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When fans in the know think about The Undertaker backstage in the WWE Universe, there’s one term that often comes to mind: locker room leader. From helping to keep the Montreal Screw Job from getting out of hand to telling a younger CM Punk that he needed to dress more professionally – starting a feud […]

With less than a week left to go before he has to defend his Intercontinental Championship against not just Chad Gable or Bronson Reed but Chad Gable and Bronson Reed in Saudi Arabia at King and Queen of the Ring, Sami Zayn decided to open Monday Night RAW with a bang, cutting a passionate promo […]

When Cody Rhodes took the ring for a contract signing with Logan Paul on the penultimate SmackDown before King and Queen of the Ring in Saudi Arabia, his side of the ring was noticeably bare when compared to the certified entourage the “Maverick” brought to the ring. Now granted, Rhodes probably shouldn’t have been too […]

When Rhea Ripley injured Liv Morgan in a match on RAW last summer, it seemed like a way to add heat to the former at the expense of her former tag team partner, but in reality, it was a technical decision to write the former SmackDown Women’s Champion off of television so she should could […]

When The Iron Claw re-introduced fans new and old to the story of The Von Erichs, from Fritz to his sons, Kerry, Kevin, David, and Mike, it created all sorts of interest in the latest iteration of the first family of Texas wrestling, Ross and Marshall Von Erich. While the duo aren’t fresh in-ring workers […]

After watching FTR take a beating at the hands of Lance Archer and The Righteous as part of a hit put out by The Elite on Collision, Bryan Danielson was upset, so much so that he decided to request a camera crew in order to cut a scathing promo on Jack Perry, Kazuchika Okada, and […]

Since signing with AEW as one of the true success stories of Cody Rhodes’ original TNT Championship Open Challenge, Ricky Starks has gone up and down the card for Tony Khan’s company. He’s challenged for multiple titles – including CM Punk’s “Real” AEW World Championship – been part of factions, and now, he’s… well, no […]

If there’s one person perfectly qualified to review Jey Uso‘s recent run as a singles star within the WWE Universe, it’s Rikishi, the Fatu family Hall of Famer who has been watching his son’s success at every step along the way. Discussing what it’s been like to see his middle son transform himself from a […]

Is Cody Rhodes the Luke Skywalker or the Anakin Skywalker of the WWE Universe? While many a fan and even a few Hall of Famers like Paul Heyman and Bully Ray have debated this question, if the answer is the former, then who, one could ask, is the Darth Vader of WWE? Well, in the […]

While it’s no secret that Johnny Gargano is a proud son of Cleveland, Ohio, did you know he has a long history with with Cleveland Browns Stadium, the home of SummerSlam 2024? You don’t know the half of it, as, in an interview with Good Karma Wrestling, Johnny Wrestlign revealed that some of the signature […]

For a time, Ricky Starks and Big Bill were one of the hottest acts going in AEW, with a perfect blend of size and charisma to take on darn near any tag team, enough ability on the mic to get over in promos, and most importantly of all, enough belief from Tony Khan to actually […]

The Undertaker has been part of dozens and dozens of different angles across his professional wrestling career. He’s been a “Deadman,” an “American Bada**,” and even a “Brother of Destruction,” but through it all, he’s remained one of the more popular performers in the WWE Universe and someone who is generally proud of his efforts […]

Adam Copeland has accomplished a ton in his professional wrestling career. He’s appeared in 1,710 matches, won 37 championships, and even had one of the greatest comebacks in professional wrestling history when he came back at Royal Rumble after a decade-long retirement. And yet, when Renee Paquette asked the “Rated-R Superstar” about the prospects of […]

Matt Hardy is one of the rare wrestlers who’s been a featured member of AEW, WWE, and TNA, and as a result, has the inside scoop on what it’s like to work under the two most important promoters over the last 20 years of professional wrestling: Tony Khan and Vince McMahon. Discussing his experience working […]

When news broke that Scrypts wasn’t going to have his contract renewed by WWE, it came as a relative shock around the IWC. Sure, over his time in the promotion, Scrypts/Reggie/Reginald has worked a ton of gimmicky angles across the main and developmental roster, but when he linked up with OTM in NXT, it seemed […]

Ahead of his highly anticipated match with Tama Tonga in the King of the Ring Tournament, LA Knight was riding high, stopping by the backstage area on SmackDown to talk to Cathy Kelley about wrestling, his feud with The Bloodline – at this point, who doesn’t have one? – and… Carmelo Hayes? That’s right, after […]

When Logan Paul broke the news that he wasn’t going to defend his United States Championship at King and Queen of the Ring in Saudi Arabia at the end of the month and would instead exclusively be challenging for Cody Rhodes‘ Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, it set the WWE Universe by storm. Why, after Rhodes […]

After an hour of anticipation, Cody Rhodes and Logan Paul finally marched down to the ring in the middle of a Jacksonville edition of SmackDown in order to make their match official for King and Queen of the Ring, only, in this particular case, the two men had very different ideas of how they wanted […]

Though he has only been away from WWE for two months since losing his Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, fans have already begun to really miss Roman Reigns, so much so that whenever Solo Sikoa and the “new” Bloodline appear on SmackDown, fans chant that they want their “Tribal Chief” instead. Discussing Roman’s reign in full […]

From an outside perspective, it looks like Konosuke Takeshita is doing pretty well in AEW; he’s in a stable that, while divisive, is featured on television regularly, has worked massive matches against Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay over the last year, and is set to challenge Jon Moxley in an elimination match for the Jon […]

When Cody Rhodes effectively handed off his main event match against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson despite his Royal Rumble win, it left fans in awe. Sure, Rhodes said all of the right things with the microphone in his hand, but his entire demeanor was sullen, as if he just […]

When Ricky Starks appeared in Cody Rhodes‘ party at WrestleMania 40, it made waves on social media. Sure, it’s the worst kept secret imaginable that Starks and Rhodes are good friends, as their relationship was featured prominently on the latter’s Rhodes to the Top show on TNT, but in the eyes of some fans, having […]

After watching Darby Allin make his triumphant return to Dynamite to provide some much-needed support for Team AEW ahead of their match with The Elite at Double or Nothing, Bryan Danielson decided to address the crowd at the Angel Of The Winds Arena in Everett, Washington, running through how his home state has impacted his […]

After taking a loss to the Young Bucks, Nicholas and Matthew Jackson, in a tag team match with Matt Sydal on AEW Dynamite, Christopher Daniels had his insult turned to “financial” injury when his oldest friends, a pair of performers he’d known since their Ring of Honor days, decided to use their EVP powers to […]

When news broke that Eddie Kingston had suffered an apparent leg injury on the guard rails at New Japan Pro Wrestling Resurgence in Ontario, California, that could leave him out of action for an undisclosed amount of time, it left fans wondering if he would be able to work his scheduled match against The Elite, […]

The Undertaker has wrestled some of the most important matches in WrestleMania history, with his efforts against Shawn Michaels widely considered some of the best efforts not only in the event’s history but in WWE history, period. And The Undertaker has also wrestled some of the… shall we say, not best matches in WrestleMania history, […]

For a short period in 2022, Tate Mayfairs was a member of NXT UK, where he worked four matches before the promotion closed its doors as WWE consolidated its NXT offerings down to a single Performance Center in Orlando. On paper, the decision made sense, but for performers like Mayfairs, who hadn’t quite established themselves […]

Though it hasn’t even been a month since Carmelo Hayes was drafted onto SmackDown in the first round of the 2024 WWE Draft, “Him” has already made a few enemies on the main roster, namely Bobby Lashley, the former WWE Champion and his faction The Pride, B-Fab, Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins of the Street […]

When Swerve Strickland debuted for AEW a few months after his exit from WWE, few expected to eventually see the former cruiserweight Hit Row leader bulk up to become a legit heavyweight contender, officially securing the AEW World Championship in a win over Samoa Joe in the main event of Dynasty. From the ups of […]

When Jey Uso split off from The Bloodline to go it alone as a singles star, fans expected a very good match between the “Main Eventer” and his cousin, Roman Reigns and then… who really knew? On paper, Uso had the fans behind him, had the look, and had a top-selling shirt crushing it on […]

If there’s one thing fans of professional wrestling know very, very, very well, it’s that Drew McIntyre and CM Punk do not like each other one bit. Neither man likes how the other handles their business, neither likes how the other uses social media, and each man has even gone out of their way to […]

When Billy Corgan announced that NWA was coming to The CW despite the network landing a deal with WWE’s developmental brand NXT, it turned more than a few heads around the professional wrestling world. Can a network have two professional wrestling shows? Or was the NWA simply a placeholder until NXT officially takes its place […]

When Bryan Danielson announced at the end of 2023 that 2024 was going to be his final year as a full-time professional wrestler, it left more than a few fans wondering who the “American Dragon” would choose as his final opponent and where he would like to have his final match as a member of […]

When news broke that Ilja Dragunov was going to wrestle Jey Uso in the main event of Monday Night RAW for a chance to challenge Gunther in the semi-finals of the King of the Ring Tournament, it got fans hyped. One of the true stalwarts of NXT UK who actually ended Walter-now-Gunther’s title reign at […]

When Chris Jericho took the ring on February 28th for a match on AEW Dynamite, it was just another day at the office. The 2,653rd match of his illustrious career, according to Cagematch, babyface Jericho just sort of did his thing, working a 12-minute match in the middle of the Dynamite card and securing the […]

While Sami Zayn has accomplished a lot during his WWE career both as a single star and as a tag team specialist, there’s one accomplishment that has illuded the 39-year-old grappler through his decade-plus in the promotion: becoming a WWE world champion. Discussing his career in WWE both under Vince McMahon and Paul “Triple H” […]

Since leaving Impact Wrestling as a full-time wrestler, Rob Van Dam has become one of the premier spectacle performers on the indies, working matches all over the professional wrestling world – and AEW – while getting to appear on shows alongside stars who have blown up considerably over the past few years, including Dante Martin, […]

When you think of all-time great WrestleMania performers, you think of The Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Bret Hart, and… Sami Zayn? Now, sure, technically, Zayn isn’t what you could call an attraction wrestler, as fans can more or less expect a match from the “Underdog from the Underground” on any episode of RAW or SmackDown he […]

At Backlash, Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill made history by becoming the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, marking the first time either woman won tag team gold in the WWE, and no one was more excited about it than two-time Hall of Famer Booker T. Discussing the win on his Hall of Fame podcast, […]