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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, […]

After watching Drew McIntyre tee off on CM Punk during the opening segment of RAW, things took a turn when the “Scottish Warrior” turned his attention to the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest, who cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to end his reign at just under six minutes. Just as […]

After finding himself the butt of CM Punk’s joke on the previous edition of RAW, having to watch back an expansive promo that questioned everything from his mental conviction to his in-ring abilities, Drew McIntyre opened up WWE’s flagship show the following week and took his chance to shoot back on the “Best in the […]

When Randy Orton and Kevin Owens walked out to the ring at Backlash, the crowd in Lyon, France, met the “Viper” with a hero’s welcome, singing the words to his theme song and leaving a genuine smile on both men’s faces. Discussing how special this moment was for both men on The Bump, the “Prizefighter” […]

As Kenny Omega gears up for diverticulitis surgery, the “Best Bout Machine” decided to give fans one final Twitch stream to celebrate the occasion, and was willing to answer the questions his fans sent along in the chat on all things professional wrestling, from his favorite AEW matches, to Will Ospreay, and even Paul “Triple […]

When news broke that Gable Steveson was released from WWE a few months removed from his final match on an NXT live show, it got folks around the professional wrestling space talking about what went wrong for the former Olympic gold medalist, including Booker T, the man who called his efforts in Orlando. Did Booker […]

When Paul Bearer passed away in the spring of 2013, it forever changed the presentation of The Undertaker. Now granted, it’s not like Bearer and the “Deadman” were inseparable, as the Undertaker had multiple angles without his legendary manager within the WWE Universe, but when most fans think of the WrestleMania stalwart, they imagine the […]

When Becky Lynch marched out to break up a fight between Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville at the former’s Netflix is a Joke Fest comedy show, it garnered a massive pop from the sold-out crowd in Hollywood, California. With nothing announced for the show other than appearances from “Sami Zayn & His Friends,” the arrival […]

Watching Sami Zayn do comedy is like Michael Jordan playing baseball in the 1990s… at least according to Sami Zayn, the “Underdog From the Undergroud” who told the joke not once, not twice, but roughly four times in the 20 minute stand up routine that opened up his first-ever comedy show live at the Avalon […]

When Adam Copeland “stole” Lita from Matt Hardy back during their glory days of WWE, it created one of the great work/shoot feuds of the last decade, with the latter getting fired in no small part because of the dispute and the duo ultimately duking it out in a steel cage match and later a […]

Randy Orton has been a busy, busy man since returning to WWE last November. He’s challenged for championship belts twice, wrestled at five-straight Premium Live Events, re-started his feud with The Bloodline from pretty much the moment he was handed a microphone on his first night back on SmackDown, boldly announcing to the world that […]

When “Speedball” Mike Bailey let it be known in an interview with Sports Illustrated that he was in a contract year with TNA Wrestling, fans around the world imagined a world where the French Canadian Moonsault specialist would eventually join Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, and Kazuchika Okada as a cruiserweight specialist in AEW. On […]

When Matt Hardy started sharing WWE’s recent QR code-ladened video segments that led to hints at the return of Uncle Howdy, Bray Wyatt’s final creation before passing away last summer, fans assumed it could only lead to one one thing: “Broken” Matt returning to WWE. On paper, it made sense, right? Hardy and Wyatt had […]

It has been roughly a year since Jey Uso turned his back on Roman Reigns and The Bloodline in order to go it alone as a solo “Main Event” Superstars, and thus far, the results have been largely positive. Sure, he hasn’t won a singles title, with the middle son of Rikishi only finding success […]

After dominating NXT as one of the true pillars of the post-Black and Gold era, Carmelo Hayes has officially taken his talents to SmackDown as one of the promotion’s first-round picks in the 2024 WWE Draft. For Hayes, this has been a long time coming, as the former indie standout has won the North American […]

As New Japan Pro Wrestling gears up for a massive show in Ontario, California, Resurgence, the promotion decided to send out one of its most, um, loud charismatic talkers, Gabe Kidd, on the promotional tour to get a few more eyes on the product and a few more butts in the seats of the Toyota […]

After months and months of questions surrounding his eventual return to the AEW ring, Kenny Omega has finally updated fans on the progress of his diverticulitis and how he plans to correct the illness moving forward. Good news: Omega is getting surgery. Bad news: he might be out of action for a while. “I did […]

After watching RAW run through the opening round of the Queen and King of the Ring tournaments, Randy Orton stopped by the backstage area of SmackDown to talk about his forthcoming match with AJ Styles in the opening round of the tournament, with both men looking to rehabilitate their pushes after taking losses in Lyon, […]

When Nick Aldis announced that Cody Rhodes would land a new challenger for King and Queen of the Ring, few fans expected to see Logan Paul walk down the ramp, entering the ring with his United States Championship belt in hand. Was Paul, the mid-card belt holder on SmackDown, really going to do a title-versus-title […]

When Adam Copeland returned to WWE in 2020, it felt like a massive deal. After almost a decade away from the squared circle, the “Rated-R” Superstar was back, and even if his massive comeback was almost immediately halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, he still produced very good work as a babyface hero, a member of […]

When news broke that WWE wasn’t renewing the contract of Jerry Lawler, the long-time broadcasting partner of Jim Ross during the Attitude Era, it hit more than a few fans right in their feelings. Now sure, “The King” hasn’t called a match for WWE since 2020 and suffered a stroke last year that left him […]

After a creative behind-the-scenes battle engulfed WWE from SummerSlam 2022 through January of 2024, Paul “Triple H” Levesque has finally and fully taken over as the promotion’s CCO, with WrestleMania 40 officially ushering in the Triple H era of WWE, and no one is more excited about this development that Kofi Kingston, the former WWE […]

While stranded at an airport on the way to the Canelo Alvarez vs. Jaime Munguia fight in Las Vegas, Booker T decided to use his Hall of Fame podcast to discuss one of the grandest feuds in all of professional wrestling right now: Tony Khan versus The Elite. Now for Booker, the storyline really comes […]

After advertising for their in-ring showdown for the entire first hour of Dynamite, AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland marched down to the ring at the top of the second hour to address the crowd, and believe you me, he was mad. Trashing on Christian Cage for how he landed a world title shot at Double […]

After securing their first official win together as a tag team against a few local Canadian enhancement talents, Chris Jericho and Big Bill decided to stick around in the ring for “The Learning Tree” to address his home country crowd in Edmonton, Alberta. “Thanks, guys, thanks; I just wanted to say it’s always a pleasure […]

When Matt Cardona was released from WWE in 2020, few fans expected him to become a multi-time champion, a world traveler, and a performer so prolific on the indies that he became an unofficial “Indy God” for his hardcore efforts with the Major Players, The Cardona Family, and paired up with Steph De Lander. When […]

A year ago, Zelina Vega was on top of the world. After bouncing around the WWE Universe from managing to tag teaming, to working as a singles star, and even joining a legendary faction in the LWO – not to mention an eight-month period from 2020-2021 where she was a free agent – Vega was […]