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With Forbidden Door rapidly approaching, fans of professional wrestling the world over are grabbing their grub, loading up on drinks, and gearing up for one of the true highlights of the AEW, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Stardom, and CMLL calendar. That’s right, for the third time since 2022, some of the best wrestlers in the […]

It’s here, it’s finally here, AEW fans: Forbidden Door 3. Soon, fans will get to see who will fill the vacant TNT Champion, which current champions will be dethroned, and most importantly of all, what sort of surprises Tony Khan has up his sleeve for one of the premier Pay-Per-Views not just in AEW but […]

With Forbidden Door mere hours away, Will Ospreay has a chance to do something he’s never done before in his career: main event All In as the AEW World Champion. Sure, that task is easier said than done, as the Don Callis Family may turn out to be more foe than friends on Sunday, and […]

With free agency rapidly approaching, the Orlando Magic find themselves with money burning a hole in their pocket and a concerted desire to get better after being one of the true feel-good stories of the 2023-24 NBA season. If they make the right moves, fans could be looking at the fresh new contender in the […]

Less than two months after being selected to RAW in the 2024 WWE Draft, Donovan Dijak was told his services were no longer needed by his now-former employer, officially becoming a free agent after the company showed no interest in negotiating a new contract with the former Retribution member. Now to some, this move came […]

When news broke that Eric Gordon was declining his player option with the Phoenix Suns to test free agency once more after an efficient season with the teams, it turned heads around the NBA. Sure, from a points standpoint, Gordon had a down year versus his career average, but considering his role in Phoenix, where […]

Though he didn’t get to do much on the final SmackDown before the calendar flips from June to July, running into the ring at the opening of the show to get into a brawl with the new Bloodline alongside R-KO before Jalen Brunson got into things with Tyrese Haliburton, Cody Rhodes was still given an […]

While Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Haliburton may have earned all of the headlines for their shocking interaction in the middle of Logan Paul’s qualifying match with LA Knight – and Santos Escobar – for a spot in the Money in the Bank Ladder match, they weren’t the only fixtures of ESPN who made it out […]

After accomplishing two major goals in the 2024 NBA draft, adding a sharp-shooting wing in the first round, and the feel-good story of Day 2 when Bronny James officially joined his father in LA, the Los Angeles Lakers now find themselves mere hours away from a very important free agency period, where they will help […]

After weeks and weeks of back-and-forth feuding, Logan Paul decided to take matters into his own hands in his feud with LA Knight and take things up to an incredible degree, bringing out noted WWE fan Tyrese Haliburton as his special guest at Madison Square Garden. On paper, the idea was as headline-drawing as it […]

As the current WWE Champion, Cody Rhodes is the defacto face of the promotion. Sure, technically, his belt is on par with Damian Priest’s, and he should be treated as such, but nobody save the Priest family actually believes that, as it’s the “American Nightmare” who goes out and does the media appearances, grants Make-A-Wish […]

After a career filled with up and downs, of NXT intrigue and, well, being T-Bar in Retribution, Dijak officially informed the professional wrestling world that his time with WWE was coming to an end, with his contract with the promotion set to expire on June 28th. Now, for fans of the 37-year-old powerhouse, this news […]

With the 2024 NBA draft officially in the rear-view mirror and free agency rapidly approaching, the Philadelphia 76ers have a unique opportunity to identify and build the sort of team they want to field this fall, with only six players expected to be under contract with the team in the minute before the market opens […]

Cody Rhodes has experienced a ton over his professional wrestling career. He’s been a golden boy son of a Hall of Famer who signed up with the world’s biggest promotion of all time, a mid-carder with a bad gimmick who asked for his release in a vastly different landscape, an indie Superstar who built up […]

After months and months of anticipation, the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft is officially in the books, with 30 picks ranging from surprising to shocking announced by Adam Silver in a night that will shape the Association forever. Some of the picks were celebrated, like Dalton Knecht falling to the Los Angeles Lakers […]

After taking a big swing at the cornerback position last spring, signing Patrick Peterson to replace Cameron Sutton, who ended up signing with the Detroit Lions on a three-year, 33 million contract, the Pittsburgh Steelers decided to take a more tactical approach on the back end of their defense heading into 2024, trading Diontae Johnson […]

At the beginning of the 2023 NFL season, fans of the Los Angeles Chargers were cautiously optimistic about the direction of the franchise, what with Brandon Staley taking the team to the playoffs for the first time since 2018 the year before. At the beginning of the 2024 NFL season, fans of the Los Angeles […]

As Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his Seven Bucks production company openly pondered the question Who Killed WCW? on their new Vice show, the “Final Boss” got a bit sentimental about the promotion, and even discussed which members of the company he would have liked to face when it ultimately folded and became part of […]

In 2023, the Dallas Cowboys had one of the best regular seasons in the NFL. Sure, they trailed the Philadelphia Eagles for much of the season as the top dog in the NFC East, but as the season went on and Nick Sirianni’s team took an absolute tumble due to the borderline unprecedented collapses at […]

When commentator Jim Ross put it out into the ether that he would like to see Shane McMahon sign with AEW, calling the deal just crazy enough to work, it sent the professional wrestling universe into an absolute tailspin and earned major attention for Tony Khan’s company. Would AEW actually sign the son of Vince […]

While opinions may vary wildly on Taylor Swift, with some touting her as this generation’s great storyteller while others have questioned her jet-setting lifestyle’s carbon footprint, one person will forever be on the Swifty side of the spectrum is Jeff Jarrett, the WWE Hall of Famer and current AEW employee who has been connected to […]

With the 2024 NBA draft rapidly approaching, the Philadelphia 76ers’ entire strategy was shaken up considerably thanks to Leon Rose and the New York Knicks, who traded away a half dozen picks to their cross-river rivals, the Brooklyn Nets, to acquire Villanova alum Mikal Bridges, who Brett Brown actually selected 10th overall in 2021 before […]

When news broke that the New York Knicks had traded away an absolute boatload of draft picks to acquire Mikal Bridges from their cross-river rivals, the Brooklyn Nets, it left many a Philadelphia 76ers fan with two major thoughts: 1. wow, that’s a lot of picks for Mikal Bridges and 2. does this mean OG […]

A few hours after the news broke that Sika Anoa’i, one-half of the tag team The Wild Samoans and the father of Roman Reigns, had passed away, fans from all over the professional wrestling world wished a fond farewell to the WWE Hall of Famer. From his impressive early efforts within the ring alongside his […]

Heading into the 2024 NFL Draft, most fans expected to see the New England Patriots select a quarterback with their first round pick but there was a small but vocal minority who instead wanted to see the trade down slightly in order to target an elite wide receiver like Marvin Harris Jr. at pick three, […]

In 2024, the Kansas City Chiefs are looking to try something a bit new: remain a Super Bowl contender while also building a sustainable core for the future. Sure, Kansas City still signed multiple veteran free agents and will surely pick up a few more before all is said and done, as who wouldn’t want […]

After spending decades contributing to the professional wrestling business as a member of The Wild Samoans, the Samoan Dynasty, and a contributor to his son, Roman Reigns‘, Bloodline storyline, Sika Anoa’i has passed away at the age of 79, leaving behind an incredible legacy in the ring and a familial legacy that will live on […]

In 2023, the Los Angeles Rams were a young team in need of an identity. Sure, some members of the team’s illustrious Super Bowl roster were still in place, as Matthew Stafford was still under center, Cooper Kupp remained a prominent offensive weapon, and Aaron Donald was taking part in his semi-secret farewell tour but […]

Since Paul “Triple H” Levesque took over the WWE Universe and officially became the promotion’s new CCO, there have been a ton of new additions to the promotion, some of them familiar faces, some of them charismatic former college athletes, and others still who worked their way up the ranks of the indies until they […]

After handing over serious draft capital to the Houston Texans – and, by extension, the Arizona Cardinals – as part of the Deshaun Watson trade, the Cleveland Browns entered the 2024 NFL Draft without much hope of landing any of the premier players available, as they filled any of their remaining deeps in the draft […]

After watching Uncle Howdy debut the Wyatt Sick6 on the WWE Universe on the RAW after Clash at the Castle, fans the world over wondered how the factions would back it up a week into the future on the Red Brand. Would the faction find themselves another victim in Indianapolis, attacking another performer at the […]

When you win three Super Bowls in five years, as the Kanas City Chiefs have, it’s safe to say you will remain a championship favorite no matter how the offseason shakes out. Sure, players come and go, but as long as the core players and coaches who helped to set that foundation are in place, […]

Outside of maybe Chad Gable, nobody in the WWE Universe had a more eventful week than Drew McIntyre. From losing his match at Clash at the Castle against Damian Priest in heartbreaking fashion, with CM Punk throwing on a referee’s shirt to interfere with the ultimate outcome, to declaring that he quit the promotion outright […]

While Money in the Bank is mere weeks away, and the WWE Universe will surely be spinning to see who ends up holding the briefcase at the end of the men’s and women’s Ladder matches, the entirety of the IWC has been focused on the emergence of the Wyatt Sick6, the new factions built around […]

After bouncing around the middle of the NFL pack for years, employing four different head coaches in the four seasons since the team moved from Oakland to Las Vegas, the Raiders finally appear to have found the man to lead them into the future in Antonio Pierce, the former Pro Bowl linebacker who galvanized the […]

On the fallout edition of Monday Night RAW after Clash at the Castle, Chad Gable was seemingly… unalived by Uncle Howdy and the Wyatt Sick6 with what many fans assumed was a bullet wound to the head. Fans mourned the former leader of Alpha Academy, joked about Otis getting away with a serious crime, and […]

In 2023, the New York Jets truly had a gap year, losing their starting quarterback a series into the season and having to struggle to keep their heads above water in the hopes that Aaron Rodgers would improbably return to the field for some mythical playoff run destined for major studio movies and drunken bar […]

When Sami Zayn was coming up through the indie wrestling scene, there was one goal and one goal only at the top of his list: WWE or bust. Sure, there were other promotions around the wrestling landscape like TNA, Ring of Honor, and New Japan Pro Wrestling where a performer could earn a decent enough […]

After eight long years and a number of different roles within the WWE Universe, from working with Paul Heyman to hosting The Bump, Kayla Braxton is officially leaving the promotion at the end of the month. Taking to social media to say her goodbyes and reminisce about her near-decade in the WWE, Braxton thanked fans […]