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After being heavily featured in the leadup to Ring of Honor‘s Death Before Dishonor, especially during AEW’s Fyter Fest, Tully Blanchard has opted to forgo managing the likes of Brian Cage, the Gates of Agony, and Jonathan Gresham in selling off his shares in Tully Blanchard Enterprises to Prince Nana, a longtime promotional legend who […]

In AEW, Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia are known for being promising young performers who secured choice spots in big-time factions the Blackpool Combat Club and the Jericho Appreciation Society. Though their respective teams couldn’t be any more different in a Kayfabe sense, as the BCC is all about strengthening their wrestling abilities through strong, […]

When news broke that Rush was not only booked for Ring of Honor‘s Death Before Dishonor but was slated to take on his brother Dragon Lee in a fittingly titled “Battle of Brothers,” it caused more than a few fans to reach out to AEW owner Tony Khan to thank him personally. You see, not […]

After over three months away, with just the occasional bout on AEW television to keep the flame flickering, Ring of Honor is bursting back to life with Death Before Dishonor, the second Pay-Per-View of the Tony Khan era and the 19th overall running of the event, which has typically served as the promotion’s big summer […]

Historically speaking, wrestling pre-shows, from the WWE, to AEW, and even Ring of Honor, get a bad rep. It’s where the acts who aren’t quite good enough for the Pay-Per-View card get to at least say they were on the card, and an opportunity for wrestling fans to pass along to their non-wrestling fan friends […]

With Death Before Dishonor less than 24 hours away, Ring of Honor has officially announced the entire card for their forthcoming Pay-Per-View on AEW Rampage. *spoiler alert* it’s really good. With members of the OG ROH roster like Dalton Castle, Tony Deppen, and The Righteous announced alongside AEW performers like Brian Cage, Rush – who […]

In case you haven’t heard, Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay are in the middle of an all-out social media war that supersedes their respective roles in AEW and NJPW. The duo have knocked each other’s in-ring abilities, critiqued the way they handle things backstage, and a host of other issues that you can read about […]

After weeks of weird, weird promos hyping the arrival of Max Dupri’s new faction and then some incredibly polarizing segments once the Maximum Male Models officially made SmackDown their home, the WWE‘s most polarizing faction has landed the shot of adrenaline it desperately needed in the form of Maxxine Dupri, a much-appreciated female addition to […]

After becoming to talk of the wrestling world – at least pre-Vince McMahon’s retirement – during his all-out takeover during the AEW Dark tapings in Orlando, Florida, Ari Daivari is officially coming to AEW, as a mid-Fyter Fest video package broadcast on Rampage clearly shows. Ari Daivari (@AriyaDaivari) coming soon 👀#AEWRampage #FyterFest Night 4 is […]

*phew* what a day in the WWE Universe. It started normally enough, with your typical pre-SmackDown promotional material, before news broke that Vince McMahon had officially retired from the WWE at the ripe old age of 77, likely because of the heat generated from his ongoing scandals that were growing increasingly damning with each passing […]

Sheamus and Drew McIntyre have wrestled about a dozen times since joining the WWE Universe. … actually, that isn’t correct. No, the duo have wrestled dozens of times, plural, with 74 recorded contests as either friends or foes, according to the fine folks over at Cagematch. They’ve wrestled in teams, wrestled solo, and even taken […]

Happy Corbin really doesn’t like WWE’s newly-extended color commentator Pat McAfee. He doesn’t like how he “lucked” into his job, his popularity, or the fact that constantly calls him “Brokeass Corbin” despite having known each other going back over a decade thanks to their shared time as training camp competitors with the Indianapolis Colts in […]

When news broke that Vince McMahon was stepping down from the WWE after quite literally growing up and raising his children in the promotion, it generated vastly different opinions from across the wrestling world. Some fans – and Tony Khan – made light of his retirement, using the news as an excuse to promote AEW […]

You’ve gotta give it to the WWE – there’s never a shortage of news to read, write, and consume. Case and point, July 22nd, 2022; a day that will live on forever in the annals of wrestling history and may ultimately serve as an inflection point in the history of the sport(s entertainment). Not only […]

As you may or may not have read earlier this afternoon, Brock Lesnar has reportedly walked out of SmackDown after a meeting informed the talent that Vince McMahon had officially retired from the WWE amid an ever-expanding series of scandals. This, obviously, isn’t good, but hey, Lesnar probably just wants to let off some steam […]

With Vince McMahon officially out as WWE‘s CEO, some have wondered who will ultimately take his place as the company’s full-time CEO, Chairman of the Board, and head booker. Will it be Stephanie McMahon? Shane McMahon? Or how about someone from outside of the family like Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Paul Heyman, or even Nick […]

Hot on the heels of the sudden announcement of Vince McMahon‘s retirement, a big-named WWE Superstar has reportedly vacated the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts before tonight’s SmackDown. That’s right, despite still being prominently advertised on the company’s website as ‘Returning to SmackDown’ – at least at the time of publication –  Brock Lesnar will […]

July 22nd, 2022, will go down forever in the annals of history as the day Vince McMahon retired from the WWE. Whether you’ve been a lifelong fan of The Fed, a lapsed fan who stopped watching for one reason or another, or one of those who dropped the promotion for good when AEW hit television […]

Fully engulfed in an ever-expanding scandal, Vince McMahon has announced his retirement from WWE. You can read his statement below via the WWE’s official website. “As I approach 77 years old, I feel it’s time for me to retire as Chairman and CEO of WWE. Throughout the years, it’s been a privilege to help WWE […]

Tony Khan has booked a wide variety of different styles of wrestling matches in AEW. He’s booked Ironman matches, Best Two out of Three Falls matches, Three-Way Tag Team Title matches, and even the dynamic duo of the Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match and the Barbed Wire Everywhere Match – both of which didn’t quite […]

Though the Sixers won’t officially open up camp until the end of the summer, Doc Rivers already has plans for a little pre-season getaway with the boys. Yes, you read that correctly; after spending the first two training camps of the Rivers era hunkered down in Camden at the team’s eponymous training facility, the Sixers […]

Well, AEW‘s Fyter Fest Night 3 is officially in the books, and goodness, what a show it was. Swerve in our Glory was celebrated in a segment that also featured rapper Kevin Gates, Ricky Starks retained his FTW Title against the artist formerly known as Troy “Two Dimes” Donovan (Cole Karter) only to be challenged […]

After weeks of anticipation, ESPY night is here, and the WWE‘s dedicated award, the “WWE Moment of the Year” award, has officially been handed out for the, well, WWE moment of the Year. But who could it be? Was the award headed to the Pat McAfee show? Or how about back to Victoria to the […]

Say what you will about AEW‘s Eddie Kingston, that he’s one of the best talkers in the business, that he has an “unprofessional physique,” or that his angles have a tendency to get a bit too real for anyone’s good, but even his biggest detractors can’t say with a straight face that the “Mad King” […]

After securing a massive win over Cole “Don’t-call-him-Tony-Two-Dimes-Donovan” Karter on AEW’s Fyter Fest, Ricky Starks got greedy. Though his match was somewhat contentious, with Karter getting in a few should-have-been-pins on the “Absolute” one, Starks was drinking a little too much of his Kool-Aid once the ref hit 1-2-3 and demanded a microphone to issue […]

Anytime Brody King and Darby Allin find themselves in the same AEW ring – or a Zumiez in the Pacific Northwest – you know it has the potential to get violent. I mean, we’re talking about a man who defeated Allin not with a Gonzo Bomb but a choke off the side of the ring […]

Welp, that didn’t take long; after officially making his first post-NXT appearance in a wrestling ring as part of the AEW Dark tapings in Orlando, Florida, Cole Karter, aka Troy “Two Dimes” Donovan, has officially been bumped up to the “main roster” to wrestle Ricky Starks on the Week 2 edition of Fyter Fest as […]

For a few years in the early 2010s, there wasn’t a cooler faction in the WWE than The Shield; they wore cool, all-black gear with potentially unnecessary kevlar vests, featured three of the top up-in-coming future main eventers in Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and Dean “Eventually Jon Moxley” Ambrose, and after going on a very […]

In case you haven’t heard, Fightful Select is reporting that Kenny Omega’s return to AEW is in the not-too-distant future, with Tony Khan and company already readying their roster for the “Best Bout Machine’s” eventual return. All things considered, this is very good news indeed. Though Omega’s absence has been for the right reasons both […]

No wrestler in AEW history has ever kicked out of the One-Winged Angel; the finisher is considered one of the most protected finishing moves in all of wrestling and has become so ubiquitous that even casual fans know the name of the Kenny Omega move, a name he stole from Final Fantasy 7 villain Sephiroth. […]

No title in either the WWE, or any other promotion really, has changed hands more than the 24/7 Championship. Though it was only christened in 2019 and handed to Titus O’Neal by none other than Mick Foley, the belt has changed handed on 177 different occasions since its inception and has been held by everyone […]

After weeks of anticipation, Logan Paul and The Miz finally had their face-to-face encounter on WWE‘s RAW, and the results were downright… fruity. That’s right, after Paul made it abundantly clear that he wasn’t going to tag with Miz moving forward in the pursuit of the Undisputed Tag Team Championships after the “Awesome One” double-crossed […]

After being rumored to wrestle everyone from A.J. Styles to Chris Jericho, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, and even Ricky Morton – which actually almost happened – Ric Flair‘s final opponents, plural, have officially been announced for his Final Match: Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. That’s… a choice. Now granted, Flair won’t be alone in his […]

Becky Lynch wants her WWE belt back, and she doesn’t care who knows it. Ever since she lost the RAW Women’s Championship all the way back at WrestleMania 38, Lynch has been devising ways to get in the ring with Bianca Belair with the belt on the line and though it hasn’t always worked out […]

After the “Cena Celebration” live from Laredo, Texas was a responding success, it’s only right that the WWE Universe returns to the idea again to celebrate another one of the promotion’s longest-tenured stars in Rey Mysterio in a celebration of his own, broadcast live from the wrestling mecca, Madison Square Garden on July 25th. NEXT […]

When Randy Orton went down with a potentially career-threatening injury, it prematurely put to bed indefinitely one of the hottest tag teams in the entire WWE Universe, RK-Bro. While Riddle has attempted to keep his head above water and focused on bouts against Roman Reigns on SmackDown, a half dozen of his peers in the […]

As the WWE inches closer and closer to their biggest show of the summer, SummerSlam, matches for their Big Four Premium Live Event are going to be announced with increasing frequency. Angles will be set up on RAW, on SmackDown, and even potentially on NXT 2.0, and the storylines for each will grow increasingly more […]

For much of the afternoon of Monday, July 18th, 2022, WWE fans were abuzz with a rumor that maybe, just maybe, A.J. Styles would be announced as the final opponent of Ric Flair at his end-of-the-month event being advertised as his “Final Match.” Would it actually happen? Would Vince McMahon actually allow one of his […]

Being a professional wrestler, even in a company like AEW with a relatively light workload, isn’t for everyone; the hours are long, the traveling can be a slog, and the constant physical beating can take a toll on even the most physically fit performer. While some performers relish the road-dog lifestyle, sleeping in 15-passenger vans […]