Street Journal but […]

Unless you live in the New York metropolitan area, don’t plan on going to WWE Raw hoping to acknowledge the Tribal Chief, Roman Reigns, this summer. According to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer on the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Reigns is currently only booked for the July 25th episode of RAW this summer, […]

It’s here; it’s finally here: NJPW has announced the participants in the 2022 G1 Climax, and it features a certain member of the AEW roster that should get fans hyped for the tournament indeed. No, it’s not Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, or any member of The Elite – much to the chagrin of fans the […]

The latest airing of AEW Dark: Elevation started off strong with “The Native Beast” versus the “Non-Binary Nightmare.” That’s right, Max the Impaler has made their AEW debut. Max has been working the indies since 2018 and most notably debuted in Ring of Honor in September of 2021, where they performed until the promotion’s hiatus […]